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UK programme launches network to integrate biodiversity in the financial system
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World’s largest solar manufacturer to cut one-third of workforce
China’s Longi looks to slash costs as renewable energy sector faces tough headwinds from inflation
The world’s largest solar manufacturer has slashed nearly a third of its workforce after a cost-cutting drive that included telling staff to only print in black and white fell short and as a chill ripples through the renewable energy sector.
China’s Longi is to cut as much as 30% of its workforce, in an acceleration of cost reductions that began late last year, Bloomberg reported.
Continue reading...Halting biodiversity loss ranked as top priority in 2024 by companies and public institutions, report says
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CO2 emissions from Europe’s cars and vans decline thanks to targets, EVs
Gold Standard releases ‘BVCM’ voluntary carbon guidance
Malaysia set to include compliance carbon market in national carbon policy
Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence
Appeal court says defendants’ ‘beliefs and motivation’ do not constitute lawful excuse for damaging property
One of the last defences for climate protesters who commit criminal damage has been in effect removed by the court of appeal. The court said the “beliefs and motivation” of a defendant do not constitute lawful excuse for causing damage to a property.
The defence that a person honestly believes the owner of a property would have consented had they known the full circumstances of climate change has been used successfully over the last year by protesters.
Continue reading...‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan
Academic experts also criticise UN Food and Agriculture Organization for dismissing alternative proteins
The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic experts.
The group also criticised the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s report for “dismissing” the potential of alternative proteins, such as plant-based meat, to reduce the impact of livestock on the environment.
Continue reading...UK-based startup receives fresh funding to develop three more direct air capture plants
Galapagos biodiversity under threat – in pictures
Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, whose unique fauna and flora inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Continue reading...Australian state updates koala protection, housing plan
Korean climate venture, tech startup to set up carbon exchange in Sri Lanka
Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground – yet another benefit of Brexit | George Monbiot
Perhaps our government imagines bulldog spirit will protect us from the dangerous substances that Europe rules unsafe
It’s a benefit of Brexit – but only if you’re a manufacturer or distributor of toxic chemicals. For the rest of us, it’s another load we have to carry on behalf of the shysters and corner-cutters who lobbied for the UK to leave the EU.
The government insisted on a separate regulatory system for chemicals. At first sight, it’s senseless: chemical regulation is extremely complicated and expensive. Why replicate an EU system that costs many millions of euros and employs a small army of scientists and administrators? Why not simply adopt as UK standards the decisions it makes? After all, common regulatory standards make trading with the rest of Europe easier. Well, now we know. A separate system allows the UK to become a dumping ground for the chemicals that Europe rules unsafe.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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Continue reading...UK heat pump rollout criticised as too slow by public spending watchdog
Installations must speed up 11-fold as advisers say latest changes to scheme likely to make 2028 target even harder
The public spending watchdog has criticised the slow pace of the government’s heat pump rollout just days after ministers postponed an important scheme designed to increase the rate of installations.
A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that heat pump installations would need to accelerate 11-fold if the government is to reach its target for 600,000 heat pumps installed in homes every year by 2028.
Continue reading...Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds
Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production
Billion-dollar financing is driving unsustainable increases in global meat and dairy production, a report has found.
Global meat production rose 9% between 2015 and 2021, the report said, while dairy production increased 13% in that time.
Continue reading...Best battery storage sites going quickly, and some lucky landowners are cashing in
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“Prohibitive:” Australia’s biggest energy consumers and producers say no to nuclear, but is Coalition listening?
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Chart of the Day: California surges beyond 100 pct renewables
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