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China likely to miss 2021 steel reduction target, adding 158 MtCO2e -report
“South Koreans don’t want Australia’s dirty gas:” Call for finance ban on Santos “CO2 factory”
Climate activists call on South Korean government to end financial support of “Australia’s dirtiest offshore gas mine,” the Barossa project near Darwin.
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UK government updates social “carbon values,” setting central figure at £245/tonne
Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters
Australia sets new records for highest renewables share and lowest coal output
Australia's clean energy transition continues apace with new records being set for renewables and the lowest output for coal generators.
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NA Markets: CCAs rise week-on-week during volatile post-auction stretch, RGGI rises ahead of Q3 sale
The Great Australian Dream? New homes in planned estates may not be built to withstand heatwaves
Climate-above-all plea by US fails to stir China
UK’s top climate adviser says criticism of net zero goal is ‘defeatist’
Chris Stark urges Treasury to speed up pace of decarbonisation strategy ahead of Cop26 summit
The UK’s top climate adviser has pushed back strongly against “defeatist” criticism that the country’s net zero target is expensive, and urged the Treasury to pick up the currently “incremental” pace of decarbonisation.
Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), urged the debate over net zero to be framed in a more positive light: “It can be done,” he said. “It is worth it … I hope we can move away from thinking about the cost and see it as a mission to modernise the economy.”
Continue reading...Climate crisis likely creating extreme winter weather events, says report
Arctic change increased chances of tightly spinning winds above North Pole, authors say, boosting chances of extreme weather
The climate crisis has not only been leaving deadly heatwaves and more destructive hurricanes in its wake, but also probably creating extreme winter weather events, according to a new report released on Thursday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science.
Related: ‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protesters break bail terms for City protest
Environmental demonstrators disobey orders to stay away from London financial district
Dozens of Extinction Rebellion activists have carried out a mass act of non-violent civil disobedience by breaking bail conditions ordering them to stay away from the City of London financial district.
The activists joined with hundreds of supporters in a low-key rally outside the Bank of England on Thursday afternoon, listening to speeches from a mobile sound system.
Continue reading...An elephant seal: the nose does something no nose should do | Helen Sullivan
It shudders
The writer Jenny Diski is on her way to Antarctica. At Grytviken, an abandoned whaling station on South Georgia, she spots a “grey, jellied mountain”.
“Elephant seal is one of those euphemistic names humans give creatures who remind them of what they don’t want to be reminded of,” she writes. But her fellow travellers want to be reminded: they take pictures. Maybe the elephant seal will get a spot on someone’s wall. It will be the first time in history that a person has chosen to decorate using that face.
Continue reading...GOP-led Pennsylvania House committee passes resolution disapproving of RGGI regulation
At least 18 people killed in US north-east amid sudden heavy rains and flooding
Deaths and damage spanned huge areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut and Maryland
At least 18 people have been killed in New York and the wider US north-east as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought unexpected levels of heavy rain and flooding.
The deaths and damage spanned huge areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland. Officials blamed many of the fatalities on basement apartments becoming filled with water.
Continue reading...Carbon Pulse bolsters best-in-class reporting team with two more expert hires
Two new trading firms open accounts in RGGI carbon market
Desertification is turning the Earth barren – but a solution is still within reach | David R Montgomery
The expansion of drylands is leaving entire countries facing famine. It’s time to change the way we think about agriculture
- David R Montgomery is professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington, and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations and Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
This summer’s record-setting heatwaves and dramatic fires in southern Europe and the American west were stark reminders that the climate crisis has arrived. But as the world warms, there is also a quieter, lesser-known crisis unfolding underfoot. Desertification, long seen primarily as a threat to developing nations, is coming for Europe and North America too, as worsening droughts bake soils already degraded by conventional farming and grazing practices.
In Spain, for example, about a fifth of all land is now at high risk of desertification, as is much of the agricultural land across Italy, Greece, and western North America.
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
*Carbon Project Development Technician (Gold Standard/Verra/Other), Nexus for Development – Phnom Penh
Train ploughs through massive wind turbine blade in Texas
How does a train come to plough through a wind turbine blade on a lazy Sunday in Texas? Watch and see.
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