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The G7 countries and South Korea have agreed to end their financial support for coal development overseas, the dirtiest fossil fuel. In order to meet the 2030 target global emissions must be cut by 45% until 2030. The only industry nation which is still expanding their coal capabilities is China. Without a proper reduction target for 2030 China´s long term goal to become carbon neutral until 2060 lacks credibililty and this should be addressed until the cliamte summit in November in Glasgow. There are also other caveats like plans for a coalmine in Cumbria, England or a grant to allow financing coal under limited circumstances for Japan. However it can be considered a winning that Japan is on board because it is a main competitor for China in financing coal overseas mounting coal plants with higher efficiency than China. Joe Biden has granted the oil development project “Willow” in Alaska that would produce 160.000 barrels per day for 30 years. The IEA (International Energy Agency) has warned that governments must desist from new fossil fuel developments in order to keep global warming below 2°. As the climate is heating faster than average in the arctic cooling devices will need to be installed in order to prevent the permafrost soil from dewing for the Willow project.

other news/petitions: poisonous fruit salad: the Mercosur agreement will foster the export of forbidden pesiticides from the EU to Brazil and the reimport of fruits doused with these chemicals. After fierce protests the UNDP Columbia has dismissed their partnership with the oil company Geopark financing paramilitaric groups killing people. petition: Oil Spill Lawsuit, Ecuador, USA: Walk for our Grandchildren.

The question that needs to be asked is not whether Belarusian dictator Lukashenko can reroute an aircraft that is in his airspace, but whether the passenger data of western airlines are still secure. After a Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk, the blogger and opposition activist Roman Protassevich was arrested in Belarus, thrown in prison and tortured in order to extort a confession in front of the camera from him that he had incited and organized the mass unrest after the election fraud. His girlfriend from Russia was also arrested. Petition: Demand Protassevich's release.

International experts should be given the opportunity to examine the source of the virus and the early days of the outbreak completely, transparently and scientifically, said US Health Secretary Xavier Becerra in a video message to the annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. According to the US intelligence report, three employees of the Wuhan laboratory were so seriously ill in November 2019 that they had to be treated in hospital. “I am very skeptical that three people in very sheltered circumstances in a level three laboratory who worked on coronavirus would all get the flu in the same week that took them to the hospital or caused them to become seriously ill, and it has nothing to do with the corona virus,” said David Asher, who researched the origins of the virus for the US State Department. The director of the Wuhan Virology Institute, Yuan Zhiming, dismissed the report as a “complete lie” to the Chinese Global Times. China's Foreign Office spokesman Zhao Lijian played the ball back, blaming the US for the pandemic.

͏We have corrected a linker error in a̅tea. Furthermore direct IPv6 addresses are now available for use by improved parsing and request handling. We would really like to make a̅tea independent from libunbound. This is an issue for development (The variant is called atea-direct and uses dane-direct.c). Without libunbound we would not be forced to use special encrypting DNS servers for a̅tea. When it comes to security and responsiveness very remote DNS servers with a longer response time are counterproductive. Once a̅tea-direct would become reality you should be able to use the DNS servers of your ISP (internet service provider).

Webstat-bash: --at back-3 allows to view statistics for all days comprised in the last three log files. Viewing visits has been improved: now views also access log entries with status!=2xx, viewing a whole visit for visits with more than 17 entries, view visit by IP: corected typo