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Brazil has released its first major climate‑mitigation update since 2008, outlining goals through 2035.

The plan places ending all deforestation by 2030 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 67% compared with 2005 levels.

This is significant because around 40% of Brazil’s emissions come from deforestation, largely driven by illegal land clearing for agriculture.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/17/brazil-s-new-climate-plan-prioritizes-stopping-deforestation_6751513_4.html

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“Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.”

- Thomas Merton

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There is a pattern, by now tediously familiar, to the British energy crisis.Trouble abroad sends gas prices soaring, and British households pay. Politicians express concern. Economists discuss volatility and global markets. We are told this is unavoidable.

It is not. The crisis is not only geopolitical.

It’s the result of a market design that functions exactly as intended . And that design is a political choice, not an inevitability.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/why-ed-miliband-is-right-about-britains?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

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