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Poor EV take-up to cost Australia’s health system $1tn by 2050, modelling shows
Converting every vehicle to electric by 2035 would halve costs, Australian Conservation Foundation report finds
Australia may be left with almost a $1tn health bill by 2050 if it doesn’t boost the take-up of electric vehicles, according to a new report released on Sunday.
But this could be slashed in half by setting an ambitious target to convert every car in the country to electric by 2035.
Continue reading...A 7m wall has gone up on a Sydney beach: are we destroying public space to save private property?
Beachfront residents back the Collaroy wall but other locals worry the beach will disappear for longer periods as climate change increasingly drives coastal erosion
“We really didn’t want to build a wall,” says Bob Orth.
But Orth is one of 10 residents of Collaroy, on Sydney’s northern beaches, who have each paid $300,000 to do just that.
Continue reading...The 1.3km wall dividing a Sydney beach community - video
A 1.3km long wall that will snake along the coast of Collaroy on Sydney's northern beaches is dividing a community. Construction on a 400m concrete section of the wall commenced in December 2020, more than four years after a heavy storm washed away the shore and damaged beachside properties. Its design has split opinion, with concerns it is destroying public space to save private property
Continue reading...New trade deals ‘are unfair on farmers and won’t help emissions’
Chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee condemns New Zealand and Australia agreements as unworkable
The chairman of the government’s climate change advisory board has condemned trade deals with Australia and New Zealand as “totally offensive” as he warned they would undermine attempts to tackle emissions.
Lord Deben, the former Tory cabinet minister who chairs the Climate Change Committee, said that the agreements were “entirely unacceptable for climate change purposes”. He warned they would damage efforts to ask UK farmers to help consumers shift to eating less meat, but of higher quality.
Continue reading...Greta Thunberg: 'We need public pressure, not just summits'
Saudi Arabia commits to net zero emissions by 2060
Prince Charles warns of 'dangerously narrow window' to act on climate crisis – video
Speaking at the event in Riyadh on Saturday, Prince Charles said there was a 'dangerously narrow window' to accelerate climate action. In a video message to the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, and just a week before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, the Prince of Wales said world leaders must ‘consider the kind of future existence that we are bequeathing to our grandchildren and their children's children’. He also welcomed Saudi Arabia’s target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060.
Continue reading...Saudi Arabia sets target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060
One of world’s biggest oil exporters more than doubles its annual target to reduce carbon emissions
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s top oil exporters, has announced it aims to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 and more than double its annual target to reduce carbon emissions.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the announcement in brief scripted remarks at the start of the kingdom’s first Saudi Green Initiative Forum.
Continue reading...Climate crisis education should be embedded in system, say unions
Government urged to carry out comprehensive review of curriculum and decarbonise school estate by 2030
Climate crisis education should become fully embedded in the system, unions have urged.
A joint letter to the education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, calls for a review of the curriculum to ensure everyone is mobilised for a “sustainable future”.
Continue reading...‘We’ve been caught half-dressed’: ambivalent Glasgow awaits Cop26
Ambivalence, industrial disputes and other issues are complicating city’s build-up to the climate conference
Diwali candles in pretty terracotta pots are stacked around the counter at Suresh & Sons grocer in Finnieston, the Glasgow district that borders the UN-managed “blue zone” of the Scottish Event Campus. Next weekend more than 30,000 delegates from 196 countries will converge on the area for the crucial two-week Cop26 climate conference.
Four days into the event is the Hindu festival of lights, Leena Kumar explains. The council advised her to talk to suppliers about getting stock delivered before the road closures begin this weekend, but it is not that easy, she says. “We are well-informed, but we still don’t know what’s going to happen,” she laughs.
Continue reading...China, India and Brazil must set out their plans to cut emissions | The Secret Negotiator
An insider says keeping temperatures within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels rests with big developing countries in G20
As we get closer to the beginning of Cop26, I worry that the main goal – keeping temperature rises within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – is slipping away.
The Covid-19 pandemic offered the opportunity for a global reset. We could rebuild in a way that was green and with lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Every week we’ll hear from negotiators from a developing country that is involved in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations and will be attending the Cop26 climate conference.
Continue reading...Cop26 menu focuses on plant-based dishes with 80% Scottish food
Each item will have an estimate of its carbon footprint, so visitors can make ‘climate-friendly choices’
Plant-based dishes will dominate the menu at the Cop26 climate conference, where 80% of the food will be from Scotland.
The low-carbon menu includes 95% British food, especially locally sourced Scottish produce, and each menu item has an estimate of its carbon footprint, “helping attendees make climate-friendly choices”.
Winter squash lasagne (0.7kg CO2 equivalent emissions) – celeriac, glazed root vegetables and winter squash, with a vegan cheddar.
Organic kale and seasonal vegetable pasta (0.3kg CO2 ee) – spelt fusilli, field mushrooms, kale and seasonal vegetables.
Braised turkey meatballs (0.9kg CO2 ee) – with organic spelt penne pasta in a tomato ragu.
Organic spelt wholegrain penne pasta (0.2kg CO2 ee) – with a tomato ragu, kale, pesto and oatmeal crumble.
Continue reading...Cop26 climate deal will be harder than Paris accord, admits Sharma
Summit president says 2015 global emissions agreement a ‘framework’ but rules were left for future talks
Achieving a global climate deal in Glasgow in the next three weeks will be harder than signing the Paris agreement of 2015, the UK president-designate of the Cop26 talks has said.
Alok Sharma, the cabinet minister in charge of the UK-hosted talks, just over a week away, said the task would be to get nearly 200 countries to implement stringent cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions, in line with holding global temperature increases to within 1.5C of pre-industrial levels – a goal fast receding as global carbon output continues to climb.
Continue reading...Whole towns to be taken off the grid and powered by stand-alone renewables
Network to pilot “disconnected microgrids” – comprising mostly renewables - that will cut links to main grid and deliver, cheaper, cleaner and more reliable power.
The post Whole towns to be taken off the grid and powered by stand-alone renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Carbon capture and storage won’t save Santos’ new LNG “emissions factory”
Emissions, logistics and pure economics all pose strong arguments against Santos' Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea. And CCS won't help.
The post Carbon capture and storage won’t save Santos’ new LNG “emissions factory” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Norfolk sand: Has a colossal experiment worked?
CP Daily: Friday October 22, 2021
Ontario adopts tighter power benchmark for large emitter programme, stays mum on offsets
FEATURE: Efforts to cut shipping emissions face cost opposition amid record profits
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