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Japanese shipping firm completes blockchain-backed insetting pilot
Floating solar plans upsized in push to squeeze them between giant offshore wind turbines
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Can we be inoculated against climate misinformation? Yes – if we prebunk rather than debunk
Wind and solar records tumbled as storms ripped through Victoria’s grid
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Land-based solutions lead near-term CDR promise, but variety needed to meet climate goals -study
“Just get it done:” Survey finds public support for tax on fossil exports
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No surprises in Indonesia election as Prabowo claims victory
California offset issuance trails January levels
Fossil fuel lobbyists have deep pockets and access to politicians, but a ban could be in the pipeline
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Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack
“Baseload getting more difficult:” Origin doubles profits, still coy on Eraring and green energy transition
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Oregon Clean Fuels Program sets new record high for credit generation in Q3 2023
US climate tech firm targeting methane receives $10 mln investment
Carbon capture tech company eyeing $7-9 mln private fundraising
UN carbon markets proposals include REDD+ provisions as part of sustainable development tool
Fossil fuels in the dock as EU petitioners compare them to tobacco lobbies
Soft plastic recycling is back after the REDcycle collapse – but only in 12 supermarkets. Will it work this time?
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds
Denialism highest in central and southern US, with Republican voters less likely to believe in climate science
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, a new study out of the University of Michigan reveals – shedding light on the highly polarized attitude toward global warming.
Additionally, denialism is highest in the central and southern US, with Republican voters found less likely to believe in climate science.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on Europe’s rural revolt: sustainability is in farmers’ interests too | Editorial
The current wave of protests endangers environmental progress. But imaginative politics can get the green deal back on track
Another day, another tractor blockade. Earlier this week, all economic activity at the Belgian port of Antwerp ground to a halt as hundreds of farmers prevented access to freight. In Spain, tractors blocked motorways near Seville and Granada, and in Catalonia. As a rolling wave of rural discontent has made itself felt across Europe since the start of the year, only four EU member states have remained unaffected.
Numerically, farmers account for only 4% of Europe’s working population. But as Europe’s political leaders are belatedly coming to realise, the burgeoning crisis has outsize implications. A perfect storm of factors – including rising energy costs, competition from lightly regulated foreign imports and supermarket profit-gouging – have driven angry farmers off the land and on to the streets of capitals. But in disputes that touch on some of the faultlines of contemporary culture wars, there is a growing danger that the EU’s green deal takes the rap for a crisis incubated elsewhere.
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