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EU carbon management strategy must set concrete actions for CCS -trade group
EU will force cosmetic companies to pay to reduce microplastic pollution
Draft rules follow the ‘polluter pays principle’ and will mean companies cover 80% of extra clean-up costs
Beauty companies will have to pay more to clean up microplastic pollution after EU negotiators struck a new deal to treat sewage.
Under draft rules that follow the “polluter pays principle”, companies that sell medicines and cosmetics will have to cover at least 80% of the extra costs needed to get rid of tiny pollutants that are dirtying urban wastewater. Governments will pay the rest, members of the bloc said, in an effort to prevent vital products from becoming too expensive or scarce.
Continue reading...First penguins die in Antarctic of deadly H5N1 bird flu strain
With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies
At least one king penguin is suspected to have died from bird flu in the Antarctic. If confirmed, it will be the first of the species killed by the highly contagious H5N1 virus in the wild.
Researchers have previously raised alarm about “one of the largest ecological disasters of modern times” if bird flu reached remote Antarctic penguin populations. The birds are currently clustering together for breeding season, meaning the disease could rip through entire colonies if it continues to spread through the region.
Continue reading...South Pole hires head of carbon project risk, restructures senior team
Grid Connections 2024: Who’s going where in Australia’s energy transition
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Moon lander: Japan's Slim reactivates and gets to work
New regional African alliance launches to promote carbon markets
Devon tree planting: Work to recreate lost rainforest
New Zealand to push for more bottom trawling, WWF claims
Danish investors announce funding into Nordic carbon storage hub
European demand driving $1tln investment in gas production over next decade -report
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Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds
Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental costs, researchers say
A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10tn (£7.9tn) of benefits a year, improve human health and ease the climate crisis, according to the most comprehensive economic study of its type.
It found that existing food systems destroyed more value than they created due to hidden environmental and medical costs, in effect, borrowing from the future to take profits today.
Continue reading...Fears back-to-back cyclones may have damaged Great Barrier Reef
Strong waves and sediment-laden freshwater pushed out from river catchments may have damaged parts of reef system, experts say
Back-to-back cyclones crossing the Great Barrier Reef have experts concerned vast flood plumes and heavy waves may have damaged parts of the world’s biggest coral reef system.
Reef scientists and conservationists went into the summer worried that an El Niño weather pattern would elevate the risk of mass coral bleaching.
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