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If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool
US DOE announces $6 bln for annual industrial decarbonisation of 14 Mt
Australian solar innovator 5B to supply 26 MW solar for world first “green gold” mine
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Starmer: Labour plan for state-backed offshore windfarms a ‘gamechanger’
Plan follows slashing of £28bn green pledge, which Ed Miliband denies having considered resigning over
Labour’s plan for state-backed offshore windfarms will be a “gamechanger”, Keir Starmer has said, as the party seeks to regain the initiative on green policy after the slow-motion ditching of its £28bn investment pledge.
Speaking to broadcasters after a visit to Holyhead port in north Wales alongside Vaughan Gething, the country’s new first minister, Starmer insisted that a transition to sustainable power was still “one of my central missions”.
Continue reading...EU gives final green light to gas saving measures until April 2025
Climate litigation on the rise with increased reporting requirements -lawyers
Lawsuit win against KLM’s carbon offsetting claims sets precedent to change airline behaviour, says lawyer
Why is the right at war with cyclists? We’re not ‘wokerati’ – we’re just trying to get around | Zoe Williams
Riding a bike is not a political act, yet cyclists have become the bete noire for the anti-woke, anti-green, anti-liberal crowd
Getting my bike nicked was like losing a pet. I didn’t want a new one; I wanted to go back in time and not lose my old one. But, in the end, an inanimate object is not infinitely grievable and I need wheels. This is how I fetched up with a Liv bike, my precious first born putting the seat up for me. I said how proud and heart-filled I was, watching him do a little job that I didn’t want to do myself for the first time, and he said: “I’ve been showing you how to use a remote control since I was six years old,” and I thought: OK, fair, but, more to the point, look at my lovely bike.
Freshly re-enamoured of the world of two wheels, I have plunged straight back into the cycling discourse, the perfect microcosm of the wokeness split in all its forms. Take the ex-footballer Joey Barton, who is being sued by Jeremy Vine for calling the broadcaster a “bike nonce”. Meanwhile, the socials are full of people furiously agreeing that aggressive cyclists pose more danger to them than articulated lorries. The fervent attacks on low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and low-emission zones such as Ulez in London are really just a full-throttle loathing of people on bikes, aggrandised by acronyms and libertarian bat signals.
Continue reading...VCM Report: Market pauses as ICAO blocks approval of new standards, ICVCM wades through voluntary carbon methodologies
UK govt argues North Sea oil and gas increase is key to net zero transition
MPs and activists challenge claim North Sea oil and gas supports 200,000 jobs
Government has repeatedly used figure to justify more fossil fuel developments despite climate crisis
Are 200,000 jobs really supported by the oil and gas industry in the North Sea? Campaigners and MPs are questioning the longstanding government claim.
Ministers have repeatedly used the 200,000 jobs figure as justification for pushing ahead with more fossil fuel developments despite the escalating climate crisis and widespread opposition from scientists and energy experts.
Continue reading...Tractors heading to central London farmer protest
Asian hornet may have become established in UK, sighting suggests
Predatory species, which poses huge danger to bee populations, spotted on 11 March, indicating winter stay
Asian hornets may have become established in the UK after the earliest-ever sighting of the predatory insect was recorded by the government this month.
This is a dangerous development for Britain’s bee population and could have a knock-on effect on agriculture that needs the pollinators, because once hornets are established it is almost impossible to eliminate them.
Continue reading...EBRD initiative launched in Turkiye targets decarbonisation of CBAM-covered sectors
Norway’s carbon removals projects at risk if EU implements proposed climate policy changes -minister
Brazil’s ambassador to WTO calls for reforming agricultural subsidies at BioTrade Congress in Geneva
IPCC plans to unveil carbon removals methodology by end of 2027
Blaming John Howard is easy, but his government helped shape the world we live in – now and for future generations | Grogonomics
An overheated property market, education taxes and more expensive healthcare – successive governments have left a bitter legacy for millennials
When asking “Who screwed the millennials?” should we just apply Occam’s razor and answer “John Howard”? His government certainly shoulders a lot of blame but so do those who have done nothing to help since he was voted out.
The earliest millennials will be 70 in 2050, meaning almost all will be working when the world is forecast to reach temperatures more than 2C above pre-industry averages unless we do something.
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