Indonesia’s environment ministry is seeking $284 million in environmental damages from six companies it has linked to deadly floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Senyar in November.

The areas affected include Batang Toru, an ecologically fragile ecosystem home to the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape.

By Hans Nicholas Jong

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-sues-6-companies-over-alleged-links-to-deadly-floods-landslides/
#news #conservation #environment #Indonesia #animals #flooding #climate

Indonesia’s environment ministry is seeking $284 million in environmental damages from six companies it has linked to deadly floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Senyar in November.

The areas affected include Batang Toru, an ecologically fragile ecosystem home to the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape.

By Hans Nicholas Jong

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-sues-6-companies-over-alleged-links-to-deadly-floods-landslides/
#news #conservation #environment #Indonesia #animals #flooding #climate

UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time

Carbon Brief has analysed editorials – articles considered the newspaper’s formal “voice” – since 2011 and this is the first year opposition to climate action has exceeded support.

Criticism of net-zero policies, including renewable-energy expansion, came entirely from right-leaning newspapers, particularly the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.

In addition, there were 112 editorials – more than two a week – that included attacks on Ed Miliband, continuing a highly personal campaign by some newspapers against the Labour energy secretary.

These editorials, nearly all of which were in right-leaning titles, typically characterised him as a “zealot”, driving through a “costly” net-zero “agenda”.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-newspaper-editorial-opposition-to-climate-action-overtakes-support-for-first-time/

#ClimateCrisis
#RigthWingNews
#Propaganda
#Capitalism
#Climate
#ClimateAction

UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time

Carbon Brief has analysed editorials – articles considered the newspaper’s formal “voice” – since 2011 and this is the first year opposition to climate action has exceeded support.

Criticism of net-zero policies, including renewable-energy expansion, came entirely from right-leaning newspapers, particularly the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.

In addition, there were 112 editorials – more than two a week – that included attacks on Ed Miliband, continuing a highly personal campaign by some newspapers against the Labour energy secretary.

These editorials, nearly all of which were in right-leaning titles, typically characterised him as a “zealot”, driving through a “costly” net-zero “agenda”.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-newspaper-editorial-opposition-to-climate-action-overtakes-support-for-first-time/

#ClimateCrisis
#RigthWingNews
#Propaganda
#Capitalism
#Climate
#ClimateAction

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BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground

A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock

Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed

https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/

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#NewZealand #NZ

BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground

A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock

Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed

https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

2025 was the third hottest year on record

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-record

#HackerNews #2025 #hottest #year #climate #change #global #warming #environment

AI has delayed the planned retirements of at least 15 coal plants, some indefinitely: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/ai-coal-nuclear

The head of the 2nd largest utility company in the U.S. says: "We're going to extend coal plants as long as we can because we need those resources on the grid."
#energy #AI #climate

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"Almost two decades in the making, an international agreement to protect and sustainably use marine life in international waters and the international seabed is due to come into force on Saturday, marking a major step forward in efforts to ensure the health of ocean ecosystems for decades to come."
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#Oceans #Climate #Environment

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166762

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🥳 I found Good News For the Planet 😎 🎉

"Almost two decades in the making, an international agreement to protect and sustainably use marine life in international waters and the international seabed is due to come into force on Saturday, marking a major step forward in efforts to ensure the health of ocean ecosystems for decades to come."
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#Oceans #Climate #Environment

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166762

Trump and the governors of several US states agreed to push PJM for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would compel technology companies to effectively fund new power plants.

“While a ‘statement of principles’ doesn’t appear to include a legal mandate for PJM to act, pressure from the Trump administration and a bipartisan coalition of PJM states is very likely to motivate a considerable response”

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #DataCenters #AI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/trump-to-direct-key-us-grid-operator-to-hold-emergency-auction?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2ODUzNDMxOCwiZXhwIjoxNzY5MTM5MTE4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFhGNEVLSkg2VjUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMTIwMjYyN0QyQTg0OTEwOEVEODZDMkE0OUZGRDcyQiJ9.wiF9RR5RO1HElHSrtUgUp4yEQZp7GyMhsIBRMQ72vSw

💙⚡Judge hands offshore wind industry another victory against Trump in clearing way for NY project.

It’s a win ror the developer who said a Trump admin order to pause it would likely kill the project in a matter of days.⚡It’s the second developer to prevail in court against the administration this week.

#Wind #Renewables #Climate #Economy #USPol
https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2026/01/15/offshore-wind-empire-wind/

💙⚡Judge hands offshore wind industry another victory against Trump in clearing way for NY project.

It’s a win ror the developer who said a Trump admin order to pause it would likely kill the project in a matter of days.⚡It’s the second developer to prevail in court against the administration this week.

#Wind #Renewables #Climate #Economy #USPol
https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2026/01/15/offshore-wind-empire-wind/

AI has delayed the planned retirements of at least 15 coal plants, some indefinitely: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/ai-coal-nuclear

The head of the 2nd largest utility company in the U.S. says: "We're going to extend coal plants as long as we can because we need those resources on the grid."
#energy #AI #climate

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/

"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"

#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis

🧵🌡️ J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter le résultat de trois mois de travail sur la désinformation climatique :)

J'ai entrepris de cartographier les acteurs de la diffusion des discours climato-dénialistes (= climatosceptiques) en France. #climat #climate

👉 https://deni-climatique.fr

“2025 was the third warmest year on record, only marginally (0.01°C) cooler than 2023, and 0.13°C cooler than 2024…

The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record.

Global temperatures from the past three years (2023-2025) averaged more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level (1850–1900).”

- EU’s “Copernicus” Earth observation programme

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2025-was-third-hottest-year-record

#Climate #Science #ClimateScience #Space #ClimateCrisis #EU