Several UK outlets, including independents, report that extreme rainfall events "could become four times more frequent by 2080 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high", according to a new study by Met Office climatologists. The study concluded that for each degree of regional warming, the intensity of extreme downpours could also increase by 5-15%, according to the news website. MailOnline reports that scientists have created a new climate model to project an increase based on global warming reaching 3.2100°C by the year 4. (The relevant model only runs on the very high emissions scenario RCP8.5, which is explained in detail in this article Carbon Brief. Although this approach is considered controversial by some, it was a deliberate decision by the scientists that allowed them to isolate the signal of climate change in model simulations of British weather, as this article explains Carbon Brief.)

DeSmog reports on "dozens of lobbying emails" that show liquefied gas companies are "positioning themselves as champions of rural communities in an attempt to weaken proposals to reduce the carbon emissions produced by heating European buildings". The article states that the European Parliament is due to vote next week on a revised version of the directive on the energy performance of buildings. But the law faces opposition from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers, who see the proposed boiler phase-out as an "existential threat to their $40 billion business," according to the website. He notes that they are "enforcing loopholes" in the Buildings Directive that would allow new gas boilers to continue to be sold as long as they are also able to run on "renewable" gases and hydrogen. The Guardian also reports on DeSmog's findings, noting that while the proposed phasing out of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive targets a different type of boiler than those using LPG, "the LPG industry sees any such phasing out as a potential threat to its future". . He notes that the industry thinks it could adapt much of its current infrastructure to switch from LPG to biofuels and hydrogen. Meanwhile, the analytical article in Guardian title: "Is hydrogen really a clean enough fuel to solve the climate crisis?"

Phoebe Cooke, DeSmog, "Carbon Brief"

The European Commission is drawing up plans to reform the bloc's electricity market, including electricity reduction targets and guarantees for long-term business contracts, the Financial Times reports. He claims the move was prompted by the energy crisis, as electricity prices are tied to gas prices, meaning pressure on gas supplies has driven up electricity costs. However, the article states that the proposal does not include "extensive market reform" but consists of measures to allow network operators to promote reductions in peak-time consumption and requirements for EU member states to set targets for demand reduction and electricity storage. It also proposes financial guarantees to encourage smaller companies to enter into long-term "power purchase agreements".

The Guardian reports that the European Commission's industrial plan for the Green Deal, due to be published next week, will be discussed at a Brussels summit later this month. It notes that the proposed plan, which includes a new target to produce at least 40 % of clean technologies in the EU by 2030, would be part of a wider effort to speed up progress towards net-zero emissions and support mining and extraction of critical raw materials in Europe. The commission is proposing that zero-emissions technology plants be speeded up from seven years to one year for building permits if they are deemed "strategic," the paper continues.

Alice Hancock, Financial Times, "Carbon Brief"

Cities across Europe's climate change adaptation plans are improving, but much progress still needs to be made. This is the main conclusion of our new study published in npj Nature Urban Sustainability, in which we evaluate the latest adaptation plans of 167 European cities. In these plans, which were drawn up between 2005 and 2020, we find that overall quality has improved.

Looking at the different components of the plans, we find that cities have mostly improved in setting adaptation goals, designing thorough and diverse adaptation measures, and outlining their implementation. The Bulgarian capital Sofia and the Irish cities Galway and Dublin scored the highest for their plans.

However, there has been only a slight improvement in the monitoring of the implementation of urban plans and the involvement of civil society in the development of plans.

And while newer plans are somewhat better at designing measures that match previously identified climate risks, engaging vulnerable people and monitoring adaptation measures that aim to support them is still rare.

Here we detail a clear positive trend in urban adaptation plans in Europe – and show that there is still a long way to go towards more inclusive and robust adaptation planning to reduce climate risks.

Adaptation planning

Adaptation to the effects of climate change was a key component of the Paris Agreement of 2015, which emphasized the need to review progress on adaptation, including through regular "global assessments„.

However, given that the effectiveness of many adaptation measures only takes some time to really become apparent – often after an adverse weather event hits – it is notoriously difficult to assess this progress. To date, there is indeed no agreement on the current state of adaptation, what "progress" means, and how it should be assessed.

In our study, we examine the content of adaptation plans in order to analyze to what extent they identify climate risks and propose measures to reduce the extent of potential impacts.

To achieve this, we develop and apply three different indices to assess the quality of adaptation plans and apply them to 167 cities across Europe.

We found that these cities improved their adaptation planning skills. These improvements can occur through processes of collective learning, knowledge transfer, capacity building, transnational networks and other types of science-policy cooperation.

However, most local governments still do not consider the needs of vulnerable people, nor involve them in policy making or monitoring whether adaptation measures reduce their vulnerability to climate threats. This is something we believe is necessary for a good adaptation plan to ensure that adaptation works for the people who need it most.

