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Critics attacked Don’t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is

On 24 December, the movie Don’t Look Up began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It’s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and her supervisor (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover that an Everest-size asteroid is heading for Earth. What happens is that they try to warn their fellow Earthlings about this existential threat only to find that their intended audience isn’t interested in hearing such bad news.

The movie has been widely watched but has had a pasting from critics. It was, said the Observer’s Simran Hans, a “shrill, desperately unfunny climate-change satire”. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw found it a “laboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed satire… like a 145-minute Saturday Night Live sketch with neither the brilliant comedy of Succession… nor the seriousness that the subject might otherwise require”.

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The Conservative Environment Network says removing charges from consumer bills would help cut costs.

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Only political intervention can stop EU carbon allowances from moving higher, an analyst warned Friday, predicting that prices would average €100 over the next two years.

Financial players increased their net long California Carbon Allowance (CCA) position over the New Years’ holiday, while compliance entities shaved their net short, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Verra is looking for a Manager, Sustainable Development Innovations, to support the strategy and evolution of Verra’s Sustainable Development Programs.

With the rapid growth in carbon markets and the expansion of Verra’s standards programs, Verra is seeking an Editor to support the organization’s communications activities.

Airbnb’s Sustainability team is looking for a talented and passionate new team member to focus on developing and executing strategies to meet the company’s sustainability goals including investments in natural climate solutions, forest conservation and restoration, and carbon offset projects.

Washington state may try to increase the chances of linking its forthcoming carbon market with California by either adjusting components of the programme itself or getting the Golden State to do so for its regulation, a key legislative proponent of the scheme said Friday.

The California-Quebec cap-and-trade system logged a new high for excess allowances and offsets during the fourth quarter of 2021 after emitters met their compliance obligations for the third trading period of the linked market, according to WCI programme data published Friday.

EU Parliamentarians are set to table key ideas for ETS reforms in the coming weeks, with a senior MEP this week recommending sticking to plans to maintain the supply-regulating MSR current 24% annual absorption rate.

The advent of electric vehicles will eventually extend to motorbikes, despite a deep cultural attachment to the internal combustion engine on two wheels

The guttural roar rising from the start-up pits was flag marshal Shane Adderton’s cue. The 34-year-old technician has been involved in the motorbike world since he was a teenager, and volunteering at South Australia’s racing mecca of Mallala Motorsport Park always gave him a special thrill.

“When you hear them start up and leave the pits, that sound is something you look forward to,” he says. “That note of the exhaust – the emotion it creates is part of the attractiveness.”

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Palaeontologists from the Australian Museum have made a remarkable discovery outside of a small town in New South Wales, Australia. Encased in the hard brown rocks of McGrath's Flat are the inhabitants of a rainforest that existed about 15 million years ago. 

Thousands of fossils have been revealed – from flowering plants to fruits and seeds, insects, spiders, pollen and fish

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The region’s air typically doesn’t suit strikes – so they have become an important climate crisis indicator

The high Arctic saw a dramatic rise in lightning in 2021 in what could be one of the most spectacular manifestations of the climate crisis.

In a region where sightings were once rare, the Earth’s northernmost region saw 7,278 lightning strikes in 2021 – nearly double as many as the previous nine years combined.

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Czechia’s new government has pledged to phaseout coal power by 2033, a date five years earlier than the previous administration had planned but still beyond the end-date that the UN says is needed to stave off climate change.

PetroChina has hired Statkraft’s head of environmental markets origination to build and lead a new global carbon trading division, Carbon Pulse has learned.

EUAs were little changed on Friday morning amid mixed energy prices, as participants geared up for the resumption of allowance auctions on Monday.

Swedish and Dutch firms claim their technology could replace gas and oil boilers without added insulation

A new type of heat pump that may soon be rolled out in the UK could ease the shift for homes to low-carbon heating but is no quick fix, experts say.

The Swedish company Vattenfall and the Dutch company Feenstra claim their new high-temperature heat pump, being launched in the Netherlands this year, could replace gas and oil boilers in UK homes without the need for added insulation or new radiators like other heat pumps.

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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a murmuration of starlings, sea turtle hatchlings and a snake in the grass

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