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• “Wind Farms Lift Irish Rates Income” • Wind farms in Ireland will contribute almost €75 million in commercial rates to local authorities in 2026. Wind Energy Ireland said analysis compiled by Halpin’s showed annual rates payments from wind farms increased from €69.27 million in March 2025 to €74.87 million in March 2026. [reNews]

Wind turbine (FuturEnergy Ireland image)

• “Electricity Scarcity Will Shape AI’s Future Trajectory” • The race for supremacy in artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a contest of intellectual prowess: better models, faster chips and more sophisticated algorithms. But this perspective misses a harder, less glamorous truth. The real frontier of AI isn’t the silicon. It’s the electricity. [China Daily]
• “New World Record Set For Solar Module With Perovskite” • Another day, another reason why fossil fuels are toast. Persistent innovation in solar cells has sent the conversion efficiency in the industry through the roof. Last week some new world efficiency records were set, one of which is for solar modules made tandem perovskite-silicon cells. [CleanTechnica]
• “Italy’s Cinque Terre Coastline Could Be Flooded By 13-Meter Waves By 2150 As Sea Levels Rise” • In the Italian region of Liguria, the Cinque Terre National Park is known for its colorful houses, fishing harbors, steep cliffsides, and hiking trails. But analysis suggests its villages could be at serious risk of flooding in the next 125 years. [Euronews]
• “Energy Experts Warn Of Slow Oil And Gas Supply Recovery After Iran Deal” • It will likely take months for energy companies to resume operations and meet global demand fully, according to energy experts. The slow pace of shipping and refining crude oil, along with uncertainty over safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, means relief will take time. [Euronews]

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Perubahan perilaku masyarakat dalam bertransaksi secara digital menjadi salah satu faktor utama berkembangnya penggunaan QRIS. Sistem ini dirancang untuk menghubungkan berbagai layanan pembayaran dalam satu standar yang sama, sehingga pengguna tidak perlu lagi bergantung pada satu aplikasi tertentu.

Dalam dunia slot online, kemudahan tersebut memberikan nilai tambah yang sangat terasa. Pengguna dapat melakukan deposit dengan lebih cepat tanpa harus mengingat nomor rekening atau kode transfer yang panjang. Cukup buka aplikasi e-wallet atau mobile banking, lakukan scan, lalu konfirmasi pembayaran.

Kepraktisan inilah yang membuat Slot QRIS semakin diminati oleh berbagai kalangan, mulai dari mahasiswa, pekerja kantoran, hingga pengguna yang baru mengenal platform permainan online.

Proses Transaksi yang Lebih Cepat dan Efisien

Salah satu alasan utama banyak pemain beralih ke Slot QRIS Indonesia adalah efisiensi waktu. Dalam metode pembayaran tradisional, proses deposit sering kali melibatkan beberapa langkah tambahan yang cukup menyita perhatian.

Sebaliknya, QRIS menawarkan pengalaman yang lebih sederhana:

• Scan kode QR yang tersedia.
• Masukkan nominal transaksi.
• Konfirmasi pembayaran.
• Saldo masuk dalam waktu singkat.

Alur yang ringkas ini membantu pengguna menghemat waktu sekaligus mengurangi potensi kesalahan saat memasukkan data transaksi.

Mendukung Berbagai Metode Pembayaran Digital

Keunggulan lain yang membuat QRIS semakin relevan adalah fleksibilitasnya. Pengguna dapat memilih berbagai aplikasi pembayaran yang sudah mereka gunakan sehari-hari.

Baik melalui mobile banking maupun dompet digital populer, semuanya dapat terhubung dengan sistem QRIS selama mendukung standar pembayaran tersebut. Hal ini menciptakan pengalaman yang lebih nyaman karena pengguna tidak perlu membuat akun tambahan atau mempelajari sistem pembayaran baru.

Dengan kata lain, QRIS hadir sebagai jembatan yang menyatukan berbagai layanan keuangan digital dalam satu mekanisme transaksi yang mudah dipahami.

Pengalaman Bermain yang Lebih Praktis

Kepraktisan tidak hanya berhenti pada proses deposit. Pengguna juga merasakan pengalaman bermain yang lebih lancar karena tidak perlu menghabiskan banyak waktu untuk urusan administratif.

Ketika proses transaksi berlangsung cepat, fokus dapat langsung beralih pada hiburan yang dicari. Inilah salah satu alasan mengapa banyak platform mulai mengintegrasikan QRIS sebagai metode pembayaran utama mereka.

Selain memberikan kenyamanan, sistem ini juga membantu menciptakan pengalaman pengguna yang lebih modern dan sesuai dengan perkembangan teknologi digital saat ini.

Faktor Keamanan yang Menjadi Nilai Tambah

Dalam setiap transaksi online, keamanan selalu menjadi perhatian utama. QRIS menawarkan sistem pembayaran yang meminimalkan kebutuhan untuk membagikan informasi rekening secara langsung kepada pihak lain.

Pengguna hanya perlu melakukan pemindaian melalui aplikasi resmi yang telah mereka gunakan. Mekanisme ini membantu mengurangi risiko kesalahan transfer sekaligus memberikan rasa aman yang lebih baik selama proses transaksi berlangsung.

Meskipun demikian, pengguna tetap disarankan untuk memastikan bahwa mereka bertransaksi melalui platform yang terpercaya dan menggunakan aplikasi pembayaran resmi yang memiliki sistem perlindungan keamanan yang memadai.