More than 1,000 human-caused "methane super-emission events" have been detected in 2022, according to new figures reported on the Guardian's front page. The paper notes that most of the events came from oil and gas fields. It continues: “Methane super-emitting locations were identified by analysis of satellite data, with the US, Russia and Turkmenistan responsible for the largest number of fossil fuel installations. The largest event was a spill of 427 tons per hour in August near Turkmenistan's Caspian Sea coast and a major gas pipeline. This single leak was equivalent to the emission rate of 67 million cars, or the hourly national emissions of France." Meanwhile, separate data reveals 55 "methane bombs" - defined as "fields where the leakage from full resource use alone would result in emissions equal to at least a billion tonnes of CO2 " – is stated in the document. He says more than half of those fields are already in production — including the three largest, all of which are in North America. He adds: "According to a recent estimate of the global carbon budget, methane bomb emissions are also significantly higher than the emission limit of 380 billion tonnes of CO2 from all sources needed to keep global warming below 1.5°C." These datasets show that addressing leakage from sites with fossil fuels is the fastest and cheapest way to reduce methane emissions, the paper says. Newspaper they inform separately on the impact of the "Pennsylvania Climate Disaster"—one of the super-emitter events in the main investigation—on the local community.

The Canadian spy service warns that climate change poses a deep and persistent threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to sea level rise. A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service also predicts a rise in ideologically motivated violent extremism from people who want to accelerate solutions to climate change and those more concerned with preserving their current way of life. The brief was drafted in April 2021, but was only recently released to the Canadian press in response to an access to information request filed in October of that year. CSIS highlights several concerns posed by global warming, from looming dangers to the Arctic, coastal and border security, to severe pressures on food and water supplies. A senior CSIS official signaled the service's interest in monitoring the consequences of climate change at a security conference in November 2021, saying the agency must continue to anticipate the "next threat" to support other government actors. "It's not surprising that security agencies are starting to pay more attention to this because it's clear that climate change is starting to bite," said Simon Dalby, a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University who studies climate effects, environmental security and geopolitics. The CSIS brief is a more sophisticated framing of climate change as a security issue "than we see in most other federal government policies and documents," said Will Greaves, a political scientist at the University of Victoria.

The Financial Times reports on a draft EU document that would see the bloc aim to meet 40 % of its needs with domestic production in five sectors – solar, wind, heat pumps, batteries and electrolysers – in a bid to be net-zero. The FT says: “The document, due to be tabled on March 14, is a direct response to US Inflation Reduction Act, announced last August, which provides $369 billion in tax credits and subsidies for clean energy technologies.” Reuters agency states that as part of plans to combat IRA, the EU will introduce new permits, regulatory support and easier access to public and private funding for certain green technologies. Bloomberg it also has a story. It comes at a time when the agency Reuters reports that a senior EU official has said that the EU and the US are currently working on a deal to make European minerals eligible for IRA tax credits. In the second story of the Reuters agency European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reported to have said on Sunday that she was "determined" to face the challenges posed by the IRA.

Elsewhere Financial Times reports that industry experts are questioning the bloc's continued spending on fossil fuel subsidies amid its push to be net-zero. The second one FT reports that Germany and Italy have "smashed" the EU's plan to ban internal combustion engines by 2035.

Many publications report that the countries have concluded a new agreement to protect the world's oceans after 10 years of talks. The High Seas Treaty aims to protect 30 % of international waters for nature by 2030, reports BBC News. Before the treaty, only 1.2 % of international waters were protected, according to BBC News. It reads: “The agreement was reached on Saturday night, after 38 hours of talks, at the UN headquarters in New York. Negotiations have been delayed for years by disagreements over funding and fishing rights." The Guardian reports that the treaty "is key to enforcing the 30×30 commitment [protecting 30% of the Earth by 2030], which countries adopted at the December UN Conference on Biodiversity". It adds: "Without the treaty, this goal would surely fail because until now there has been no legal mechanism to establish marine protected areas on the high seas." Among other details of the agreement, it says: "A treaty that covers almost two-thirds of the ocean that lies beyond national borders, will provide a legal framework for the creation of large-scale marine protected areas to protect against the loss of wildlife and to share genetic resources on the high seas. It will establish a Conference of the Parties (COP) that will meet regularly and allow member states to take responsibility for issues such as governance and biodiversity.” The Guardian also brings video, which shows the moment when an agreement was reached after exhaustive negotiations. Financial Times he adds that the agreement will need to be ratified by 60 states to enter into force and will be officially adopted at a later UN meeting. News is also covered New York Times, and newspapers, Politics a Independent.

BERLIN, March 6 (Reuters) - Extreme weather caused by climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros in cumulative economic damage by mid-century, a study showed on Monday, as Europe's biggest economy looks for climate change adaptation measures to reduce the damage bill . The study by economic research firms Prognos and GWS and the German Institute for Ecological Economic Research comes as Berlin works on a climate change adaptation strategy to be unveiled soon by the environment ministry. It also comes amid discussions in the governing coalition on how Germany could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in heavy sectors such as transport and construction to become carbon neutral by 2045. Germany's economy and environment ministries said the study shows that extreme heat, drought and flooding could cost between 280 and 297 billion euros ($900.2022 billion) to 2050 billion euros, depending on the extent of global warming.

