‘We are witnessing a fire-sale of the world’s rainforests’ – global banks earn billions from deforestation
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- US banks earned the most globally, making $5.4 billion, with Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock topping the list. In the US, the SEC’s climate-related financial disclosure rules remain suspended, and attempts to pass the FOREST Act, an import regulation like the UK’s law banning imports grown on illegally deforested land, have stalled.
- EU banks generated $3.5 billion, led by BNP Paribas and Rabobank, while UK banks made $1.2 billion, with HSBC, aberdeen Group and Schroders at the top. The EU’s flagship deforestation law, due to enter into application at the end of 2025 has already been delayed by 12-months [...] and remains at risk of additional delays.
- Chinese financial institutions made $1.2 billion, almost entirely from credit-related deals and fees – despite the country’s green finance policy requiring banks to restrict lending for companies with ESG concerns. In China, Green Finance Guidelines introduced in 2022 could be utilised to outline how banks should identify, monitor, prevent and control their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. However, China remains the biggest international financier of companies that trade and produce goods linked to deforestation.
- Together, banks in all other countries including Indonesia and Brazil earned $15.9 billion.
- The UK passed a law in 2021 prohibiting the use of products linked to illegally deforested land, but it has yet to come into fully force. Once it does, the Treasury must conduct a review of the UK’s role in financing global deforestation.
Global banks earn billions from deforestation
New Global Witness research exposes glaring contradiction at the heart of forest finance, as Brazil prepares to launch flagship tropical forest fund at COP30Global Witness
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
Offsets are tradable credits from projects that claim to reduce emissions, either by avoiding them or by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Businesses and countries trade these credits — each representing the equivalent of one tonne of CO2 — to ‘neutralize’ their own emissions.Although conceptually appealing, this reliance on offsets has fatal flaws. In practice, it’s difficult to ensure that they represent real emissions reductions rather than ‘hot air’, with the claimed climate benefits existing only on paper. Equally challenging is ensuring that emission reductions are ‘additional’, meaning that they would not have occurred without the incentive provided by the sale of carbon credits. (...)
This results in more emissions, delays the phase-out of fossil fuels and diverts scarce resources to false solutions.
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.Rockström, Johan
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OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist
OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist - DeSmog
The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.Rei Takver (DeSmog)
Oof. The one good thing about Trump 2.0 is that I feel like everyone is dropping a lot of acts.
All the tech CEOs are various shades of authoritarian end-times doomers. They all know that they're frying the planet, and they're getting more comfortable admitting that they just can't really be bothered to stop doing it anyway.
ChatGPT will be the first to fall. Claude will linger because programming uses a textbook-taught model. Nobody was ever going to use Copilot anyway. Apple didn’t even want Apple “Intelligence”, much like their stupid Alexa speaker, they just did it to appease idiot shareholders. Muskrat’s sex doll AI actually killing real humans will just be an AI sex worker that murders humans with generator pollution and nothing more.
Oh, and Google’s whatever AI thinks a rabbit is a squirrel. But nobody cares anyway. Google destroyed their phone OS permanently. Nobody will use their tech going forward. So. Yeah.
ByeAI! 👋
Models will live on, likely in the style of China’s goals. Small compact models to run on common hardware to achieve simple goals like fixing a lawnmower or a 747.
Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power
Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables
Climate change and aging drains wreak havoc on Kolkata, India
Climate change and aging drains wreak havoc on Kolkata, India
On Sept. 23, the city of Kolkata in eastern India came to a standstill: The capital of West Bengal state received more than 12% of the city’s average annual rainfall in just 24 hours, some 247.5 millimeters (9.7 inches).Conservation news
These Florida Communities Wanted to Be More Sustainable and Resilient. A New State Law Blocks Their Efforts.
