I'm happy to live on the top of a hill. Shopping downhill, the cashier showed me photos of last Sunday: the whole supermarket was flooded by a sudden thunderstorm. After the help of the 'pompiers', the whole team worked late into the night. The floods transported soil from the fields outside of the village: after the drought, they couldn't absorb any water.
At the traiteur, a woman told me, in Aschbach it was the worst: 1.5 m of running mud:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJZ-2muurcc 1/2
A ‘climate battery’ system helps plants thrive all winter – no fossil fuels needed.
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Student teams will compete this weekend in the annual Solar Boat Regatta in Minnesota.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/kids-race-boats-powered-by-sunshine-alone/
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The campaign to restore the Everglades has received a boost with completion of a key project that returns the flow of water to 55,000 acres that had once been drained for development. Experts see it as a major step forward in bringing back South Florida’s River of Grass. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/features/picayune-strand-restoration-project
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The campaign to restore the Everglades has received a boost with completion of a key project that returns the flow of water to 55,000 acres that had once been drained for development. Experts see it as a major step forward in bringing back South Florida’s River of Grass.
…C. Advancing international cooperation and climate diploma (continued)
12. Realign international legal frameworks to support just transitions away from fossil fuels
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I’m glad this conference happened and will run again next year in Tuvalu.
On a purely technocratic note, my hope is that their web comms are better and rely less upon PDFs with very poor accessibility
…B. Transforming supply and demand (continued)
9. Leverage central banks’ financial and price stability mandates to reduce the financing costs of clean energy, electrification and enabling infrastructure
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C. Advancing international cooperation and climate diplomacy
10. Strengthen international cooperation on transitioning away from fossil fuels within and outside the UNFCCC
11. Integrate all forms of knowledge and developmenti imperatives in planning for just transitions
…B. Transforming supply and demand:
5. Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions
6. Implement carbon pricing with international harmonisation and phase out fossil fuel subsidies
7. Establish enabling standards and monitoring requirements for fossil fuel transition targets and timetables
8. Implement harmonised fossil fuel supply levies to incentivise demand shifts and fund just transitions
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