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Energy giant Statkraft to trial “revolutionary” flow battery made with saltwater
Statkraft strikes partnership with Dutch company Aquabattery to develop a pilot test of its innovative saltwater-based flow battery designed to improve long-term storage.
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Insurance firm expands its nature-based commitment by investing in Alberta’s forest restoration project
ANALYSIS: EU shake-up to ETS free allocation only a partial effort to speed industrial decarbonisation
Carbon pricing widened environmental justice gap in Canadian province -study
Stunning leap in rooftop solar PV smashes renewable records across the grid
Rooftop solar output leaps by nearly a gigawatt to help establish new output records for renewables and reshape the grid.
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A great year to be a cabbage white butterfly: why are there so many and how can you protect your crops?
Trafalgar Square Christmas tree must cut its carbon footprint, says Oslo mayor
Anne Lindboe to look at travel plans of Norway’s annual gift to UK but insists tradition will not stop
It is a long-cherished Christmas tradition: a tree sent to London every December from Norway to thank Britain for its support during the second world war.
But felling a decades-old 20-metre (66ft) spruce in the woodlands near Oslo and transporting it by road and sea to Britain to light up Trafalgar Square, only for it to be turned into woodchip a month later, could hardly be described as environmentally friendly.
Continue reading...Lufthansa dives into DAC credits by joining Airbus carbon removal scheme
UNESCO to forward sell biodiversity credits from world heritage site next month
UK advertising watchdog discovers airlines’ bogus green claims with artificial intelligence
$700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed
Money offered so far falls far short of estimated $400bn in losses developing countries face each year
Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the loss and damage fund – the equivalent of less than 0.2% of the irreversible economic and non-economic losses developing countries are facing from global heating every year.
In a historic move, the loss and damage fund was agreed at the opening plenary of the first day the Cop28 summit in Dubai – a hard-won victory by developing countries that they hoped would signal a commitment by the developed, polluting nations to finally provide financial support for some of the destruction already under way.
Continue reading...COP28: Denmark calls on EU to go for 90% emissions cut by 2040
Mary Robinson reiterates call for rapid phase-out of fossil fuels
Former Ireland leader issues firm response in row over comments made to her by Cop28 president
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, has called for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, in a diplomatic but firm response to the row over comments made to her by the Cop28 president, which were revealed by the Guardian this week.
In a live online event, Sultan Al Jaber had told Robinson there was “no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C”, a view strongly rejected by many scientists. As well as running the Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai, Al Jaber is the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc.
Continue reading...COP28: Singapore progresses ICC agreements on sidelines of climate talks
COP28: SBTN to launch targets for nature in cities in 2025
COP28: French developer secures nature-based projects in the Philippines, Nigeria
Japanese developer secures partnership for credit generating project in Vietnam
Alberta TIER market credit prices retreat to eight-month low in November
After Cop28, know this: Sunak and his rightwing allies around the world have no interest in saving our planet | Diyora Shadijanova
When Tories row back on previous climate pledges, they are merely marching in lockstep with extreme parties across Europe
Not only did Rishi Sunak spend more time travelling to Cop28 on his private jet than attending the conference itself, he also delivered a speech at the Dubai summit doubling down on the decision to abandon crucial climate policies on heat pumps and energy efficiency, as revealed in his September announcement. All this while using the diminishing strength of the UK’s green credentials as a shield. These actions lay bare the troubling path the Conservatives have chosen ahead of the next general election. But across western states, abandoning long-held climate commitments is becoming the norm for rightwing parties.
In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ Freedom party has secured the most votes in the country’s recent general election and wants to undo the green transition. In New Zealand, the National party has formed a coalition with the populist NZ First party and ACT, a rightwing party that wants to repeal the Zero Carbon Act. In Germany, the AfD, the far-right party that is second in national opinion polls, has previously called for an end to all climate action efforts. In Canada, polls show that the Conservatives, who voted not to recognise the climate crisis as real two years ago, would win the upcoming 2025 election if it were held today.
Diyora Shadijanova is a journalist and writer
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