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CP Daily: Tuesday January 23, 2024
US CCS startups partner to build DAC plant in Oklahoma
Canada adjusts prices for alternative compliance mechanisms under clean fuels regulation
EU’s post-2030 climate action must cut across all policy areas -report
Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project
Rio Tinto signs contract to buy all the output for what will be the biggest solar project on Australia's main grid, and will help power its smelters and refineries.
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European duo sign MOU on building CCUS presence in North America
Researchers detail recommendations for cookstove offset developers, buyers amid over-crediting controversy
The Guardian view on environmental protest: dissent is vital to protect democracy | Editorial
The UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders is right to warn that a pillar of democracy is under threat in Britain
In the last few years, environmental protesters in Britain have pulled off some striking – and strikingly irritating – acts of civil disobedience. These have caused indignation and aggravation, especially by disrupting people’s lives. But their actions grabbed our attention. The purpose is to denounce an injustice by intentionally breaking the law in a non-violent way. The justification is a climate emergency that threatens humanity’s future.
There is nothing new in this: the suffragettes smashed windows and set buildings alight. Today we honour their cause and courage. Yet the government appears intent on criminalising protest, a move rightly criticised by Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders. He warns that a pillar of democracy – the right to protest – is under threat in Britain. The demonisation of environmental activists and the erosion of civil rights without adequate scrutiny from lawmakers, or protection by the courts, are undermining the UK’s guarantees of freedom and the rule of law. It had been almost unheard of since the 1930s for demonstrators to be imprisoned for peaceful protest in the UK. Last month, he said, a climate protester got six months behind bars for slow-walking on a road.
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Canadian watchdog estimates C$1 bln impact from removing federal “tax on a tax”
Did the BOM get it wrong on the hot, dry summer? No – predicting chaotic systems is probability, not certainty
EIB registers record spending for climate and sustainability
EU ministers discuss agriculture protections, not emissions reductions
ExxonMobil’s attempt to silence activist investors should be a warning to shareholders
The US oil company is off to court to try and block a green activist motion aimed at accelerating the company’s attempts to cut emissions
ExxonMobil is “committed to responsibly meeting the world’s energy needs”, according to the corporate blah blah, but it is clearly not committed to allowing its shareholders to express their own opinions on the “responsibly” bit of the boast. The US oil company is off to court in Texas to try to block a vote on a resolution tabled by Follow This, a Dutch green activist investor group that would like Exxon to move faster (a lot faster) on reducing emissions.
Exxon has an argument of sorts, one might say, in that Follow This tabled similar-sounding resolutions at the last two annual meetings and neither passed. Some 27.1% of shareholders aligned with the rebels in 2022 and 10.5% last year. Why go through the same process again, the company will argue. And, since last year’s meeting at Exxon contained 13 shareholder motions in total, haven’t US regulators allowed agendas to become overcrowded?
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