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Shanghai sells all allowances on offer at CO2 auction

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 13:21
The Shanghai municipal government on Friday sold all 1 million CO2 permits that were on offer, with the sale clearing in line with the secondary market, well above the auction’s price floor.
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ID Market: Ministry officials blame lack of awareness for carbon exchange’s low activity

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:56
Indonesian Ministry of Finance officials have attributed the limited activity on the country’s national carbon exchange to a lack of awareness, as its staff continue to hold seminars and information sessions to get the word out.
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Notorious seed-stealing koala caught in brazen daylight robbery in northern NSW – video

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:44

Claude the koala was caught eating 4,050 food tree seedlings at Eastern Forest Nursery near Lismore in 2023. The bandit continues to return for a meal at the nursery, as workers look on. Conservationists say Claude's behaviour is part of a bigger problem as heavy land clearing has meant that there isn't enough food in the local area for koalas to eat

  • Daylight robbery: Claude the ‘leaf thief’ koala caught munching seedlings

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Leaf thief: viral sensation Claude the koala returns to nursery to munch on seedlings in broad daylight

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:30

Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issue

Claude the koala became Australia’s cutest thief and a viral sensation when he was filmed munching on seedlings at a nursery near Lismore last September.

But fame has only made him more brazen, with the hungry marsupial now helping himself to a weekday feed in front of staff at Eastern Forest Nursery.

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Could a green investment deal help Indonesia and Australia overcome their past tensions?

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-03 10:05
The relationship between neighbours Australia and Indonesia has gone through major swings. Could the green transition offer a win-win? Cahyani Widi Larasakti, PhD Student in International Relations, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-03 06:03
We want healthy, liveable cities and to cut emissions to net zero. Getting more people to use bicycles instead of cars will go a long way towards achieving these goals. Melanie Davern, Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Afshin Jafari, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Alan Both, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Science, RMIT University Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Lucy Gunn, Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Qian (Chayn) Sun, Associate Professor of Geospatial Science, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Are the climate wars really over, or has a new era of greenwashing just begun? | Joëlle Gergis

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 01:00

In a new Quarterly Essay, Joëlle Gergis says that while Rome wasn’t built in a day, the Albanese government’s lack of action on climate change does not reflect the urgency of the crisis

Although the 2022 federal election ushered in a new era of progressive politics in Australia, as Labor’s first term in power has progressed many people are now wondering if the political deadlock on our nation’s climate policy has really been broken.

Although some good ground has been made, the federal government’s actions still don’t reflect the urgency of the planetary-scale crisis we are in. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising and enormous fossil fuel projects continue to be approved to meet domestic and international demand.

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‘It’s all we have’: young climate activists on the state of politics around the world

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-06-02 19:39

With elections affecting half the world’s population this year, campaigners offer their views on the chances of real change

This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies. The Guardian asked young climate activists around the world what they want from the elections and whether politics is working in the fight to halt global heating.

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Scotland’s remote land of bogs and bugs in line for world heritage status

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-06-02 19:00

A decision from Unesco on giving the peat-rich Flow Country the same standing as the Great Barrier Reef is just weeks away

It is a land of mire, mist and midges that could soon be awarded a special status among the planet’s wild habitats. In a few weeks, Unesco is set to announce its decision on an application to allow the Flow Country in north Scotland to become a world heritage site.

Such a designation is only given to places of special cultural, historical or scientific significance and would put this remote region of perpetual dampness on the same standing as the Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon and the Pyramids.

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China's Chang'e-6 robot lands on Moon's far side

BBC - Sun, 2024-06-02 14:35
The mission hopes to bring rocks back to Earth from the far side of the Moon for the first time.
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EU’s Market Stability Reserve to withdraw another 267 mln permits from ETS starting Sep. 2024

Carbon Pulse - Sun, 2024-06-02 09:33
Almost 267 million carbon allowances will be withdrawn from the EU ETS over the 12 months starting this September and inserted into the Market Stability Reserve (MSR), the European Commission announced late Saturday in its annual 'TNAC' update.
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Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating – video

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-06-02 01:03

A climate activist was arrested at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris after sticking a blood-red poster over Monet's painting of poppy fields. The woman then revealed a T-shirt saying 'L'enfer' (hell). The action by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) - a group of environmental activists and advocates of sustainable food production - was seen in a video posted to X. In the video she said of the poster covering Monet’s art that 'this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place'

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Climate deniers like DeSantis hurt most vulnerable communities, scientists say

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-06-01 22:00

On first day of predicted intense Atlantic hurricane season, Nature Conservancy urges action and warns against misinformation

Misinformation spread by climate deniers such as Florida’s extremist Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, increases the “vulnerability” of communities in the path of severe weather events, scientists are warning.

The message comes on Saturday, the first day of what experts fear could be one of the most intense and dangerous Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, threatening a summer of natural disasters across the US.

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Scientists develop method of making healthier, more sustainable chocolate

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-06-01 19:00

Approach replaces sugar with mashed pulp and husk of cocoa pod and uses less land and water

Healthier and more sustainable chocolate could hit store shelves after Swiss scientists and chocolatiers developed a recipe that swaps sugar for waste plant matter.

By mashing up the pulp and husk of a cocoa pod instead of just taking the beans, scientists have made a sweet and fibrous gel that could replace the sugar in chocolate, according to a report published in Nature Food.

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