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Individual action alone won’t solve the climate crisis. So what political changes might help?
Individual actions, such as flying less or buying electric cars, are helpful, but they will be futile without collective political action to slash emissions on a corporate, national and global scale. Politicians need to feel this is a priority for the electorate. That means keeping the subject high on the agenda for MPs with questions, protests, emails, social media posts, lobbying by NGOs and most of all through voting choices. Politicians need to know the public is behind them if they are to take on the petrochemical industry.
Continue reading...Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think
Pace of progress raises hope that fossil fuel companies could lose their domination
The world’s rising reliance on fossil fuels may come to an end decades earlier than the most polluting companies predict, offering early signs of hope in the global battle to tackle the climate crisis.
The climate green shoots have emerged amid a renewable energy revolution that promises an end to the rising demand for oil and coal in the 2020s, before the fossil fuels face a terminal decline.
Continue reading...Fuel, power must ramp up GHG reductions to hit California’s 2030 goal -BAML
LCFS Market: California prices stretch all-time highs above $200
New environment laws in Queen's speech
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Rabbi, 77, arrested at Extinction Rebellion's Bank of England protest – video report
About 100 climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protested on Monday in the City of London, sitting in the road outside the Bank of England from 7am. Police arrested a number of people, including Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, of the Finchley Reform Synagogue. 'We are in a period of enormous catastrophic breakdown and, if it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanise public opinion, then it is certainly worth being arrested,' he said before being taken away.
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China carbon futures exchange set to get final nod before year-end
Eden Project to begin drilling for clean geothermal energy
Cornwall council and EU will fund scheme to tap into ‘hot rocks’ beneath attraction
A plan to heat the giant biomes of the Eden Project and, eventually, neighbouring communities by tapping into the “hot rocks” beneath the Cornish attraction has moved a step closer.
The Eden Project announced on Monday that it had secured the funding to begin drilling for clean energy next summer.
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest at Bank of England
‘Day of disruption’ in City of London targets financial firms profiting from climate crisis
Extinction Rebellion activists have blocked a major junction in London’s financial district, as the movement switched its focus towards companies funding and profiting from the climate emergency.
About 100 demonstrators walked into the roundabout outside the Bank of England in the City and sat down in the road at 7am on Monday.
Continue reading...'The smell will knock you off your feet': mass mussel die-offs baffle scientists
As the backbone of the river ecosystem because they control silt levels and filter water, mussels are facing a mysterious affliction
Each fall since 2016, wildlife biologist Jordan Richard has returned to the same portion of the Clinch River in Tennessee, braced for the worst – tens of thousands of newly dead mussel shells gleaming from the surface of the water.
The mass die-off isn’t recognizable at first. But once Richard sees the first freshwater mussel, which look quite different to their marine cousins of moules frite fame, he scans the river and finds another every five to 10 seconds.
Continue reading...Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina's fracking dream
Community tell of devastating environmental impact on land where their animals grazed
The roar of the burning gas well could be heard almost a mile and a half away, from atop the high plateau where Albino Campo Maripe stood, looking down at the orange flames lapping the earth in the distance.
When he was a child, the 60-year-old Mapuche chief used to ride there bareback. Those days are gone for ever. The once-pristine landscape is now dotted with fracking wells and the white patches of land cleared for even more.
Continue reading...How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people – video explainer
An oil fire burned for more than three weeks next to a freshwater lake in Vaca Muerta, Argentina, one of the world’s largest deposits of shale oil and gas and home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In collaboration with Forensic Architecture, this video looks at the local Mapuche community’s claim that the oil and gas industry has irreversibly damaged their ancestral homeland, and with it their traditional ways of life
Continue reading...A few thoughts on COGATI: We’ve taken the feedback on board
AEMC responds to criticism about its COGARTI blue-print for new generation and transmission, saying it has taken many of the early submissions on board.
The post A few thoughts on COGATI: We’ve taken the feedback on board appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Victorian researchers claim solar recycling breakthrough that’s a win for batteries, too
Deakin University team investigates “holy grail” of solar PV recycling, by extracting silicon from discarded panels for use in lithium-ion batteries.
The post Victorian researchers claim solar recycling breakthrough that’s a win for batteries, too appeared first on RenewEconomy.
NSW energy minister says renewables and storage will replace old coal generators
NSW Energy minister confident he has right settings to encourage investors to drive decarbonisation of state's grid, and says responding to climate change is prudent business management.
The post NSW energy minister says renewables and storage will replace old coal generators appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Boa constrictor may be 'at large' in western Sydney after huge snake skin found
Residents warned following discovery of ‘freshly shed’ skin at the Cascades Estate in Silverdale
Residents in a western Sydney suburb have been warned an adult boa constrictor may be “at large” after a huge, “freshly shed” snake skin was discovered on a property.
The dangerous serpent – they have an average length of 3m – may be roaming the Cascades Estate residential complex in Silverdale.
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