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This Environment Day, Industry Voices Urge Shift From Pledges To Measurable Climate Action
In a world of growing environmental and economic crises, the call is clear: sustainability may begin with 'One Less'
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In a world of growing environmental and economic crises, the call is clear: sustainability may begin with 'One Less'
New research into attitudes about climate change show there is no evidence of an urban-rural divide, but that the concerns felt in one setting are often underestimated by those in the other.
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s energy deal with Alberta will do little to reduce Canada’s emissions, a new study released Thursday by the Canadian Climate Institute suggests. The analysis also said the “minimal” benefits from the Alberta memorandum of understanding, or MOU, are not enough to offset the prospect of increased oil production. That is mainly because […]
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Under the shade of recently planted poplars in Afghanistan, village leader Ghulam Ali Poya is proud to see residents rediscover the value of trees after years of wartime deforestation. “There were forests of pistachio trees,” he told AFP, gesturing to the bare mountains that surround Char Bagh’s mud homes. “During the conflicts and the civil war, they were destroyed; no one could stop the logging.” From the 1979 Soviet invasion until the fall of the first Taliban government in the early 2000s, “around 50 per cent of Afghanistan’s forest cover was lost”, said Mohammad Nasir Shalizi, a researcher at North Carolina State University. In eastern Afghanistan, timber smuggling to Pakistan drove massive logging, while in the more arid central and northern “pistachio belt”, residents used wood for heating and cooking. This photograph taken on May 18, 2026 shows Afghan farmer Bas Begum Ahmadi (R) with her husband Abdul Samad Ahmadi standing next to paulownia trees at her family-owned plot. —AFP But in the last two decades, deforestation has slowed “substantially”, Shalizi said. Forest cover has increased 35pc nationwide since 2011, according to the National Statistics and Information Authority, though just 2.5pc of Afghanistan was forested in 2025 and cover is still shrinking in some areas. But experts say communities are working to improve forest cover. Both the US-backed government, in place until 2021, and the current Taliban administration have supported tree-planting campaigns. In Char Bagh, the Aga Khan Development Network funded a kilometre-square grove which includes poplars, paulownias, pomegranates and persimmons. This photograph taken on May 11, 2026 shows pine seedlings at a nursery in Paghman district, Kabul province. Under the shade of recently planted poplars in northeastern Afghanistan. —AFP ‘A model’ The land belongs to farmer Bas Begum Ahmadi, who hopes to sell fruit and homemade jam, but it is also open to the community of 350 families. “Having these trees makes me feel good; my environment is green, and we breathe fresh air,” said the 45-year-old, who tends the trees with her husband to support their four children. This photograph taken on April 20, 2026 shows Afghan municipality workers and residents planting trees next to a park in Charikar district, Parwan province. —AFP This “micro-forest” follows Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s principles: dense planting of mostly local species of varying heights. It is noticeably cooler than the surrounding bare fields and offers twigs for stove fuel and leaves that feed livestock. Micro-forests “restore ecosystems, improve soil fertility, help climate resilience, and support community livelihood,” said Parisa Malikzada, Afghanistan agriculture coordinator for the organisation, which has planted 500 micro-forests in seven provinces. Poya said the forest, next to a river, prevents soil erosion during flooding and offers “a model for people”. This photograph taken on May 18, 2026 shows Afghan farmer Abdul Samad Ahmadi examining a paulownia tree at his family-owned plot, which supports a micro-forest in the Char Bagh area of Doshi district, Baghlan province. —AFP “Everyone comes to have a look, and they’d like to have one too,” he told AFP. In Afghanistan, where many places are hard to reach and the state has limited funds, community-based forest management is the most effective approach to reforestation, experts told AFP. Penalties for tree cutting Afghan authorities have set a goal of planting 200 million trees between 2023 and 2030, relying partly on NGOs, the United Nations and the private sector. “Last year, the target was eight million, but in the end, 17 million were planted,” said Rohullah Amin, head of climate change at the General Environmental Protection Agency, where he has worked for more than a decade. This year’s goal is nine million. This photograph taken on May 11, 2026 shows deodar cedar seedlings at a nursery in Paghman district, Kabul province. Under the shade of recently planted poplars in northeastern Afghanistan. —AFP Challenges include selecting native, climate-adapted species, water scarcity, and livestock damaging saplings. Some forests have struggled with “lack of care or water”, Amin acknowledged, including one site where drought killed 70pc of the planted pines. In some places, tribal councils protect forests and penalise residents who damage them. Elsewhere, “forest management associations” run by elected villagers and farmers have been set up. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has helped them plant five million trees since 2019, according to its climate change chief, Muhammad Safi. Birds coming back The government created nurseries to grow local species in places such as Paghman on state land on Kabul’s outskirts. Head gardener Mahmood Khwajazada carefully tends almond, pine nut and walnut trees, as well as deodar cedars, for distribution nationwide. “Our Prophet said, ’Even if you have only one day left, plant a tree,” he told AFP. This photograph taken on May 11, 2026 shows Afghan farmers tending to a nursery in Paghman district, Kabul province. Under the shade of recently planted poplars in northeastern Afghanistan. —AFP In Charikar, northeastern Afghanistan, where thousands of saplings were planted this year along streets, in parks and on hillsides, the municipality sees “a change” in people’s attitude towards trees. Ahmad Khalid Sabiri, a resident, said he volunteered to help plant “because it’s beneficial for the environment”. Experts said more work is needed to protect the remaining old growth, as well as planting in forests rather than just in urban areas.
