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‘Is it too late?’: a retrospective on Australia’s climate crisis by Stephen Dupont – in pictures
As the northern hemisphere is inundated with natural disasters, photographer Stephen Dupont looks back on Australia’s own changing climate.
Stephen Dupont is currently premiering his new exhibition, Are We Dead Yet? at the aMBUSH Gallery, Kambri in Canberra until the 19th of September.
Continue reading...July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm
Global land and ocean surface temperature last month was 0.9C hotter than 20th-century average, beating July 2016 record
July was the world’s hottest month ever recorded, US government scientists have confirmed, a further indication of the unfolding climate crisis that is now affecting almost every part of the planet.
Related: Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report
Continue reading...TC Energy, Irving Oil to consider emissions reduction projects in Atlantic Canada
Are you in denial? Because it’s not just anti-vaxxers and climate sceptics | Jonathan Freedland
To accept the facts about climate science without changing the way we live is also to deny reality
It’s easy to laugh at the anti-vaccine movement, and this week they made it easier still. Hundreds of protesters tried to storm Television Centre in west London, apparently unaware that they were not at the headquarters of the BBC or its news operation – which they blame for brainwashing the British public – but at a building vacated by the corporation eight years ago and which now consists of luxury flats and daytime TV studios. If only they’d done their own research.
Anti-vax firebreather Piers Corbyn was there, of course, unabashed by the recent undercover sting that showed him happy to take £10,000 in cash from what he thought was an AstraZeneca shareholder, while agreeing that he would exempt their product from his rhetorical fire. (Corbyn has since said that the published video is misleading.) “We’ve got to take over these bastards,” he said during this week’s protest, while inside Loose Women were discussing the menopause.
Continue reading...US environmental trader to lead carbon team at investment fund
US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending August 13, 2021
China tames rapid emissions growth, but mixed signals for ETS sectors -analyst
Euro Markets: Midday Update
Australian developer sees five ERF projects revoked by regulator
The IPCC’s latest climate report is dire. But it also included some prospects for hope | Rebecca Solnit
The striking thing is not the bad news, which is not really news for those who have followed the science closely. It’s the report’s insights on possibilities for cautious optimism
The first response many of us have to a cancer diagnosis is terror, horror and the conviction that we’re doomed. For those who haven’t been paying serious ongoing attention to climate chaos, reminders that we are facing catastrophe can bring the same kind of response. But if you’ve been through cancer or been close to people who have, you know that the usual next phase is figuring out what the treatment options are and, in most cases, going all out for them. The good news is going to be that you got approved for a promising new treatment, are responding well, you are in remission, feel healthier, have a good prognosis. That there are things worth doing that make a difference.
Climate change is a nightmare, and this summer’s floods, fires and extreme heat, from China to Siberia to British Columbia, are reminders that the problem is rapidly growing worse. Yet the striking thing about the IPCC report released earlier this month is not the bad news, which is not really news at all for those who have followed the science closely. It’s the clarity about possibilities, which I found hopeful.
Continue reading...Treasury blocking green policies key to UK net zero target
Experts say chancellor refusing to commit spending needed to shift economy to low-carbon footing
The Treasury is blocking green policies essential to put the UK on track to net zero emissions, imperilling the UK’s own targets and the success of vital UN climate talks, experts have told the Guardian.
A string of policies, from home insulation to new infrastructure spending, have been scrapped, watered down or delayed. Rows about short term costs have dominated over longer term warnings that putting off green spending now will lead to much higher costs in future.
Continue reading...‘It’s outrageous’: Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up
Hundreds of spills off Gulf of Paria having ‘dire’ impact on local fishing in one of the most biodiverse areas of Trinidad and Tobago
Hands masked in thick black oil, the fisher drips toxic globules back into the sea as he pleads with the camera, urging viewers to “share this video”.
In the footage, filmed onboard a small boat, Gary Aboud documents an oil spill this week in the Gulf of Paria, off the Caribbean coast of Trinidad. It is just the latest of many spills that threaten to wreak havoc on the area’s vulnerable marine life and fishing industry.
Continue reading...CN Markets: CEAs stable, but activity in China’s ETS grinds to a halt as registry issue lingers
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including rescued storks, wandering elephants and a whiting inside a jellyfish
Continue reading...New CEOs appointed at New Energy Solar and Windlab
More leadership changes at Australia's clean energy companies, with new CEO appointed for both New Energy Solar and Windlab.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Will IPCC overcome Morrison’s prosperity doctrine?
IPCC report falls on deaf ears in Canberra, as AGL scrambles to adapt. We talk to IPCC contributor Martina Linnenluecke.
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Gas mining hurts our land and water, and it’s communities who are paying the price | David Pocock
Traditional owners and farmers are fighting for their land while their own government bankrolls the companies mining it
For many of us, the mention of “the Kimberley” or “the outback” conjures up images of iconic, ancient Australian landscapes. Red soil, endless plains, rugged ranges and spectacular gorges. It is also home to the world’s oldest living cultures. An ancient landscape inhabited for over 50,000 years, maybe closer to 100,000. That long living in a landscape, having a relationship with a place, is almost impossible to comprehend for an immigrant like myself. It’s no surprise that First Nations people are leading the battle to protect their land; to protect this incredible continent of beauty and wonder we are lucky enough to call home.
New gas projects threaten vast tracts of country and communities across Australia – from Western Australia’s stunning Kimberley to the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo and New South Wales’s Pilliga forest. A recent analysis revealed a single fracking company cleared so much native vegetation for geological seismic testing in the Kimberley that, if it was assembled in a straight line, it would be a road that stretched from Perth to London. Last week, traditional owners from the heart of the Northern Territory were in tears during a Senate inquiry into the Morrison government’s use of taxpayer funds to prop up the economically questionable forays of the fracking industry into the Beetaloo.
Continue reading...Wind and solar projects take “material hit” from ESB and Morrison
New investment in large scale wind and solar projects has come to a virtual halt in Australia, thanks to the ESB and unhelpful interventions from the federal government.
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Video: Living with a Livewire in lockdown
Nigel Morris has an extended test drive with Harley-Davidson’s first electric motorcycle.
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