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US funding for climate programmes remains in limbo after House delays infrastructure vote
Despite snub, EU lawmakers may yet call for carbon market speculation curbs
Cumbria coalmine would hit global decarbonisation efforts, inquiry hears
UK ‘would be seen as worst hypocrite imaginable’ if plans for deep mine are approved, say environmentalists
Approving a new deep coalmine in Cumbria would stifle international efforts to decarbonise industry and could produce a chain-reaction effect boosting prospective overseas mining projects, the public inquiry into the UK scheme has heard.
Boris Johnson’s aspirations to cast his government as an international climate leader at the upcoming Cop26 summit would be fatally undermined, the inquiry’s closing session also heard, if the mine were given the green light by the Planning Inspectorate.
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'We see through their lies': Greta Thunberg takes aim at political leaders – video
Speaking at a Fridays for Future march in Milan, the environmental activist lambasted ministers for their inaction over the climate emergency.
Thunberg has been in Italy's financial capital to participate in a Youth4Climate event where environment ministers and young people are trying to figure out a working framework before the Glasgow Cop26 meeting in November
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including Siberian wolves, a long-tailed hummingbird and a hungry polar bear
Continue reading...Insulate Britain protesters bring traffic to halt on M1 and M4
Roundabouts blocked near Heathrow and Brent Cross as climate activists stage 10th day of protests
The climate campaign group Insulate Britain is staging its 10th day of protests in the past three weeks.
The organisation said about 30 activists have blocked roundabouts at junction 3 of the M4 near Heathrow airport, west London, and junction 1 of the M1 at Brent Cross, north London.
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The otherworldly species threatened by deep-sea mining – in pictures
Thousands of metres below the ocean’s surface, diverse aquatic species, from octopuses to coral, thrive in extreme darkness and cold. Amid plans to mine the seabed’s mineral riches, experts warn of the threat to lifeforms still to be documented
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• Race to the bottom: the disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea
• ‘False choice’ – is deep sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution?
• Covid tests and superbug killers: how the deep sea is key to fighting pandemics
New Zealand supreme court blocks seabed mining consent
Campaigners hail ruling preventing TTR dredging 50m tonnes of iron-sands from South Taranaki coast, though mining firm says it will try again
• Race to the bottom: the disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea
A New Zealand offshore mining company has lost its supreme court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of iron-sand off the coast of South Taranaki, on New Zealand’s North Island.
Thursday’s unanimous ruling by New Zealand’s supreme court, which upheld previous high court and appeal court decisions revoking Trans-Tasman Resources’ (TTR) permission to mine, was welcomed by environmentalists and the mining company, albeit from opposing perspectives.
Continue reading...Taylor granted extra portfolios, to be supported by former IPA climate policy chief
Taylor gets extra ministerial responsibilities, and former IPA policy director Tim Wilson appointed assistant minister for energy and emissions reduction.
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Abattoir labour shortage sees Yorkshire farmer kill piglets
Britons find more joy in autumn colours than Christmas, study finds
National Trust says people are turning into ‘leaf peepers’ with more noticing trees than at start of pandemic
The nights are drawing in and there is a chill in the air but research commissioned by a conservation charity suggests British people are increasingly finding solace at what can be a tricky time of year in the joy of autumn colour.
About a third of people questioned said enjoying the burst of gold, red, purples russet and orange that accompanies autumn was their favourite thing about the season, ahead of looking forward to Bonfire Night, the television schedule or even Christmas.
Continue reading...Energy Insiders Podcast: Europe’s gas crisis
Gerard Reid in Europe’s gas crisis, and NSW plans to replace coal with renewables.
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Morrison government to reward CCS projects with lucrative credits in ERF revamp
Taylor to reward carbon capture projects with potentially lucrative offset credits, channelling more subsidies to the controversial technology.
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Regulatory madness promotes dirty diesel over renewable mini grid at Broken Hill
Transgrid may be forced to buy a pair of ageing, dirty diesel generators - rather than investing in a world-leading renewable micro-grid - due to Australia's regulatory regime.
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Bango wind farm starts powering up, with 10 turbines fully operational
Bango wind farm now has 10 operating turbines, as it continues a phased commissioning process.
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Indigenous knowledge and the persistence of the 'wilderness' myth
MPower secures grid connection offer for first of twenty small solar farms
Renewable energy developer MPower secures grid connection for first of planned 20 solar farms.
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