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More consumption, more demand for resources, more waste: why urban mining’s time has come
Australian shipping tech developer to design CO2 tanks for bulk marine transport
Brazil miner teams with European hydrogen company for green steel manufacturing
Current voluntary carbon credit pricing ‘misleading’, says BP exec
Portugal publishes voluntary carbon market regulations
Peru’s national carbon registry looks to launch by COP29 -official
US blockchain-based carbon platform announces Mexican franchise
Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis
Proponents say using hallucinogens can spark ‘consciousness shifts’ to inspire climate-friendly behaviors
Thousands gathered for New York City’s annual Climate Week last week to promote climate solutions, from the phaseout of fossil-fuel subsidies to nuclear energy to corporate-led schemes like carbon credits. Others touted a more offbeat potential salve to the crisis: psychedelics.
Under the banner of Psychedelic Climate Week, a group of academics, marketers and advocates gathered for a film on pairing magic mushrooms with music, a discussion on funding ketamine-assisted therapy and a panel on “Balancing Investing & Impact with Climate & Psychedelic Capital”.
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LEAK: EU climate ministers want more countries to contribute to global climate finance goal
Food industry has highest biodiversity impacts in study of 2,300 companies
BRIEFING: CORSIA ‘climate club’ seen as answer to voluntary carbon market demand problem
Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing | Grogonomics
The emissions impact is obvious but with full employment in construction, approving three mine extensions is saying you want workers there rather than building homes
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When the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, approved three new coalmine expansions last week, she not only failed abjectly to act on climate change, but by diverting scarce workers from constructing homes to expanding fossil-fuel projects, she also made it harder for the government to improve housing affordability through its aim of building 1.2m new homes in five years.
Last week Plibersek posted photos of her releasing a cute little bilby into a wild training zone. Oddly there was no such cute photo, nor mention on her list of “some of the things I’m most proud of”, of her approving those three coalmine expansions, which will generate about 1.3bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over their lifetime.
Continue reading...Cuddles and drama as live stream shows secret life of ‘ridiculously fluffy’ greater glider
Camera installed inside a tree hollow in NSW forest to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered possum
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Conservationists call them “ridiculously cute” and “captivating” – and now a live stream offers a global audience the chance to view life inside the hollow for a family of eastern Australia’s largest gliding possums.
The hollow-cam broadcasting live from a tree in south-east NSW offered unlimited greater glider viewing for animal lovers and reality TV tragics.
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