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‘The worst electric vehicle policy in the world’: automotive coalition pans Victoria’s EV tax
Proposed tax will kill the state’s nascent EV market and make it impossible to meet its own emissions targets, critics say
A coalition of car manufacturers, industry groups, infrastructure companies and environmentalists have branded the Victorian government’s proposed electric vehicle tax the “worst electric vehicle policy in the world”.
In an open letter, published as a full-page advertisement in the Age newspaper on Thursday, the group of 25 organisations lashed the state government’s policy.
Continue reading...Carbon Credit Scientist, BeZero – London
Lyrid meteor shower: Skywatchers set for sunrise or sunset view on Thursday
Director, Carbon Markets, Pollination – London
Brussels delays decision to award EU ‘green’ label to gas, nuclear
EU Midday Market Brief
101 Nobel laureates call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Dalai Lama among those to sign letter to world leaders calling for rapid shift to renewable energy
A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to help tackle the climate crisis.
In an open letter to world leaders published on Wednesday former presidents, scientists, novelists and religious leaders are urging governments to commit to a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels, and a “transformational plan” to ensure everyone around the world has access to renewable energy.
Continue reading...New EU target to cut carbon emissions by at least 55% disappoints experts
Policy is not sufficiently ambitious and out of line with Paris agreement, say environment groups
A new EU target of a 55% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 has been described as a “farce” by environmental groups after it was agreed in Brussels on the eve of Joe Biden’s climate summit for world leaders.
After 14 hours of intensive negotiations, representatives of the EU’s member states and parliament emerged on Wednesday morning to announce a deal in principle on cuts and the establishment of a new independent body of scientists to monitor the policy.
Continue reading...Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death
Climate change: EU to cut CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030
Lower UK air pollution limits to prevent deaths, says coroner
Report following 2013 death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, calls for Britain to follow WHO recommendations
Legally binding maximum levels of particulate air pollution should be lowered in the UK to be in line with World Health Organization limits, a coroner has said.
UK levels for two particularly harmful kinds of pollution are currently twice as high as the WHO recommends.
Continue reading...Crises collide as climate emergency pushes America’s homeless population to the brink
As homelessness rises, climate-related disasters make matters worse. But Covid relief measures and Biden’s infrastructure proposal are providing cause for cautious optimism
Terri Domer knows well what a brewing storm looks like.
Domer, 62, an Iowa native, has spent her life watching thunderstorms gather and tornadoes dash across rolling hills. Last August, when the midday sky darkened over the riverside homeless encampment where Domer and four other people spent most nights – built on a sandy bank near downtown, under tall trees – she quickly set about covering up their supplies.
Continue reading...Australia announces CCS, hydrogen funding ahead of climate summit
SK Market: KAUs claw back lost ground as new demand enters market
Morrison dodges net zero, throws cash at blue hydrogen and CCS instead
The $540 million plan will fund carbon capture and storage technology and methods for making 'clean' hydrogen out of gas or coal.
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Australian airports are ideal hosts for large-scale solar installations, researchers say
Researchers measure the significant untapped potential of Australian airports as ideal hosts for large-scale solar.
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Tiger Pro 54p, JinkoSolar’s Brand New Product to Lead Distribution Market
At present, the distribution market PV demand is increasing year by year. According to IHS, the CAGR for distribution market of PV modules in 2020-2024 will reach 9.81%.
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Why is the Science Museum still being contaminated by Shell’s dirty money? | George Monbiot
It is extraordinary that the museum is receiving funding from a fossil fuel giant for an exhibition on, of all things, the climate
Taking money from fossil fuel companies today is like taking money from tobacco firms in the 1990s. The damage public institutions inflict on themselves by receiving this sponsorship exceeds any benefits. Just as their hands were once stained with nicotine, now they are stained with oil. The tobacco experience suggests that it can take many years to expunge these damn’d spots and restore their reputations.
This is the position in which the Science Museum now finds itself. It appears to have learned nothing from the reputational harm it caused itself by accepting money from the oil companies BP and Equinor. Last week it revealed that Shell was funding – wait for it – its new exhibition on climate breakdown.
Continue reading...Oceanex eyes massive 10GW of offshore and floating wind farms in Australia
Oceanex Energy hopes to develop more than 9GW of offshore and floating wind farms in Australia, and another 3GW in New Zealand.
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