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The National
2 days ago
- Business
- The National
Scottish distillery to release exclusive casks for 30th anniversary
Isle of Arran Distillers will be marking 30 years of the Lochranza Distillery by offering 30 limited edition new fill Palo Cortado sherry casks, filled exactly 30 years to the day after the very first cask was filled on August 15, 1995. Lochranza is one of Scotland's few remaining independent distilleries and is one of two in Arran alongside the newer Lagg distillery in the south of the island. READ MORE: World's oldest single malt whisky to be released by Highland firm Palo Cortado is described as an "exceptionally rare and coveted" sherry, known for its unique combination of Fino's delicate flor aging and Oloroso's oxidative depth. Each Palo Cortado cask will feature a unique, commemorative stencil which will stand out from all other casks to mark the anniversary. Stewart Bowman, Lochranza Distillery manager (Image: Isle of Arran Distillers) Euan Mitchell, managing director at Isle of Arran Distillers, said: 'As we celebrate 30 remarkable years since our very first spirit ran through the stills here in Lochranza, we're incredibly proud to remain independent, producing award-winning whiskies and inviting enthusiasts to be part of Arran's legacy. "This special cask offer is a wonderful and unique way to join us in marking this milestone.' The limited-edition anniversary casks will be filled on August 15 and are each priced at £7250. All purchases will include 10 years of insurance and storage. Stewart Bowman, Lochranza Distillery manager, added : 'We've just received these wonderful casks from Spain, and the quality of the wood is outstanding. "It's a real privilege to have such special casks in our warehouse. I'm genuinely excited to see how the classic Arran Single Malt flavours will evolve into a fine, complex, and truly exceptional dram.' You can visit Arran Whisky's website to register your interest in buying a cask and to find more information here.
The Advertiser
7 days ago
- Politics
- The Advertiser
Australia may be target of legal action on climate
Australia could become the subject of legal action after an international court said countries have an obligation to prevent climate change harm and redress damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The non-binding advisory opinion was issued by a 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in The Netherlands overnight. It opens the way for countries to potentially sue each other over climate change impacts. Social justice group ActionAid Australia, which lobbies for women's rights, said the advice was a wake-up call for the Labor federal government. "This ruling is a powerful tool we can use to demand that those most responsible for this climate crisis be held accountable," the group's Vanuatu country manager Flora Vano said on Thursday. Ms Fino, who travelled to the Hague last year to deliver testimony as part of the court proceedings, said women and girls on the frontlines of the climate crisis will be able to fight for justice and accountability. ActionAid Australia executive director Michelle Higelin said the ruling was clear. "Australia must do all it can to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees," she said. "This is not a choice, this is an obligation to take stronger and more urgent action." ActionAid wants the government to "urgently" transition away from fossil fuels and increase funding to low-income countries, including those in the Pacific, to support climate adaptation efforts. Global science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, which has an Australia-Pacific region office, said the court has pointed to potentially serious legal consequences. Action could be taken under customary international law if countries don't put forward climate targets aligned to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. "Importantly, these obligations also apply to countries whether or not they are Parties to the Paris Agreement," it added. Australia's current commitment to the Paris Agreement includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The world court's opinion comes after Vanuatu University law students argued that the people of Pacific island countries are unjustly bearing the brunt of climate change compared to high-emitting economies. "The degradation of the climate system and of other parts of the environment impairs the enjoyment of a range of rights protected by human rights law," presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa said, reading out the court's opinion. The court decision "confirms that states' obligations to protect human rights require taking measures to protect the climate system ... including mitigation and adaptation measures," judge Hilary Charlesworth, an Australian member of the court, said in a separate opinion. The 133-page opinion was in response to two questions the United Nations General Assembly put to the UN court. The first was: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? The second was: regarding the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment? A response is being sought from the federal government. Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu described the court's opinion as a "very important course correction in this critically important time". "For the first time in history, the ICJ has spoken directly about the biggest threat facing humanity," he said at The Hague. Australia could become the subject of legal action after an international court said countries have an obligation to prevent climate change harm and redress damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The non-binding advisory opinion was issued by a 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in The Netherlands overnight. It opens the way for countries to potentially sue each other over climate change impacts. Social justice group ActionAid Australia, which lobbies for women's rights, said the advice was a wake-up call for the Labor federal government. "This ruling is a powerful tool we can use to demand that those most responsible for this climate crisis be held accountable," the group's Vanuatu country manager Flora Vano said on Thursday. Ms Fino, who travelled to the Hague last year to deliver testimony as part