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Ban gas boilers in new homes by 2025, says Committee on Climate Change
Government advisers suggest homes are heated using low-carbon energy instead
Gas hobs or boilers should be banned from being installed in new homes within the next six years, government advisers have recommended.
A report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says that from 2025 at the latest, no new homes should be connected to the gas grid – with super-efficient houses and flats heated using low-carbon energy instead.
Continue reading...The Driven Podcast: Revealed – Australian electric motorbike maker breaks cover
Denis Savic talks to Nigel Morris about his vision for building electric motorcycles in Australia.
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Adviser, Climate Policy European Office, VDMA – Brussels
Director of Climate Policy Analysis, New York Department of Environmental Conservation – Albany
Mexican activist shot dead before vote on pipeline he opposed
Environmental campaigners say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’
A Mexican environmental activist has been murdered before a referendum on a controversial thermal-electric plant and pipeline that he opposed.
Samir Flores Soberanes, an indigenous Náhuatl, was killed in his home during the early hours of Wednesday in the town of Amilcingo in Morelos state, 80 miles south of Mexico City. He was a human rights activist, producer for a community radio station and long-time opponent of the Proyecto Integral Morelos (the integral project for Morelos) – which includes the plant and pipeline.
Continue reading...Weatherwatch: harbingers of climate change are aflutter
Seeing butterflies on a warm February day gave a disturbing preview of future winters
In a world where climate change makes every season unpredictable, we have perhaps got used to unseasonal warm spells. But if I cast my mind back to the middle of February 1998, I can still recall my surprise at the unusually mild weather.
I was filming at a west London gravel pit with Bill Oddie, and during the course of the day we saw four different species of butterfly on the wing. They were the quartet that habitually overwinter as adults – comma, peacock, small tortoiseshell and brimstone – each emerging on a mild spring day to feed on nectar.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs gain ground as 2019 free allocations begin
WCI market to be long nearly 13 Mt in 2019, as offset demand expected to rise -analysts
White House climate change panel to include man who touted emissions
William Happer, a physicist who has suggested higher levels of carbon dioxide are beneficial, would be on committee
The White House is planning to assess how climate change impacts national security and will involve a prominent doubter of the scientific consensus that manmade warming is putting the US at risk.
Related: US coastal businesses hit by everyday impact of climate change, study shows
Continue reading...Spain’s Iberdrola sees ETS-based output fall 5% in 2018 as hydro recovers
EU Parliament sets out to pressure leaders to aim high in bloc’s 2050 strategy
COMMENT – Ontario’s plan vs the federal backstop: What companies need to know
Green groups back off more stringent New Jersey RGGI cap demands
'Belongs in a museum': Greta Thunberg condemns politician against school strike
Swedish student responds to NSW education minister’s threat to punish students who participate in school climate strike
The Swedish teenager whose lone protest against climate change spurred a global youth movement has told an Australian state education minister his words “belong in a museum” after he warned students against attending an upcoming protest.
The New South Wales education minister, Rob Stokes, appeared on Sky News earlier this week, warning students and teachers against attending rallies planned across Australia for Friday 15 March, as part of the school climate strike movement.
Continue reading...Virgin births: is there something fishy about Mary the stickleback’s little miracles?
Name: Mary the virgin stickleback.
Age: Between one and two years old.
Continue reading...'Super snow moon' lights up the skies
How the earth has shaped our destinies
Glencore to cap coal production, set climate targets in line with Paris
European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population
Research shows loss in yields could be offset by reorienting diets away from grain-fed meat
Europe would still be able to feed its growing population even if it switched entirely to environmentally friendly approaches such as organic farming, according to a scientific paper.
A week after research revealed a steep decline in global insect populations that has been linked to the use of pesticides, the study from European thinktank IDDRI claims such chemicals can be phased out and greenhouse gas emissions radically reduced in Europe through agroecological farming, while still producing enough nutritious food for an increasing population.
Continue reading...Energy Insiders Podcast: 100 per cent renewables – Is California dreaming?
Angelina Galiteva, vice chair of the California Independent System Operator, talks about that state’s 100 per cent renewable energy target, and how it will get there.
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