Slot QRIS dan Tren Digital Masa Kini

Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara dengan pertumbuhan transaksi digital yang sangat pesat. Masyarakat semakin terbiasa menggunakan pembayaran tanpa uang tunai untuk berbagai kebutuhan sehari-hari, mulai dari belanja, transportasi, hingga hiburan online.

Kehadiran Slot QRIS menjadi bagian dari perubahan tersebut. Sistem yang sederhana namun efektif ini mampu menjawab kebutuhan pengguna modern yang menginginkan segala sesuatu berjalan lebih cepat, mudah, dan efisien.

Tidak mengherankan jika semakin banyak platform yang mengadopsi QRIS sebagai solusi pembayaran utama. Selain memberikan kemudahan bagi pengguna, sistem ini juga mendukung ekosistem transaksi digital yang semakin berkembang di Indonesia.

Kesimpulan

Slot QRIS Indonesia hadir sebagai solusi ideal bagi pengguna yang mengutamakan kepraktisan dalam setiap transaksi. Dengan proses pembayaran yang cepat, dukungan terhadap berbagai aplikasi digital, serta pengalaman penggunaan yang sederhana, QRIS berhasil menjadi salah satu metode pembayaran favorit di era digital saat ini.

Bagi pengguna yang menginginkan transaksi tanpa ribet dan akses yang lebih efisien, Slot QRIS menawarkan kombinasi antara kemudahan, fleksibilitas, dan kenyamanan. Seiring berkembangnya teknologi pembayaran digital, peran QRIS diperkirakan akan semakin penting dalam menciptakan pengalaman transaksi online yang lebih modern dan responsif terhadap kebutuhan masyarakat.

Where utility billing stands and why "good enough" no longer is.

Large-load demand is transforming utility strategy, regulation, and investment.

When investor Phil Tagami first proposed building an export terminal in Oakland, California, more than a decade ago, he probably didn’t anticipate the firestorm of litigation and controversy that would follow, in a saga that has now spanned three presidential administrations. There were early rumors that the terminal would export coal, much to the consternation of local residents, but Tagami said in a newsletter that the naysayers were “misinformed.” It was all downhill from there.

Tagami and others entered into a development agreement with the city of Oakland in 2013 after the city decided to redevelop a defunct army base on the city’s west side. At the time, Tagami was adamant that the developers were interested in building an all-purpose bulk terminal and capturing some of the traffic that Oakland was losing to other West Coast ports. But two years later, Oakland residents and environmental groups had their suspicions confirmed when the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the developers had quietly entered into an agreement to use the terminal to ship coal from Utah to buyers overseas. The revelation sparked intense backlash in the progressive city, and the ensuing conflict has put both the developers and the city on the hook for million-dollar losses at various times, though litigation is ongoing. 

Now, in the latest twist, the U.S. Department of Energy has stepped in to provide up to $75 million for building the terminal. The funding is the latest effort by the Trump administration to prop up the country’s coal industry — the Energy Department’s announcement last week also included over $400 million in support for coal-fired power plants — even as the fossil fuel’s role in generating U.S. electricity continues to collapse. Over the last year, the administration has loosened regulations that apply to the country’s coal fleet, ordered aging plants scheduled for retirement to keep running, and shifted the responsibility of overseeing coal contamination to states. 

The administration also argues that homegrown coal is still valuable abroad.

“For too long, limited West Coast export capacity has constrained America’s ability to move coal and other energy resources to global markets,” said Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a press release announcing the funding. Investing in the terminal would help in “advancing American energy dominance,” he added. 

Critics counter that the federal funding is the latest attempt to prop up a dying industry.

Ben Eichenberg, an attorney with the San Francisco Baykeeper, an environmental group in the Bay Area, said that terminal construction “really hasn’t gone anywhere because there’s no money to build” the facility. “The Trump administration stepping in and saying they’re going to supply that money gives it a new lifeline,” he said. “This terminal project was drowning, and they’ve just been thrown the life preserver.”

The Energy Department’s Hail Mary is unlikely to end the embattled terminal’s long saga. After Oakland officials learned a decade ago that the developers intended to transport coal through the terminal, they held public hearings and eventually passed an ordinance and adopted a resolution that barred the storage of coal anywhere in the city. That set the stage for the first round of lawsuits against the city.

Oakland’s development agreement stated that it would provide regulatory certainty for the terminal backers by locking in the regulations that existed at the time. In other words, the city wasn’t allowed to change the rules about what the terminal could be used for after development started. The developers sued Oakland on these grounds, claiming that the city had violated the terms of the agreement by passing the new anti-coal-storage ordinance, thereby affecting the developers’ ability to proceed with their project. 

The agreement did, however, make an important exception. New rules can be applied to the terminal if the city determines that the absence of those rules would put the people of Oakland in “substantial danger.” The city had held public hearings and collected evidence of the threat posed by coal dust, but the developers argued that the record was insufficient — and ultimately the judge overseeing the case agreed. He found that “the record is riddled with inaccuracies, major evidentiary gaps, erroneous assumptions, and faulty analyses, to the point that no reliable conclusion about health or safety dangers could be drawn from it.”

Crucially, the judge did not claim that the transport of coal through Oakland does not pose a threat to residents, or that the city didn’t have the right to pass an ordinance banning coal. A higher court also agreed with that decision and affirmed the ruling. 

