Feed aggregator
World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”.
The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
Automakers can set 1.5C-aligned targets for cars on the road, with new SBTi guidance
UK Infrastructure Bank commits £50 mln to fund seeking to commercialise nature, climate research
Batteries to turn Kalgoorlie into massive micro-grid after storms tear down network, and gas fails
The post Batteries to turn Kalgoorlie into massive micro-grid after storms tear down network, and gas fails appeared first on RenewEconomy.
FEATURE: Oslo incinerator plans to raise up to €50 mln from voluntary market to fund carbon capture facility
Prioritise Article 6, global coal miner suggests in climate plan
South African exchange to start voluntary carbon credit trade within two months -Bloomberg
South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry
The post South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.
China could cut carbon emissions from steel by 11% with greener furnaces -report
Seychelles to host first African on-land regenerative coral aquaculture facility
The crowds flocking to Banksy’s latest work are missing the point: the damaged tree at its heart | Gio Iozzi
City trees are an incredible green resource but are under serious assault. Banksy’s stark image shows the damage being done
Amid the excitement around Banksy’s latest art piece – a tree mural unveiled on a wall in Islington, north London – very little is being said about the tree at the centre of the story, a brutally pollarded 50-year-old cherry, and what it communicates about the way our urban trees are “managed”.
I visited it on Monday, just 10 minutes’ cycle from my house, and stood startled by the large, leafless tree, its bark darkened by pollution. It splays upwards like an agonised hand, with green paint – literal green wash – splashed up the wall behind it by a woman holding a pressure washer. But gradually I felt horrified, dismayed as the media filmed stories and crowds of people smiled, cooed and held their phones aloft for the latest Instagrammable image. People talked about whether the work could be “stolen” and the effect it would have on house prices and rents.
Gio Iozzi is a London-based writer and tree campaigner who set up Haringey Tree Protectors
Continue reading...Environmental plantings ACCU method replacement to be prioritised over IFLM, expert says
‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters
Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’
Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than 33,000 hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data shows.
Ten of these vessels, primarily from the EU, were responsible for a quarter of this activity in offshore protected areas, according to Oceana UK, a conservation group.
Continue reading...Australian state legislates earlier net zero target, near-all renewable energy goal for 2035
A battery price war is kicking off that could soon make electric cars cheaper. Here’s how
Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group
The failure to tackle Europe’s “runaway” transport emissions could lead to the sector pumping out nearly half of the continent’s planet-heating pollution by 2030, a report has found.
Driven by polluting cars and pushed higher by the growing thirst for flights, transport emissions in Europe have grown 26% since 1990 – even as efforts to clean up other areas of the economy have led to an overall emissions fall.
Continue reading...Faster, not different: Victoria renewables fast-track is not a steamroller
The post Faster, not different: Victoria renewables fast-track is not a steamroller appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Insiders Podcast: Would you trust your utility to control your solar?
The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Would you trust your utility to control your solar? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
System strength: Beware the distracting allure of the silver bullet
Energy market reform feels like early Tarantino, there are so many lustrous projectiles in flight.
The post System strength: Beware the distracting allure of the silver bullet appeared first on RenewEconomy.