Israel and Lebanon to renew ceasefire, no evidence of urban-rural divide when it comes to climate change, and Dublin commuter belt going all-in on EVs
Building a more equitable world while respecting planetary limits is possible, economists from the World Inequality Lab (WIL) assert in a report published Thursday. To achieve this, they say, targeted reductions in consumption in specific sectors, a drastic cut in fossil fuel use and changes in dietary habits will be necessary.
Dry weather is disrupting crop planting across Asia, raising concerns about food supplies in the world’s most populous region, and an expected severe El Niño weather pattern could inflict more damage. From India’s grain-producing northwestern plains to Australia’s eastern wheat belt, and from Thailand’s rice fields to Indonesia’s vast palm oil plantations, hot weather and below-normal rains are hurting crops and forcing farmers to reduce planting, farmers, analysts and traders said. El Niño-driven dryness is a double blow for farmers already grappling with fertiliser and diesel shortages caused by the Iran war. Wheat prices have risen about 20 per cent since the start of 2026, largely on concerns over drought in key US growing regions. Rice prices at major Southeast Asian export hubs have climbed around 15pc over the past month on rising production costs and fears of tighter supplies. One of the strongest El Niños on record is widely expected to develop in the second half of 2026, bringing hot-dry weather to Asia and excessive rains to the Americas, with global climate change making things worse. “The El Niño impact globally starts with Southeast Asia, India, Australia, before it has wider implications downstream in North America and South America,” said Chris Hyde, a US-based meteorologist at satellite data and imagery firm SkyFi. Hyde said early signs of drought are already visible on the company’s high-resolution imagery platform, across parts of Asia. Hot-dry weather hits farms In India, the meteorological department last week further reduced its forecast for the four-month monsoon season, which delivers about 70pc of annual rains. “With temperatures across most parts of the country remaining well above normal, conditions are currently unfavourable for the timely sowing of summer crops,” said one New Delhi-based dealer with a global trade house. “Planting is likely to be delayed due to the late onset of the monsoon, but greater concern lies in the possibility of below-normal rainfall and prolonged dry spells after its arrival.” India mainly grows rice, soybeans, pulses, sugarcane and corn in the summer season. For Southeast Asian countries, dryness is hitting rice and palm oil yields in some areas. “Everybody is worried (about drought), it’s risky,” said Nerawat Oramah, a 47-year-old farmer in central Thailand’s Chainat province. “For my second harvest, I have to wait and see the situation. It’s a risk for every one (if there is not enough water), there will only be one harvest.” Thailand and the Philippines plant their main rice crops in June-July, while Vietnam and Indonesia are now sowing their second-season crops. Indonesia’s most populated Java island and some areas in northern Sumatra, south Kalimantan and Sulawesi have not experienced any rain for more than 10 days, according to the country’s meteorological agency, with medium to low rainfall expected in June. Higher prices Rice prices are edging up even though India, which accounts for 40pc of global exports, is sitting on ample supplies after years of near-record harvests. “There is clear indication of crisis as rice prices have moved substantially higher without any major shortage,” said one Singapore-based trader at an international trading company, adding Thai rice prices have climbed around 15pc in the past month. “India has a huge rice stockpile, several times more than what it needs. But the thinking is that very soon India will start looking at these stocks as a critical asset and may introduce some sort of export curbs if we see problems with early part of the monsoon.” However, KKP Research, a unit of Kiatnakin Phatra Bank in Thailand, said some of the impact of the dryness could be cushioned by strong reservoir levels. “What we are more concerned about is fertiliser supply,” the bank said in a note to Reuters. “We estimate that a fertiliser shortage, if it occurs, could reduce rice production by up to 15-20pc in the worst case.” Recent rains over parched Australian farmland have triggered late wheat sowing, but growers are wary of the El Niño in the coming months that could hit yields. The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting that many cropping areas across New South Wales and Queensland will see between 20 and 40 millimetres less rain than usual over the next three months. John Lowe, a farmer near Burcher in central New South Wales, said his total cropping area is still around 30pc smaller than it could have been. El Niño is likely to be neutral for China and the Black Sea region, while bringing more rains to the Americas. “Statistically speaking, there is not much correlation with weather in the US and El Niño, during the summer,” said Drew Lerner, an agricultural meteorologist and president of World Weather Inc. “In a lot of years, we can come up with a little bit more moisture in an El Niño summer. But that does not really mean above-normal rainfall.”
