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Ill-judged tree planting in Africa threatens ecosystems, scientists warn
Research reveals area size of France is under threat by restoration projects taking place in unsuitable landscapes
Misguided tree-planting projects are threatening crucial ecosystems across Africa, scientists have warned.
Research has revealed that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives that are taking place in inappropriate landscapes.
Continue reading...British farmers plan more French-style tractor protests this weekend
Organisers call for ‘national effort’ to protest against low supermarket prices and cheap imports from post-Brexit deals
Farmers unhappy at low supermarket prices and cheap food imports from post-Brexit trade deals have vowed to renew their French-style protests with tractors this weekend.
Demonstrations modelled on those across the Channel in recent months have sprung up in the UK, most notably in Wales and southern England. On Thursday, Andrew Gibson, a farmer in Kent who has been centrally involved in organising previous actions, said more were to come.
Continue reading...Zero plans for public onshore windfarms submitted last year in England
Lack of activity persists despite lifting of ban on projects last year, and contrasts with 46 applications made in Scotland
No new proposals for general-use windfarms were submitted for planning permission in England last year, despite the government’s much-vaunted relaxation of planning restrictions.
Only seven applications were submitted for onshore wind turbines for the whole of 2023 in England, new data from the government has shown, and all of those developments were for the replacement of existing turbines or for private sites, where the energy produced is destined for a particular consumer, such as a business.
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Smaller developers in danger of bearing unnecessary biodiversity net gain costs
Swiss tech firm partners with German investor to develop nature-based solutions
Solar farm developer commits to protecting biodiversity as UK project sparks criticism
Scottish highland estate to generate biodiversity credits
Aviation knuckles down on increasing green fuel supply as United grows SAF fund
Germany seeks cancellation of spare EU carbon permits freed up by coal exit -media
Mexico strengthens ties with local communities to ramp up voluntary land conservation
Carbon intensity, not colour, will determine future of low-carbon hydrogen -report
Euro Markets: Midday Update
US stingray falls pregnant despite having no mate
Carbon removal credits trade on CBL platform for first time
Bank-backed voluntary carbon network appoints former BP chief as chair
Top tips for electrifying everything, and reducing power bills
Some top tips on how to electrify your home and make it more energy efficient
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UN migratory species meeting announces global habitat connectivity initiative
Voluntary carbon standard to explore mining sector potential for permanent removals
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis
It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms
Rarely has a lacklustre policy been abandoned for a reason so bad that it threatens to inflict long-term damage on a society. Independently of whether the £28bn green investment programme was the right policy for the next Labour government to commit to, Rachel Reeves’s reasons for ditching it were an undeserved gift to the Tories and a partial vindication of their disgraceful flirtations with an austerian, anti-green political narrative.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today shortly after her U-turn on Labour’s headline £28bn green transition programme, the shadow chancellor explained her decision by claiming that, under Jeremy Hunt, the Treasury is “planning on maxing out the credit card”, adding for good effect that the Tories are “maxing out the headroom ahead of the next general election” thus limiting “what an incoming Labour government will be able to achieve”. By comparing the state’s coffers to an overladen credit card, Reeves endorsed an insidious fallacy.
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