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Why we need to fight for the “community” in community batteries
Community batteries are everyone’s favourite whipping boy at the moment, but a trial at Narrabri shows that its the parameters that need to change, not the technology.
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RGGI Market: RGAs drop below Cost Containment Reserve trigger levels on rolling positions
Carbon crediting firm and sustainability certifier partner to increase agri-food supply chain transparency
PREVIEW – COP28: The big ticket topics to follow in Dubai
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand
Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.
Little was known about theoil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.
Continue reading...Number of cross-border CCUS projects given special status by EU doubles in 2023 selection, says EU energy chief
VCM Report: Carbon credit trade picks up as prices proliferate
Xpansiv seeks input on trade in ICVCM-aligned carbon credits
Sea urchin in Sicily at risk of extinction due to popularity as culinary delicacy
Three-year pause in fishing is the only way to prevent disappearance, researchers say
It is one of Sicily’s most popular dishes: spaghetti ai ricci di mare, or sea urchin spaghetti. Prepared with a simple base of oil and garlic, plates of the stuff are demolished every summer, particularly by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who descend on the island every year.
But sea urchins’ status as a culinary delicacy is leading to their gradual disappearance from local waters, and last week researchers said the Sicilian sea urchin, which resides on the sea floor and feeds primarily on algae, could soon become extinct if urgent conservation policies were not implemented.
Continue reading...Cop28 host UAE planned to promote oil deals during climate talks
Leaked briefing documents for meetings with governments contained ‘asks’ from state oil firm
The host of the UN Cop28 summit, the United Arab Emirates, planned to use climate meetings with other countries to promote deals for its national oil and gas companies, according to leaked documents.
Cop28 begins on Thursday and will be run by Sultan Al Jaber, who is the chief executive of the national oil company Adnoc as well as the UAE’s climate envoy. This dual role has been criticised as a conflict of interest, and climate summit veterans said the new revelations undermined trust in Al Jaber’s presidency of Cop28, potentially threatening a successful outcome.
Continue reading...A nautilus: a mass extinction event survivor in a spiral shell which reflects galaxies | Helen Sullivan
How does a species survive hundreds of millions of years unfazed? You must live in a shell – and it must grow with you, chamber by chamber
Where to start with the nautilus: at the centre of the spiral or its culmination? It is a cephalopod in a shell, a spiral no wider than the length of a ruler, ending in 70 tentacle-like wavy bits. Its eye works slowly, like a pinhole camera. It swims like a bellows. It can live for two decades, and its eggs take a year to hatch. The tentacle-like bits are called cirri, and they are very good at touch and smell.
One scientist describes it like this: “Right now everything’s in bloom, and, you know, you can smell the azaleas. But can you imagine if you could also say, ‘That azalea bush has 3,002 blossoms on it’.” (Their favourite things to touch and smell are not flowers but anything rotting).
Continue reading...Verra unveils new REDD methodology that aims to increase collaboration with national governments
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Groups call on Australia to set up A$5-bln fund to buy and protect biodiversity-rich land
France to spend €1 bln in 2024 on biodiversity as part of new strategy
US oil and gas production set to break record in 2023 despite UN climate goals
United States projected to extract 12.9m barrels of crude oil as countries at Cop28 to push for agreed fossil fuels ‘phaseout’
The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is certain to be the hottest ever recorded, providing a daunting backdrop to crucial United Nations climate talks that hold the hope of an agreement to end the era of fossil fuels.
The US’s status as the world’s leading oil and gas behemoth has only strengthened this year, even amid warnings from Joe Biden himself over the unfolding climate crisis, with the latest federal government forecast showing a record 12.9m barrels of crude oil, more than double what was produced a decade ago, will be extracted in 2023.
Continue reading...Japan exchange introduces market makers for domestic carbon market
Does the way we talk about the climate crisis numb people with fear, rather than energising them? | Roger Harrabin
Phrases such as ‘green economy’ turn voters off, it seems – and Labour has already reframed its language
- Roger Harrabin is a former BBC climate correspondent
As Cop28 approaches, the Swiss solar aviator and environmentalist Bertrand Piccard says he will be given a platform at the conference to argue that we need to rethink the words we use to discuss climate change. He says many climate terms can numb people with fear instead of inspiring them into action, and proposes new language that will reframe our situation as an opportunity, rather than a crisis.
Take the key phrase “green economy”: Piccard says this motivates environmentalists but repels those who discern an assault on their lifestyle or a rise in their bills. Why not, he says, rechristen it the “clean economy”, because no one likes “dirty”. Likewise “clean energy” instead of “green energy”. He has come up with an entire list of terms in common use that he believes need a rebrand.
Roger Harrabin is a fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and a former BBC correspondent
Continue reading...Australian investment manager to spend $20 billion on UK clean energy projects
Investment manager owned by Australian super funds says it will spend $20 billion in the UK by 2027 on renewables and renewable infrastructure.
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