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Coalition commends US CO2 pipeline safety standards, provides additional recommendations
Fonterra to cut intensity of on-farm emissions by 30% by 2030
What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’
Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change
Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) – a sort of quasi-thinktank fronted by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.
Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Bill Gates backs radical new wind energy design using track-based wings
Bill Gates backs a radical new design for wind energy which proponents claim could slash the cost of the technology.
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Startup opens innovative water-generating carbon capture pilot facility in California
Electric vehicles will cut household energy bills in half, says network chief
SA Power Networks says grid has plenty of capacity to absorb "explosion" in electric vehicles, which he says will help households halve their annual energy bills.
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EU new enlargement plans urge neighbour nations’ to align climate policies
Heat, cold, pollution, noise and insects: too many apartment blocks aren't up to the challenge
Number of species at risk of extinction doubles to 2 million, says study
New research on insects – without which the planet would not survive – shows a higher proportion are at risk of disappearing
Two million species are at risk of extinction, a figure that is double previous UN estimates, new analysis has found.
While scientists have long documented the decline of species of plants and vertebrates, there has always been significant uncertainty over insects, with the UN making a “tentative estimate” of 10% threatened with extinction in 2019.
Continue reading...North American developers partner to build ocean-sequestering DAC project in Canada
Oil and gas ‘not the problem’ for climate, says UK’s net zero minister
Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action
Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs.
In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate change, but demand for fossil fuels was.
Continue reading...Water regulator starts a ‘crackdown’ on bonuses about 30 years too late
Ofwat’s newfound interest in executive pay in the water industry is merely a tweak
About 30 years too late, many might say, here comes Ofwat with details on how it will “crack down”, as it puts it, on executive pay in the English water sector. Since the regulator’s new powers to interfere on boardroom pay don’t kick in until next year, this year’s assessment can be considered an explainer on how a new offside rule will work.
And the news from the video assistant referee is that Severn Trent, South West Water and Portsmouth Water committed offences that “did not meet our expectations”, says Ofwat, because either short- or long-term incentives were insufficiently aligned to good outcomes for customers or the environment. Does that mean the executives would have faced the humiliation of returning their dodgy rewards?
Continue reading...US federal lawmakers introduce soil carbon sequestration legislation
EU’s carbon border plans force companies to disclose ‘trade secrets’, says industry
ANALYSIS: Voluntary action on airline non-CO2 impact takes shape as EU obligations loom
Democrats win slim majorities in Virginia’s general elections
Five free map datasets launched on agricultural impacts
VCMI announces early adopters of its code for carbon credit buyers
Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds
Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade
Extreme droughts that have wrecked the lives of millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran since 2020 would not have happened without human-caused global heating, a study has found.
The climate crisis means such long-lasting and severe droughts are no longer rare, the analysis showed. In the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which covers large parts of Syria and Iraq, droughts of this severity happened about once every 250 years before global heating – now they are expected once a decade.
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