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UK’s green economy four times larger than manufacturing sector, says report
Exclusive: Analysis reveals more than 1.2 million people are currently employed in low carbon industry
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The UK’s low carbon economy is now worth more than £200bn, four times the size of the country’s manufacturing sector, with growth expected to accelerate in the coming years, according to new analysis.
Despite what experts say has been lacklustre and patchy support from central government, the analysis found more than 75,000 businesses from wind turbine manufacturers to recycling plants employ more than 1.2 million people in the green economy.
Continue reading...“It really is a race:” NSW must get cracking on green hydrogen, experts warn
Matt Kean says most hydrogen produced in NSW is grey, not green, and it's time to push "harder and faster".
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Morrison blames China, refuses to boost climate action after bleak IPCC report
Morrison and Taylor try to shift the blame for climate change onto poorer countries after world's scientists warn of devastating future.
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Young Liberals sell lump of Adani coal for $2,600 in party fundraiser
Young Liberals sell lump of Adani coal for $2,600 to boost coffers, as scientists prepared to warn world of the impacts of burning fossil fuels.
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Younger people are bearing the brunt of CoVID and climate change
We owe it to young people to build a better post-CoVID world. Most importantly, we need to take climate change seriously and get to net zero emissions.
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First wind farm in Saudi Arabia and largest in Middle East begins production
The first wind farm in Saudi Arabia and the largest in the Middle East begins production.
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Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day
‘Code red for humanity’: what the papers say about the IPCC report on the climate crisis
Dire warnings about ‘irreversible’ damage to our climate fill the front pages of newspapers in Britain and around the world
The front pages are filled with alarm in the wake of the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s global climate change report – the first since 2013 – which finds that human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in “unprecedented” ways, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.
An image of an elderly woman reacting to unprecedented wildfires on the island of Evia in Greece so perfectly encapsulates the global feeling of distress and fear that it appears on the front pages of the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph.
Continue reading...Syncline unveils 2,400MWh big battery storage project near Melbourne
Syncline Energy has upped the ante over what might be the biggest battery project in Victoria, or even in Australia.
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Australia’s fossil problem is deep: IPCC shows the danger it presents
The new IPCC report shows the physical dangers of failing to resolve Australia's deep and widespread lack of climate urgency.
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UK to relax Covid-19 restrictions for Cop26 climate conference
Delegates from 196 countries attending talks offered jabs before event, with rules on self-isolating eased for many
The government is planning to relax key Covid-19 restrictions for delegates to the UN Cop26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow for two weeks this November.
Delegates from 196 countries are expected to attend the talks, viewed as one of the last chances for the world to agree limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown.
Continue reading...VCM Report: VER values gap higher as futures volume explodes
The Guardian view on the IPCC climate report: the fierce urgency of now | Editorial
The world’s political leaders must heed the dramatic warning that climate scientists have delivered
The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published against a glowing backdrop of orange skies, as vast wildfires sweep through Greece and California. In western Germany, thousands of homes remain without running water or electricity following the devastating floods of July. In Yakutsk in Siberia – the coldest winter city on earth – residents were warned last month to stay inside as forest fires filled the air with toxic smoke, following heatwaves that began in the spring.
Eight years in the making, authored by the world’s leading climate scientists and approved by 195 national governments, the report confirmed the meaning of the evidence before our eyes: the cumulative impact of human activity since the Industrial Revolution is “unequivocally” causing rapid and potentially catastrophic changes to the climate. The future that environmental scientists foresaw with alarm, when the IPCC produced its first report three decades ago, has arrived.
Continue reading...Czech utility EPH to shut down majority of coal assets by end decade
Carbon accounting tricks will no longer cut it – the IPCC report shows our future depends on urgent climate action | Adam Moreton
The Morrison government’s ‘technology, not taxes’ mantra ignores the fact that taxes pay for technology, and affordable technology can make a difference
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How many wake-up calls on the climate does Australia need?
It is an unanswerable question, of course – we’ve been here too many times before to pretend otherwise – but everyone should read the summary of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, regardless. Using careful scientific language, it tells the story of what is happening across the planet with a bracing clarity that is at once familiar and alarming.
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