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Extinction Rebellion: protesters to offer to 'pause' climate action
London demonstrators will offer to vacate most sites if mayor meets some demands
Climate change protesters who have stopped traffic in a series of peaceful demonstrations across London will offer to vacate some sites in exchange for the mayor, Sadiq Khan, acting on some of their demands.
Extinction Rebellion (XR) said it would “pause” its demonstrations in an attempt to achieve its political aims as it enters the second week of its campaign to have the government declare a climate emergency, reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025 and establish a citizens’ assembly to devise an emergency plan of action.
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Cheaper to own Tesla Model 3 than Toyota Camry, says report
US analysis suggests total cost of ownership of Tesla Model 3 over three years less than that of the very popular (and cheaper upfront) Toyota Camry.
The post Cheaper to own Tesla Model 3 than Toyota Camry, says report appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Australia’s hottest rooftop solar suburbs – and the millions still missing out
Clean Energy Council reveals which Australian suburbs are embracing rooftop solar the most enthusiastically, while a separate report reminds us that apartment dwellers are still missing the party.
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Aston Martin electric sportscar now ready for production
Aston Martin unveils the fully electric Rapide E sports car at the Shanghai Motor Show, ready to start its production.
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Slow burn? The long road to a zero-emissions UK
It is the near future. You wake in a house warmed by a heat pump that extracts energy from deep below the ground and delivers it to your home. (Your gas boiler was outlawed years ago.) You rise and make yourself a cup of tea – from water boiled on a hydrogen-burning kitchen stove. Then you head to work – in a robot-driven electric car directed by central control network to avoid traffic jams.
At midday, you pause for lunch: a sandwich made of meat grown in a laboratory. At the end of the day, you are taken home by a robot car – through countryside festooned with solar panels and turbines.
Continue reading...A zero-emissions UK is a huge task. But the benefits will also be huge
Major action is needed to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. But it will make Britain’s economy cleaner, smarter and more efficient. We must not delay
Britain needs to reach, by no later than 2050, net zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This means any greenhouse gases we release must be balanced by the removal of an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
The 2050 deadline represents our fair share of international responsibility for implementing the Paris agreement on climate change and meeting its goal of holding the rise in average global temperature to well below 2C – and pursuing best efforts to limit warming to no more than 1.5C.
Continue reading...Stroud, the gentle Cotswold town that spawned a radical protest
It is a quiet Good Friday on Stroud’s steep, sun-dappled high street. There are none of the usual stalls spilling out of the centuries-old Shambles indoor market, and the schools are closed for the Easter holidays.
But the Cotswold town’s independent cafes are bustling with tanned and exhausted Extinction Rebellion Stroudies, who have spent the week bringing parts of London to a standstill and focusing minds on the threats posed by climate breakdown.
Continue reading...Battle to save frogs from global killer disease
Frogs, salamanders, and toads across the world are now under attack from a widening range of interacting pathogens that threaten to devastate global amphibian populations.
That is the stark warning of leading zoological experts who will gather this week in London in a bid to establish an emergency plan to save these endangered creatures. “The world’s amphibians are facing a new crisis, one that is caused by attacks by multiple pathogens,” said Professor Trent Garner of the Zoological Society of London, which is hosting the conference. “We desperately need to devise strategies that can protect them.”
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protests: police start to clear Oxford Circus
Met police draft in 200 extra officers to deal with Extinction Rebellion campaign in London
Officers have begun to clear protesters from Oxford Circus as the Metropolitan police try to restore normality to parts of London where Extinction Rebellion members have been campaigning against climate change.
Crowds clapped and cheered as activists who were chained to the road at Oxford Circus were lifted into police vans.
Continue reading...Police drag climate change activists near Regent Street in London - video
As Extinction Rebellion protesters and police tussle for control of Oxford Circus, video has emerged of officers dragging two participants along the ground near Regent Street on Friday. The Met has come under increasing pressure to crack down on the demonstrators who have blocked transport networks in the capital in recent days. Extinction Rebellion has called for non-violent civil disobedience to oblige the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what they call a global climate crisis.
Continue reading...Extreme weather, loud birds and fresh food by boat – could you live on a remote island?
The wardens of Britain’s small islands talk about daily life with little more than thousands of puffins for company. By Patrick Barkham. Photographs by Alex Ingram
After supper, while Eddie Stubbings was washing up, huge flocks of puffins would come whirling past his kitchen window. Later, when the sun had finally dipped into the ocean, the Skomer night filled with the bizarre caterwauling of 350,000 pairs of manx shearwaters, which fly under the cover of darkness to burrows dotted across the small island.
“Living on the island was absolutely amazing,” says Stubbings, 40. Alongside his partner, Bee Bueche, 41, he has completed six years working on Skomer, 720 acres of seabird-populated rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast.
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Police arrest climate change protesters on London’s Oxford Circus – video
A young climate change activist who had superglued his hands to the mast of the pink boat occupying London's Oxford Circus was removed and arrested on Friday as part of police efforts to stop the blockade and remove the boat from the street. The Metropolitan police has come under increasing pressure to crack down on the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators who have blocked transport networks in the capital in recent days. Police said on Friday that more than 600 arrests had been made relating to the protest.
Extinction Rebellion have called for non-violent civil disobedience to oblige the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what they call a global climate crisis.
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Climate group reports influx of support as Extinction Rebellion protests continue
Police seize Extinction Rebellion boat as organisers plan to extend London action
Extinction Rebellion activists reported an influx of supporters on Friday, as the Easter holiday, balmy weather and promises of support from school strike leader Greta Thunberg injected new momentum into the weeklong climate protest.
Despite more than 100 arrests on Friday, taking the total to 682 by early evening, the demonstration which has blocked four major London landmarks looked set to continue beyond the weekend, with organisers preparing to extend their disruption on Monday to “picnics on the motorway.”
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protests: photos from day five
Guardian picture editors select the best photos from the fifth day of climate protests in London
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