More needs to be done if Sweden is to hit its 2030 climate targets, but the parties can’t agree on how to cut emissions from transport. A survey by Swedish Radio News has found that the eight parties in parliament divide into different groups, where the Green and the Left parties want to combine electrification with more public transport and more investment in rail, while several other parties mainly focus on electric cars. The Sweden Democrats stand out in that they are the only ones that do not propose any new subsidy for people wanting to buy electric cars.
Put down that loaded sausage and raise your hands in the air, writes QUENTIN LETTS. Climate fanatic Ed Miliband may soon be after our meat and dairy addiction.
The Green Fund, which helps local authorities finance environmental protection and climate adaptation projects, is facing a €162.5 million cut, a nearly 20% reduction.
IN November 1970, the Bhola cyclone killed up to half a million people in East Pakistan. Yahya Khan’s government introduced a 10 per cent surcharge to fund emergency relief. Bangladesh became independent 13 months later. The affected territory was gone. The levy remained. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government absorbed the revenue into general federal accounts in 1972. No accounting was published. In 1985, Gen Zia introduced the Iqra surcharge, framed as an education fund. The revenue balanced federal operating accounts. No alternative education instrument replaced it when it was abolished under the IMF’s insistence. The template was set. Fifty years later, Pakistan has not deviated from this template. What began as a cyclone surcharge is now a Rs1.55 trillion instrument misclassified as non-tax revenue. The architecture is identical but the scale has changed. Pakistan has pursued this through two parallel tracks. The first collected resources in the name of disaster relief, later rebranded as climate resilience as floods became more frequent. The second imposed non-tax revenue through petroleum pricing. The petroleum development levy (PDL), a general development surcharge dating to 1961, was structurally insulated in 2010 to bypass provincial NFC sharing. It grew steadily, crossing Rs100 billion annually by the mid-2010s and exceeding Rs200bn by FY2018-19. Although never formally framed as a climate instrument, it has acquired a distinct environmental gloss, culminating in the climate support levy of 2026. The flooding track: The 1973 floods wiped out three million houses and erased a year of economic growth. Bhutto created the Federal Flood Commission. Three consecutive 10-year national flood protection plans followed, running from 1978 to 2008 across four governments, each funded through the PSDP with no ring-fencing. Pakistan suffered catastrophic floods throughout. Three decades of federal plans, without a rupee ring-fenced. No relief fund has ever been legally ring-fenced. Since 1992, when Nawaz Sharif’s government first activated the prime minister’s relief fund model, Pakistan has deployed the same instrument at least five times across floods and earthquakes. The design is deliberate: by classifying flood revenue as voluntary donations rather than taxation, governments simultaneously escape parliamentary scrutiny, judicial challenge and NFC distribution requirements. Benazir Bhutto deployed the identical model after the 1994 floods. So did every government after 2010. The 2010 floods affected 20m people and caused $43bn in damages. The government announced a flood relief surcharge projecting Rs40bn, collected it, and absorbed it into the federal consolidated fund while simultaneously negotiating IMF targets. After the 2022 floods, the government quietly renamed its existing super tax: Section 4B, whose stated purpose was rehabilitation of temporarily displaced persons, became Section 4C, a super tax on high-earning persons. The humanitarian justification was dropped without explanation. The revenue mechanism stayed the same. Three findings hold across every instrument. No relief fund has ever been legally ring-fenced: every prime minister, president and chief minister relief fund is credited to the account of the federation, making it general government money. International pledges substitute for domestic accountability rather than supplementing it. And every fund since 2005 has carried a public