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Does Angus Taylor’s projection of a 35% 2030 emissions cut really ‘support the Paris agreement’? | Graham Readfearn
If the world followed Australia on emissions reduction, the planet would heat by about 3C, one expert warns
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The Glasgow climate summit ended early on Sunday morning, but before the clock had struck noon the Morrison government had already said it would be ignoring one of its key outcomes.
More than 190 nations at the summit – including Australia – signed a pact requesting countries “revisit and strengthen” their 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next year.
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IBM claims advance in quantum computing
Swiss-EU ETS allowance transfer calendar for 2022 published
Why do so many people hate Insulate Britain? Inside the controversial protest movement
Guardian reporter Damien Gayle spent two months with the environmental campaigners Insulate Britain as they blocked motorways, glued themselves to road networks, got arrested multiple times and defied injunctions banning them from the highways – infuriating everyone from drivers, to cyclists and presenters on breakfast TV. He finds out what drives them, how they plan for key actions, and asks what's next after nine activists are jailed for blocking the M25
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Nine Insulate Britain activists jailed for breach of road blockades injunction
Judge imposes sentences ranging up to six months, saying some of them ‘seem to want to be martyrs’
Nine Insulate Britain protesters have been jailed for breaking a court order banning them from protesting on the M25, by a judge who said no lesser penalty “would adequately mark the gravity of the defendants’ conduct”.
Ana Heyatawin, 58, and Louis McKechnie, 21, were jailed for three months while Dr Ben Buse, 36, Roman Paluch-Machnik, 28, Oliver Rock, 41, Emma Smart, 44, Tim Speers, 36, and James Thomas, 47, each received four-month sentences.
Continue reading...EU aims to curb deforestation with beef and coffee import ban
Raft of commodities would be prohibited under draft law in fight to protect world’s endangered forests
Beef, palm oil, cocoa and other products linked to deforestation will be banned from entering the European Union under landmark legal proposals that attempt to help prevent the felling of the world’s great forests.
Two weeks after world leaders signed a plan at Cop26 to reverse deforestation at Cop26, the EU executive on Wednesday outlined a draft law requiring companies to prove that agricultural commodities destined for the bloc’s 450 million consumers were not linked to deforestation.
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Offset-cancelling crypto initiative eyes Paris carbon units
LNG group, industry players release frameworks for GHG counting in transparency push for “carbon neutral” claims
‘Cow’s milk without cows’ start-up raises $13m in seed funding
Israeli firm says dairy proteins will be made by microorganisms programmed with DNA instructions
“Cow’s milk without cows” will be in Israeli shops by 2023, after a start-up raised a record $13m (£9.7m) in seed funding from investors to help it make traditional dairy products from microorganisms.
The Tel Aviv-based Imagindairy, which announced its seed funding result on Wednesday, said the milk it produced would be identical to cow’s milk, but the cow, and her associated methane, would be replaced by fungi or other plant microorganisms programmed to produce milk proteins.
Continue reading...Fortescue gets quick planning approval for world’s biggest electrolyser factory
Fortescue obtains planning approval for world's biggest hydrogen electrolyser factory little more than a month after plans first unveiled.
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Fossil gas hydrogen could lead to “substantial” lift in emissions, and higher prices
New research shows hydrogen production from fossil gas presents "substantial risk" of higher emissions, and higher prices, due to fugitive emissions.
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Taylor concedes key government policy was never intended to cut emissions
Taylor rules out strengthening the Safeguard Mechanism, raising fresh questions around how the Morrison government intends to get to zero net emissions.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: The green energy transition as seen from Japan
Isshu Kikuma from BloombergNEF discusses the energy transition in Japan, and opportunities for offshore wind and green ammonia.
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Six-minute EV battery hopeful enters trading halt, following reports of ASIC probe
Magnis Energy enters trading halt following reports the giga-scale battery hopeful's chairperson is being investigated by corporate watchdog.
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Queensland’s biggest coal export terminal goes 100 pct renewable, with certificates
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal inks deal with CleanCo to offset 100% of its electricity consumption with the purchase of renewable energy certificates.
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Market reforms critical for hydro storage in race to renewable grid, CEC says
CEC report makes case for the “forgotten giant” of clean electricity, calls on market regulators and governments to drive investment in hydro storage.
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