Planting trees to achieve carbon neutrality 'virtually impossible'

In today’s news, an agreement that allows coastal logging to continue between Sydney and the Queensland border is to be challenged in the Federal Court on the grounds that the decision was made without regard to endangered species, the state of old-growth forests, or the impacts of climate change.

A new report states that using land alone to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 is almost impossible and would require all the farmland on Earth, an area five times the size of India, to be forested.

And global warming is expected to progressively push tuna populations from the waters of 10 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) into the high seas, disrupting island economies.

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Forest logging agreement ranging from Sydney to Queensland to be challenged in court

An agreement that allows coastal logging to continue between Sydney and the Queensland border is to be challenged in the Federal Court

Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens during scorching heatwave

Thousands of people have fled their homes north of Athens after a forest wildfire reached residential areas. The hurried evacuations took place just as Greece grappled with its worst heatwave in decades.

‘Planting forests is not enough to halt climate change’

Using land alone to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 is almost impossible and would require all the farmland on Earth, an area five times the size of India, to be forested, according to an Oxfam report.

Warming waters threaten tuna – 10 Pacific economies stand vulnerable

Global warming is expected to progressively push tuna populations from the waters of 10 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) into the high seas, disrupting island economies, according to a new collaborative study by Conservation International and a consortium of technical agencies.

Environment officials questioned use of land government already owned as offset for western Sydney airport

Federal environmental department officials questioned the credibility of a government plan to use heritage-listed land it already owned as the main environmental offset for the western Sydney airport.

Russian Arctic losing billions of tons of ice due to climate change

Glaciers and ice caps in parts of the Russian Arctic are losing meltwater equivalent to nearly five million Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, research has indicated.