Tetra Pak advocates for a focused climate strategy in food systems, emphasizing processing and packaging over farming. They highlight that modernizing dairy equipment can cut emissions by 40-49% and that carton packaging offers a lower climate impact for perishables. Policy should enable system-wide modernization and circularity.
Climate change is displacing millions globally, but the US, under Trump's immigration policies, offers no asylum for environmental hazards. Displaced individuals face closed doors and deportation, with advocates criticizing the administration's stance.
A UN expert is intervening in Australian Federal Court cases against Woodside's North West Shelf gas project, arguing the government failed to consider climate impacts when extending its life to 2070. The special rapporteur for the right to a healthy environment stated the decision violates international law.
Climate scientists are monitoring the tropical Pacific for a strong El Niño that could permanently push global temperatures past the 1.5°C warming threshold within the next 12-18 months. A December 2025 Nature Communications study found that super El Niño events—defined as sea surface temperature anomalies exceeding 2 standard deviations—can trigger climate regime shifts, causing abrupt and lasting changes in heat, rainfall, and drought patterns. With only three super El Niños on record (1982-83, 1997-98, 2015-16), researchers warn these events can shift regional climate conditions for years or decades, while the UN estimates developing countries need $310-365 billion annually by 2035 to adapt.
Botanists in Hong Kong are calling for a citywide study to examine how global warming affects plant phenology after observing changes in leaf-shedding and flowering patterns. Species like the red kapok tree and flame tree, which typically shed all leaves in winter, have shown incomplete leaf drop by spring and early flowering in recent years. Professor Jim Chi-yung from the Education University of Hong Kong emphasizes that phenological research reveals the far-reaching impacts of climate change on nature and human life.
The UK government has revised its estimate of carbon emissions from AI datacentres by more than 100 times, after an investigation revealed the original figure was a significant underestimate. New data shows AI datacentres could emit 34-123 MtCO2 over the next decade, equivalent to 0.9-3.4% of the UK's projected total emissions between 2025-2035. The previous estimate claimed emissions would reach just 0.142 MtCO2 in a single year.