of the court proceedings, said women and girls on the frontlines of the climate crisis will be able to fight for justice and accountability. ActionAid Australia executive director Michelle Higelin said the ruling was clear. "Australia must do all it can to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees," she said. "This is not a choice, this is an obligation to take stronger and more urgent action." ActionAid wants the government to "urgently" transition away from fossil fuels and increase funding to low-income countries, including those in the Pacific, to support climate adaptation efforts. Global science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, which has an Australia-Pacific region office, said the court has pointed to potentially serious legal consequences. Action could be taken under customary international law if countries don't put forward climate targets aligned to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. "Importantly, these obligations also apply to countries whether or not they are Parties to the Paris Agreement," it added. Australia's current commitment to the Paris Agreement includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The world court's opinion comes after Vanuatu University law students argued that the people of Pacific island countries are unjustly bearing the brunt of climate change compared to high-emitting economies. "The degradation of the climate system and of other parts of the environment impairs the enjoyment of a range of rights protected by human rights law," presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa said, reading out the court's opinion. The court decision "confirms that states' obligations to protect human rights require taking measures to protect the climate system ... including mitigation and adaptation measures," judge Hilary Charlesworth, an Australian member of the court, said in a separate opinion. The 133-page opinion was in response to two questions the United Nations General Assembly put to the UN court. The first was: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? The second was: regarding the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment? A response is being sought from the federal government. Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu described the court's opinion as a "very important course correction in this critically important time". "For the first time in history, the ICJ has spoken directly about the biggest threat facing humanity," he said at The Hague. Australia could become the subject of legal action after an international court said countries have an obligation to prevent climate change harm and redress damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The non-binding advisory opinion was issued by a 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in The Netherlands overnight. It opens the way for countries to potentially sue each other over climate change impacts. Social justice group ActionAid Australia, which lobbies for women's rights, said the advice was a wake-up call for the Labor federal government. "This ruling is a powerful tool we can use to demand that those most responsible for this climate crisis be held accountable," the group's Vanuatu country manager Flora Vano said on Thursday. Ms Fino, who travelled to the Hague last year to deliver testimony as part of the court proceedings, said women and girls on the frontlines of the climate crisis will be able to fight for justice and accountability. ActionAid Australia executive director Michelle Higelin said the ruling was clear. "Australia must do all it can to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees," she said. "This is not a choice, this is an obligation to take stronger and more urgent action." ActionAid wants the government to "urgently" transition away from fossil fuels and increase funding to low-income countries, including those in the Pacific, to support climate adaptation efforts. Global science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, which has an Australia-Pacific region office, said the court has pointed to potentially serious legal consequences. Action could be taken under customary international law if countries don't put forward climate targets aligned to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. "Importantly, these obligations also apply to countries whether or not they are Parties to the Paris Agreement," it added. Australia's current commitment to the Paris Agreement includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The world court's opinion comes after Vanuatu University law students argued that the people of Pacific island countries are unjustly bearing the brunt of climate change compared to high-emitting economies. "The degradation of the climate system and of other parts of the environment impairs the enjoyment of a range of rights protected by human rights law," presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa said, reading out the court's opinion. The court decision "confirms that states' obligations to protect human rights require taking measures to protect the climate system ... including mitigation and adaptation measures," judge Hilary Charlesworth, an Australian member of the court, said in a separate opinion. The 133-page opinion was in response to two questions the United Nations General Assembly put to the UN court. The first was: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? The second was: regarding the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment? A response is being sought from the federal government. Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu described the court's opinion as a "very important course correction in this critically important time". "For the first time in history, the ICJ has spoken directly about the biggest threat facing humanity," he said at The Hague. Australia could become the subject of legal action after an international court said countries have an obligation to prevent climate change harm and redress damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The non-binding advisory opinion was issued by a 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in The Netherlands overnight. It opens the way for countries to potentially sue each other over climate change impacts. Social justice group ActionAid Australia, which lobbies for women's rights, said the advice was a wake-up call for the Labor federal government. "This ruling is a powerful tool we can use to demand that those most responsible for this climate crisis be held accountable," the group's Vanuatu country manager Flora Vano said on Thursday. Ms Fino, who travelled to the Hague last year to deliver testimony as part of the court proceedings, said women and girls on the frontlines of the climate crisis will be able to fight for justice and accountability. ActionAid Australia executive director Michelle Higelin said the ruling was clear. "Australia must do all it can to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees," she said. "This is not a choice, this is an obligation to take stronger and more urgent action." ActionAid wants the government to "urgently" transition away from fossil fuels and increase funding to low-income countries, including those in the Pacific, to support climate adaptation efforts. Global science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, which has an Australia-Pacific region office, said the court has pointed to potentially serious legal consequences. Action could be taken under customary international law if countries don't put forward climate targets aligned to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. "Importantly, these obligations also apply to countries whether or not they are Parties to the Paris Agreement," it added. Australia's current commitment to the Paris Agreement includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The world court's opinion comes after Vanuatu University law students argued that the people of Pacific island countries are unjustly bearing the brunt of climate change compared to high-emitting economies. "The degradation of the climate system and of other parts of the environment impairs the enjoyment of a range of rights protected by human rights law," presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa said, reading out the court's opinion. The court decision "confirms that states' obligations to protect human rights require taking measures to protect the climate system ... including mitigation and adaptation measures," judge Hilary Charlesworth, an Australian member of the court, said in a separate opinion. The 133-page opinion was in response to two questions the United Nations General Assembly put to the UN court. The first was: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? The second was: regarding the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment? A response is being sought from the federal government. Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu described the court's opinion as a "very important course correction in this critically important time". "For the first time in history, the ICJ has spoken directly about the biggest threat facing humanity," he said at The Hague.
Perth Now
7 days ago
- Politics
- Perth Now
Australia may be target of legal action on climate
Australia could become the subject of legal action after an international court said countries have an obligation to prevent climate change harm and redress damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The non-binding advisory opinion was issued by a 15-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in The Netherlands overnight. It opens the way for countries to potentially sue each other over climate change impacts. Social justice group ActionAid Australia, which lobbies for women's rights, said the advice was a wake-up call for the Labor federal government. "This ruling is a powerful tool we can use to demand that those most responsible for this climate crisis be held accountable," the group's Vanuatu country manager Flora Vano said on Thursday. Ms Fino, who travelled to the Hague last year to deliver testimony as part of the court proceedings, said women and girls on the frontlines of the climate crisis will be able to fight for justice and accountability. ActionAid Australia executive director Michelle Higelin said the ruling was clear. "Australia must do all it can to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees," she said. "This is not a choice, this is an obligation to take stronger and more urgent action." ActionAid wants the government to "urgently" transition away from fossil fuels and increase funding to low-income countries, including those in the Pacific, to support climate adaptation efforts. Global science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, which has an Australia-Pacific region office, said the court has pointed to potentially serious legal consequences. Action could be taken under customary international law if countries don't put forward climate targets aligned to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. "Importantly, these obligations also apply to countries whether or not they are Parties to the Paris Agreement," it added. Australia's current commitment to the Paris Agreement includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The world court's opinion comes after Vanuatu University law students argued that the people of Pacific island countries are unjustly bearing the brunt of climate change compared to high-emitting economies. "The degradation of the climate system and of other parts of the environment impairs the enjoyment of a range of rights protected by human rights law," presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa said, reading out the court's opinion. The court decision "confirms that states' obligations to protect human rights require taking measures to protect the climate system ... including mitigation and adaptation measures," judge Hilary Charlesworth, an Australian member of the court, said in a separate opinion. The 133-page opinion was in response to two questions the United Nations General Assembly put to the UN court. The first was: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? The second was: regarding the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment? A response is being sought from the federal government. Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu described the court's opinion as a "very important course correction in this critically important time". "For the first time in history, the ICJ has spoken directly about the biggest threat facing humanity," he said at The Hague.
