Also: Australia suffers worst heat wave in years
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Hello and welcome back to our weekly climate newsletter. Donald Trump announced this week that he would withdraw the U.S. from the global treaty that is the bedrock of fighting the climate crisis – a move the White House has claimed is aimed at "restoring American sovereignty." The binding agreement, known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, requires wealthy nations to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and provides funding to help poorer nations respond to the increasingly dire impacts of human-caused climate change. The Senate-ratified treaty was adopted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in May 1992 and includes virtually every nation in the world. Quitting the treaty will take effect a year after the U.S. gives its notification. Trump has also extracted the country from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading global scientific body studying the climate crisis. The panel publishes the world's biggest reports on climate change. The decisions has drawn outrage from climate and environmental groups and leaders. "This is a shortsighted, embarrassing, and foolish decision," former US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement shared with The Independent. "Withdrawing from the world's leading climate, biodiversity and scientific institutions threatens all life on Earth," Jean Su, energy justice director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said. The UN has said that the U.S. has a "legal obligation" to keep paying dues that fund its agencies. Read more
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Australia is bracing for extreme bushfire danger as soaring temperatures fuel what forecasters say could be the most severe heat wave the nation has seen since the "black summer" of 2019-2020. In several regions, daytime temperatures are forecast to exceed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Read more |
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