"Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
"AAA will not renew home and car insurance for some of its policyholders in Florida, citing increased natural disaster risk that it says makes the policies not worth providing."
"John Kerry travels to Beijing for three days of talks, as the world’s two biggest economies, and two biggest polluters, try to cooperate on climate action."
"An extreme heatwave peaked in the western United States on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 128 Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) in the California desert, while flash flooding continued to menace the Northeast, killing at least five people."
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"The European Union strengthened its environmental policies this week with adoption of a nature restoration law that member countries hope will help them meet climate and biodiversity targets set under the 2015 Paris Agreement and a global biodiversity agreement reached late last year."
"For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline."
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[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/aaa-follows-farmers-limiting-coverage-florida-citing-disaster-threat
[4] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4098567-aaa-follows-farmers-in-limiting-coverage-in-florida-citing-natural-disaster-threat/
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[11] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-rns-ia-religion-journalism-fellowship
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[13] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/13/green-concrete-cement-climate-brimstone/
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[15] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12072023/european-union-approves-ambitious-nature-restoration-law/
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/industry-wants-new-pipeline-navajo-land-scarred-decades-drilling
[17] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14072023/industry-new-pipeline-navajo-land-scarred-by-fossil-fuel-extraction/
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