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Boy, 9, from Derbyshire, wins gull screeching competition

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 21:16

Cooper Wallace wore a costume and lunged at some chips in his act at the impersonation contest in Belgium

A nine-year-old boy from Derbyshire has screeched his way to victory at the European championships of a gull impersonation competition.

Cooper Wallace, a gull enthusiast from Chesterfield, competed in the fourth European gull screeching championship in Belgium on Sunday.

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‘I felt this was an abuse of power’: Trudi Warner’s climate fight with the UK government

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 21:13

Trudi Warner on a year being pursued by government lawyers determined to prosecute her over a jurors’ rights protest

Two days before Trudi Warner faced court under threat of a contempt of court prosecution, she fell off her bike and ruptured the tendons in her hand.

Now the hand is black and blue, tightly bandaged, and requires surgery. It is an indication that 69-year-old Warner, who spent her working life as a child social worker and has committed her retirement to climate action, is not as tough and unflappable as her demeanour suggests.

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UN special rapporteur calls for moratorium on voluntary carbon markets to stop human rights violations

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 21:12
The UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous People has called for a moratorium on voluntary carbon markets to stop human rights violations.
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160 financial institutions call for investment in ending plastic pollution

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 21:07
Some 160 financial institutions, with $15.5 trillion in collective assets under management, have called for an ambitious international treaty to end plastic pollution, in a statement led by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
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Asia warming faster than global average, says WMO’s State of the Climate report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:41
Asia is warming faster than the global average, with warming trends in the region nearly doubling since the 1961–1990 period and the impact of heatwaves becoming more severe, said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s report on Tuesday.
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Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:37
Nasa says its most distant probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth.
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Banks partner to deliver credits for home retrofit in the UK

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:29
A credit management platform developed by banks has partnered with a UK project developer to deliver carbon credits that support home retrofit at scale, in a drive to decarbonise the UK's carbon-intensive housing stock.
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China on track to reach dual carbon targets, though coal phaseout not expected by 2040 -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:11
China is on track to reach its carbon peaking and neutrality targets, though the country may only see its coal consumption fall by one-third by 2040, a report has found.
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West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:07
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ice. This could happen again – unless we cut emissions fast. Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Holly Kyeore Han, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Natural capital fund launches with eyes on Article 6 market

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 20:01
A Singapore-based environmental venture and a global natural capital firm have partnered to launch a new fund tied to Article 6 deals with governments, the two announced Tuesday.
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World must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talks

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 19:34

Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK is hopeful impasse can be overcome at treaty negotiations in Ottawa

As UN talks begin to agree the first global treaty to reduce soaring plastic waste, the chair of the meetings has said he is confident countries will come together to secure an agreement.

Luis Vayas Valdivieso, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK, admitted it would be a challenge to overcome an impasse that has emerged between countries which produce plastic and others that have ambitions to tackle plastic pollution over its whole life. But Valdivieso, who will chair the UN intergovernmental negotiations on a future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada, this week, said: “We have to face those challenges and work with them. Compromise is an important word that we need to take into account.

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Sunak’s weakening of climate targets ‘retrograde’, says former Tory minister

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 19:29

Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’

The UK government’s decision to weaken some of its climate commitments was a “retrograde step” that will set back vital cross-party action to cut carbon emissions, Claire O’Neill, a former Conservative climate minister, has said.

O’Neill, who was known as Claire Perry when she served as a minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, said the rolling back of emission reduction efforts by Rishi Sunak appeared to be a ploy for political advantage.

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Academics warn of “paradox” of combining climate, industrial policies driven by populism

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 19:00
Industrial policy combined with climate goals can help to advance climate action, but it can also lead to protectionism and barriers that hinder clean technology progress, wrote climate and energy academics in a paper on Tuesday.
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Australia environmental offset audit an ‘important exercise’, webinar hears, though govt refuses to release full findings

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 17:54
The Australian government learned important lessons from its environmental offset audit process, officials told a webinar last week, but is refusing to publicly release the full report on its findings.
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Indian carbon credits not just for domestic use, will be allowed to be traded internationally -official

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 17:48
India will allow foreign buyers to purchase carbon credits generated in the country, the administrator of the national market told a webinar this week, seeking to clarify the government's policy after market participants had expressed confusion about the eligibility of selling units abroad.
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Australian companies sign up to Qantas SAF programme

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 16:23
Multiple Australian companies have joined Qantas’ Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition, opting to contribute to the cost of SAF rather than relying on carbon offsets, the airline said Tuesday.
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Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 15:00

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

Electric and plug-in hybrid car sales will jump to a new global record in 2024 despite slowing growth in some markets, according to forecasts from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Paris-based forecaster said that 17m battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be sold in 2024, up more than 20% compared with 2023.

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