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US govt clarifies rules for $35 mln CDR credit purchase, discloses price goal
Nations need to ‘re-strategise’ international cooperation on climate action to bridge gap between ambition, implementation -think-tank
New York announces largest-ever investment in renewable energy by US state
WCI jurisdictions to show carbon price impacts of allowance budget cuts following Q4 auction
South Australia takes another bold leap into deep green energy future
South Australia is leading the world on the integration of wind and solar. Now, it's about to take an even bolder leap into a deep green energy future through its hydrogen jobs plan.
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Even in severe drought, enhanced rock weathering on croplands shows promise for carbon capture -researchers
UN risks adopting too rigid approach in calculating carbon savings from cookstoves, warn project developers
FEATURE: Primary voluntary carbon investment holds up in 2023 even as prices crash
Biodiversity Pulse: Tuesday October 24, 2023
California power emissions accelerate year-on-year decline in September
Countries to start procuring carbon removals for climate targets at COP28, says expert
EU must cut carbon emissions three times faster to meet targets, report says
Climate commissioner says pace of reductions needs to speed up in buildings, transport and agriculture to meet 55% target by 2030
The EU must cut greenhouse gas pollution almost three times more quickly than it has over the past decade to meet its climate targets, a European Commission report has said.
In an attempt to stop weather growing more extreme, the EU has promised to pump 55% less planet-heating gas into the air in 2030 than it did in 1990. But over the past three decades it has cut emissions by just 32%, leaving behind “significant gaps” for the next seven years, the commission found in its latest State of the Energy Union report.
Continue reading...EU lawmakers rubberstamp F-gas 2050 phaseout bill, adopt position on cutting heavy vehicle emissions
UK meat consumption at lowest level since records began, data reveals
Average of 854g a week eaten at home in 2022, with the 14% decline since 2012 driven by cost of living crisis and lifestyle changes
People in the UK consumed less meat last year than at any point since records began in the 1970s, in a trend driven by the cost of living crisis, the continued impact of Covid and broader lifestyle changes.
Data released by the government showed that Britons ate less meat at home in the year to March 2022 than at any point since 1974, with the average person eating 854g (1.88lbs) a week. That was down from 976g the previous year and 949g in 2019-20, before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading...‘Catastrophic’: bird flu reaches Antarctic for the first time
As the first known cases of H5N1 are detected in the region, scientists fear for the isolated penguin and seal populations that have never been exposed
Avian flu has reached the Antarctic, raising concerns for isolated populations of penguins and seals that have never been exposed to the deadly H5N1 virus before. The full impact of the virus’s arrival is not yet known, but scientists are raising concerns about possible “catastrophic breeding failure” of the region’s fragile wildlife populations.
The virus was found in populations of a scavenging bird called brown skua on Bird Island, which is part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. These migratory birds probably brought it with them from South America where bird flu is widespread and has already killed an estimated 500,000 seabirds and 20,000 sea lions in Chile and Peru alone.
Continue reading...EU launches plan to bolster wind power rollout, reports progress on energy security and emissions cuts
RWE notches 24% drop in fossil-based power output over first nine months of year
Imagine more dragons: US biotech firm aims to breed tiny Australian lizard that is near extinction
Colossal Biosciences, which is behind bid to bring back Tasmanian tiger, teams up with Melbourne Zoo to save tiny reptile
A US biotechnology “de-extinction” company behind efforts to bring the Tasmanian tiger, woolly mammoth and dodo back from the dead is backing a project to save a tiny Australian dragon.
The support from Colossal Biosciences for a project to restore the Victorian grassland earless dragon – which was feared extinct before being rediscovered in the wild this year – was announced as the company’s representatives visited Tasmania to speak with officials about their plans and inspect a potential thylacine rewilding site.
Continue reading...Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn
Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future
Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is in peril.
Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature and sea level rise, the indicators also include human and livestock population numbers.
Continue reading...Dear winter, apparently writing a letter to you can help me hate you less | Anita Chaudhuri
Research suggests writing down your ‘feelings’ about winter can help with seasonal affective disorder. I’m willing to give it a go
Dear winter,
It seems that you intend to visit us again this year. I just want to make it clear – because researchers have found that expressing “feelings” about you in the form of a “dear winter” letter could make me less miserable at this time of year – that I did not invite you.
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