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Oil major Shell spends more than $16 mln on voluntary carbon credit retirements in January
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Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market
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Renewable energy developer, conservation group to cooperate on biodiversity restoration in Denmark
I have your back, Rishi Sunak tells farmers at NFU conference
Sunak becomes first PM to address conference since Gordon Brown in 2008, as Tories court farming sector
Rishi Sunak has told farmers “I have your back”, at the National Farmers Union conference, as he promised to “change the culture” in government around farming.
Sunak was the first prime minister to address the NFU conference since Gordon Brown in 2008, and took three Defra ministers with him to put the Conservative case to farmers.
Continue reading...At least 60% of US population may face ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water, tests suggest
Federal tests of one-third of water systems find 70 million Americans exposed to PFAS – suggesting 200 million affected overall
About 70 million people are exposed to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in US drinking water, new testing from the Environmental Protection Agency has found.
But the testing completed to date has only checked about one-third of the nation’s public water systems, meaning the agency is on pace to find over 200 million people are exposed, or at least 60% of the US population.
Continue reading...Attention shifts to NDC updates as ‘troika’ signals focus for next two UN climate summits
UK ministers in court again over net zero plans
Friends of the Earth dismisses government’s revised climate action plan as a ‘pipe dream’
UK ministers are facing court for a second time over plans to meet legally binding climate targets, after environmental groups branded revised measures “a complete pipe dream”.
The government has already been forced to change its climate action plan after a legal challenge by environmentalists, but the same groups are taking it back to court over updated plans they say are “riddled with holes and relian[t] on risky techno-fixes”.
Continue reading...NGOs take UK govt to court over “pie-in-the-sky” net zero measures
Limited access to funds, poor regulations hinder Article 6 development in South Asian nations -study
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected
Labour must act to save the environment – here’s my three-point plan | George Monbiot
Carbon budgets that add up, proper protection for Britain’s land and sea, and replacing GDP with a wellbeing index
- Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto
I’m as likely to be selected for the national gymnastics team. But bear with me awhile, to imagine that, like David Cameron, I’m about to be wafted by the UK’s fairytale political system from my garden shed to the benches of the House of Lords, to become Labour’s shadow environment secretary. Here are the three big policies I would try to insert into the party’s manifesto.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Glaring investment gaps to meet UK’s net zero target, including on CCUS, natural capital -report
The public wants clean energy – but this is Australia, where the climate wars never die
Voters have made their position clear but our politicians are still not talking about how we can change the way we live and work to ease the climate crisis
The last federal election was less than two years ago but the caravan moves on quickly. With politics dominated by cost-of-living concerns and daily distractions, it’s easy to forget the central role that dissatisfaction with the Coalition’s inaction and doublespeak on the climate crisis played in the result.
It wasn’t the only factor, but an in-depth study found it was the biggest issue in driving voters away from the major parties to independents. It was the second biggest in motivating people who changed their vote to Labor. It stands to reason it was at least as important in the Greens increasing their support and seat count.
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