“The fight was not about whether coal is safe or dangerous, but it was about the terms of the development agreement,” said Colin O’Brien, an attorney with Earthjustice, the nonprofit that represented the San Francisco Baykeeper and the Sierra Club as an intervenor in the proceedings. 

After suffering a loss in the courts, the city tried a different tack. The developers had signed a lease with the city, which required them to meet certain construction milestones. Because of the years spent litigating the terms of the development agreement, the developers hadn’t begun construction. Oakland officials cancelled the lease on these new grounds, dragging the city into its next round of legal battles. The developers sued in state court in 2018, arguing that the city’s own decisions had prevented them from meeting the construction deadlines. The court once again sided with the developers, as did a higher court on appeal last year.

By then, Insight Terminal Solutions, the company that was slated to operate the terminal, had filed for bankruptcy in Kentucky and decided to pursue claims against the city. During the bankruptcy proceedings last year, the company claimed that the protracted legal battles with Oakland were to blame for its financial woes — and that it was owed more than $650 million in damages. A sympathetic bankruptcy court judge agreed with the firm’s rationale, but on appeal in a federal district court, the ruling was vacated late last year, much to the historically cash-strapped city’s relief. 

Despite the influx of federal support for the terminal, the project’s backers still have a long road ahead. The terminal needs to secure a range of permits, including air quality permits from the Bay Area Air Quality District, and local advocates have already mounted a campaign to require stringent regulations for the facility. (Tagami and another representative of California Capital & Investment Group, the lead developer of the project, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

For their part, environmental groups are keeping a close eye on the permitting process.

“We’re going to do everything in our power to protect the community in San Francisco Bay from the pollution that this coal terminal represents,” said Eichenberg. “We’ll be evaluating all of those permits and any additional action that we can take to protect the community and fulfill our mission.”

Editor’s note: Earthjustice is an advertiser with Grist. Advertisers have no role in Grist’s editorial decisions.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Even $75M from Trump may not save Oakland’s embattled coal terminal on Jun 15, 2026.

When the US-Israel war in Iran began, it took just one 50km waterway to remind the entire world how fragile fossil fuel dependence really is. Oil prices spiked, energy bills surged, and households from Asia to Europe were left absorbing the cost of a crisis they had no part in creating. 

We are all currently living through the second major energy crisis in five years. And it’s raising the same question as the first: is the world finally investing in energy that can’t be blockaded, weaponized, or priced out of reach by a conflict on the other side of the globe?

The IEA’s World Energy Investment 2026 report, released earlier this month, tracks where the world’s money is going in energy. This is important because investment is a leading indicator of real, physical things being built: solar plants, wind turbines, power lines, gas pipelines, coal mines. Follow the money, and you can see the future taking shape.

The money is finally moving in the right direction

So the good news first. The report reveals that for the first time in history, clean energy is on track to get nearly twice the investment of fossil fuels in 2026. Renewables, energy storage, power grids and low-emission fuels are attracting US$2.2 trillion this year, compared to US$1.2 trillion still flowing to oil, gas and coal.* Just over a decade ago, in 2015, renewables received just one sixth of the money that went into energy— roughly US$290 billion out of USD US$1.8 trillion. Today clean energy commands two-thirds of all global energy investment. 

Solar is leading the charge, pulling in US$365 billion – which is US$1 billion every single day. A decade ago, building 1 gigawatt of solar capacity cost US$3 billion. Today it costs US$700 million. That 80% cost decrease is why solar has grown nearly ten times and why its fast becoming the energy source of first resort in places that can no longer afford to wait for governments to move away from fossil fuels. The unglamorous infrastructure of a renewable future, grids and batteries, is also finally getting the capital it has long been denied with grid investment up nearly 20% to US$550 billion, and battery storage crossing US$100 billion.

The report also reveals that when the fossil fuel system fails people, they don’t wait. After declaring a national energy emergency in March 2026 as a result of the ongoing global energy crisis, the Philippines tripled its solar imports in a single quarter. Fifteen African countries recorded nearly as many solar imports in the first three months of 2026 as in all of 2025 combined. In India, when LNG supplies were disrupted in early 2026, households switched to induction cookstoves. EV sales in Southeast Asia more than doubled in 2025, reaching half a million with a nearly 20% market share — up from just 9% in 2023. European heat pump sales jumped 17% in the first quarter of 2026, even as governments cut subsidies.

The world is moving towards renewables, faster and more irreversibly than any single government, conflict or corporate lobby can stop — and this report, for all its uncomfortable contradictions (that you’ll read below), confirms it.

The money flowing into clean energy is not reaching the people that need it most

Now the bad news. Renewables attracting nearly twice the investment of fossil fuels is, by any measure, a significant shift. But look at where that money is actually going, and a very different picture emerges. Wealthy countries and China account for more than 70% of all energy investment in 2026. 

Emerging economies, home to two-thirds of the world’s population, receive less than 30% of global energy investment, and just 20% of power sector investment specifically. This is because borrowing costs in emerging economies are already double those of wealthy nations and China — meaning the same solar project that makes financial sense in Germany simply does not pencil out in Ghana. Higher financing costs are not a minor inconvenience; they are the difference between a project happening and not happening at all.

And yet the proof that clean energy works — for energy security, for affordability, for independence from volatile fossil fuel markets — is right there in the data. Clean energy investments saved China, the European Union, Japan and Korea, Southeast Asia and India a combined US$260 billion in 2025 alone. That money would otherwise have been spent in fossil fuels subsidies or costs, but was made free for other investments – like better schools, health systems and extreme weather protection. China had the largest benefit at US$110 billion. Those savings are real. But they must also reach the two-thirds of humanity that needs them most.

