Waiting until disaster strikes hurting aid as early action five times more cost-effective, study says

Under the current system, governments and donors respond after disasters occur, through humanitarian relief or emergency social protection payments. But researchers say these measures are inefficient and far more expensive

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/floods-heatwaves-global-aid-disaster-b2844344.html

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#Buller #NZ #NewZealand

The outgoing Buller Mayor has made an impassioned plea for future leaders to continue climate adaptation work to help protect his flood-prone town of Westport.

Jamie Cleine cried as he told the Adaptation Futures Conference about the risk facing his town from multiple and increasingly damaging floods

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-coast/emotional-plea-continue-climate-work-rnz

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#Buller #NZ #NewZealand

The outgoing Buller Mayor has made an impassioned plea for future leaders to continue climate adaptation work to help protect his flood-prone town of Westport.

Jamie Cleine cried as he told the Adaptation Futures Conference about the risk facing his town from multiple and increasingly damaging floods

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/west-coast/emotional-plea-continue-climate-work-rnz

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#COP30

Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/donald-trump-withdrawal-paris-agreement-tackling-climate-crisis-easier

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#Finland

Finland's 'sand battery' listed among Time Magazine's best inventions of 2025

Polar Night Energy, the firm behind the technology, says sand batteries can help cut emissions and reduce costs

https://yle.fi/a/74-20188144

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Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/climate-investment-is-biggest-growth-opportunity-of-21st-century-says-economist-nicholas-stern

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#COP30

The UN says the deal has made a difference. Before Paris, the world was heading to 5C of warming by the end of the century, a trajectory now moderated to a still-catastrophic 3C

"We must admit failure, failure to protect peoples and nations from unmanageable impacts of human-induced climate change"

"But we don't have to keep failing"

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251013-not-nothing-not-enough-is-the-paris-agreement-working

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#Kenya

Climate change effects: Major humanitarian crisis in Tana Delta as river water turns salty

Over 15,000 residents from five locations in Tana Delta Sub County of Tana River County are faced with a major humanitarian crisis due to effects of climate change as River Tana water turned salty

https://www.tv47.digital/climate-change-effects-major-humanitarian-crisis-in-tana-delta-as-river-water-turns-salty-121400/

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Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/arctic/scientists-reawaken-ancient-microbes-from-permafrost-and-discover-they-start-churning-out-co2-soon-after

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#UK

Net Zero target ‘critical’ as deadly climate impacts intensify, scientists warn | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Failure by the UK to stop adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere by 2050 would lead to more damaging and costly impacts, warn Imperial scientists
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269673/scientists-urge-commitment-net-zero-deadly/

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‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Nina Lakhani climate justice reporter

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/climate-defenders-mary-lawlor-human-rights

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New Study Warns Glaciers Will Soon Lose Their Cooling Power Against Global Warming

Glaciers have been cooling surrounding air through katabatic winds, resisting rising global temperatures. However, a new study warns this effect will peak by the 2040s, after which glaciers will warm faster & lose their cooling power
https://newsable.asianetnews.com/international/climate-change/glaciers-losing-cooling-power-global-warming-impact-articleshow-zbafkb0
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#USA #US

PJM Pursues Rule Change to Meet Data Center Surge. Critics Fear Gas Suppliers Could Benefit

PJM is racing to craft new rules to meet surging data center demand through a fast-track process, one that could reshape the grid if federal regulators sign off

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13102025/pjm-pursues-rule-change-to-meet-data-center-surge-critics-fear-gas-suppliers-could-benefit/

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#USA #US #Mexico

The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators

Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U.S. government to curb migration and trafficking

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13102025/us-mexico-border-wall-threatens-pollinators/

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Why some people turn off the lights - and others don't

Most people worry about climate change and energy costs, but far fewer take sufficient action due to an attitude-behaviour gap

If policies and environments support energy-saving choices, large-scale behaviour change (and progress towards climate and energy goals) becomes far more achievable

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1013/1538211-attitude-behaviour-gap-climate-change-energy-costs-psychology/

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Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/coral-reefs-ice-sheets-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-global-heating-scientists-report

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Glaciers Are Fighting Against Climate Change – But They Are Losing the Battle

https://scitechdaily.com/glaciers-are-fighting-against-climate-change-but-they-are-losing-the-battle/

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#LahaulSpiti #India

Climate change devastates Lahaul-Spiti apple growers

Himachal Calling: Unseasonal heavy snowfall in first week of October damaged apple crop

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/climate-change-devastates-lahaul-spiti-apple-growers/

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#NZ

Climate change effects expected to hurt farm viability in next decade, study finds

The ebbs and flows of farming are expected to be exacerbated by future climate change effects, including more volatile weather and strained water resources, a new study has found

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/climate-change-effects-expected-to-hurt-farm-viability-in-next-decade-study-finds/J7JO6W4FOZATVFRJGGYSK2UB3E/

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#COP30

Greenpeace Brazil has projected messages to country delegates at the Pre-COP in Brasilia calling for urgent action to end forest destruction as a new Greenpeace International’s poll showed nine out of 10 people surveyed want forests protected to fight climate change

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/79160/cop30-act-new-greenpeace-poll-nine-10-people-forest-protection-fight-climate-change/

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