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Industry shutdowns are messy and painful: 4 lessons Australia’s coal sector can learn from car-makers about bowing out

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:42
The closure of Australia’s coal-fired power stations will be challenging. The car industry experience provides lessons on how to protect workers and families. Vigya Sharma, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Julia Loginova, Research fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Investors seek certainty on Australian fossil fuel phase out, resilience and adaptation plans, survey finds

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:31
While sentiment and confidence in Australia has improved thanks to significant climate policy progress, investors are waiting on the government to provide clear timelines on phasing out fossil fuels, a survey has found.
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Scientists to hunt mysterious 'ghost' particles

BBC - Mon, 2024-03-25 10:49
Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.
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Could Labor dissent on energy see Plibersek’s veto on offshore gas projects restored? | Paul Karp

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-03-25 00:00

Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements

The Albanese government has kept a lid on dissent over changes to the approval process for offshore gas projects, but a late internal push has seen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, regain a power to prevent consultation rules being watered down.

While the resources minister, Madeleine King, had labelled claims she was taking over environmental approvals a “conspiracy theory”, widespread opposition from the Greens, the crossbench, First Nations activists and environmental groups spurred an informal Labor pro-climate group into action.

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Ernie the owl to retire after 30 years at Warwick Castle

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-03-24 21:48

African Verreaux’s eagle owl to make final flyover during Easter holidays before move to Yorkshire Dales

Any night owl who has spent 30 years of working all day would be dreaming of retirement.

Such is the case for Ernie, an owl with a “big personality”, who will be quitting after delighting guests at Warwick Castle for three decades.

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Which will melt away first, the snow or the arts? | Stewart Lee

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-03-24 20:00

Keir Starmer will need to make it affordable to be an artist, because the value of art is beyond financial metrics

Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated catering cyborgs from a Russian science fiction novel, sleeping in pods, dreaming of electric sheep. But today that system seems benign compared with the housing poverty of Sunak island.

In Aspen, the famous comedians were domiciled in luxury hotels. I was in a cheap motel on the edge of town, where I breakfasted daily with a quartet of equally undervalued underground comic book writers, regarded as witless savants nonetheless capable of providing content by the predatory industry vampires. Daniel Clowes told me the contents of his Oscar ceremony goody bag – the film of his Ghost World comic was nominated – were worth more than everything he had earned as a writer to that point.

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Cercarbono publishes final biodiversity crediting protocol

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 18:54
Colombia-based environmental crediting standard Cercarbono on Friday published the final version of its biodiversity protocol that will underpin crediting of 18 eligible activities across a number of ecosystems, though with a number of significant changes since its initial draft.
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High rural house prices force locals into renting

BBC - Sat, 2024-03-23 12:35
Renting in the countryside is outpacing London and other cities as house prices rise, a study finds.
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German DAC deployment to come with high costs, extensive resource requirements, researchers warn

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 12:16
Deploying direct air capture technology in Germany and capturing a modest amount of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere would consume a significant amount power, land, and water resources, according to a new study.
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Emitters, speculators add to their holdings across North American carbon markets

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 09:44
Traders added to their overall net holdings across carbon markets in North America amid a recovery in allowance prices from last week's rout, according to data published Friday by the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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IEA undermining energy security in its pursuit of net zero, say US legislators

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 09:38
The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s emphasis on the energy transition fails its responsibility to provide objective data, said two US Republican lawmakers, who questioned its recent work in a letter addressed to the intergovernmental agency.
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‘Tourists ask a lot of questions’: Great Barrier Reef guides face up to bleaching tragedy

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-03-23 09:00

Tour boat divers have long borne witness to mass bleaching events. Once reluctant to wade into discussions about global heating, they are now opening up

“You can see it on their faces,” says scuba diving instructor Elliot Peters. “There’s definitely some remorse and sadness.”

Peters works at a resort on Heron Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef and, in recent weeks, he’s had to tell curious guests why so many of the corals around the island are turning bone white.

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Two voluntary carbon market titans to retire this year

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 07:46
Two titans of the voluntary carbon market are retiring this year, Carbon Pulse has learned.
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EU carbon pricing policies could transform, bifurcate global LNG trade -consultancy

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 05:40
The global LNG market is at risk of major transformation and possible bifurcation if the EU extends its carbon pricing policies to include imports of the fuel, according to a major global consultancy.
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SEC climate disclosure rules reinstated after litigation moved to new court

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 04:50
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new climate disclosure rules were reinstated by judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday.
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PREVIEW: EU ‘green’ majority to exhale final breath before elections

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-23 03:36
Time is now up for the political majority that made the European Green Deal possible, with the bloc's 27 environmental ministers showing more and more signs of disagreement ahead of their summit next week.
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