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Spring heatwave smashes seven-year old demand record in W.A.’s main grid
Spring heatwave sends demand soaring in WA, smashing seven year old record in the world's biggest standalone grid that is accelerating its switch away from fossil fuels.
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Fire ants – ‘one of world’s worst super pests’ – cross Queensland border into NSW
Biosecurity officers are working to chemically eradicate three nests found in South Murwillumbah
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Authorities are rushing to contain the spread of fire ants after the invasive species crossed the Queensland border into New South Wales for the first time since the infestation began in 2001.
The NSW Department of Primary Industries confirmed on Saturday that three red imported fire ant nests had been found in South Murwillumbah, 13km from the Queensland border in the state’s north-east.
Continue reading...Cop28: Australia to bring evidence it can meet 2030 climate target but pressure builds over fossil fuels
Chris Bowen says country ‘reaping the economic opportunities’ of clean energy as emissions projection improves
The Albanese government will head to a major UN climate summit in Dubai furnishing new evidence that Australia is all but on track to meet its 2030 emissions target, but facing calls that it must do more to limit the country’s fossil fuel exports.
A snapshot of an upcoming emissions projections report released by the climate change minister, Chris Bowen, suggests Australia will likely cut its CO2 pollution to 42% below 2005 levels by 2030 – nearly in line with the government’s 43% reduction target.
Continue reading...Frequent flyers are rewarded for polluting. Let them pay the full price | Martha Gill
Is net zero a “luxury belief”? A strange assumption seems to have become knitted into the climate debate: that the burden of cutting carbon emissions will – must, inevitably – fall hardest on the poor.
This is the logic by which climate activists are sometimes deemed snobby, classist virtue-signallers – and the principle on which, earlier this year, Rishi Sunak signalled a tactical retreat on green policies. “It cannot be right for Westminster to impose such significant costs on working people,” the prime minister said. Because, of course, this is the group such policies would hurt the most.
Continue reading...Maybe shipworms will be the next calamari, but all the same, I’ll pass | Kathryn Bromwich
A team of scientists at Plymouth University is hoping to set up the world’s first shipworm farm. The marine pests, which they have renamed “naked clams”, are nutritious, high in vitamin B12, and require only wood and water to grow.
It’s wonderful news. We desperately need sustainable sources of protein: meat is responsible for nearly 60% of greenhouse gases from food production, while industrial fish farming has huge environmental costs.
Continue reading...Your chocolate bar - my family's struggle
WCI Markets: CCAs volumes surge, WCA prices continue ascent ahead of holiday weekend
CP Daily: Friday November 24, 2023
Second physical EU carbon ETC launches in Europe
Critics cry foul as Verra unfreezes credit issuance from African soil carbon project
World stands on frontline of disaster at Cop28, says UN climate chief
Exclusive: Simon Stiell says leaders must ‘stop dawdling’ and act before crucial summit in Dubai
World leaders must “stop dawdling and start doing” on carbon emission cuts, as rapidly rising temperatures this year have put everyone on the frontline of disaster, the UN’s top climate official has warned.
No country could think itself immune from catastrophe, said Simon Stiell, who will oversee the crucial Cop28 climate summit that begins next week. Scores of world leaders will arrive in Dubai for tense talks on how to tackle the crisis.
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Experts mull impact of potential forest carbon split under Article 6
The Guardian view on the carbon divide: climate policies must target the private jet set | Editorial
Noticing massive historical and geographical disparities in carbon emissions is not enough. Big polluters must be stopped
From luxury yachts to private jets and supercars, the enormously destructive travel and leisure habits of the super-rich are to the fore in the latest research on the carbon gap that divides the world’s wealthiest people from everyone else. Calculations by Oxfam, the Stockholm Environment Institute and others reveal that the richest 1% produced as much carbon pollution in one year as the 5 billion people who make up the poorest two-thirds of humanity. Though they number just 2,600, the combined wealth of the world’s billionaires is greater than the GDP of all but two countries – the US and China. The impact on the environment of their carbon‑intensive behaviour is colossal.
But as this week’s Guardian series, the great carbon divide, has shown, outsized emissions are not only the work of this minority of the ultra-wealthy. Nor are they confined to the far larger number of individuals with a net worth of at least $1m, combined with energy‑intensive lifestyles, who social scientist Dario Kenner calls the “polluter elite”. In fact, half of all emissions are produced by the top 10% – that is, the much bigger group of about 800 million people who earn at least $40,000. While in their own countries these people are regarded as middle income or middle class, their consumption and emissions far outstrip those of 90% of the world’s inhabitants.
Continue reading...EU and Canada launch Green Alliance with carbon markets in mind
EU should spend 4% of annual GDP to meet 2040 emissions goals, avoid heavy climate costs, says report
Paraguay ARR carbon project to sequester 30 mln tonnes, generate biofuel from reforestation of cattle lands
Tanzania urges region to unite against foreign carbon companies, Guyana to call for inclusion of forests in Article 6 -media
EU to publish plan to help power grids handle the coming influx of renewables
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg received death threats for his work. He kept fighting anyway – video
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg’s pioneering research in the 1990s found increasing sea temperatures would damage the world’s coral reefs, killing them faster than they could recover. Hoegh-Guldberg speaks with Guardian Australia about being labelled an alarmist while championing one of the world’s richest ecosystems.
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This video is part of Weight of the World: a climate scientist's burden. The series features three pioneering Australian climate change scientists - Graeme Pearman, Lesley Hughes and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. The series tells the story of how the three scientists made their discoveries, how they came under attack for their science and the personal toll it has taken on them. And importantly, how they stay hopeful.
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Chris Bowen’s bold and sudden movement on climate sent the Coalition clutching at its pearls
The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks
A lot of the time, politics feels incremental. But every now and again, a big thing happens suddenly. Chris Bowen made it clear this week the government intends to transform the fundamentals of Australia’s energy grid. Labor has been saying this for ages of course, but this week, words were matched by a concrete plan of action.
Bowen unveiled a radical expansion of a capacity scheme intended to reshape the national electricity market. Coal is coming out, renewables moving in and taxpayers will underwrite the transformation. This is the biggest strategic shift Australians have seen in this policy area for a decade or more.
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