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Japanese, French firms target Malaysia for CCS supply chains
GEF Council approves record spending on environment, begins talks on biodiversity fund
European Parliament committee rejects revised nature bill, moves to full assembly
‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears
Small island countries press for guarantees as rising sea levels risk leaving their citizens stateless
Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.
The Pacific Islands Forum, which represents many of the most vulnerable countries, has invited international legal experts to consider this question and begun a diplomatic campaign to ensure that political statehood continues even after a nation’s physical fabric is submerged.
Continue reading...Singapore’s exchange, monetary authority to collaborate with Bloomberg-backed climate data project
Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis
Latest ‘heat dome’ event over Texas and Louisiana, plus much of Mexico, driven by human-cause climate change, scientists find
The record heatwave roiling parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico was made at least five times more likely due to human-caused climate change, scientists have found, marking the latest in a series of recent extreme “heat dome” events that have scorched various parts of the world.
A stubborn ridge of high pressure has settled over Mexico and a broad swath of the southern US over the past three weeks, pushing the heat index, a combination of temperature and humidity, to above 48C (120F) in some places.
Continue reading...More institutional support needed for green hydrogen development in China -WEF
Australia proposes staged approach to climate-related disclosures in new consultation
ANALYSIS: Limited evidence of ‘greenhushing’ in voluntary carbon market following scandals
South Pole becomes latest to launch a climate contribution label
Climate change: World way off target to end deforestation
Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge
An area of primary rainforest the size of Switzerland was felled last year suggesting world leaders’ commitment to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 is failing
An area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s most pristine rainforests in 2022, despite promises by world leaders to halt their destruction, new figures show.
From the Bolivian Amazon to Ghana, the equivalent of 11 football pitches of primary rainforest were destroyed every minute last year as the planet’s most carbon-dense and biodiverse ecosystems were cleared for cattle ranching, agriculture and mining, with Indigenous forest communities forced from their land by extractive industries in some countries.
Continue reading...Tropical forests shrank 10% globally in 2022, last year of Bolsonaro’s Brazil presidency
Utility to pay $30m for breaking wholesale bidding rules and abuse of market power
Government owned utility agrees to pay $30 million after being found to have inflated costs of gas generation and breaking bidding rules.
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Energy industry loses plot again as greed trumps strategy and regulator fails consumers
Price rises imposed on electricity consumers are reaching absurd levels. The energy industry appears to have lost the plot in its latest lunge for short term profits.
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Artificial intelligence tech gets gong for stopping wind turbines hitting birds
A software system using artificial intelligence to prevent birds from colliding with wind turbines has won an award for its technology.
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Goldfields town to mine rooftop solar as community battery gets green light
Powercor will use federal grant funding to build its first regional grid-side community battery, in a town where 37% of households have solar.
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Australia Market Roundup: CSIRO launches soil database, more HIR projects credited
It’s official: California must clip peak demand as it wrestles with solar duck
California's grid demonstrates that the need for clipping peak demand while absorbing the mid-day glut of renewables has never been more pressing.
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