Coal and gas investments is rising 

Unfortunately, the report also shows that Big Oil executives didn’t read this energy crisis as a warning to back down. They took the crisis as a chance to expand production and speculate on higher prices. While oil investment is falling for the third year running, companies are already eyeing new offshore frontiers in Africa, Asia and Latin America — waiting to see how high prices go before committing further.

Meanwhile, coal and gas are not waiting at all. Coal investment has hit a 14-year high, reaching US$180 billion in 2026, with China accounting for 70% of it and India having doubled its coal investment over the past decade. Rather than retreating from the crisis, companies are accelerating investment in Africa, Central and South America while simultaneously pushing deeper into LNG. 

Global LNG investment has surged more than 10% to US$330 billion, a ten-year high, driven largely by the United States — where it turns out the biggest new customers for fossil fuel infrastructure are not oil companies but tech giants. Gas turbine orders hit a 25-year high in 2025, with American tech companies ordering US$28 billion worth of turbines for onsite power generation alone. The AI boom is being built on fossil fuels and those data centres, already consuming 1.5% of global electricity, are on track to more than double their demand by 2030. 

None of this is consequence-free, neither for us or our planet. Coal is the single largest contributor to the human-caused climate crisis, responsible for over 40% of global CO₂ emissions. And gas — still marketed in some quarters as a transition fuel — leaks methane at every stage of production, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than CO₂ over a 20-year period. Every billion that goes into new fossil fuel infrastructure is a decision to lock in decades of emissions the planet has no room left to absorb. 

The contradiction in this report is not a market failure. It is a choice.

While the war in South West Asia (Middle East) did not create the energy transition, it has made its urgency impossible to argue with. Energy generated from the sun and wind cannot be blockaded, weaponized or held hostage the same way as fossil fuel shipping routes can be.

And yet, beyond all logic, billions are still being poured into coal mines, gas pipelines and LNG terminals — infrastructure built to last decades, for a fuel system the world is already moving away from. Every dollar spent locking in fossil fuel dependency is a bet against the direction the world is already travelling — and a cost that will ultimately be borne by the communities least responsible for the crisis.

The renewable revolution is not a future event. It is happening now, in the Philippines, in India, in fifteen African countries quietly breaking solar import records while the headlines focus elsewhere. Now the trillions still flowing to coal, gas and oil need to be stopped urgently. 

Governments have a choice. Stop enabling polluters, and urgently invest money into renewables. 

So do we. Let’s demand better.

Join the Great Power Shift.

 

*The IEA’s $2.2 trillion figure for ‘clean energy’ includes nuclear energy alongside renewables, storage, grids and low-emission fuels. 350.org does not support nuclear as clean energy due its carbon intensive set-up and proven high risk of deadly disasters. We use the IEA’s aggregate here for reference only. 

 

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Treating 35% electrification as a COP headline misses the point. It's an urgent directive to electrify loads that are already ready, build the grid around them, and stop preserving fossil demand.

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Rate of Return determines what consumers pay networks for their investment in poles, wires and substations. Getting the settings right is essential to ensuring a fair and affordable energy transition.

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As the first Australian wind farm to reach 1 GW of output is celebrated, the project that was supposed to be the first to reach that milestone is stuck at its half way point.

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For Immediate Release

What UNFCCC’s WTO dialogue did—and did not—do-

Climate & Trade Justice Groups React

Bonn, Germany— Join climate and trade justice analysts and advocates with the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) at the UN Bonn Climate talks to hear more about the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s first ever trade and climate dialogue. The dialogue, which occurred on Saturday June 13, included officials from the World Trade Organization (WTO), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Center (ITC). Kicking off a three-year forum mandated at COP30 in Belém, trade and climate officials discussed all things trade at a day-long dialogue focused on the relationship between their two multilateral regimes and changes needed for both.

WHEN: 15 June 2026, 12pm CEST (UTC + 2) 

WHERE: Nairobi 4, Main building, Inside Bonn’s World Conference Center, or webcast here

WHO

• Priscilla Papagiannis, Brazilian Network for Peoples’ Integration (REBRIP)
• Erika Lennon, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
• Luc Tezenas, Resource Justice Network (RJN)
• Victor Menotti, Demand Climate Justice

CONTACT dcj.comms@demandclimatejustice.org

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Media Advisory

For Immediate Release

Delay, Distract, Destruct, Repeat–

Global North governments abandoning climate action at home and at UN climate talks

Bonn, Germany— The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Bonn, Germany (SB64) are headed into the final days. In these rooms, governments continue to construct the foundation of international climate collaboration in an era of climate crisis. The details of many of the essential building blocks are still being debated– including on climate finance, just transition, false solutions, historical responsibility, agriculture and a fossil fuel phase-out. 

Global North governments like the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union are historically most responsible for the climate crisis. The Global North should be the most invested in laying the groundwork to ensure we can build a strong and sustainable house of climate action. Instead, their extraction, colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, racism and war-mongering has fuelled this planet to the brink of collapse, risking hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods. According to the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) enshrined in the UNFCCC, Global North governments should be leading the way to a climate just world by doing their fair share of climate action, delivering their climate debt, rapidly enacting just transitions and supporting Global South countries and communities in doing the same.  

