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Microbes and solar power ‘could produce 10 times more food than plants’
The system would also have very little impact on the environment, in contrast to livestock farming, scientists say
Combining solar power and microbes could produce 10 times more protein than crops such as soya beans, according to a new study.
The system would also have very little impact on the environment, the researchers said, in stark contrast to livestock farming which results in huge amounts of climate-heating gases as well as water pollution.
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California gasoline consumption hits 14-month high in April as demand nears pre-COVID levels
Business Development Advisor for Carbon Markets, Global EverGreening Alliance – Melbourne
Euro Markets: EUAs lift again as focus turns to options expiry
Tasmanian devils devastate penguin population on Australian island
Carbon Research Consultant, Roland Berger – Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou/Hong Kong/Taipei
*Market Development Manager, Gold Standard – US/Canada/Europe
Forest Carbon Credit Sales Manager, Coalition for Rainforest Nations – NYC
COVID claims life of “beloved and honourable” California carbon market economist
If we want to fight the climate crisis, we must embrace nuclear power | Bhaskar Sunkara
A powerful form of clean energy already exists – and it is far more reliable than wind and solar
On 30 April, the Indian Point nuclear power plant 30 miles north of New York City was shut down. For decades the facility provided the overwhelming majority of the city’s carbon-free electricity as well as good union jobs for almost a thousand people. Federal regulators had deemed the plant perfectly safe.
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Head, Agricultural Climate Solutions, First Climate – Zurich
Intern Consulting, First Climate – Frankfurt
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Tasmanian devils wipe out thousands of penguins on tiny Australian island
Marsupials introduced to Maria Island north-west of Tasmania to safeguard their numbers but have decimated birdlife
An attempt to save the Tasmanian devil by shipping an “insurance population” to a tiny Australian island has come at a “catastrophic” cost to the birdlife there, including the complete elimination of little penguins, according to BirdLife Tasmania.
Maria Island, a 116-square-kilometre island north-west of Tasmania, was home to 3,000 breeding pairs of little penguins around a decade ago.
Continue reading...The pandemic has revived hope that a more sustainable world is possible | Jeremy Caradonna
Economic growth is inextricably linked to the climate crisis, but the past year has taught us that such growth isn’t essential
Some of the most striking images from the early days of the pandemic, when public health orders and lockdowns ground economies to a halt, were the arresting photos of the Himalayas, suddenly visible from across northern India, as decades of unrelenting smog finally abated. Unbelievably, some locals glimpsed the immense mountain range for the first time in their lives.
It’s never too late to clear things up. And the pandemic has revived a movement that has its roots in the 18th century, when the word “sustainability” was first coined (in German) to describe a new approach to forestry enabling a continual harvest of wood. It’s a movement widely believed to have entered the mainstream with the 1987 Our Common Future report – a UN-backed initiative, overseen by Norway’s then prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, which laid out an ambitious pathway towards a “sustainable economy”. This left us with the enduringly relevant definition of sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
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Australian flow battery tech picked for Malaysian green hydrogen project
ASX-listed TNG Limited signs agreement with Malaysian renewable hydrogen facility to supply locally developed vanadium redox flow batteries.
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Court rulings add pressure, but it’s the market that will drive fossil fuel giants to change
It might sound like the fossil fuel industry is on the defensive after a landmark court ruling and two shareholder votes, but how much power do these decisions really carry?
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