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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.
Continue reading...European Commission ‘not worried’ by falling carbon price, says senior official
New Mexico legislators approve clean transportation fuel bill
European Parliament committees adopt rules on corporate voluntary carbon credit use
Canadian carbon project developer to pilot Netherlands DAC firm technology
IEA members add precision to talk of transitioning away from fossil fuels
Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn
‘We need to respond now,’ says author of study that says crucial forest has already passed safe boundary and needs restoration
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, a study has shown.
The paper, which is the most comprehensive to date in its analysis of the compounding impacts of local human activity and the global climate crisis, warned that the forest had already passed a safe boundary and urged remedial action to restore degraded areas and improve the resilience of the ecosystem.
Continue reading...Three-quarters of critical habitats in the Americas miss the GBF target -study
Fair trade company secures inaugural deal under Brazilian green finance programme
Crossing Amazon tipping points risks adjacent forests, permanent degradation -study
Lab-grown ‘beef rice’ could offer more sustainable protein source, say creators
Scientist behind hybrid carbohydrate praises its ‘pleasant and novel flavour experience’
Bowls of decidedly pink-tinged rice are about to feature on sustainable food menus, according to researchers who created rice grains with beef and cow fat cells grown inside them.
Scientists made the experimental food by covering traditional rice grains in fish gelatin and seeding them with skeletal muscle and fat stem cells which were then grown in the laboratory.
Continue reading...UK consultation looks at what carbon storage data should be publicly available
Biodiversity enhancement tool poised for launch has “sizable” waiting list
INTERVIEW: Premium cost of building low-emission gas power plants offset by CO2 sales, says developer
Victoria’s blackout wasn’t the fault of renewables, but a sign of a system working as it should | Temperature Check
Even as the weather emergency was still unfolding, some commentators and politicians couldn’t resist the urge to blame renewable energy
More than half a million electricity customers were without power in Victoria on Tuesday after storms swept across the state, downing power lines and transmission towers.
But as workers and system managers scrambled to get power back online, some commentators and Coalition MPs were unable to resist the urge to somehow blame renewable energy.
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What has Louisiana’s governor done his first month in office? Boost fossil fuels
Republican Jeff Landry, who has labeled climate change ‘a hoax’, has elevated fossil fuel executives to key environmental posts
In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with executives tied to the oil, gas and coal industries.
Landry, who has labeled climate change “a hoax”, has also taken aim at the state’s climate taskforce for possible elimination as part of a sweeping reorganization of Louisiana’s environmental bureaucracy. The goal, according to Landry’s executive order, is to “create a better prospective business climate”.
Continue reading...Corporate clean power purchase deals reached a new high in 2023 -report
Wood-burning stoves cancel out fall in particulate pollution from UK roads, data shows
PM2.5 from heating homes using solid fuel such as wood increased by 19% from 2021 to 2022, data shows
A rise in harmful emissions from wood-burning stoves has cancelled out decreases in particulate pollution from road and energy sources in the UK, government data reveals.
Emissions of PM2.5 from domestic combustion – heating homes using solid fuel such as wood – increased by 19% between 2021 and 2022, counteracting efforts made to travel and produce commercial energy in less polluting ways.
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