Daily Mirror
17-07-2025
- Daily Mirror
Little-known Spanish city is 'Cuba of Europe' and looks like dreamy 'film set'
A travel blogger has admitted his latest trip to Spain has 'completely changed' how he sees the country after he visited one little-known town he claims is the 'Cuba of Europe' A seasoned traveller has admitted his latest European adventure has "completely changed" how he sees Spain, prompting him to ask why nobody had ever told him about a little-known town before. Rob Adcock, who documents his worldwide trips on TikTok, shared his experience after visiting an Atlantic coast city he believes should be talked about more. Heading through the destination 's sun-kissed streets, Rob gushed that he felt "like an extra on a movie set". He revealed: "Someone described it to me as being like the 'Cuba of Europe' and they are not wrong - because my camera roll has never taken such a beating." Teasing his followers by refraining from giving away its location at first, Rob offered shots of the city's historic buildings, al fresco dining options and coastal backdrop. "It's by the sea so it's that little bit cooler than the other cities around it," he said. "And it's not an expensive place - it's the perfect mix of a city and a beach break." Rob added that accessibility is great, noting that "you can walk everywhere" as "nothing is too far", which enabled him to get around on foot rather than shelling out for expensive taxi journeys. "The nearest airport is a £4 train ride and you can fly here through Skyscanner for just £34 in the middle of summer," he said, sharing a screenshot of an online flight booking as proof. Rob confessed: "I couldn't have told you anything about this place before I got here, but now I will not stop whanging on about it to anyone who will listen." But where is this haven? "Get it in the chat," he urged. "[Tell them] you're going to Cadiz for the weekend." Writing in response, one TikTok user revealed they were equally as impressed: "I was there for a day's stop on a cruise. Went nuts taking pics of old doors. Fell in love with the place." A second person noted: "The fish market is amazing too, great bars and restaurants nearby to eat all the delicious seafood and the chicharron de Cadiz is so yummy with a glass or two of Manzanilla or Fino." A third praised the content: "Thanks this looks amazing and right up my street." Whilst a fourth shared: "Great surfing there!" Cadiz is the southernmost point of mainland Spain and mainland Europe. The city's dedicated tourism website states: "Its location has determined its clear maritime vocation and its exclusive dedication to the sea since the earliest days of its founding. Considered the oldest city in the West, the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs all passed through here, and Spain's first democratic Constitution was drafted here." It adds: "The city, popularly known as the "Silver Cup", has an unmistakable seafaring flavour, and highlights the grace and hospitality of its inhabitants, as demonstrated by its famous carnivals; very interesting monuments such as the Cathedral , the Walls, the Parish of Santa Cruz, the Genovés Park, the Puerta de la Caleta, etc. "All of them places of undoubted charm, to which we must add its gastronomy and its famous and beautiful beaches, such as La Caleta, Santa María del Mar, or La Victoria."
Egypt Independent
13-04-2025
- Business
- Egypt Independent
Egypt's Bakeries Division reveals expected increase in Fino bread prices
The head of the Bakeries Division, Abdullah Ghorab, said that a meeting will be held on Sunday at the Chamber of Commerce to coordinate with the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade regarding the price of tourist (non-subsidized) and Fino bread, following the recent increase in fuel prices. During a phone interview with Ahmed Moussa's TV show 'Ala Massoulity' (On My Responsibility) on Saturday evening, Ghorab said that there will be an increase in the price of tourist and Fino bread. He pointed out that baking a sack of flour consumes 16 liters of diesel. Ghorab explained that the price of tourist and Fino bread is expected to increase by no more than 25 percent, noting that the weight of the loaf will remain unchanged. He pointed out that the increase in diesel prices significantly impacts bread production.
