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US DOE announces $29 mln to fund 12 CCUS projects
Chile, World Bank launch carbon pricing programme, will support ETS
Argentina tackles voluntary carbon market law, ETS plans ongoing
Canada commits C$10 mln to CDR services by 2030
UPDATE – Washington’s APCR auction of 2024 sells one-third of permits at 41% premium despite looming programme repeal
Rebates for buying e-bikes and e-scooters are good but unlikely to greatly boost sustainable transport on their own
LATAM Airlines supporting carbon, biodiversity projects while in search of SAF -panel
CFEL2024: UK hopes to kickstart removals by bringing them into ETS
Verra, market stakeholders to launch Chilean carbon group
CFEL24: No need to panic about end of EU ETS allowances in 2039, says Commission
Green hydrogen costs may far exceed estimates once storage, distribution are factored in -report
CFEL24: Delayed industrial hedging defers EU carbon price hike, traders say
CFEL24: Analysts forecast 50-cent rise in fuel prices due to EU ETS2
Mama bear beats rival who killed her cub to win Fat Bear Week
Denmark joins call to impose ‘solidarity levies’ on biggest polluting sectors
Climate tech firm launches spin-off for carbon capture and fertiliser production
Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturing | Bill McKibben
Climate disasters risk pulling society apart. To survive we need solidarity – and only one ticket in the US election offers that
Even as the good people of Florida’s west coast pulled the soggy mattresses from Helene out to the curb, Milton appeared on the horizon this week – a double blast of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico that’s a reminder that physics takes no time off, not even in the weeks before a crucial election. My sense is that those storms will help turn the voting on 5 November into a climate election of sorts, even if – as is likely – neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump spend much time in the next 25 days talking about CO2 or solar power.
That’s because these storms show not only the power of global heating (Helene’s record rains, and Milton’s almost unprecedented intensification, were reminders of what it means to have extremely hot ocean temperatures). More, they show what we’re going to need to survive the now inevitable train of such disasters. Which is solidarity. Which is something only one ticket offers.
Continue reading...English water system singled out for criticism by UN special rapporteur
Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo says regulator Ofwat ‘complacent’ about water firms putting their shareholders before public
The privatised English water system has been singled out for criticism by the UN special rapporteur on the human right to clean water.
Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo said water systems should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.
Continue reading...Global tax on aviation, shipping could raise $200 bln annually by 2035 -IMF
Andrew Forrest says net zero is ‘fantasy’ so his goal is ‘real zero’. What does he mean – and can he achieve it? | Temperature Check
The mining tycoon says his iron ore business will stop using fossil fuels by the end of the decade without carbon offsets or carbon capture and storage
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About $45 trillion of global business revenue is covered by corporate “net zero emissions” pledges but iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest thinks the whole net zero thing is “fantasy”.
“Now is the time to walk away from net zero 2050, that hasn’t been anything really but a con to maintain fossil fuels,” Forrest said last week.
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