Do not overheat the water.

Set the boiler to a maximum temperature of 60°C so that it works efficiently and hygienically.

Use the thermostat with care.

Did you know that your house doesn't heat up faster if you turn up the thermostat?

This only affects the maximum temperature in your house.

According to the IEA, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 0.9 % last year to a record 36.8 billion tons. And this despite the fact that more clean technologies have helped limit the consequences of increased coal and oil consumption.

• Emissions from coal increased by 1.6 %, since many countries have turned to this fuel, which is considered one of the most polluting, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the reduction of Russian gas supplies to Europe.
• Oil emissions increased by 2.5 %, however, they remained below the pre-pandemic level. Half of the increase was due to an increase in air traffic, which recovered from the pandemic low.
• Lower electricity production from nuclear power plants and extreme weather events, including heatwaves, also contributed to the increase in energy-related emissions.
• Total emissions were partly offset by the increase in renewable sources such as wind and solar power, energy efficiency measures and electric cars. Thanks to this, another 550 million tons of emissions were prevented.

Scottish carbon offset accredited under the Forest Carbon Code. Our accredited carbon offset site is located on our Dundreggan conservation estate and has the capacity to offset over 50,000 tonnes of CO2. This carefully planted site – containing over 250,000 new native trees planted by 530 enthusiastic volunteers – is validated and verified against the Forest Carbon Code, the gold standard for forest carbon sequestration. The Code offers buyers of carbon credits a guarantee that each afforestation program will deliver the benefits we claim and that this forest land represents genuine new planting. The projects are certified according to ISO standards by the accredited third party UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) and a program of continuous forest monitoring is agreed between the parties.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates he called India, to play a central role in the fight against climate change, and praised the South Asian nation's leadership in renewables energy. At the fifth Ramnath Goenka Lecture organized by The Indian Express, Mr. Gates expressed concern over climate crisis and called for scientific innovation to solve this problem. A billionaire who invested more than 2 billion dollars into climate technologies, he said that finding solutions that are cheap and reliable to solve the climate crisis is a big challenge.

More than 100 countries back Pacific island bid to seek responsibility for climate crisis at world's highest court

Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, 105 have now supported Vanuatu's call for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on states' legal obligations on climate and the consequences of causing harm.

Nations large and small including most of Europe, Australia, Canada, Vietnam, Colombia and Bangladesh now they co-finance draft resolution, which must be approved by the entire UN.

Emergency situation in the field of emissions

More than three-quarters of Slovaks agree that climate change is happening right now, according to a recent survey of public opinion on climate change in Slovakia. Co-author of the research and publication in the Czech Republic - Klimaviza, she thinks that activists should not cause fear in people. They should go out into the field more and deal with the problems that bother people, says Anna Bromová.

The majority of our public wants the private and public sectors to be more actively involved in measures against climate change. According to this research, people not only register the climate movement, but also perceive what it tells them. Where are we as a society right now?

The research you describe is very similar to ours. The urgency of solving climate change is often accompanied by fear and uncertainty about how it will affect us in our daily lives. And it is here that the way the climate movement will approach this challenge is essential. Maybe it is no longer effective to just say that the climate crisis is here and to create more fear in people. I think we have moved on. People perceive the change, but they are afraid of what will happen.

Glaciers along the coast of Antarctica are moving faster during the summer, according to new research by scientists from University of Leeds. The study authors say a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean water is to blame.

Under normal circumstances, glaciers move at a speed of about one kilometer per year. However, the situation is changing and compared to the winter months, the movement of glaciers can accelerate by up to 22% during the summer. Research is providing better insight into how it can global warming affect the situation in Antarctica and contribute to global ocean level rise.

For a long time, scientists did not have reliable ways to study the Antarctic Peninsula because their access to the glaciers was largely limited. However, as part of the new research, they used satellites, which were able to provide them with the necessary insight into the situation. They enabled them to monitor the speed at which the glaciers move and at the same time release water into the surrounding ocean.

The climate act before agriculture sets the goal of reducing emissions by 10 percent by 2030 compared to 2005. The Ministry of Agriculture does not know how the Ministry of the Environment reached this goal, and indicates that limiting emissions in the sector will not be easy, as its goal is to increase livestock numbers and farmers no longer have much room to limit artificial fertilizers. Greenhouse gas captures in the soil and forest sector should increase by a quarter. According to the Department of Agriculture, this is not in accordance with European legislation, and it also criticizes the proposed sanctioning mechanism.

The Ministry of Agriculture does not agree with the reduction of emissions expected from the agricultural sector climate law.

The agricultural department also has reservations about the proposed target for carbon sequestration in soil and forests, and it also does not like the fact that the Ministry of the Environment wants to fine it if it does not fulfill these obligations.

Plenipotentiary Minister of the Environment Ján Budaj (OĽaNO nominee) on Monday (January 30) introduced the first climate law in history, which is supposed to bring Slovakia to carbon neutrality by 2050. The legislation sets targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for all sectors, while individual ministries are to be responsible for their fulfillment.