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CP Daily: Tuesday July 27, 2021
More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the world's climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news
Electric car charging prices 'must be fair' say MPs
Great Solar Business Podcast: The secrets to scaling up your solar business
Karl Brown from Instyle Solar on the myriad of challenges to overcome.
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Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds
Carbon emissions, ocean acidification, Amazon clearing all hurtling toward new records
A new study tracking the planet’s vital signs has found that many of the key indicators of the global climate crisis are getting worse and either approaching, or exceeding, key tipping points as the earth heats up.
Overall, the study found some 16 out of 31 tracked planetary vital signs, including greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat content and ice mass, set worrying new records.
Continue reading...Scientists demand urgent action after Covid-19 did little to slow climate emergency
Scientists call for three-pronged action on emissions after new research finds Covid-19 did little to slow climate emergency.
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EU power sector emissions lag post-pandemic electricity demand recovery -report
UK’s “inconsistent, regressive” carbon pricing system needs reform to reach 2050 net zero -think-tank
Octogenarian Oxford grad returned to jail for not repaying profits from forest carbon investment fraud
Artificial refuges are a popular stopgap for habitat destruction, but the science isn't up to scratch
Aggressive marketing has driven the rise of the double-cab ute on New Zealand streets — time to hit the brakes?
EU selects first carbon-cutting projects under Innovation Fund
RFS Market: RINs lift to month high on import flows
UK government backs scheme for motorway cables to power lorries
E-highway study given £2m to draw up plans for overhead electric cables on motorway near Scunthorpe
The government will fund the design of a scheme to install overhead electric cables to power electric lorries on a motorway near Scunthorpe, as part of a series of studies on how to decarbonise road freight.
The electric road system – or e-highway – study, backed with £2m of funding, will draw up plans to install overhead cables on a 20km (12.4 miles) stretch of the M180 near Scunthorpe, in Lincolnshire. If the designs are accepted and building work is funded the trucks could be on the road by 2024.
Continue reading...Don’t blame men for the climate crisis – we should point the finger at corporations
Male spending – on petrol and meat – is apparently worse for the environment than women’s. But it’s the system, not individuals, that needs to change
Sorry, boys, but it’s all your fault. Melting ice caps, flash floods, rising sea levels: men are to blame for the lot of it. Please don’t drown the messenger, I’m just relaying the results of a Swedish study that found that men’s spending habits cause 16% more climate-heating emissions than women’s. The biggest difference seems to be that men spend more money on petrol. Another big difference: the men surveyed bought more meat than women. So this is the way the world ends, eh? Not with a bang, but with blokes eating too many burgers.
I don’t know how many studies published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology go viral, but this paper has had an enormous amount of traction. Of course, this is largely because its findings leant themselves to delicious clickbait such as Men Are Worse for Climate Change Than Women Because They Love Meat and Cars. To be fair, the study didn’t lean into gender war territory in the way you would expect based on the headlines it generated. Gender wasn’t even mentioned in the paper’s title, which was “Shifting expenditure on food, holidays, and furnishings could lower greenhouse gas emissions by almost 40%”.
Continue reading...Kostis, beloved local monk seal, found slain in waters near Alonnisos, Greece
Conservationists demand killer is found after creature harpooned from close range
An orphaned monk seal known as Kostis, who had become a local celebrity in Greece after being rescued by fishers three years ago, has been found harpooned from close range, prompting outrage from conservationists and demands to find his killer.
MOm, the Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, a not-for-profit group that works to protect the endangered species, said Kostis had been deliberately killed in the waters near Alonnisos, in the northern Sporades islands.
Continue reading...California gasoline consumption continues steadily rise toward pre-pandemic levels in April
China’s non-fossil power capacity to exceed coal for the first time -report
The floods show London is now on the frontline of the climate emergency | Sadiq Khan
From strengthening flood defences to creating low-traffic neighbourhoods, our city is taking bold action
- Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London
Too often, we in the UK have thought of countries such as India and Bangladesh as being on the frontlines of the climate crisis. But the serious flooding in London over the weekend and in the last month – coupled with the extreme weather we’ve seen in other parts of the UK over recent years – shows the realities of climate change are no longer a distant problem, but one that is increasingly reaching our own doorsteps.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen homes, businesses and tube stations inundated with floodwater in our city. And while it’s been inspiring to see communities pull together, and local authorities and emergency services reacting quickly to support those in need, the truth is that freak weather events – like the ones we’ve been experiencing here in London and around the world – should be a wake-up call, spurring us all to take much more ambitious climate action.
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