🌍 A watershed moment for climate litigation.

🇨🇭 Europe’s top human rights court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a group of elderly Swiss women who argued their government’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis were insufficient.

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🌡️ The EU's climate monitor said March was the 10th month in a row when temperatures have been hotter than ever for the respective time of year.

🗣️ “It could be one very long hot summer and not in a good way.”

👇 Take a look at the full story:

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🌡️ A quiet revolution is underway to tackle a widely underestimated climate challenge: extreme heat.

🗣️ 'Heat, I believe it to the bottom of my heart, is going to be the number one public health challenge that we will be dealing with in the next decade.'

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⛏️ A global gold rush is underway for geologic hydrogen, a long-overlooked resource that advocates say could play a significant role in the energy transition.

🗣️ “The potential is there but we’ve got to do the work.'

👇 Here's the full story:

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🌡️ The hottest year on record smashed a series of climate records and gave new meaning to the phrase “off the charts,” the U.N.’s weather agency said on Tuesday, warning that the planet is now on the brink of surpassing a key warming threshold.

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🛢️ British oil giant Shell on Thursday announced plans to moderate its near-term carbon emissions cuts, while maintaining its pledge to become a net-zero company by the middle of the century.

✍️ Here's the full story:

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⛏️ Backed by billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, mining startup KoBold Metals says it is confident it can unearth more buried treasure to help facilitate a metals-intensive energy transition.

✍️ Here's the full story:

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🏭 Norway’s government wants to show the world it is possible to safely inject and store carbon waste under the seabed, saying the North Sea could become a “central storage camp” for polluting industries across Europe.

👇 Not everyone likes the idea.

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Climate protesters gathered outside the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel this morning as International Energy Week kicks off.

Speakers on day 1 include IPCC chief Jim Skea, Labour's Ed Miliband, chief economists from Shell & BP, & a Just Stop Oil spokesperson.

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🚢 It’s likely only a matter of time before scraping the ocean floor for valuable metals becomes a reality, according to the head of the International Seabed Authority, the U.N. regulator that oversees deep-sea mining.

👇 Here's the full story:

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🌡️ Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time on record, calling to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

✍️ Here's the full story:

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🛢️ Shares of BP rose 6% Tuesday morning after the British oil giant accelerated the pace of its buybacks and increased its dividend, despite a drop in annual profit.

👇 Here's the full story:

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🗣️ 'The biggest, baddest ship on the planet.'

🚢 The world’s largest cruise ship — the so-called Icon of the Seas — set sail from Miami, Florida over the weekend, stoking concerns about the environmental impact of cruise tourism.

👇 Here's the story:

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🇳🇴 Norway's Energy Minister Terje Aasland says the government's controversial decision to approve deep-sea mining is a necessary step into the unknown that could help to break China and Russia’s rare earths dominance.

✍️ Here's the story:

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🛢️ U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil filed a lawsuit against U.S. and Dutch activist investors in a bid to stop them from submitting climate proposals during the oil giant’s annual shareholder meeting.

👇 Here's the full story:

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💰 'When will you tax extreme wealth?'

🗻 More than 250 billionaires and millionaires on Wednesday reiterated their call on elected representatives of the world’s leading economies to introduce higher taxes on the very richest in society.

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🌡️ Scientists on Tuesday confirmed 2023 as the hottest year on record and warned that the planet is now within touching distance of smashing through the critical warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

✍️ Here's the story:

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🛢️ A former executive of Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and gas firm SOCAR has been picked to lead U.N. climate talks in Baku later this year, prompting critics to decry a “bad case of déjà vu.”

✍️ Here's the story:

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🌍 The Dubai deal is here.

🛢️ Here's a look at what's in the final #COP28 text, why it matters & how we got here.

✍️ w/ Ruxandra Iordache

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📽️ Here's our latest digital video explainer taking a look at just how 'thirsty' AI models can be, why it poses a growing problem for Big Tech & what policymakers gathering in the middle of the desert can do.

All in under 8 minutes:

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