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Potential IPCC rule changes could award planned carbon savings from burning US wood pellets to the exporter, not the importerThe UK government is gambling with its own climate targets on claims that the Drax power plant will create “negative emissions” because new rules could hand the carbon savings to the US, campaigners say.The owners of the North Yorkshire power plant have promised ministers that a key project to capture the carbon emissions created from burning biomass wood pellets imported from US forests will count as negative emissions in Britain’s carbon accounts. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/26/uk-gambling-with-climate-targets-over-carbon-capture-say-campaigners Author : Jillian

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human RightsHere are some images coming to us over the wires.We’re getting more information on the five journalists killed in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/26/middle-east-crisis-live-security-personnel-killed-syria-sednaya-prison-gaza-israel-latest-updates Author : Jane Clinton Publish date : 2024-12-26 09:47:47 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Sun Chanthy also barred from running for office, in latest case to target critics of governmentThe leader of a Cambodian opposition party has been sentenced to two years in jail and banned from running for office after he was found guilty of inciting social disorder, in the latest legal case to target government critics.Sun Chanthy, the president of the Nation Power party, was found guilty of the charge at a court in Phnom Penh. He also faces a fine of 4m riel (£800) and has been stripped of his right to vote or stand for election.AFP contributed to this report

11 ‘imitator drones’ did not reach their targets after active engagement from the Ukrainian military, it saidHello –Welcome to the Guardian’s blog covering the Russia-Ukraine war.Joe Biden has asked the US defence department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, describing Russia’s Christmas Day attack against some of Ukraine’s cities and its energy infrastructure as “outrageous”.Christmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles to target energy infrastructure across the country, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman”.The attack left half a million people in Kharkiv region without heating, in temperatures just a