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EU extends state aid flexibility for another six months
Brazilian state signs $3 million agricultural carbon credit agreement with major bank
VCM Report: Carbon credit demand boosted as oil major returns to the market
Björk turns up the volume in attack on industrial salmon farming in open pens
Icelandic singer condemns ‘terrible suffering’ of salmon farming with proceeds from her new single with Rosalía going to activists
The Icelandic singer Björk has condemned industrial salmon farming in open pens as “extraordinarily cruel”, as she announced her debut song with the Catalan singer Rosalía, which will be available on Tuesday 21 November.
The pair will donate the proceeds of the single, a love song based on a recently recovered recording Björk made two decades ago, to activists opposing the controversial industry in Iceland.
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First auction for 2023 Swiss carbon permits sells out
EU’s Von der Leyen confirms second green hydrogen auction on eve of the first
Restaurants, pets and holidays: how UK’s well-off have outsize carbon footprints
Data shows baby boomers have highest emissions and London has lower footprint than rest of UK
• The great carbon divide: charting a climate chasm
Restaurants, pets and foreign holidays are among the reasons why the UK’s most well-off people rack up carbon footprints far greater than those on low incomes, according to data shared with the Guardian.
The biggest carbon divide is in aviation, with the richest 10% in the UK – the 6.7 million people paid more than £59,000 a year – causing more than six times more climate-heating emissions from flights than the poorest 10%. Spending on electrical items, homeware and furniture also contributes to the outsize impact of the wealthy, who splash out four times more on these goods.
Continue reading...Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes
Carbon emissions of richest 10% is up to 40 times bigger than poorest, and ignoring divide may make ending climate crisis impossible, experts say
The richest 10% of people in many countries cause up to 40 times more climate-heating carbon emissions than the poorest 10% of their fellow citizens, according to data obtained by the Guardian.
Failing to account for this huge divide when making policies to cut emissions can cause a backlash over the affordability of climate action, experts say.
Continue reading...Italian startup raises €1.75 mln in pre-seed funding towards DAC tech
Senior Carbon Markets Analyst, Energy Aspects – New York (Hybrid)
Top 1% richest emit equivalent to poorest two-thirds of global population -NGO
'Frustrating as hell': Graeme Pearman’s climate research should have warned the world - video
In the 1970s, Graeme Pearman measured rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, briefing three prime ministers on what that meant for the planet. After decades leading Australia’s climate research, Pearman, now 82, speaks of the frustration that the science didn't lead to meaningful change.
This video is part of Weight of the World: a climate scientist's burden. The series features three pioneering Australian climate change scientists - Graeme Pearman, Lesley Hughes and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. Pearman was measuring CO2 in the atmosphere as long ago as 1971. Hughes is one of the first ecologists to warn that rising temperatures would push many species towards extinction. Hoegh-Guldberg’s research revealed the risk that global heating would have on the ocean’s richest ecosystems - coral reefs.
The series tells the story of how the three scientists made their discoveries, how they came under attack for their science and the personal toll it has taken on them. And importantly, how they stay hopeful.
Continue reading...World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28
‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN boss says after temperature records obliterated in 2023
The world is on track for a “hellish” 3C of global heating, the UN has warned before the crucial Cop28 climate summit that begins next week in the United Arab Emirates.
The report found that today’s carbon-cutting policies are so inadequate that 3C of heating would be reached this century.
Continue reading...Countries must increase ambition or face global warming of up to 2.9C, says UN report
UK net zero cluster to build and test new direct air capture pilot
We smashed the windows of a major bank. A jury acquitted us. This is why | Gully Bujak
I think people everywhere, even on juries, have had enough of our leaders’ failure to tackle the climate crisis
In 2021, I was arrested with eight other women for breaking the windows at HSBC’s headquarters in London. On Thursday, after just two hours of deliberation, a jury of our peers found all nine of us not guilty of nearly half a million pounds in criminal damage.
Although the three-week trial was the most gruelling experience of my life, I trusted the jury to acquit us for two reasons. First, I believe the human spirit is basically good and cooperative, and when given the chance we will make decisions that are compassionate and fair.
Gully Bujak worked with Extinction Rebellion for several years and is now a community organiser in Hull
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