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Floods and environmental flows a boon for south-east Australia’s waterbirds, survey shows
But populations are in long-term decline and El Niño is drying out wetland habitats
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Widespread floods and environmental flows have been a boon for waterbirds, with annual surveys in eastern Australia recording more than half a million birds.
But researchers say long-term declines in populations persist and the effects of El Niño and drying across eastern Australia are showing, with the total area of surveyed wetland habitat decreasing over the past year.
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Quarter of world’s freshwater fish at risk of extinction, according to assessment
Global heating, pollution, overfishing and falling water levels among factors hitting populations, finds IUCN red list study
Nearly a quarter of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of extinction due to global heating, overfishing and pollution, according to an expert assessment.
From the large-toothed Lake Turkana robber in Kenya to the Mekong giant catfish in south-east Asia, many of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of disappearing, the first International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list assessment of the category has found.
Continue reading...European countries issue joint recommendations to support voluntary carbon buyer-side integrity
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COP28: INTERVIEW – All eyes on Canada’s oil and gas sector under forthcoming cap-and-trade scheme
‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them | Chris Armstrong
Roman Abramovich’s yachts are said to emit more carbon than many small countries. This is unsustainable, and wrong
The rich gazed at their superyachts, and decided they were not enough. The new breed of megayachts, which are at least 70 metres (230ft) in length, may be the most expensive moveable assets ever created.
Roman Abramovich’s custom-designed Eclipse is estimated to be worth upwards of $800m. When he tires of its swimming pool, submarine and armoured plating, he can use one of its helipads to fly to the $475m Solaris, which he also owns. On the way he might, perhaps, glimpse the $600m Azzam, commissioned by the former president of the United Arab Emirates.
Chris Armstrong is a professor of political theory at the University of Southampton in the UK and the author of A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean and the forthcoming Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis: Conservation in a World of Inequality
Continue reading...Chris Packham calls for halt to ‘catastrophic’ expansion of Scottish salmon farms
Broadcaster and RSPCA president says moratorium needed as mortality rates jump, while activists question charity’s role in certifying farms
Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham has called for a halt to the expansion of the Scottish salmon farming industry, as official figures suggest salmon mortality in the country’s farms hit record levels this year.
Packham, the president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), described the growing industry as “catastrophic” for fish welfare and Scotland’s environment.
Continue reading...COP28: Rich nations’ fossil fuel phaseout language weak and hypocritical, say NGOs
Taiwan govt-backed carbon exchange to list international credits by year-end
Greenleaf wins approval 166MW wind farm and battery project in Queensland
Greenleaf Renewables wins federal government approval for one of three wind projects it is seeking to build in Queensland.
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Cop28 live: ‘time to be ambitious’ says president as summit enters final days
The climate summit is heading into the final part of the negotations. We’ll be following events here all day
Simon Stiell, head of the UN climate change body in charge of Cop, has called out “tactical blockades” and “strategic landmines” as the talks enter their final phase. “We do not have a moment to lose in this crucial home stretch.”
Speaking to journalists on Monday morning, including my colleague Fiona Harvey, Stiell said the remaining areas for negotiation had “narrowed significantly” to leave just two issues. The first is how high the ambition to mitigate climate change is. The second is how willing countries are to back the transition with the support it needs.
Continue reading...NSW approves big solar farm and battery near New England town of Armidale
The NSW Independent Planning Commission says it has provided conditional approval on a large solar and battery project near Armidale, in the heart of the New England renewable energy zone, and despite objections from some members of the local community. The Oxley solar farm will comprise a 215 MW solar facility, along with a 50 […]
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COP28: Singapore adds two more nations to stable of Article 6 partners
Weather tracker: temperatures hit 43.5C in Australia as 2023 on track to be hottest year
Heat in Australia is 15C above December average and comes as Cop28 nears end
Parts of south-east Australia have been experiencing extreme heat over recent days. Temperatures hit 43.5C at Sydney airport on Saturday. This was the highest temperature recorded at this station since records began in 1929, and is about 15C above the December average. Authorities have issued several bushfire warnings and banned fires across many parts of New South Wales.
Temperatures will ease early this week across south and south-east Australia, but will intensify across northern, western and central parts as the week progresses. Here, temperatures could rise widely into the 40Cs by the weekend.
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Carbon exchange secures partnership for new marketplace in Brazil
Fossil fuel phase-out will ‘not avert climate breakdown without protections for nature’
Top climate scientist says carbon sinks such as forests and wetlands vital to keeping temperature rise below 1.5C
Human destruction of nature is pushing the planet to a point of no return, and even a phase-out of fossil fuels will not stave off climate breakdown unless we also protect the natural world, one of the world’s top climate scientists has warned.
Johan Rockström, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told the Guardian: “Even if we phase out all fossil fuels, if we do not get involved in nature, [the destruction of natural landscapes and habitats] can make us lose what we all have agreed on the safe future for humanity on Earth – that is, to stay within the 1.5C limit. It’s really decisive, that we get it right on nature.”
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SwitchedOn Podcast: A ‘renovation wave’ could be the least costly pathway for our energy transition
Australia's leaky homes could become 'climate ready' using thermal upgrades and electrification, and enable us to avoid building an oversized energy grid.
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