These Florida Communities Wanted to Be More Sustainable and Resilient. A New State Law Blocks Their Efforts. - Inside Climate News
The DeSantis administration has since targeted local sustainability and resilience policies. Now local governments and other detractors are firing back with litigation.Inside Climate News
The world already risks the collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, according to the report. And if warming breaches 1.5 degrees C, the stated goal of the Paris Agreement, humanity ~~may also~~ face(s) a mass dieback. ~~of the Amazon rainforest and the collapse of a vital Atlantic current.~~
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‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.The Conversation
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OK, to go into some more detail: The big car makers could actually make it if their management wants to. They have invested a bit into electrical technology, though by far not enough.
Then there are companies like Bosch which have developed electrical technology since a long time. Bosch is today one of the most important suppliers of eBike drive components.
But what is the far bigger problem for industrial policy are the car companies' suppliers, of which many are still focused on 100% combustion engines and the parts around them. They have no future. And unfortunately, they have a disproportionate economic share in entire regions.
Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy
Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy
Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homesDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Demolition of Coal Power Plant Werne, Germany
While climate protection policy is subject of fierce political fights, mankind is quietly witnessing a technological revolution of a scale not seen since the invention of the steam engine in 1776: Electrical renewable power, namely wind and solar power, is now more competitive in costs than fossil power. As a consequence, fossil power plants become obsolete, and are being demolished - here and now.
The video shows the demolition of the 285 meter tall chimney of the coal power plant Werne in region Lippe of NRW.
To me, this view gives hope that our children have a future.
The Big Switch: Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn
Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn
Discover how the UK can learn from European countries on phasing out gas in social housing for a sustainable future.www.sureserve.co.uk
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warnsGraham Readfearn (The Guardian)
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It's a bit misleading. The GAT is something like a 20 year average. 1.5°C is here in 2024. Only the averaging from 2004 to 2024 keeps it lower.
Dem tipping points being tipped already. Couching it in the language of scientific caution is a mugs game. Shit's fucked 'yo. You're fucked. Already fucked. The biosphere doesn't want you anymore. Enjoy the ride to oblivion.
Trump’s Fear of China Is Finally Showing
Trump’s Fear of China Is Finally Showing
When tariffs collapse under legal pressure and markets panic, the myth of American leverage ends.Neil Zhu (Grumpy Chinese Guy)
If America truly wants to bring manufacturing back, it’s not a policy tweak. It’s a complete reinvention. Politics, culture, education, and industrial strategy all have to change. That takes time, discipline, and national unity.
complete subjugation of an entire class of disposable people works too and they'll insist on doing it to themselves if you keep doing it to them for long enough.
as any historian if you want details. lol
AMDGPU crash when on high load, blackscreen and gpu fan go crazy.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37817953
Hi all,
when I am using software with high gpu load(in the case AI model). It also happens with game. It just kinda happens after a random amount of with games(I can play for like 30 mins then crash or sometime not at all).
here is my journalctl log:
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Completed
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: [drm] AMDGPU device coredump file has been created
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: [drm] Check your /sys/class/drm/card1/device/devcoredump/data
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.1 timeout, signaled seq=618, emitted seq=620
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: Process python pid 4571 thread python pid 5777
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: amdgpu: device lost from bus!
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but recovered through reset
Oct 20 12:57:18 Linux kernel: amdgpu 0000:10:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:61:crtc-0] flip_done timed outI tried to check the path
/sys/class/drm/card1/device/devcoredump/data after reboot, but there isn't any thing(in fact, devcoredump folder dont even exist.My specs:
Distro: Arch
Kernel: 6.17.3.arch2-1
Driver: Mesa 1:25.2.4-2
Gpu: rx 580
Cpu: r5 5500
PSU: EVGA 650 N1 650w
I am on latest version of my bios)
Edit: my
Is there anything I can do to diagnose the issue? Any help is appreciated. Thanks you!
“Politically correct” cycle lane plans would put “economic vitality” of town at “serious risk”, warns Labour MP – due to loss of six car parking spaces
“Politically correct” cycle lane plans would put “economic vitality” of town at “serious risk”, warns Labour MP – due to loss of six car parking spaces
Ayr cycle lanes risk economic vitality of townMegan Huws (road.cc)
Imagine if cars only now started to become a thing and we were living in a walkable city with viable public transportation.
