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An article in the Nature Climate Change journal argues that non-violent direct action taken by experts is effective

Scientists should commit acts of civil disobedience to show the public how seriously they regard the threat posed by the climate crisis, a group of leading scientists has argued.

“Civil disobedience by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities and confusion surrounding the climate crisis,” the researchers wrote in an article, published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change on Monday.

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Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover

Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is driving the climate crisis were to end overnight.

The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely.

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They are our last truly public spaces, but the scale of their neglect by this government is becoming clear

In a summer when even Conservative voters, MPs and publications are suddenly waking up to the realisation that nothing in the UK seems to work and everything seems to be breaking – and they’re all trying very hard to find the guy who did this – crumbling parks infrastructure may be low down the list of priorities, given the desperate state of the NHS, the social care system, our sewage-filled rivers and soaring demand for food banks.

But these are dark times for our parks, which have been devastated by annual Conservative budget cuts since 2010. Last week a Guardian investigation found that local authorities in England are spending £330m less a year on parks in real terms than they were a decade ago. The study found that less affluent parts of the country have been hit the hardest by austerity, with parks in the north-west and the north-east suffering in particular.

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US controllers struggled to get the rocket's engine cooled down to its correct operating temperature.

Provisions in the US Inflation Reduction Act that tie the extension of clean energy tax credits to CO2 reduction requirements and exempt some oil and gas producers from a methane fee will not hamstring the GHG reduction potential of the landmark climate package, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Greens push for energy transition authority to help communities transition to renewables and counter Coalition scare campaigns.

The post “Workers want a plan:” Greens push for transition authority to manage switch to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) separately with offset standards agencies Verra and Gold Standard as part of the island-state’s efforts to operationalise Article 6 guidelines of the Paris Agreement.

Regional expert on market and non-market approaches to support the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement at UNFCCC-WGEO Regional Collaboration Center (RCC) MENA and South Asia

Australia on Monday began the review of the domestic carbon credit scheme with the release of a consultation paper seeking views on the integrity of the market and potential changes for the government to consider.

Northern Lights has made the world’s first cross-border commercial agreement to transport and store CO2, the Norwegian CO2 storage company announced on Monday, signing a deal with a Netherlands-based facility to deliver CO2 from the site for sequestration in the offshore venture.

One of China's biggest oil companies has agreed to buy millions of forest carbon credits from a state-owned forestry group based in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as it prepares to be brought into the national CO2 emissions trading scheme.

Lack of activity has confounded forecasts so far but a cluster of thunderstorms could change that

The Atlantic hurricane season has so far confounded forecasts of an active year, with only three named storms so far, none of which were hurricane strength. In fact, until now this August joins 1997 and 1961 in having no named storms.

However, there are three months left of the season and activity is starting to stir in the tropics. A cluster of thunderstorms in the central Atlantic has the potential to organise sufficiently to become the first named storm since Colin in early July. Should this occur, it may move westwards and approach the Leeward Islands, bringing the threat of heavy rainfall towards the end of this week, but there is little suggestion it will develop into a significant storm at this stage.

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China is in the midst of a devastating heatwave and drought. This has thrown the nation into an electricity crisis. And China has doubled down on coal investments to meet demand. Guangyi Pan, PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney Hao Yang, Sessional lecturer, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Trends are so last season. As the resale clothes market booms, traditional styling is now leading the way over the quick fix

I suppose, in theory, sustainable fashion shouldn’t have any one look. After all, surely the whole point of prioritising ethics over aesthetics is that clothes design should not be all about what they look like, but about how they are made: the raw materials used, the industrial processes undergone, the people employed, the carbon footprint of transportation. But in reality, it does have a look. You can’t take aesthetics out of fashion. Sustainable fashion has style rules, too. Just different ones.

Some of this is simple practicalities. Sequins, being mostly made from non-biodegradable fabrics, are a no-no on environmental grounds. If you jazz up a T-shirt with decorative zips or emblazon it with beading or glued-on trims, you make it much more difficult for the fabric to be usefully recycled or reused. Therefore, streamlined design is favoured. Textile dyeing is one of the most water-intensive elements of the clothes production cycle, so bright colours can be a red flag.

Jess Cartner-Morley is the Guardian’s fashion associate editor

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New Zealand carbon allowances have risen to fresh record highs amid expectations that the government will accept recommendations from the independent Climate Change Commission (CCC) to significantly increase the cost containment reserve (CCR) trigger price level at future auctions.

EA ‘shutting down’ calls from public about rivers, says former worker Helen Nightingale, leading waterways to deteriorate

England’s rivers will continue to deteriorate unless the Environment Agency stops “shutting down” the public’s calls about pollution, according to an ex-employee who worked at the agency for three decades.

Officers are told to ignore calls from the public and told not to look at possible incidents if the caller thinks they are lower impact, meaning they fall into so-called category 3 or 4. This has left staff “demoralised” says Helen Nightingale, a catchment planner in north-west Lancashire who left the Environment Agency in April.

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Works begin on 35MW grid-forming battery that will bolster the Northern Territory's main grid as it shifts from gas to solar.

The post Works begin on Darwin big battery, in first step to rid gas from NT grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Synthetic milk offers dairy milk without the concerns such as methane emissions or animal welfare. But is it the whey forward? Milena Bojovic, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Europe is facing a day of reckoning as the energy crisis deepens, and French nuclear failures push electricity prices to unprecedented levels.

The post The six reckonings of Europe’s energy crisis: Gas, nuclear, war and inflation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nasdaq-listed hydrogen tech outfit linked to Andrew Forrest's huge Australian renewables ambitions, has inked a supply deal with online retail giant Amazon.

The post Amazon inks multi-billion green hydrogen supply deal with Forrest’s electrolyser partner appeared first on RenewEconomy.