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Why I want the EU to pause the AI Act — as a climate advocate

“There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” So said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, in response to calls for a pause on the EU’s AI Act. These landmark rules on artificial intelligence will, then, be rolled out according to the timeline specified in the

Australia Climate Disclosures to Hit Agriculture: Report | Mirage News

Most farmers are unlikely to face onerous requirements – particularly in the short-term – as a result of mandatory climate-related reporting recently introduced for large Australian companies, according to new research by agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank. In the report, How Australia's climate-related financial disclosures could impact agriculture, the bank's RaboResearch division says direct reporting requirements

Unions for climate action! | Payton M. Wilkins

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Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a response from the USDA. To a throng of goats foraging in a remote expanse of Sanibel Island, Florida, the low whir of a plane flying overhead was perhaps the only warning of what was to come. As it passed, the specially modified plane dropped scores

Opinion: The climate agenda is in rapid retreat as right-wing parties rise everywhere

The era that saw millions of protesters take to the streets to demand action to fight climate change seems over

Climate change and eye maladies

Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air pollution was in the atmosphere, signaling a possible association between climate change and ocular health, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study, published Wednesday in the journal

$300B climate change deal sparks hope in some, outrage in others

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN —  Anger and frustration from developing nations vulnerable to climate impacts are likely to linger following the conclusion of the climate change summit in Azerbaijan, COP29, as nations adopted a $300 billion global finance target to help poorer nations cope with climate change, a deal that many recipient nations slammed as severely insufficient.

NEC participates in COP29 climate change conference

TOKYO, Nov 12, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) is participating in the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22, 2024 with a keynote speech in the UGIH Pavilion, the host organization of the