We would probably as a society question why do cars need to be so large and require massive empty parking lots.
It would be crazy to pave over a whole park in the center of a green walkable town.
A few months in...
Teachers scrambled after ICE released tear gas outside a Chicago elementary school
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
For the last month, the Trump administration has kept Chicago under siege. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested a 15-year-old U.S. citizen earlier this week after unleashing tear gas into a crowded residential neighborhood. Earlier in October, masked federal agents raided a five-story apartment building in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Chicago and zip-tied naked children as they dragged their parents away.
The Trump administration claims that Chicago is unsafe and needs order, despite the fact that the city experienced its lowest homicide rate in 60 years this summer. But instead of investing in underfunded schools or attempting to eradicate poverty, which have been shown to increase public safety, the administration is pouring millions into the militarization of American cities and fighting a court battle to federalize the National Guard in Chicago.
Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.Jessica Washington (The Intercept)
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Documentary: The full chain of responsibility behind the murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab
Watch the documentary (Arabic with English subtitles)
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How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda videos | 972mag.com
From the Bellingcat newsletter:
Researchers from Viewfinder, an independent research collective, analysed dozens of Israeli army animations used to justify Gaza strikes. They discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators, as +972 Magazine reports.
From the article:
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-3d-propaganda-animations/
US military airstrikes boats and kills several people in international waters, trying to start war against Venezuela.
Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela: US military kills innocent people in war based on lies
The USA is waging war on Venezuela. Trump authorized CIA "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. The US military is killing innocent fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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It's never happened. Everyone is saying so. Very biggly.
Except it absolutely has happened...
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It’s never happened. Everyone is saying so. Very biggly.
Not only that, tRump critized Zeleneskyy for not holding elections precisely because the Ukranian constitution (or equivalent) does suspend elections...
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NVIDIA’s New AI’s Movements Are So Real It’s Uncanny
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Israel resumes lower-level killing after mass violence Sunday; Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks; embattled socialist party ousted in Bolivia
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Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza City after claiming to begin “the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire” following a wave of attacks on Sunday that killed dozens. Khalil al-Hayya leads Hamas delegation in Cairo. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks. Israeli warplanes carry out three airstrikes in southern Lebanon. On “60 Minutes,” Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff describe the U.S. process of negotiating the ceasefire; Kushner argues that purported “cultural differences” in Gaza and the West Bank constitute a meaningful obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Israeli settlers attack an elderly Palestinian woman harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Turmus’ayyer; the incident was captured on camera by Jasper Nathaniel, a journalist and Drop Site contributor, in a scene he describes as an ambush. The Trump administration announces that the two survivors of a military attack on a semi-submersible vessel are being repatriated to their home countries, while initiating yet another attack, this time on the Colombian guerrilla group, the E.L.N. The Washington Post reports on a quid pro quo between the U.S. State Department and the government of El Salvador, which exchanged MS-13 informants in American prisons for U.S. access to El Salvador’s mega-prisons, where they intend to send Venezuelan migrants. Houthi forces detain UN employees in Sana’a, Yemen, alleging that they engaged in espionage. President Donald Trump urges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to cede territories in the East to Russia and to accept a ceasefire, saying that if he does not, Ukraine will “be destroyed.” Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential election, ending nearly 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.
