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Senior Carbon Consultant, Mott MacDonald – London
China announces modest rise in near-term climate ambitions, saves real work for later
UN chief António Guterres urges countries to declare climate emergencies – video
Every country should declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net-zero carbon emissions, the UN secretary general told a virtual summit of world leaders on Saturday. António Guterres said countries had a responsibility to young people to reduce and eliminate high-carbon activities after borrowing trillions to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic
Continue reading...UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies
António Guterres tells Climate Ambition Summit more must be done to hit net zero emissions
Governments around the world should all declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net zero CO2 emissions, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has told a summit of world leaders.
At least 38 countries have already declared such a state of emergency, often owing to their vulnerability to the impacts of climate breakdown, which are already being felt.
Continue reading...'Let's do it together': Boris Johnson says climate protection will create jobs – video
Boris Johnson has said the UK is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 68% on 1990 levels, and encouraged countries around the world to work together on the climate emergency during the UN's climate ambition summit, which is being held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. The prime minister said his motivation was to save the environment and create new jobs
Continue reading...Climate Ambition Summit: UN chief musters world leaders to raise climate ambition
Scientists cheered by bowhead whale recovery despite Arctic warming
Biologists hail ‘one of the great conservation successes’ but species’ fate uncertain as warming rapidly transforms Arctic
In some rare good news from the top of the world, bowhead whale populations have rebounded and are nearing pre-commercial whaling numbers in US waters.
Related: US plans to protect thousands of miles of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean
Continue reading...Talk is cheap when it comes to climate action. Now the government must deliver | Matthew Pennycook
Despite Boris Johnson’s pledges, the UK is way off course on its path to zero emissions. It’s Labour’s job to force the issue
• Matthew Pennycook is shadow minister for climate change
The coronavirus pandemic and the jobs crisis it has precipitated are rightly consuming our immediate attention. Meanwhile, the climate and environment emergency has not gone away. These intersecting crises demand urgent and coordinated action.
When it comes to averting catastrophic global heating, the science is unequivocal: bold action is required, and it is required now. As the UN has warned, limiting warming to 1.5C requires “far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” for which “the next few years are probably the most important in our history”.
Continue reading...In a nutshell: how the macadamia became a 'vulnerable' species
Australia’s nut trees have been added to the IUCN’s red list of threatened species as numbers in the wild dwindle
When Ian McConachie was growing up in postwar Queensland, his aunt had macadamia nut trees in her back yard. She told him that one day the trees would be famous. More than 70 years later she has been proved right – the Australian nut is a delicacy prized in kitchens around the world.
But this week the macadamia came to the world’s attention for another reason: Macadamia integrifolia, or the Queensland nut tree, was listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list of threatened species “on account of its population size, suspected at potentially fewer than 1,000 mature individuals”. Its endangered relative, Macadamia ternifolia, has previously been listed on the IUCN red list of threatened plants, as the four macadamia species indigenous to Australia come under significant environmental pressure.
Continue reading...The NEM has been badly wounded, and the federal government has blood on its hands
The Federal government's lack of policy has destroyed significant functionality of the National Electricity Market, and there is a growing risk of disorderly coal closures.
The post The NEM has been badly wounded, and the federal government has blood on its hands appeared first on RenewEconomy.
CP Daily: Friday December 11, 2020
Climate change: UK to end aid for fossil fuel projects abroad
Space tourism: Virgin space plane set for first crewed flight
Aztec skull tower: Archaeologists unearth new sections in Mexico City
UK to stop funding overseas fossil fuel projects
Move follows EU member states’ agreement to 55% cut in carbon emissions by 2030 on verge of interim climate summit
The UK taxpayer is to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas as part of the government’s push for international action on the climate ahead of a key summit on Saturday.
Related: The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe?
Continue reading...California compliance adds to WCI position as speculators hold steady
Wisconsin climate strategy recommends further analysis on CO2 pricing programmes, LCFS
Carbon Markets Analyst, Pavilion Energy – Singapore
EU confirms Brexit-induced cuts to 2021 MSR withdrawals, aviation volumes
Democrats urge Pennsylvania to advance RGGI as GOP opposition grows
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