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UK investor launches nature blueprint for renewables
Belgian lime products manufacturer signs MoU with British carbon capture firm
Adder girl! Tunnels aim to encourage British snakes to mix and breed
Trust builds passes under road bisecting Berkshire commons for increasingly endangered venomous snake
How did the adder cross the road? It didn’t – it was too scared.
Now, however, road-shy populations of the increasingly endangered snake are being given a helping hand with the construction of Britain’s first adder tunnels.
Continue reading...CN Markets: CEAs retreat from record highs as policy uncertainty lingers
‘No alternative’: EU climate chief urges MEPs not to use crisis as political tool
Exclusive: Wopke Hoekstra says EU must press ahead with cutting greenhouse gases and use policy to bring about economic benefits
Europe’s climate chief has warned against politicians trying to use the climate crisis as a wedge issue in the forthcoming EU parliament elections, calling instead for climate policy that will bring wider economic benefits.
Wopke Hoekstra, the EU commissioner for climate action, said Europe had no choice but to press ahead with strong measures to cut greenhouse gases, whoever was in power, but added that more attention was needed to help businesses thrive in a low-carbon world.
Continue reading...Shell dismisses Greenpeace, FT reporting on “phantom” carbon credits as inaccurate
Only one-third of largest marine protected areas is fully protected, study says
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Farmers’ union lobbied to increase pesticide limit in UK drinking water
NFU’s director of strategy asked for review of EU-derived protections as part of post-Brexit loosening of rules
The National Farmers’ Union lobbied to increase the amount of pesticides allowed in the UK’s drinking water and to allow farmers to spread manure more frequently as part of a post-Brexit loosening of environmental regulations, it can be revealed.
Nick von Westenholz, the director of strategy for the lobby group, met Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, the Earl of Minto, who is the minister of state for regulatory reform, last year and asked him to review EU-derived environmental protections.
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Carbon revenue, bio-based materials trend fund bamboo planting in Europe
Major Japanese utility to close five coal-fired units by 2030, accelerate adoption of ammonia coal co-firing
Thai govt, tech firm to financially support coastal communities through carbon credit sales
Forest conservation project in Germany sells first biodiversity credits
Week in wildlife – in pictures: an eel gets a shock, bees take Manhattan and a possum on the pitch
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...“Gas shortage? Yeah, nah.” A Fact Check on Labor’s fossil gas future strategy
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We need to talk about gas emissions, and the climate methane bomb
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Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust
Trust aims to boost small pearl-bordered fritillary colonies in Shropshire Hills by planting 20,000 violets this year for their caterpillars
A mass planting of marsh violets across England’s Shropshire Hills is to take place to try to prevent further decline of the small pearl-bordered fritillary or Boloria selene, a rare UK butterfly.
The small pearl-bordered fritillary’s distribution across the UK has plunged 71% since the mid 1970s and the species is now listed as vulnerable, according to the 2022 state of UK butterflies report.
Continue reading...Fixation on UK nuclear power may not help to solve climate crisis
Waste and cost among drawbacks, as researchers say renewables could power UK entirely
In the battle to prevent the climate overheating, wind and solar are making impressive inroads into the once dominant market share of coal. Even investors in gas plants are increasingly seen as taking a gamble.
With researchers at Oxford and elsewhere agreeing that the UK could easily become entirely powered by wind and solar – with no fossil fuels required – it seems an anomaly that nuclear power is still getting the lion’s share of taxpayer subsidies to keep the ailing industry alive.
Continue reading...Energy Insiders Podcast: Hydrogen hopeful’s big funding win
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