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Apple co-founder, CO2 market entrepreneur partner to launch $1 bln energy efficiency blockchain firm
California industrial allowance allocations shrink to begin post-2020 period
California emitters chop carbon holdings, speculators build after Q4 auction
A change in the weather: new demand for TV presenters to include climate in forecasts
The ABC’s Graham Creed says new climate change research could ‘fill a big gap’ in public understanding
Graham Creed has spent 30 years with his head in synoptic charts, and for the past 20 he’s been on television letting Australians know if it’s going to be hot, cold, wet or dry.
But for the past two years, usually at the end of months with heatwaves and extreme temperatures, Creed has been adding extra information to his weather segments.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on Amazonian cave art: a story about the environment, too | Editorial
Astonishing rock paintings discovered in Colombia hold a lesson for today’s rainforest
In the past week, remarkable images of ancient cave art have hit the headlines: rock paintings made in South America around 12,000 years ago. The art, created on rock faces in the Serranía de la Lindosa, on the northern edge of the Colombian Amazon, is a riot of ochre-coloured geometrical pattern, handprints, and images of animals and humans. Until recent excavations, the works of art had been unknown to the international community. Their exuberant creativity will soon be revealed to a broad audience in the UK thanks to the Channel 4 series Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon.
The people who made these works of art were, it is believed, among the earliest humans to occupy the region, after migrations across what is now the Bering Strait some 25,000 years ago. Preliminary study of the iconography of the art has led scholars to speculate that among the deer, tapirs, alligators, bats, serpents, turtles and porcupines, long-extinct megafauna are also represented: mastodons, American ice-age horses, giant sloths, camelids.
Continue reading...The week in wildlife – in pictures
The pick of this week’s best flora and fauna images, including a festive robin and a moth trap
California’s cap-and-trade programme needs supply adjustment to drive CO2 reductions, IEMAC says
Manager (Energy), Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote, Europe-based
Senior Analyst/Manager, Climate Policy Initiative — Washington DC/San Francisco
Senior Land Use and Forests Officer, Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote
RGGI Q4 auction clears above secondary market and near all-time high
EU Market: EUAs launch to new 2.5-month high above €30, with peak prices in sight
Czech expert group recommends 2038 coal phaseout
Police move in after Herefordshire river bulldozed and straightened
Witness describes damage to mile-long stretch of Lugg as egregious act of ‘ecological vandalism’
Police and environment agency staff have moved in to stop further damage being done to a protected river, after what one witness described as one of the most egregious acts of ecological vandalism in 25 years.
A mile-long stretch of the River Lugg outside Kingsland, near Leominster in Herefordshire, has been flattened by a bulldozer. Trees have been felled, the river straightened and the river bed damaged.
Continue reading...Rocks from an asteroid set for delivery to Earth
CN Markets: Pilot market data for week ending Dec. 4, 2020
Guangdong, Fujian release 2020 ETS allocation plans, raising questions about national market overlap
Australia Market Roundup: Regulator terminates ERF contracts, ACCU issuances rebound
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists
Global soils are the source of all life on land but their future looks “bleak” without action to halt degradation, according to the authors of a UN report.
A quarter of all the animal species on Earth live beneath our feet and provide the nutrients for all food. Soils also store as much carbon as all plants above ground and are therefore critical in tackling the climate emergency. But there also are major gaps in knowledge, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) report, which is the first on the global state of biodiversity in soils.
Continue reading...What's the point of lab-grown meat when we can simply eat more vegetables? | Jenny Kleeman
The corporate race for cultured protein rests on a view of human beings as greedy and incapable of change
The stuff of science fiction has landed on our plates. Meat grown in a lab, instead of inside the body of an animal, has been approved for sale for the first time. The Singapore Food Agency has given regulatory approval to Eat Just’s “chicken bites”, grown from the cells of a chicken that’s still flapping its wings. The US startup took a biopsy of cells from a live chicken, bathed them in a nutrient medium and grew them in a bioreactor, where they grew exponentially until the meat was harvested, encased in batter and turned into nuggets. The ruling means that, for the first time, cultured meat can be sold to the public.
Eat Just, Inc – and the dozens of other cultured meat startups racing each other to get lab-grown meat on to the menu across the globe – are selling the promise that carnivores will be able to eat meat with a clean conscience. Flesh without the blood, meat without murder and the beginning of the end of the environmental damage caused by intensive animal agriculture. The news was met with a sigh of relief from meat eaters across the world, and with good reason: it will allow us to carry on as before, eating what we like while clever technology sidesteps the problems caused by our appetites.
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