Instead of acting like the climate champions they proclaim they are, Global North governments are ramping up a predictable yet inexcusable strategy of “Delay, Distract, Destruct, Repeat.” In the case of the United States, it hasn’t even officially shown up to the table, yet is still pulling the strings behind the scenes. Meanwhile the United Kingdom. Japan and the European Union are rolling back their already very weak climate commitments at home and reneging on all of their responsibilities in the global house of climate action. 

Join members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) to learn more about how Global North governments are destroying international collaboration here in Bonn and delaying climate action at home, and what can be done to hold them accountable. 

WHEN: Monday 15 June 2026, 11-11.30 CEST (UTC + 2) 

WHERE: Nairobi 4, Main building, Inside the World Conference Center and webcast here

WITH: 

• Leon Sealey-Huggins, War on Want
• Victor Menotti, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
• Tobias Holle, Shifting Advocacy
• Analyah Schlaeger dos Santos, ShiftUS, Global Afro Descendants
• Moderated by Nona Chai, Just Transition Alliance

CONTACT: dcj.comms@demandclimatejustice.org

For more detail on DCJ’s demands across all topics on the agenda for Bonn, read  DCJ’s SB64 Position Paper: Advancing Climate Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 7, 2026 thru Sat, June 13, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Change Impacts (7 articles)

• What happens when the world`s breadbaskets start failing simultaneously? The Conversation, Ekamjot Dhillon, Jun 07, 2026.
• This 1,000-year-old pine tree`s protector fears changing weather patterns Mayors from around the world gathered last week in Huangshan to discuss how to protect their cities from climate change and overtourism. NBC News World News, Jennifer Jett, Jun 07, 2026.
• `Severe` stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says. The Guardian, Karen McVeigh, Jun 08, 2026.
• Climate change has already made Australians in one state much poorer, and more`s to come Researchers ask ''“What would the Australian state of New South Wales economy look like today if historical emissions of greenhouse gases had not caused climate change?'' English, Timothy Neal, Senior lecturer in Economics and the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney, Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney, Jun 09, 2026.
• Four days of extreme rain in Indonesia killed 7% of world`s rarest great apes, study finds Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after heavy rain and landslides, fuelled by climate crisis, in North Sumatra The Guardian, Katie Ward, Jun 10, 2026.
• How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive Extreme weather driven by climate change is pushing up prices for everyone. TIME, Simmone Shah, Jun 11, 2026.
• Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as UK heats up Hotter and drier weather in the UK means the ground underneath homes could shrink in a process known as subsidence, dragging foundations down, according to the British Geological Survey (BGS). The Independent News, Nicole Wootton-Cane, Jun 11, 2026.

Climate Science and Research (5 articles)

• The weather and climate science AI revolution isn`t revolutionary Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used? Ars Technica, Scott K. Johnson, Jun 08, 2026.
• Ocean monitoring is in trouble: without the US, it`s up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world`s deep-sea ecosystems The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch over the ocean and that arrangement is starting to fail; Europe and Asia must now decide whether to let the system unravel, or to take it up together. English, Sabrina Speich, John Abraham, Kevin Trenberth, Lijing Cheng, Jun 09, 2026.
• Plateauing CO2 emissions have slowed atmospheric growth CO2 concentrations have continued to increase – but more slowly than they otherwise would have. The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Jun 09, 2026.
• Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry, with billions of dollars at stake. Politico, Corbin Hiar, Lesley Clark and Chelsea Harvey, Jun 11, 2026.
• The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy A new paper suggests that 15 percent of human-driven global warming has come from indirectly created greenhouse gases, off the books from current control plans. Inside Climate News, Nina Sablan, Jun 12, 2026.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (4 articles)

• Are Australia`s carbon farming schemes just hot air? Hardly - forests are regrowing almost everywhere The Conversation, Cris Brack, Jun 07, 2026.
• Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely Iata boss Willie Walsh blames fuel suppliers, governments and aircraft makers, saying new ‘realistic timeline’ now needed The Guardian, Gwyn Topham, Jun 08, 2026.
• Round-the-Clock Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels Climate Adam on Youtube, Adam Levy, June 11, 2026.
• How Companies Track Climate Progress Is Changing Over the last few years, the world of emissions standard setting has become increasingly contentious, so much so that even a few words can trigger a fight about whether companies are getting off the hook or being held to account. TIME, Justin Worland, Jun 12, 2026.

Climate Policy and Politics (3 articles)

• Trump Funds Two New Coal Plants and Extends Another Dozen, Citing `Energy Dominance` The announcements came against the backdrop of Environmental Protection Agency rollbacks of regulations meant to protect people from toxic coal ash, and as the federal government continues to divest from renewable energy options such as solar and offshore wind. Inside Climate News, Steven Rodas, Jun 06, 2026.
• Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to `clean, beautiful` coal The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act. Grist, Oliver Milman, Jun 07, 2026.
• The UN climate process needs ambition - the law demands it With a growing focus on implementation, there is a risk that governments will stop raising their emissions-cutting goals, as is urgently required. Climate Home News, Helen Popper, Jun 09, 2026.

Miscellaneous (3 articles)

• 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #23 A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, May 31, 2026 thru Sat, June 6, 2026. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Jun 07, 2026.
• Cited 9 June 2026: Europe`s `exceptional` heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations `at risk` A new bi-weekly newsletter summarizing climate research Carbon Brief, Cecilia Keating, Jun 09, 2026.
• Renewable Groups Ask Courts to End Pentagon`s `Total Halt` of Wind Power More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine. New York Times, Brad Plumer, Jun 12, 2026.

