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How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips
There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguided
John F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”
While it is truer to say that the race for space between Washington and Moscow was driven as much by cold war competition as by humanity’s pioneering spirit and the imperatives of scientific exploration, billions of ordinary people around the world recognized as much at the time and still were able to marvel at our species’ accomplishments in the heavens regardless of the flag under which they were achieved, from Sputnik to the moon landing.
Continue reading...More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste
Inadequate record keeping means councils do not know whether former waste sites contain toxic substances
More than 100 old landfills in England that may be contaminated with toxic substances have flooded since 2000, potentially posing a serious safety risk, it can be revealed.
Some of these former dumps containing possibly hazardous materials sit directly next to public parks and housing estates with hundreds of households, the analysis by the Greenpeace-funded journalism website Unearthed , in partnership with the Guardian, found.
Continue reading...Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions
Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature rise
Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger, some of the world’s most vulnerable nations have warned.
All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far only a small majority have done so, and some of the plans submitted have been inadequate to the scale of action needed.
Continue reading...Washington releases ETS overhaul draft for WCI linkage with short 15-day comment window
CFTC: CCA optimism flops back to end November levels in V25 with regulatory delays, headline risk
BC non-profit announces C$2.5 mln investment in women-led climate tech companies
Washington state carbon market faces constitutional test at US Supreme Court
ANALYSIS: Stakeholders push ARB for timely implementation of LCFS amendments, but worries persist
Oregon shifts clean fuels programme compliance deadlines following cyberattack on state agency
Developer launches second biodiversity credit project in Colombia amid market flux
Seasonal deforestation in Brazilian Amazon up 18% YoY through March -report
Netherlands retains CO2 levy but eases up on climate ambition
Appalachian hydrogen hub may be ‘coming apart’ amid US policy uncertainty -report
Colombian industry pushes for bigger private sector role in ETS planning
Canadian securities regulator pauses climate disclosure mandate
EXCLUSIVE: Alberta government says remains committed to industrial carbon pricing
Six things we learned about the future of energy security at UK summit
Critical minerals, nuclear power and the ‘weaponisation’ of energy supplies were discussed at international conference
The UK and the International Energy Agency gathered ministers and high-level officials from 60 countries to Lancaster House in London for two days of talks on the future of energy security this week. The EU was out in force, the US sent a top official, but China stayed away. Here’s what we learned.
Continue reading...BRIEFING: Critical minerals supply a major risk to energy transition, leaders tell IEA-UK summit
Britain will find ‘common ground’ with US on energy policy, says Miliband
Energy secretary says countries must work together during conference at which US delegate called net zero ‘dangerous’
Britain will find “common ground” with the US on energy and the economy including on nuclear power, despite differences over climate policy, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has pledged.
He was speaking at the close of a two-day, 60-country conference in London on energy security, hosted by the government and the International Energy Agency (IEA), at which the US delegate Tommy Joyce attacked net zero policies as “dangerous” and “damaging”, and said it was in the interests of “our adversaries”.
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