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The climate activist escaped punishment when the case was brought up in the Stockholm district court. Photo: Anna Tärnhuvud

A climate activist is sentenced for disobedience to law enforcement after a car blockade in Stockholm earlier this year. However, the Stockholm district court decides that he will not receive any punishment, because he acted to protect the climate, reports P4 Seven-way.

“It is a matter of acute emergency and therefore it is clearly unreasonable to impose a penalty,” writes the district court.

The verdict is a so-called jury verdict, where two of the three jurors in the case voted down the legal judge. At 2–2, the mildest results for the defendant must be sentenced, which is why the man now escapes punishment.

– As a legal judge and the third member of the jury, I wanted to convict and did not consider that there were conditions for a remission of penalties, says chief councilor Axel Peterson to P4.

– It is clear that the outcome stands out, he says further.

So-called jury verdicts are often changed on appeal in a higher instance, TT writes.

Just Stop Oil activists at a protest in London on October 27 last year. Photo: AP

Almost ten years ago, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, warned about climate change. He blamed the Western lifestyle for an environmental disaster. He also criticized the rulers of Great Britain for not taking the lead in the fight against climate change and called government “deeply irresponsible”.

Now more than a hundred famous actors, writers and prominent climate scientists have joined him and signed a petition for the climate. They call what is happening with the weather globally a “collective insanity” that is driving the “destruction of life on Earth”, write The Guardian.

According to the petition, the British government ignores the scientifically proven reality of the climate and ecological crisis, that despite this it continues to develop more sources of fossil fuelsSee more

Soaravo, ten months old, has been taken to hospital in Mananjary, Madagascar, for malnutrition. Southeast Madagascar has experienced three powerful cyclones in just one year. Humanitarian groups now say that the island population has suffered from famine disasters in the wake of climate change. Photo: AP

A prolonged heat wave hit Madagascar during October. It would not have occurred if it were not for climate change caused by man, writes NDTV.

The data comes from a new study from the World Weather Attribution, WWAwhere researchers from Madagascar, South Africa, Denmark, the Netherlands and Great Britain participated.

Among other things, the researchers concluded that heat waves in Africa were greatly underreported, which has led to reduced awareness of the dangers of extreme heat. They predict that the number of heat-related deaths will quadruple by 2080.

Particularly vulnerable to heat waves is southern Madagascar, where the food and agricultural system is at risk of collapse due to high temperatures and persistent drought. In addition, devastating cyclones are added.

The extremely dry airShow more

Every year, the world’s countries meet at the UN’s global climate conference to negotiate how climate work should be carried out, with the aim of taking measures against climate change. Now shows one study at Lund University, carried out in the last 15 COP meetings that some groups are not heard or represented while fossil-heavy countries get more space and more delegates. The richer a country is, the more delegates it can send to the COP, for example, which means it can be active in all parallel sessions. For example, China sent 233 delegates to COP15 in Denmark in 2009, compared to Haiti which sent seven and Chad which sent three people.

– Our analysis clearly shows that certain groups are not heard or represented. The very structure of the COP makes it almost impossible for smaller countries to advance their interests, as they cannot be present in all parallel negotiations, says Lina Lefstad, PhD student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, and lead author of the study, in a press release.