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Want to reduce your food waste at home? Here are the 6 best evidence-based ways to do it
Carbon trading on the agenda as Italy musters governments for pre-COP climate meeting
New speculator enters the RGGI market as financials’ interest grows in the Northeast US carbon scheme
Air pollution likely cause of up to 6m premature births, study finds
Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weight
Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies worldwide every year, research shows.
The analysis, which combines the results of multiple scientific studies, is the first to calculate the total global burden of outdoor and indoor air pollution combined.
Continue reading...African nations need to get ready for Paris’ market-based Article 6, say officials
Curious creatures and lush landscapes: The Nature Conservancy Australia 2021 photo contest
After a year-long Covid delay, the Nature Conservancy photo contest announces its winners – a showcase of Australian natural wonders
Continue reading...Brazilian business groups ask for compliance carbon market as legislation moves through Congress
Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders' words at Youth4Climate
EU lawmakers vote to prolong fossil fuel gas subsidies until 2027
Campaigners voice dismay after rule permitting gas pipelines where energy is mixed with hydrogen
European lawmakers have voted to prolong subsidies for fossil fuel gas until 2027, opening a potential backdoor for pollution that campaigners said would be a disaster for the climate if it becomes law.
Members of the European parliament’s industry committee voted on Tuesday to allow the EU to continue subsidising natural gas pipelines until the end of 2027, as long as the energy is mixed with an unspecified amount of hydrogen.
Continue reading...RGGI outlines schedule for upcoming programme review process
ANALYSIS: Experts expect Japan to restrict voluntary offset access as it beefs up domestic mechanisms
NSW aims to cut emissions in half by 2030 with $37 billion clean energy surge
NSW to slash emissions by 50% by 2030 and become a renewable energy superpower, as state Coalition underlines divide with federal counterparts.
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Australian researchers uncover fossil of new eagle species
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Atlas V: Rocket launch creates strange lights in UK sky
'All we hear is blah blah blah': Greta Thunberg takes aim at climate platitudes – video
The climate activist Greta Thunberg has taken world leaders to task about their promises to address the climate emergency. In a speech at the Youth4Climate summit, she asked for constructive dialogue and for the media to focus on what politicians do, rather than what they say they are going to do
Continue reading...Britain’s leaky homes make the energy crisis worse. Why have governments not fixed them? | Max Wakefield
Our housing stock needs better insulation and low-carbon heating, or we’ll continue to suffer these shocks
Over the past few days the country has been thrown into panic, as soaring gas prices threaten to plunge hundreds of thousands more households into fuel poverty, joining the 2.5 million already there. For others, uncomfortably tight budgets will be further squeezed. Any country reliant on the worldwide gas market faces the risk of perennial price shocks. But let’s be clear: the extent of this crisis was not inevitable. It is, in significant part, the result of a decade of government failure to insulate us from the disastrous downsides of fossil-fuel dependency.
The UK is a difficult country to keep warm. It has some of the oldest and leakiest housing stock in western Europe, ensuring that heat dissipates through walls, windows and doors quickly after leaving radiators. Nine in 10 households rely on gas boilers, and lots of gas boilers need lots of gas: UK households consume more of it than almost all of their European peers, at around twice the EU average. In 2000, when North Sea gas accounted for 98% of overall supply, households were at little risk of price shocks. But as national production has tumbled by two-thirds in the two decades since, imports have risen from just 2% to 60% of supply to fill the gap.
Continue reading...‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis
Exclusive: Activist says there are many fine words but the science does not lie – CO2 emissions are still rising
Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.
She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.
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