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Climate change: Don't raid home insulation scheme, MPs urge ministers
Oil major Total targets 100GW of wind and solar capacity by 2030
Oil major Total sets new target of growing its renewable energy capacity to 100GW by 2030.
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Outrage over Snowy 2.0 transmission line concession in Kosciuszko National Park
National Parks Association of NSW outraged by plan to build overhead transmission infrastructure for Snowy 2.0, saying damage to Kosciuszko is unacceptable.
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Mars landings that did (and didn't) go to plan
Cut VAT for green home improvements and repairs, MPs urge
Environmental audit committee says chancellor must use budget to spur low-carbon growth
Ministers should cut VAT on repairs for electrical goods and green home improvements, to help people reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their everyday lives, an influential committee of MPs has urged.
Funding for green home grants to install insulation and low-carbon heating, should also be restored to kickstart a “green recovery” in the UK, said the environmental audit committee in a report on how to “grow back better” from the coronavirus crisis.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Tuesday February 16, 2021
California will not front-run Scoping Plan update with cap-and-trade regulation changes, officials say
Matt Canavan’s false wind meme is linked to the fossil fuel industry
Another viral, inaccurate meme about wind turbines that's got the attention of Matt Canavan has links to the fossil fuel industry.
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EU Market: EUAs slip below €39 after failing to set another record
Water injustice runs deep in Australia. Fixing it means handing control to First Nations
The Guardian view on Germany's Greens: opportunity knocks | Editorial
Election year could deliver the best result in the party’s 40-year history, and send a message on climate targets from Europe’s most powerful state
Pre-pandemic, Europe’s green parties were on a roll. In France last summer, supporters hailed a “green wave” after regional polls handed the Europe Ecology party control of showcase cities such as Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux. Austria’s Greens are the surprise junior partners in a conservative-led coalition government, delivering pioneering measures to curtail short-haul air travel. In the 27 EU member states, five governments now have Green members sitting at the cabinet table.
If ambitious net zero targets are to amount to more than earnest virtue signalling, this infiltration of the political mainstream is both overdue and necessary. And now comes the biggest test – and the greatest opportunity – of all. Consistently running a comfortable second in the polls to Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, and already governing in coalition in 11 states, Germany’s Greens are well-placed to form part of the country’s first “black-green” coalition after September’s federal elections. The CDU’s recent endorsement of the centrist Armin Laschet as its new leader suggests it sees such an alliance as a likely route to staying in power, as Ms Merkel steps down after 16 years in office. The Greens will decide this spring which of its two co-leaders should be its candidate for the top job: the media-savvy and charismatic Annalena Baerbock, or the equally ambitious moderniser Robert Habeck, talked up in some quarters as Germany’s Emmanuel Macron.
Continue reading...Plastic in the ocean kills more threatened albatrosses than we thought
US poultry plant workers complain of intimidation after fatal chemical leak
Foundation Food Group allegedly asked workers to sign blank sheets of paper, and impeded compensation and healthcare claims
Meat plant workers who were injured and displaced after a fatal accident in the US last month are alleged to have been intimidated and offered limited medical care.
A liquid nitrogen leak at a Foundation Food Group poultry plant in Gainesville, Georgia, killed six people in January and hospitalised at least 11 others.
'Development should stop': serious flaws in offsets plan for new western Sydney airport
The site chosen to offset the massive Badgerys Creek project was already earmarked for protection. Experts accuse the government of ‘double-dipping’
There are serious flaws in the environmental offsets being used to compensate for the new western Sydney airport now under construction in Badgerys Creek, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
All up, 1,780ha of bushland will be razed to make way for the new travel hub – an area bigger than the Adelaide CBD.
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Heritage Group takes stake in US-based offset developer ClimeCo
Offset developer ecosecurities tilts to forestry as market shifts toward removals
Finland mulling domestic carbon market to tackle transport emissions
Wood burning at home now biggest cause of UK particle pollution
Fires used by just 8% of population but cause triple the particle pollution of traffic, data shows
Domestic wood burning has become the single biggest source of small particle air pollution in the UK, producing three times more than road traffic, government data shows.
Just 8% of the population cause this pollution by burning wood indoors, according to a separate government-commissioned report. It found almost half of those burning indoors were affluent and many chose a fire for aesthetic reasons, rather than heat.
Continue reading...Video: Don’t be afraid, it’s just an electric vehicle
New research shows that electric cars reduce emissions, in a coal-dominated grid, and Australia should embrace them.
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