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Alberta TIER market credit prices inch up in January amidst oversupply
EU-funded research to model green industrial transition
Chevron, ExxonMobil report drop in income as output increases
California’s full year power emissions in 2023 end at decade lows
Stop looking for loopholes, UN warns, after Saudi hints end of fossil fuels ‘just one option’
UN climate chief says ‘torrents, not trickles’ of public and private finance needed to meet global challenge
Governments must not try to pick loopholes in the global agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels reached last December, the UN’s climate chief has said, as he called for “torrents” of cash for poorer countries to tackle the crisis.
Some countries have sought to play down the significance of the deal reached at the Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai, the first time that governments have made such a pledge on oil and gas.
Continue reading...If women’s football cares about the climate crisis it must cut ties with Barclays | Katie Rood
As a professional footballer I see the climate crisis killing my sport and believe we have a duty to act accordingly
When I play football I feel free from the worries of day-to-day life. But as a young person living in a climate and environmental crisis, these worries have become increasingly hard to ignore. This has been made even harder by the fact that the climate crisis is killing my sport, and one of the companies most responsible is plastering its name all over football in England to distract from what it is doing.
As a professional footballer, I’ve had the privilege of representing my country, New Zealand, 15 times. From being a champion of Italy with Juventus to playing most recently for Hearts in the Scottish Women’s Premier League, I have been lucky enough to experience football in a variety of settings. The goal was always to use football as a means to experience the world, but it turns out the world I’ve been experiencing isn’t what I thought it would be.
Continue reading...Delays in cleaning up EU air will cause thousands more early deaths, say health experts
Respiratory scientists say inaction will ‘widen inequality gap’ between eastern and western Europe
Proposed delays to EU air pollution limits will mean hundreds of thousands more people dying early and will “widen the inequality gap” between eastern and western Europe, a group of public health experts have said, as EU negotiators thrash out key rules to clean up the air.
The World Health Organization has set guidelines for how many tiny particles and how much toxic gas can dirty the air, but stressed that no level of pollution is safe to breathe. Doctors writing in the International Journal of Public Health want the limits met by the end of the decade, but the European parliament wants to wait till 2035, the European Commission wants to set weaker limits for 2030 without setting a date to align with the WHO, and the European Council wants to let poorer countries wait till 2040.
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In a world built by plutocrats, the powerful are protected while vengeful laws silence their critics | George Monbiot
In the UK and around the world, those who challenge rich corporations are being hounded and crushed with ever-more inventive penalties
Why are peaceful protesters treated like terrorists, while actual terrorists (especially on the far right, and especially in the US) often remain unmolested by the law? Why, in the UK, can you now potentially receive a longer sentence for “public nuisance” – non-violent civil disobedience – than for rape or manslaughter? Why are ordinary criminals being released early to make space in overcrowded prisons, only for the space to be refilled with political prisoners: people trying peacefully to defend the habitable planet?
There’s a simple explanation. It was clearly expressed by a former analyst at the US Department of Homeland Security. “You don’t have a bunch of companies coming forward saying: ‘I wish you’d do something about these rightwing extremists.’” The disproportionate policing of environmental protest, the new offences and extreme sentences, the campaigns of extrajudicial persecution by governments around the world are not, as politicians constantly assure us, designed to protect society. They’re a response to corporate lobbying.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: EU CBAM to clean up corporate supply chain, promote insetting
CBL reinstates eligibility of Kasigau REDD carbon credits for N-GEO spot standard
‘Edible meadow’ for improved gut health to feature at Chelsea flower show
Flowers used in the ‘microbiome garden’ can enhance gut health by being eaten or just walked past
An “edible meadow” designed to improve gut health is to be displayed at the Chelsea flower show this year.
The two gardeners behind the “microbiome garden” say it will be filled with flowers that can enhance gut health by being eaten or just walked past.
Continue reading...Governments spend US$22 billion a year helping the fishing industry empty our oceans. This injustice must end
CN Markets: CEA volumes bounce back, but CCER trade remains slow
Brazilian business coalition partners with impact data provider to support TNFD disclosures
Taiwan revamps domestic offset methodologies, streamlines process for energy efficient projects
The week in wildlife – in pictures: a mossy sloth, poison frogs and a newborn shark
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...Greater glider put on path to extinction by NSW environmental watchdog, experts say
Ecologists condemn watchdog decision, accusing it of making reckless changes to allow easier logging of state forests containing glider habitat
NSW’s environmental watchdog has put the endangered greater glider on a fast track to extinction by watering down logging protections, experts say.
Ecologists from WWF-Australia and Wilderness Australia have condemned the watchdog, accusing it of making reckless changes so Forestry Corporation can more easily log state forests.
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