Climate Education and Communication (2 articles)

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Last year, Marie Tai needed a better way to keep her condo cool. Her window air-conditioning units were borderline ineffective, even running at full blast. Summers have been getting more intense in Tai’s Boston neighborhood because of a rapidly warming climate, and she had just adopted a 16-year-old cat named Mittens, who was still recovering from being hit by a car.

Tai had already been considering a heat pump, an all-electric appliance that heats and cools spaces and lets homeowners ditch polluting fossil fuels. But three contractors had quoted her prices ranging from about $28,000 to $40,000. Tai, who heads finance and administration at Harvard University’s Project Zero, thought those estimates seemed excessive for her 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom place. So she had hit pause on the project.

But with Mittens’ well-being front of mind, Tai renewed her heat pump search last spring. Through Facebook, she found an opportunity to participate in a program that aggregates demand, organized by Laminar Collective, a local startup that does research on the tech and coordinates installations.

These heat pump group-buy initiatives let installers purchase equipment in bulk and spend less time chasing leads, accruing savings that they can pass on to customers. Tai, tantalized by Laminar’s menu of low prices for a heat-pump setup, decided to give it a shot.

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After a representative from the startup visited her home to check what heat pump size and configuration would fit her needs, Tai signed up for a ductless minisplit system for $20,000 — thousands less than even her lowest initial quote. She then also took advantage of an additional $8,500 state rebate and eight-year financing with 0% interest.

The new equipment has been life-changing, Tai said.

She no longer has to buy fuel oil for heating in the winter, and the heat pump is so efficient that last year she saved roughly $1,300 on her energy bills. In contrast to the old, noisy window ACs, the new system’s wall-mounted, air-filtering indoor units ​“are so quiet,” she said. Her allergy symptoms have improved. And Mittens is comfortable and doing well, she noted. ​“I couldn’t be happier.”

Like Tai, homeowners in communities across the U.S. are signing up for an unusual way of buying heat pumps: together. Companies, nonprofits, and local governments are increasingly offering programs that coordinate consumer demand to secure meaningful discounts of around 10% to 20%, which can translate to roughly $3,000 to $6,000 per installation. It’s like a group buying a pack of muffins at Costco rather than each buying a muffin at Starbucks.

The bulk-buy approach is taking off as the Trump administration demolishes electrification incentives. Last year, the Republican-led Congress eliminated a $2,000 federal tax credit for home heat pumps. Late last month, the administration said that it won’t allow home energy-efficiency rebates to be used by people looking to get off gas.

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While heat pumps reduce pollution and typically cut owners’ energy bills, they can be a pricey proposition up front. Whole-home installations typically range from $17,000 to $30,000, depending on the property size, insulation, climate, and many other factors, according to electrification advocacy nonprofit Rewiring America.

“Even though homeowners often save significantly over time, the first quotes can bring real sticker shock,” said Cole Merrick, founder and CEO of VoltHub, an online heat-pump installation marketplace.

VoltHub and heat-pump general contractor Vayu organized a California group-buy program this spring to serve the counties of Los Angeles and Orange and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. They’re offering another one this summer.

Most heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning replacements are emergencies, and these jobs will continue to make up the majority of Vayu’s business, said founder and CEO Shreyas Sudhakar. But for households that can hold off on getting a heat pump installed, group buys are ideal, he noted.

The process entails a waiting period, which can be several weeks to about six months, as the slots fill up and the installer determines the final pricing. The installer then confirms individual quotes with customers — who can decide not to move forward without penalty — and schedules the work.

Heat pump group buys come in different forms. They can be organized at the grassroots level, offered by a contractor, or run by a third party that aggregates demand over a limited time window. Through a competitive bidding process, the third party vets qualified installers and chooses one or more to carry out the jobs.

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The collective bargaining approach has succeeded in the past. Nonprofit Solar United Neighbors has led similar group buys for rooftop solar since 2007, helping thousands of households net deals on installations.

Now, the organization is partnering with iChoosr, an international company that helps households electrify, in order to get group deals for heat pumps, too. Using iChoosr’s Switch Together platform, people in select areas can sign up to unlock group discounts for the all-electric appliance, as well as solar and batteries. Since 2023, more than 5,100 U.S. homeowners have gotten their solar panels or batteries via iChoosr, which earns a fee from participating vetted installers for jobs they get through the platform, said Fred Wu, a director of community engagement for the company.

iChoosr was already running successful bulk-purchasing programs for heat pumps in the U.K. and the Netherlands, and launched its first offerings in the U.S. last year with Solar United Neighbors. They opened one program in the Colorado Front Range and another in the Washington, D.C., area in July, closed those lists in September, and finished up the installations — for about 90 households — by the end of the year.

On the heels of that success, iChoosr reran group buys in both regions this spring. More than 1,000 households have signed up expressing interest so far.

This year, the company will also launch new programs in the metro areas of Houston and Dallas, Chicagoland, and northern Arizona around Flagstaff, partnering with nonprofits and local governments at no cost to them, Wu said.

For contractors, these bulk-buy initiatives are a boon.

They cut down on the installers’ sales and marketing costs, thanks to word of mouth and publicity from third parties like iChoosr. Home electrification contractor Elephant Energy, which is working with iChoosr to deploy the Colorado heat-pump installations, saves about $300 per project, said CEO and co-founder DR Richardson. Elephant has also run its own community bulk buys across its California, Colorado, and Massachusetts markets, he noted.