commitment to publish an independent audit. None has been published. Justice Saqib Nisar’s 2018 dam fund collected Rs11.5bn from the public in the name of water security, earned Rs2.2bn in mark-up over six years, and was quietly transferred to the public account of the federation in 2024 without a single rupee spent on the stated objective. If money raised under the highest judicial authority in the country can still end up in the general budget, no argument remains that any executive fund can be trusted to do otherwise. The petroleum track: Climate change has been weaponised as a justification to tax citizens. Gen Musharraf used clean-fuel rhetoric to justify development surcharges during the CNG transition without a single rupee being traced to a cleaner fuel outcome. In 2009, the Supreme Court under chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ruled that revenue collected without a verifiable service to the payer is a tax, not a surcharge, and that imposing it by executive notification violates Article 77. The response was the Petroleum Products (Development Levy) Amendment Act, 2009, that satisfied the court’s procedural requirement while eliminating any ring-fencing obligation. The consequences are calculable. At Rs1.55tr, the PDL represents 10-11 per cent of total federal revenue. Under the seventh NFC Award, provinces are entitled to 57.5pc of all taxes. If correctly classified, Punjab would receive Rs461bn annually, Sindh Rs219bn, KP Rs13bn and Balochistan Rs81bn. They receive zero. It is a tax called a levy because of the NFC Award. The classification is deliberate. PML-N elevated PDL margins in 2016 on the justification that the premium would fund cleaner fuel production. The revenue went instead to IPP capacity charge payments and circular debt service, which reached Rs1.14tr by FY2017-18. The revenue collected in the name of cleaner fuel financed the liabilities of a fossil-fuel-dependent power grid. The PTI then scaled the PDL to Rs424bn, the highest in Pakistan’s history, while branding it a carbon instrument aligned with its Ten Billion Tree Tsunami project. In March 2022, it froze the levy at zero for political reasons. The IMF suspended a $1bn tranche within weeks. A climate-labelled levy had become a macroeconomic emergency. Across 23 programmes since 1958, the IMF has required Pakistan to enhance the PDL without requiring it to distribute the revenue constitutionally. The way forward: Can the PDL be ring-fenced or audited? Ring-fencing 15pc of PDL collections into a sovereign climate fund (SCF) would deploy Rs232bn annually, shared with provinces under the NFC Award and structured as a statutory trust. Following global benchmarks, it can leverage private investment at a ratio of one to four, unlocking approximately Rs900bn in total climate finance conditioned on climate resilience outcomes aligned with Pakistan’s commitments. The IMF objection is predictable but answerable. The SCF does not reduce total PDL collections. Tabled in the next programme negotiation as a structural benchmark rather than a provincial concession, the IMF’s incentives align with the reform rather than against it. The question is not whether Pakistan can create such a fund. It is whether any government is willing to surrender a revenue stream that it has prized too much to ring-fence. The writer is a climate expert. Published in Dawn, June 4th, 2026
Friozinho, chuva leve e sol vão marcar o feriado de Corpus Christi no litoral paulista Arquivo AT O feriadão de Corpus Christi deve ser de tempo firme em boa parte do Brasil. De acordo com a Climatempo, apenas algumas áreas do Norte e do Nordeste têm risco de chuva forte nos próximos dias. As regiões Sul e Sudeste devem ter clima típico de outono, com manhãs mais frias, tempo firme e com as temperaturas subindo gradualmente ao longo do dia, mas máximas amenas. No Centro-Oeste, a previsão é de clima seco e calor, com as máximas podendo superar os 30°C em boa parte dos estados. Modelos meteorológicos mostram a previsão do acumulado de chuvas e das temperaturas para os próximos dias. Inmet Agora no g1 Veja abaixo como fica o tempo para cada uma das regiões: Sul Rua do Outono, em Curitiba. Reprodução/RPC O feriado será de clima típico de outono, com o sol presente na região durante quase todo o feriado. As manhãs e noites devem ser de tempo mais frio, com