Israel resumes lower-level killing after mass violence Sunday; Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks; embattled socialist party ousted in Bolivia
Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza City after claiming to begin “the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire” following a wave of attacks on Sunday that killed dozens. Khalil al-Hayya leads Hamas delegation in Cairo. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks. Israeli warplanes carry out three airstrikes in southern Lebanon. On “60 Minutes,” Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff describe the U.S. process of negotiating the ceasefire; Kushner argues that purported “cultural differences” in Gaza and the West Bank constitute a meaningful obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Israeli settlers attack an elderly Palestinian woman harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Turmus’ayyer; the incident was captured on camera by Jasper Nathaniel, a journalist and Drop Site contributor, in a scene he describes as an ambush. The Trump administration announces that the two survivors of a military attack on a semi-submersible vessel are being repatriated to their home countries, while initiating yet another attack, this time on the Colombian guerrilla group, the E.L.N. The Washington Post reports on a quid pro quo between the U.S. State Department and the government of El Salvador, which exchanged MS-13 informants in American prisons for U.S. access to El Salvador’s mega-prisons, where they intend to send Venezuelan migrants. Houthi forces detain UN employees in Sana’a, Yemen, alleging that they engaged in espionage. President Donald Trump urges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to cede territories in the East to Russia and to accept a ceasefire, saying that if he does not, Ukraine will “be destroyed.” Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential election, ending nearly 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.
Israel resumes lower-level killing after mass violence Sunday; Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks; embattled socialist party ousted in Bolivia
PALESTINE 36 | Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas 31 October
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Trump threatens to ‘eradicate’ Hamas
Trump threatens to ‘eradicate’ Hamas
The US president has said he would “straighten it out” if the militant group fails to honor the Gaza truce deal with IsraelRT
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Flow control
I've been thinking lately about flow control. That's a feature of some networks where a receiver can tell a sender to slow down its sending rate to match the receiver's processing rate.
In TCP flow control, the receiving host returns a receiving buffer size in its acknowledgement segment, so the sending host know how much data it can send without overflowing the buffer.
I wonder if there are ways that a receiving ActivityPub protocol server could tell the sending server to slow down? Maybe we could reuse some of the RateLimit headers.
Another option would be a special header that says how big your incoming activity queue is. "I have a very long processing queue right now, please keep stuff in your outgoing queue for a while."
RateLimit Fields for HTTP
This document defines the RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, RateLimit-Reset fields for HTTP, thus allowing servers to publish current service limits and clients to shape their request policy and avoid being throttled out.www.ietf.org
Representing the cause of an activity
result property. Here, when the actor accepts a Follow activity, the result is that the follower is added to the actor's followers collection.{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"id": "https://social.example/accept/12931",
"type": "Accept",
"actor": "https://social.example/person/24405",
"to": ["as:Public", "https://other.example/person/21356"],
"object": {
"id": "https://other.example/follow/30360",
"type": "Follow",
"to": ["as:Public", "https://social.example/person/24405"],
"actor": "https://other.example/person/21356",
"object": "https://social.example/person/24405"
},
"result": {
"id": "https://social.example/add/11066",
"type": "Add",
"actor": "https://social.example/person/24405",
"to": ["as:Public", "https://other.example/person/21356"],
"object": "https://other.example/person/21356",
"target": "https://social.example/person/24405/followers"
}
}My question is: how can the
Add activity refer to the activity that caused it? I don't think we have a standard property for this. My best guess right now is context or maybe instrument, neither of which seems ideal. I think an extension inverse property, like resultOf, might be the best option.
Server-sent Events for the ActivityPub API
One of the user stories for the ActivityPub API task force is to enable real-time updates for clients.
github.com/swicg/activitypub-a…
To help with this, I added a draft specification for server-sent events:
swicg.github.io/activitypub-ap…
If you're interested, please review and provide comments on the GitHub issue. I'd like to start a reference implementation soon.
Push delivery
"As an ActivityPub user, I want data pushed from the server to my client device, so I don't have to reload a collection just to see if there's anything new."evanp (GitHub)
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Xi congratulates new KMT leader, calls for efforts to ‘advance reunification’
Xi congratulates Taiwan’s new KMT leader, calls for efforts to ‘advance reunification’
Chinese president says he hopes ‘common political foundation’ can be upheld after Cheng Li-wun is elected as Kuomintang chairperson.Zhao Ziwen (South China Morning Post)
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