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Chandrayaan-3: India's Moon lander Vikram aims for historic lunar south pole landing
Trampling plants, damaging rock art, risking your life: taking selfies in nature has a cost
Ulez expansion: Ministers looked at using powers to block scheme
CP Daily: Tuesday August 22, 2023
Gas giant APA makes huge $3 billion renewables and battery play in Pilbara
APA pays $1.7 billion for Alinta energy assets in the Pilbara, which includes a $3 billion pipeline of wind, solar and battery projects to decarbonise mining operations of iron ore giants.
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RGGI compliance entities boost allowance holdings after Q2 auction
Size limits urged to stop “wind turbine arms race” as factories struggle to keep up
Energy analysts call for a cap on the size of offshore wind turbines in an effort to ease supply chain pressures at a time when demand is booming.
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Brazil president’s ETS language incorporated into advanced Senate carbon trading bill
G20 poured more than $1tn on fossil fuel subsidies despite Cop26 pledges – report
Public money still flowing into industry despite agreement to phase out ‘inefficient’ subsidies, thinktank says
The G20 poured record levels of public money into fossil fuels last year despite having promised to reduce some of it, a report has found.
The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn(£1.1tn) in 2022, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) thinktank, even though world leaders agreed to phase out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow two years ago.
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US gov’t announces $150 mln in funding for connecting small forest landowners to voluntary carbon market
Better than net zero? Making the promised 1.2 million homes climate-friendly would transform construction in Australia
Bolivian biochar developer targets ramp-up after gaining certification
Slow train coming: only a genuine shift to rail will put NZ on track to reduce emissions
Germany to fall short on “overestimated” 2030 climate targets
The Guardian view on canals: a national success story under threat | Editorial
A government plan to cut funding to the charity that manages inland waterways is shortsighted and out of step with the times
The restoration of much of Britain’s vast canal network has been a notable and uplifting success story. Originally saved in the 1960s from Beeching-style closures by Labour’s transport secretary, Barbara Castle, many of these formerly working and polluted waterways have become modern urban oases.
Otters, kingfishers and dragonflies can be glimpsed along the 100 miles or so of Birmingham’s canals. In Manchester, barge users and walkers can trace the origins of the Industrial Revolution along intersecting routes that crisscross the city. Across the country, canalside regeneration has transformed urban landscapes, partly enabled by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who rescued abandoned channels from dereliction and paved the way for Castle’s vision of “leisureways” to become a reality.
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New global standard for biodiversity uplift certification due next year
Bacteria that ‘eats’ methane could slow global heating, study finds
Technology has the potential to make deep cuts to emissions of the potent greenhouse gas but requires major investment
A bacteria that consumes the greenhouse gas methane could slow the rate of global heating, according to a study out this week.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from energy (natural gas and petroleum systems), industry, agriculture, land use and waste management activities.
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