*Emissions from coal mined in Australia but exported and burnt overseas were almost double the nation’s domestic greenhouse gas footprint in 2020.*

When coal is mined in country A and burnt in country B, which one is responsible for those emissions? Both share the responsibility, since both work together to arrange to burn that coal.

If we had sufficient pressure to stop burning coal, country B would stop buying it and stop burning it. Country A would not be able to prevent that.

But the world does not put enough pressure on country B to bring the practice to an end; thus, pressure to stop mining the coal is needed too.

*Key species at risk if planet heats up by more than 1.5C.*

The loss of those species can upend ecosystems and thus cause havoc.

*Biden suspends Trump-era oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge.*

This is one step towards what we need for ecosurvival. There is no room in the carbon budget for additional fossil fuel infrastructure. We need to end the drilling world-wide.

A ship laden with chemicals, many of them more or less toxic, is sinking near Sri Lanka and is likely to poison the wildlife in that area. The effects could last for decades.

The Tories want to put the UK into the TPP.

That would imply subjecting it to the ISDN clause ("I sue democratic states") that gives foreign companies more rights than citizens.

Australia has suffered greatly from the ISDS clauses.