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Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 11:16 am
Thousands of school students walked out of classes to
protest throughout New Zealand on April 9 against government
inaction on climate change. They were supported by many
university students and workers.
More than 1,000
people marched through Queen Street in Auckland, about 4,000
rallied outside parliament in Wellington, and thousands more
attended events in Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, New
Plymouth, Tauranga, Rotorua and other
towns.
It was the first nationwide action
led by School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) since 2019, when
hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders joined international
protests involving millions of people. The global movement
has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic over the past
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Two timber industry advocates who criticised high-profile Australian scientist David Lindenmayer on social media have been forced to retract their comments and apologise.
Professor Lindenmayer, an ecologist at the Australian National University who specialises in forest conservation, sued Justin Law and Matthew Leplaa for defamation in the Victorian County Court after they made personal attacks on him on social media.
Ecology expert Professor David Lindenmayer launched legal action against his critics.
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The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald, in March 2020 the Goongerah Environment Centre in Gippsland wrote to Monique Dawson, the chief executive of logging agency VicForests, about logging in fire-affected forests, citing two research papers by Professor Lindenmayer.
Biden Calls Another Summit : Threat of the Anthropocene We must act now
US President Joe Biden has called a virtual summit on climate change on April 22-23, inviting heads of government in 40 countries. Biden has also appealed to them to submit their updated commitments on carbon emission cuts as part of the Paris Climate Agreement signed in 2015.
The summit is a prequel to the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Glasgow from November 1-12. The motive of Biden’s virtual summit is to help the United States reclaim leadership in setting the climate change agenda.
Further evidence has emerged that the world can no longer hold warming to 1.5 degrees without overshooting the mark and using new technology to scrub the air.