June 30 | Climate Now

The News for Saturday 30th of June 2018

"The 2017 tree cover loss numbers are in... Despite a decade of intensifying efforts to slow tropical deforestation, last year was the second-highest on record for tree cover loss, down just slightly from 2016. The tropics lost an area of forest the size of Vietnam in [these] two years."

Humans let trees down again / Deforestation is accelerating, despite mounting efforts to protect tropical forests. What are we doing wrong? Eco-Business

Photo credit: Rainforest Action Network, CC BY-NC 2.0

New direction for mitigation? / Focus on cities could cut China’s emissions by 30% Eco-Business

"The world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases needs to focus on its urban areas in order to meet national-level targets under the international Paris Agreement to curb global warming, according to scientists..."

Photo credit: Clay Gilliland, CC BY 2.0

Hydrofluorocarbons / 11 States Sue EPA's Scott Pruitt Over Climate Super-Pollutants Inside Climate News

"The lawsuits over HFCs are the latest legal challenges to a far-reaching agenda of rolling back environmental regulations, especially relating to climate change."

Photo credit: Justin Sullivan

Aviation emissions / U.N. aviation agency approves standards to kickstart emissions deal Reuters

"The United Nations aviation agency on Wednesday approved new standards needed to implement a 2016 global agreement that seeks to limit emissions from international flights, an aviation industry group said."

Photo credit: see #3 below

Sea Level / This Tiny California Beach Town Is Suing Big Oil. It Sees This as a Fight for Survival. Inside Climate News

"Imperial Beach can't afford seawalls, so it's trying to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change as sea level rises and saltwater creeps in."

Photo credit: David Hasemyer/ICN

Carbon offsets / Fund Climate Trust Capital ties with green group on Maine forest project

Carbon Pulse

"US-based fund Climate Trust Capital has teamed with green group The Nature Conservancy to close its largest carbon offset deal, which involves an improved forest management project in Maine."

Photo credit: The Real Cloud2013 / Flickr

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Headline #3 photo: Henrickson at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

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