‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says
Exclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact
A new investigation into Chevron’s climate pledge has found the fossil-fuel company relies on “junk” carbon offsets and “unviable” technologies, which do little to offset its vast greenhouse gas emissions and in some cases may actually be causing communities harm.
Chevron, which reported $35.5bn in profits last year, is the US’s second-largest fossil fuel company with operations stretching from Canada and Brazil to the UK, Nigeria and Australia.
German police swoop on Last Generation climate activists
German police have conducted searches of the homes of climate activists from the Last Generation environmental group. They are charged with having organized a fundraising campaign to finance criminal actions.
Police on Wednesday said they had searched 15 properties linked to members of the Last Generation climate group who are suspected of helping finance a criminal enterprise.
The raids were connected to a string of charges filed against activists from the group since the middle of last year, authorities said.
Police said the internet homepage for Last Generation in Germany had also been shut down on the instructions of the prosecutor's office.
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The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (BLKA) and the Munich General Public Prosecutor's Office announced that officers had conducted searches of properties in seven states across Germany from 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT/UTC) on Wednesday.
Pro-Kyiv Russian group says it 'didn't lose a single soldier' in cross-border raids on Belgorod
Humanitarian aid to Sudan slow despite fighting lull amid truce
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns Sudan’s rival generals to abide by the latest ceasefire or face possible sanctions.
Clashes continued overnight in Sudan on the second day of a weeklong truce agreed between rival military factions to allow for the delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid into the devastated country.
Residents in Omdurman, one of the three cities around the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers that make up Sudan’s greater capital, told Reuters news agency that exchanges of fire and the sound of heavy artillery could be heard late on Tuesday.
After Turkey’s catastrophic quake, this could have been Erdogan’s last election. Instead, he’s poised to win
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rise to power was ushered in by the contentious political aftermath of the 1999 Izmit earthquake. So when another devastating quake laid waste to large swathes of southeast Turkey earlier this year, many observers expected the president’s two-decade rule to end with a full circle.
Instead, Erdogan appears to have defied the odds.
The first round of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary voting on May 14 made him the frontrunner in the race that pollsters predicted could unseat him.
He won a nearly five-point lead over his principal rival, opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and fell less than half a percentage point short of the 50% threshold required for victory. His parliamentary bloc won a comfortable majority in the legislature.
Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem moved by school after parent's complaint
US poet Amanda Gorman says a Florida school has banned younger readers from accessing the poem she recited at President Joe Biden's inauguration.
A Miami-Dade County school said it moved the poem, The Hill We Climb, from the elementary library section to the middle school section.
The move came after a parent asked the school to remove the poem entirely, according to documents obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project.
Gorman was "gutted" by the news.
"I wrote The Hill We Climb so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment," she said in a post on social media, adding that because of one parent's complaint, younger readers at the school could no longer access it.
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