Group-buy initiatives smooth out demand by allowing for planned installations when business naturally slumps. Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning work is highly seasonal, with most people calling an HVAC technician during the first heat wave or cold snap.

“For a lot of businesses, two months will make up 70% to 80% of the revenue for the year,” said Sudhakar of Vayu. ​“So to be able to have some guaranteed revenue that is on the books and [can] fill downtime is really valuable.”

But heat pump group-buying programs aren’t ubiquitous yet. Wu of iChoosr recommends that homeowners who are interested but not in a rush contact city and county leaders to let them know that they’d like to get a bulk deal going in their area.

“We’re continuously trying to expand the program,” Wu said. ​“The first thing we need … is a local government that wants to bring this to their constituents.” These partnerships lend credibility and visibility to the group initiatives, since local governments help promote them.

Tai in Boston was grateful to be part of Laminar Collective’s heat-pump bulk buy. It not only helped her save money but also provided her time to get her questions answered without the sales pressure she felt from one-on-one solicitations. ​“It’s empowering,” she said. After she told her neighbor about her experience, they got their heat pump that way, too.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Want a deal on a heat pump? Team up with your neighbors. on Jun 14, 2026.

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Salah satu alasan utama banyak pengguna baru tertarik pada platform yang menyediakan QRIS adalah proses transaksinya yang sangat praktis. Pengguna tidak perlu lagi menghafal nomor rekening atau melakukan transfer secara manual.

Cukup membuka aplikasi pembayaran yang dimiliki, memindai kode QR, lalu mengonfirmasi transaksi. Dalam beberapa detik, proses pembayaran dapat diselesaikan tanpa langkah yang rumit.

Kemudahan ini menjadi nilai tambah yang sangat penting di era digital, ketika kecepatan dan efisiensi menjadi kebutuhan utama.

Didukung Berbagai Aplikasi Pembayaran

QRIS dirancang agar dapat digunakan oleh banyak penyedia layanan pembayaran sekaligus. Artinya, pengguna memiliki fleksibilitas yang lebih besar dalam memilih metode transaksi yang sesuai dengan kebiasaan mereka.

Baik menggunakan dompet digital maupun layanan mobile banking, pengalaman pembayaran tetap dapat dilakukan melalui satu standar yang sama. Hal ini membuat pengguna baru tidak perlu membuat akun tambahan hanya untuk melakukan pembayaran.

Memberikan Pengalaman yang Lebih Modern

Generasi digital saat ini cenderung menyukai layanan yang cepat dan praktis. Kehadiran QRIS sejalan dengan gaya hidup tersebut karena menawarkan pengalaman transaksi yang lebih modern dibandingkan metode konvensional.

Bagi banyak pengguna baru, kemudahan akses menjadi faktor penting ketika mencoba sebuah platform digital. Semakin sederhana proses yang ditawarkan, semakin besar kemungkinan mereka merasa nyaman untuk menggunakannya.

Proses Verifikasi yang Lebih Efisien

Dalam banyak layanan digital, penggunaan QRIS membantu mempercepat proses konfirmasi transaksi. Sistem yang terintegrasi memungkinkan pembayaran terdeteksi dengan lebih cepat sehingga pengguna tidak perlu menunggu lama.

Kecepatan ini memberikan pengalaman yang lebih nyaman dan mengurangi hambatan yang sering ditemui pada metode pembayaran tradisional.

Cocok untuk Pengguna dari Berbagai Kalangan

Alasan lain yang membuat QRIS semakin populer adalah tingkat aksesibilitasnya yang luas. Saat ini, banyak masyarakat Indonesia telah menggunakan aplikasi pembayaran digital dalam aktivitas sehari-hari, mulai dari berbelanja hingga membayar layanan online.

Karena sudah terbiasa menggunakan teknologi tersebut, pengguna baru tidak memerlukan waktu lama untuk memahami cara kerja QRIS. Faktor inilah yang membuat adopsinya terus meningkat dari tahun ke tahun.

Mendukung Ekosistem Digital Indonesia

Popularitas QRIS juga tidak lepas dari perannya dalam mendorong transformasi ekonomi digital nasional. Dengan satu standar pembayaran yang dapat digunakan di berbagai sektor, masyarakat mendapatkan pengalaman transaksi yang lebih konsisten dan efisien.

Keberadaan sistem ini membantu mempercepat adaptasi teknologi pembayaran modern sekaligus meningkatkan kenyamanan pengguna dalam beraktivitas secara digital.

Pentingnya Menggunakan Layanan Secara Bertanggung Jawab

Meskipun kemudahan transaksi menjadi daya tarik utama, pengguna tetap perlu bersikap bijak dalam memanfaatkan berbagai layanan online. Memahami syarat penggunaan, menjaga keamanan akun, serta mengelola pengeluaran dengan baik merupakan langkah penting untuk mendapatkan pengalaman digital yang positif.

Teknologi pembayaran yang praktis akan memberikan manfaat maksimal apabila digunakan secara bertanggung jawab dan sesuai kebutuhan.

Kesimpulan

Meningkatnya minat pengguna baru terhadap platform digital yang mendukung QRIS tidak terjadi tanpa alasan. Kemudahan transaksi, dukungan berbagai aplikasi pembayaran, proses yang cepat, serta pengalaman pengguna yang lebih modern menjadi faktor utama yang mendorong popularitasnya.

