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Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
US Supreme Court ruling limits EPA but doesn’t quash it completely, say lawyers
Price cap could return on Tuesday as coal and gas drive prices higher again
Price cap likely to return to Queensland on Tuesday as market operator seeks emergency reserves in country's most coal dependent state.
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Sun Cable names financial advisors for world’s biggest solar and battery project
Sun Cable names financial advisors to raise more than $30 billion for what will be the world's biggest solar and battery project, and the first of many.
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Washington state carbon market prices to be substantially lower under linking -analysis
Switzerland schedules aviation permit auction for September
Deputy Director, UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Delivery and Operations, BEIS – Birmingham/Cardiff/Darlington/Edinburgh/London/Salford
Campaigners in tropical forested nations take aim at illegal logging
Kenya strikes deal with AirCarbon to set up carbon exchange
Ukraine seeks green rebuild even as Russia’s war rages on
Winston Churchill’s ‘magnificently idiotic’ platypus quest – and more strange stories of Australian animals abroad
The colonisation of Australia coincided with a boom in European interest in exotic animals – so kangaroos, dingoes, wombats and more were shipped off, regardless of practicalities
In early 1943, the second world war raged across multiple theatres. Hitler’s army had just suffered a historic defeat at Stalingrad, but U-boats still prowled the Atlantic and Britain’s resources were stretched to the limit. So it must have come as a surprise to Australian prime minister, John Curtin, when a telegram arrived from Winston Churchill requesting six platypuses be sent to Britain forthwith, in a scheme conservationist Gerald Durrell described as “magnificently idiotic”.
Historians have tried to place this episode in a broader context of empire and international geopolitics, but it seems Churchill just really wanted a platypus. He had collected exotic animals throughout his life, including black swans, a white kangaroo, a budgie named Toby who attended ministerial meetings, and a lion named Rota, which he sensibly kept at London Zoo.
Continue reading...Vitol, Nigerian sovereign wealth fund unveil carbon project joint venture
EU lawmaker resolve against taxonomy may fall short -sources
Spain’s BBVA joins bankers’ carbon credit transaction platform
VCM Report: Nature credits extend multi-week slump amid lack of support
Netherlands to expand energy-curb orders to EU ETS-covered firms from 2023
Spain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years, research shows
Effects of human-caused global heating are blocking vital winter rains, with severe implications for farming and tourism
Spain and Portugal are suffering their driest climate for at least 1,200 years, according to research, with severe implications for both food production and tourism.
Most rain on the Iberian peninsula falls in winter as wet, low-pressure systems blow in from the Atlantic. But a high-pressure system off the coast, called the Azores high, can block the wet weather fronts.
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I’m sure robots are very nice, but I don’t want them picking my fruit | Nell Frizzell
The more we automate our farms, the less we understand about our food. Let’s not get too hands-off
After one of my regular 4.30am starts last week, I caught a snippet of a feature on Farming Today about fruit-picking robots. Hearing about the multi-billion-pound mechanical arms and 3D sensors of this new machine, I was filled with something like sadness. Not just because of what this says about our self-inflicted workforce shortage (sigh) due to political foot-shooting and the undervaluing of manual work. But because fruit picking could be so different.
I once spent an interesting few nights in New Zealand, sharing a motel with about 50 apple-pickers from Vanuatu, Samoa and beyond. We listened to reggae, washed our pants in the sink and smoked cigarettes as they told me about thinning out baby apples, and picking pineapples and peaches. It was a hard life, absolutely no doubt. A dawn start in a cramped rented room, sleeping under polyester floral eiderdowns with nothing but a kettle and a juddering shower, before being driven to different farms is not easy work. And, of course, these setups are rife with corruption and exploitation and modern slavery. But are robots our only alternative?
Nell Frizzell is the author of The Panic Years and Square One (published 7 July)
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