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Methane emissions from coal mines may be double estimates -report
Emitters and financials shed net holdings across CCAs and RGAs, as WCAs remain short
Why we need a fossil fuel non proliferation treaty
The Australian government has mastered the contradictory dance of committing to net zero while also approving new coal, oil and gas projects. It has to stop.
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Works begin on energy precinct combining agrivoltaics, battery storage and hydrogen
Graphite Energy breaks ground on a $29 million renewable energy and storage precinct in New South Wales, designed to power sustainable agriculture.
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Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure
Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted, but precious few will reach construction stage and likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible.
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Driving a greener future: how your electric car could help power your neighbourhood
Why we need to fight for the “community” in community batteries
Community batteries are everyone’s favourite whipping boy at the moment, but a trial at Narrabri shows that its the parameters that need to change, not the technology.
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RGGI Market: RGAs drop below Cost Containment Reserve trigger levels on rolling positions
Carbon crediting firm and sustainability certifier partner to increase agri-food supply chain transparency
PREVIEW – COP28: The big ticket topics to follow in Dubai
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand
Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.
Little was known about theoil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.
Continue reading...Number of cross-border CCUS projects given special status by EU doubles in 2023 selection, says EU energy chief
VCM Report: Carbon credit trade picks up as prices proliferate
Xpansiv seeks input on trade in ICVCM-aligned carbon credits
Sea urchin in Sicily at risk of extinction due to popularity as culinary delicacy
Three-year pause in fishing is the only way to prevent disappearance, researchers say
It is one of Sicily’s most popular dishes: spaghetti ai ricci di mare, or sea urchin spaghetti. Prepared with a simple base of oil and garlic, plates of the stuff are demolished every summer, particularly by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who descend on the island every year.
But sea urchins’ status as a culinary delicacy is leading to their gradual disappearance from local waters, and last week researchers said the Sicilian sea urchin, which resides on the sea floor and feeds primarily on algae, could soon become extinct if urgent conservation policies were not implemented.
Continue reading...Cop28 host UAE planned to promote oil deals during climate talks
Leaked briefing documents for meetings with governments contained ‘asks’ from state oil firm
The host of the UN Cop28 summit, the United Arab Emirates, planned to use climate meetings with other countries to promote deals for its national oil and gas companies, according to leaked documents.
Cop28 begins on Thursday and will be run by Sultan Al Jaber, who is the chief executive of the national oil company Adnoc as well as the UAE’s climate envoy. This dual role has been criticised as a conflict of interest, and climate summit veterans said the new revelations undermined trust in Al Jaber’s presidency of Cop28, potentially threatening a successful outcome.
Continue reading...A nautilus: a mass extinction event survivor in a spiral shell which reflects galaxies | Helen Sullivan
How does a species survive hundreds of millions of years unfazed? You must live in a shell – and it must grow with you, chamber by chamber
Where to start with the nautilus: at the centre of the spiral or its culmination? It is a cephalopod in a shell, a spiral no wider than the length of a ruler, ending in 70 tentacle-like wavy bits. Its eye works slowly, like a pinhole camera. It swims like a bellows. It can live for two decades, and its eggs take a year to hatch. The tentacle-like bits are called cirri, and they are very good at touch and smell.
One scientist describes it like this: “Right now everything’s in bloom, and, you know, you can smell the azaleas. But can you imagine if you could also say, ‘That azalea bush has 3,002 blossoms on it’.” (Their favourite things to touch and smell are not flowers but anything rotting).
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