tarde de temperaturas mais amenas. Há risco de nevoeiro no início da manhã, especialmente nas serras e vales. Grande Curitiba, litoral do Paraná e Vale do Itajaí podem ter um pouco de chuvisco nesta quinta-feira (4). No domingo (7), a chegada de uma nova frente fria deve trazer chuva para algumas áreas do Rio Grande do Sul. Sudeste Os quatro dias serão de sol em quase toda a região. As temperaturas devem ficar amenas e até frias durante a noite e no início da manhã. As tardes devem ser quentes no interior de São Paulo, em todo o centro-oeste de Minas Gerais, no Rio de Janeiro e no Espírito Santo. Sul e leste de São Paulo, incluindo a Grande São Paulo e o litoral paulista, podem ter chuva fraca e chuvisco nesta quinta, mas a partir de sexta-feira (5) o tempo deve ficar firme. A previsão é de tempo instável na quinta também para o Rio de Janeiro e lestes de Minas Gerais. No Rio, o sol retorna a partir da tarde de sexta e, em Minas, a partir de sábado. Centro-Oeste Por do sol em Goiânia, Goiás Wesley Costa/O Popular No Centro-Oeste, o sol e o tempo seco devem predominar durante os próximos dias. Ainda que a noite e o amanhecer sejam de temperaturas mais amenas, as tardes devem ser bem quentes, com máximas acima dos 30°C. Em quase toda a região, o ar seco deve fazer com que a umidade atinja níveis muito baixos, em torno de 30% nas horas mais quentes. ⚠️ CUIDADOS NA HIDRATAÇÃO: Por causa dessa previsão, a orientação é redobrar os cuidados com a hidratação e evitar atividades físicas nas horas mais quentes do dia. Com a aproximação de uma frente fria na noite de domingo (7), oeste e sul do Mato Grosso podem registrar algumas pancadas de chuva. Norte O feriadão deve ser de tempo seco e sol no Tocantins, sul e leste do Pará e boa parte de Rondônia e do Acre. Nesses locais, o calor deve ser intenso, com os níveis de umidade também podendo ficar abaixo dos 30%. Já no centro-norte e oeste do Amazonas, norte do Pará, Amapá e Roraima, os dias devem ser de tempo instável, muitas nuvens e pancadas de chuva frequentes. Nordeste Todo o interior do nordeste deve ter sol forte e muito calor durante o feriado. Já as áreas próximas ao litoral devem ter pancadas de chuva frequentes e muita nebulosidade. No centro-oeste e norte da Bahia, áreas do sertão, sul do Maranhão e do Piauí, o calor deve ser intenso, com umidade abaixo dos 30%. Em Salvador, no litoral norte da Bahia e no litoral de Sergipe, há risco de chuva moderada a forte, principalmente na quinta e na sexta-feira. No litoral de Pernambuco e da Paraíba, incluindo a região de Recife e João Pessoa, pode chover com moderada a forte intensidade nos quatro dias do fim de semana prolongado. O mesmo está previsto para a faixa litorânea entre o Rio Grande do Norte e o Maranhão.
The debate over these chemical substances is being reignited within the European Union, as machines designed to help adapt to climate change come under fire, historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz notes in his column for Le Monde.
World Environment Day 2026 Theme: India has intensified its climate action through renewable energy expansion, electric mobility, and large-scale environmental programmes.
Rising temperatures are disrupting South Korea's beekeeping industry, as earlier blooms, harsher weather and disease cut honey production and put pressure on migratory farmers.
California’s latest gas-tax hike lands as voters this week rejected a range of local tax-hike measures statewide, including, apparently, in LA County, San Diego, San Francisco and Riverside. State residents are sick of paying ever-higher prices for shoddy government services, payouts to Dem-adjacent unions and nonprofit groups and the climate fever dreams of the left....
Unprecedented heatwaves, violent storms, mega-cyclones, catastrophic floods, prolonged droughts and uncontrollable wildfires have all become commonplace, with extreme weather events increasing in both frequency and intensity thanks in large part to human-induced climate change. Global temperatures have continued to soar, with recent years continually ranking among the hottest on record. The consequences go far beyond the destruction of local ecosystems and damaging physical infrastructure, creating other new opportunities as investments shift along…
The ESRI also found that farmers and non-farmers hold misperceptions of each other’s attitudes.