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CP Daily: Thursday May 27, 2021
Drones and live-streams: How tech is changing conservation
Woodside and Perdeman may build 100MW solar farm in W.A. north
Woodside may build 50MW solar farm to help power LNG facility, and could double in size if ammonia producer Perdeman also signs up for solar.
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Australia is ready for a change on climate – which party will take the first step?
A new poll finds that Australians are ready to take serious climate action - including banning new coal mines across Australia.
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NA Markets: CCA prices rise before Q2 auction results, RGGI dips on thin volume
The idea of 'green growth' is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy
Seabirds are today's canaries in the coal mine – and they're sending us an urgent message
WCI current vintage auction hits all-time high as speculators procure their largest share
Euro Markets: EUAs lose further ground amid falling energy, pause in investor inflows
EU capitals give green light to financing pandemic recovery fund with carbon revenues
Switzerland to sign next Paris-era carbon offset deal with Senegal -official
A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’ | Helen Sullivan
The mate is not discouraged. Instead, a ‘separate mini-brain in his tail kicks in and actually speeds up his performance’
When the female praying mantis is mating, she does not bite the head off the male with one swift snip: she chomps into it, like an apple. It appears to have the texture of a honeydew melon.
Her mate has tried to avoid this destiny. The male European mantis “uses his feelers to calm her down”, the BBC narrates. But it is already too late. Although chemicals in his brain have told him to stay away from her, the chemicals in his abdomen were more potent. Once he is decapitated, a “separate mini-brain in his tail kicks in and actually speeds up his performance,” says the BBC. The female, meanwhile, cleans her face “like a cat”, writes Annie Dillard in Pilgrim and Tinker Creek. After watching the video I wished I had been decapitated.
Continue reading...New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery
LCFS Market: California prices bubble up to two-month high
Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report
Nature’s financial value must be considered to avoid ‘irreversible’ degradation to biodiversity and land
The world needs to quadruple its annual investment in nature if the climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises are to be tackled by the middle of the century, according to a new UN report.
Investing just 0.1% of global GDP every year in restorative agriculture, forests, pollution management and protected areas to close a $4.1tn (£2.9tn) financial gap by 2050 could avoid the breakdown of natural ecosystem “services” such as clean water, food and flood protection, the report said.
Continue reading...Stripe to pay up to $2,050/t in second round of CO2 removal purchases
‘Cataclysmic day’ for oil companies sparks climate hope
Court and investor defeats over carbon emissions a historic turning point, say campaigners and lawyers
A “cataclysmic day” for three major oil companies in which investors rebelled over climate fears and a court ordered fossil fuel emissions to be slashed has sparked hope among campaigners, investors, lawyers and academics who said the historic decisions marked a turning point in efforts to tackle the climate crisis.
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered Shell to cut carbon emissions from its oil and gas by 45% by 2030. A tiny activist investor group simultaneously won two places on ExxonMobil’s board and Chevron’s management was defeated when investors voted in favour of forcing the group to cut its carbon emissions.
Continue reading...Four-day working week would slash UK carbon footprint, report says
Study finds change would shrink emissions by 127m tonnes, helping country meet climate targets
The introduction of a four-day working week with no loss of pay would dramatically reduce the UK’s carbon footprint and help the country meet its binding climate targets, according to a report.
The study found that moving to a four-day week by 2025 would shrink the UK’s emissions by 127m tonnes, a reduction of more than 20% and equivalent to taking the country’s entire private car fleet off the road.
Continue reading...China’s Fujian province hands out 1.7 mln forest carbon credits
Rapid heating of Indian Ocean worsening cyclones, say scientists
Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate crisis are increasing number of cyclones and intensity of storms, say experts
India’s cyclone season is being made more intense by the rapidly heating Indian Ocean, scientists have warned.
Last week, India was battered by Cyclone Tauktae, an unusually strong cyclone in the Arabian Sea, resulting in widespread disruption. This week, another severe storm, Cyclone Yaas, formed in the Bay of Bengal, leading to more than a million people being evacuated into safe shelters.
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