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International Aviation Organization, ICAO, has agreed on net zero emissions in the aviation industry by 2050 Photo: Agneta Elmegård

On November 24, a framework and a global vision of 5 percent greenhouse gas reduction through alternative aviation fuels by 2030 was adopted, TT reports. It happened at an aviation conference in Dubai with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) member countries.

The international aviation organization is now concretizing how alternative aviation fuels will contribute to aviation’s long-term climate goal, net zero in 2050, which was adopted last year.

Ulrika Raab from the Maritime and Aviation department at the Swedish Transport Agency has represented Sweden in the negotiations in the ICAO environmental committee and during the conference on sustainable aviation fuels.

– Even though we had hoped for a higher global level of ambition, it is good that ICAO has gathered around a way forward. It is an important part of reaching the aviation sector’s long-term climate goals, which are in line with the Paris Agreement, says Ulrika Raab.

Sweden has a dialogue with like-minded countries, above all in the Nordics and Europe. We have also collaborated with countries in other regions in the work for a global framework.

An earlier flood in the UK. (Archive image) Photo: AP

Floods in Great Britain have put several crops with grain under water, among other things potatoes have rotted, writes British The Independent. In Spain, the problem has been the opposite in its olive groves: drought and heatwave. This has caused the price of olive oil to rise by 50 percent. Sugar, rice and tomatoes have also been affected by extreme weather, where the price has risen by around 20 percent.

Now a new British study shows that the cost of food for a family in the country has increased by 605 pounds, almost 8,000 kroner, in two years. The reason is climate change, according to the researchers.

– Climate change is an increasingly prominent element that is one of the driving forces behind food inflation. In 2022, energy costs dominated the headlines. Now that energy prices have fallen, climate change has emerged as a bigger driver of food inflation in the past two years, Professor Wyn Morgan of the University of Sheffield told the paper.

Sea turtles have been adapting to climate change for millions of years, but today’s rapid changes may be happening too quickly for them to evolve. Photo: Archive image: Gustav Sjöholm/TT

The number of turtle nests is breaking records on American beaches. But global warming threatens their survival. This is reported by AP.

In Florida, preliminary statistics show more than 133,840 hawksbill nests breaking the record from 2016. The same is true for the green turtle, where 76,500 nests are well above the previous record from 2017.

But climate change poses challenges for the newborn turtles to survive the first year. Beaches are shrinking as sea levels rise and more powerful tropical storms are expected. According to Oceana, an international conservation group, warmer air is changing the ocean current corridors in the oceans that turtles use to migrate and increasing the odds of survival.

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An axolotl in an aquarium. Photo: WIKIPEDIA

Pollution has caused Mexico’s axolotl population to decline by 99.5 percent in just two decades. Now ecologists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University are launching a campaign to save the fish-like salamander. For 600 pesos, you can virtually adopt the little water monster.

There used to be an average of 6,000 axolotls per square kilometer in Mexico, today there are only 36, according to the National Autonomous University’s latest count.

– Time is running out for xochimilco. The “invasion” of pollution is strong: football pitches, floating dens. It’s so sad. What I do know is that we have to work quickly, says researcher Luis Zambrano Gonzalez at the university to the AP.

An axolotl lives in wetlands and small watercourses on the outskirts of Mexico City. It grows between 15 and 45 cm long and weighs 55 to 225 g, but today it rarely grows more than 22 cm long.

Axolotl means water god.