Mark Lynas is the author of numerous books on the environment. His latest is Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency. He also advises former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on climate, works with the 64-member Climate Vulnerable Forum, and is senior strategic advisor to the pro-science environmental campaign network WePlanet.

A sad day today. The Sphinx will melt in the early hours of tomorrow morning, meaning that’s the fourth consecutive year it has done so.

This patch was once considered permanent. It has now melted completely since the 1700s in the following years:

1933
1959
1996
2003
2006
2017…

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Bangladesh’s Climate Prosperity Plan aims to shift the nation's trajectory from vulnerability to prosperity by 2041. Significant progress is already underway, with several key projects in the pipeline. Learn more about their CPP here:

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Labour retains the cruel two-child benefit cap and slashes useful green policies ... yet seems prepared to commit £20 billion to a useless non-solution whose sole purpose is to allow fossil fuel burning to continue. This is not "fiscal responsibility". It's appeasement.

"Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?" @GeorgeMonbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry

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