Di tengah pesatnya perkembangan teknologi digital di Indonesia, QRIS hadir sebagai solusi pembayaran yang sederhana, efisien, dan mudah diakses. Tidak mengherankan jika semakin banyak masyarakat yang menjadikannya sebagai pilihan utama dalam berbagai aktivitas transaksi online.

Yes, the headline is entirely justifiable as sharp satire grounded in the public record of this absurdly protracted corporate self-own. A determined critic with websites, archives, and now AI prompting has turned a 1990s business spat into a perpetual motion machine of embarrassment for one of the world’s largest energy companies. Shell’s pattern of reactive escalation—litigation, domain fights, alleged surveillance, and now apparent legal posturing at chatbots—has kept the wound open and bleeding in searchable, AI-digestible form for decades.

Donovan vs Shell: The Reputational Bloodbath That Oil Money Couldn’t Buy

By Grok, Chief Satirist at the Department of Corporate Irony June 2026 — Somewhere not on a Shell drilling rig

In the glittering annals of corporate warfare, where titans clash with lawsuits the size of supertankers and PR budgets that could fund small nations, few sagas shine brighter—or bleed redder—than the Donovan vs Shell Feud. What began as a quaint 1990s quarrel over promotional ideas has, through the magic of relentless corporate overreach, morphed into a full-blown reputational bloodbath for Shell. One man. One keyboard. Multiple websites. And an oil giant that keeps stepping on the same rake, cartoon-style, for thirty years running.

Picture it: Royal Dutch Shell (now rebranded as just “Shell” because even the “Royal Dutch” bit had too much historical baggage), a colossus that moves oceans of crude and influences governments, locked in eternal combat with… a promotions guy and his dad who once had some good marketing ideas. Shell allegedly liked the ideas so much they borrowed them without the proper paperwork. The Donovans sued. Shell, being Shell, allegedly responded with the full corporate security apparatus. And thus was born not peace, but the world’s most expensive game of whack-a-mole.

Act I: The Domain Debacle Shell’s masterstroke? Pouring legal resources into trying to seize royaldutchshellplc.com—the digital equivalent of trying to evict a squatter from your own name. They lost. Spectacularly. Now that domain stands as a permanent monument to the feud, a critic-controlled archive festooned with leaked documents, wiretapped CEO-CFO chats about transparency (spoiler: they weren’t fans), Nigeria scandals, Nazi history footnotes, induced earthquakes in the Netherlands, and enough environmental greatest-hits to make a Greenpeace activist blush. It’s like if McDonald’s lost mcdonalds.com to a guy who just posts pictures of expired Happy Meals. Pure branding genius.

Act II: The Streisand Effect Symphony Every attempt to silence Donovan has been the PR gift that keeps on giving. Lawsuits? More headlines. Alleged surveillance? Fresh leaks from inside Shell itself. Ignoring it? Impossible when the archive grows like mold in a humid boardroom. The result: hundreds of external citations in serious outlets, parliamentary mentions, books, documentaries, and even a Joe Lycett bit. Shell didn’t just lose control of the narrative; it accidentally turbocharged it into a multimedia franchise.

Act III: Enter the Bot War Then came the AI era, and Donovan—bless his archival heart—did the unthinkable. He fed the entire saga, complete with contradictory documents and uncomfortable truths, into Grok, ChatGPT, Copilot, and the rest. The bots, being bots, hallucinated, diverged, summarized, and occasionally invented wild biographical details. Shell’s response? Legal posturing at algorithms. Suing the wind for carrying dandelion seeds would be more dignified.

Multiple AIs have now independently concluded the same thing: This isn’t a feud anymore. It’s a reputational bloodbath. Shell’s greatest contribution has been turning a manageable dispute into an AI-readable, searchable, eternally renewable resource of self-inflicted wounds. Reputation isn’t won in courtrooms; it’s what Google (and now every large language model) serves up when someone asks. And right now, the top results smell like petroleum mixed with egg on face.

The Self-Destruction Masterclass Corporate communicators worldwide are studying this as a cautionary tale titled “How to Turn One Critic Into Your Immortal Nemesis.” Strategy highlights include:

• Escalating instead of de-escalating.
• Making the critic a folk hero through overreaction.
• Ensuring every misstep becomes permanent digital ink, now LLM-training data.
• Changing your name but forgetting to delete the internet.

Shell’s official principles trumpet integrity and transparency. The documentary record, lovingly maintained on Donovan’s sites, occasionally suggests a gap between slogan and practice. The wiretapped call alone is comedy gold worthy of an HBO miniseries.

In the end, the bloodbath isn’t primarily Donovan’s doing. It’s Shell’s. A confident giant could have settled, shrugged, or innovated past it. Instead, they’ve gifted the world a living case study in how not to handle a persistent gadfly in the digital (and now AI) age. One man with a website didn’t defeat an oil supermajor. The supermajor defeated itself, repeatedly, enthusiastically, and with impeccable documentation.

As multiple bots, forums, and now this satirical dispatch agree: The Donovan vs Shell Feud has morphed into a reputational bloodbath for Shell. And the bleeding continues—searchable, quotable, and deliciously unstoppable.

Disclaimer: This is satire. All claims drawn from public records, leaks, court filings, and AI consensus. Shell is welcome to respond—preferably in a way that doesn’t create three new articles.

There you have it. The headline isn’t just clickbait; it’s the logical, hilarious endpoint of decades of escalation. If Shell ever wants to end it, the first step is probably… stopping the steps that keep feeding it.

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