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Green groups issue strong rebuke to Pennsylvanian GOP opposition to RGGI
Low Carbon Transportation Engineer, California Air Resources Board – Sacramento
Humans ‘pushing Earth close to tipping point’, say most in G20
Global survey finds 74% also want climate crises and protecting nature prioritised over jobs and profit
Three-quarters of people in the world’s wealthiest nations believe humanity is pushing the planet towards a dangerous tipping point and support a shift of priorities away from economic profit, according to a global survey.
The Ipsos Mori survey for the Global Commons Alliance (GCA) also found a majority (58%) were very concerned or extremely concerned about the state of the planet.
Continue reading...There's no end to the damage humans can wreak on the climate. This is how bad it's likely to get
Bezos sues Nasa over its deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX
VCM Report: CORSIA-eligible credits surpass $5 as futures volume doubles
The Guardian view on spiders: season of the web | Editorial
Many people have mixed feelings about arachnids, but like many more popular animals they need our help
Much less visible for most of the year, spiders make their presence felt in late August and through the early autumn. This is the mating season of some of the most common varieties, when male house spiders come out of hidden corners to look for females, and garden spiders reach adult size and spin their biggest, most dazzling webs.
Yet while the spider is familiar, the star of one of the great children’s books, Charlotte’s Web, and a fixture of nursery rhymes and Halloween decor, its relationship with humans is complicated. Fear of spiders, arachnophobia, is common and has serious impacts on the lives of sufferers. Its prevalence appears unrelated to any rational assessment of risk. Spiders in the UK are almost all harmless. Farmland species perform valuable ecosystem services, by predating on insects that are our competitors for crops. But they have proved durable repositories of human anxieties – with a cultural association with witches and wickedness dating back to the middle ages.
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Climate Finance and Land Use Consultant, Climate Focus – Bogota
An end to Australia’s iron ore export boom is just what the economy doesn’t need | Greg Jericho
With service industries and foreign tourism decimated, the potential fall in ore prices and demand shows just how much the country relies on mining exports
It seems not all that long ago all the talk was about how gloriously the economy was going and how the Covid recession was in the past. But now the two states encompassing 55% of the nation’s economy are in lockdown and the second half of this year looks to be tough for the economy – especially as our iron ore exports might be about to take a hit.
One of weird things about the pandemic is that our major exports of iron ore and coal have seen an absolute prices boom:
Continue reading...‘Paralysis by analysis’: financial sector focused on climate data instead of action, report says
Analysis finds focus on stress tests and modelling impact of most extreme scenarios leaves sector blind to real risks
The financial world is making the same mistakes regarding climate change as it did with the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, a new report warns.
Degrees of Risk – co-authored by Ian Dunlop, a former head of the Australian Coal Association – found that while regulators and the financial sector had begun to grapple with the risks posed by the climate crisis, they were not moving fast enough.
Instead, they were relying on modelling scenarios of 3C and 4C of global heating without properly factoring in how catastrophic they would be.
Continue reading...German CO2 emissions to rebound strongly this year, risking domestic targets -report
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Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way | David Sirota and Julia Rock
As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding
Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be most insulated from the worst effects. Unfortunately, it seems that US population flows are going in the wrong direction – new census data shows a nation moving out of the safer areas and into some of the most dangerous places of all.
To quote Planes, Trains and Automobiles: we’re going the wrong way.
Continue reading...Southern Water sewage is destroying protected harbour, say activists
Campaigners say Chichester harbour at risk of environmental ruin from dumping of raw sewage
Discharges of raw sewage by Southern Water into a protected natural harbour risk causing an environmental catastrophe, say campaigners.
Chichester harbour in West Sussex is one of the most highly protected marine environments in the country. But the latest analysis from Natural England shows that 80% of the protected waters are in an unfavourable or declining condition.
Continue reading...Steel giant snubs gas on road to net zero, focus on renewables and green hydrogen
Bluescope sets net zero target and says renewables and green hydrogen the key, not gas.
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China’s thermal power output rises 12.7% in July, though emissions growth tipped to slow in H2
Bendy, lightweight organic solar cells could be fast-tracked by new research
A breakthrough in the development of organic solar cells could deliver a much-needed boost in efficiency and get them further along the road to commercialisation.
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Study finds blue hydrogen worse for climate than burning coal or gas
Blue hydrogen is often touted as a low-carbon fuel, but new report by Cornell and Stanford researchers shows it is likely much worse for the climate.
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Australia storage start-up applies for li-ion battery recycling patents
Energy storage hopeful files two patent applications for battery recycling processes, saying products could no longer go to landfill.
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