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Oregon Clean Fuels Program sets new record high for credit generation in Q3 2023
US climate tech firm targeting methane receives $10 mln investment
Carbon capture tech company eyeing $7-9 mln private fundraising
UN carbon markets proposals include REDD+ provisions as part of sustainable development tool
Fossil fuels in the dock as EU petitioners compare them to tobacco lobbies
Soft plastic recycling is back after the REDcycle collapse – but only in 12 supermarkets. Will it work this time?
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds
Denialism highest in central and southern US, with Republican voters less likely to believe in climate science
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, a new study out of the University of Michigan reveals – shedding light on the highly polarized attitude toward global warming.
Additionally, denialism is highest in the central and southern US, with Republican voters found less likely to believe in climate science.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on Europe’s rural revolt: sustainability is in farmers’ interests too | Editorial
The current wave of protests endangers environmental progress. But imaginative politics can get the green deal back on track
Another day, another tractor blockade. Earlier this week, all economic activity at the Belgian port of Antwerp ground to a halt as hundreds of farmers prevented access to freight. In Spain, tractors blocked motorways near Seville and Granada, and in Catalonia. As a rolling wave of rural discontent has made itself felt across Europe since the start of the year, only four EU member states have remained unaffected.
Numerically, farmers account for only 4% of Europe’s working population. But as Europe’s political leaders are belatedly coming to realise, the burgeoning crisis has outsize implications. A perfect storm of factors – including rising energy costs, competition from lightly regulated foreign imports and supermarket profit-gouging – have driven angry farmers off the land and on to the streets of capitals. But in disputes that touch on some of the faultlines of contemporary culture wars, there is a growing danger that the EU’s green deal takes the rap for a crisis incubated elsewhere.
Continue reading...European Commission ‘not worried’ by falling carbon price, says senior official
New Mexico legislators approve clean transportation fuel bill
European Parliament committees adopt rules on corporate voluntary carbon credit use
Canadian carbon project developer to pilot Netherlands DAC firm technology
IEA members add precision to talk of transitioning away from fossil fuels
Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn
‘We need to respond now,’ says author of study that says crucial forest has already passed safe boundary and needs restoration
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, a study has shown.
The paper, which is the most comprehensive to date in its analysis of the compounding impacts of local human activity and the global climate crisis, warned that the forest had already passed a safe boundary and urged remedial action to restore degraded areas and improve the resilience of the ecosystem.
Continue reading...Three-quarters of critical habitats in the Americas miss the GBF target -study
Fair trade company secures inaugural deal under Brazilian green finance programme
Crossing Amazon tipping points risks adjacent forests, permanent degradation -study
Lab-grown ‘beef rice’ could offer more sustainable protein source, say creators
Scientist behind hybrid carbohydrate praises its ‘pleasant and novel flavour experience’
Bowls of decidedly pink-tinged rice are about to feature on sustainable food menus, according to researchers who created rice grains with beef and cow fat cells grown inside them.
Scientists made the experimental food by covering traditional rice grains in fish gelatin and seeding them with skeletal muscle and fat stem cells which were then grown in the laboratory.
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