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Carbon credit retirements for 2023 set to match 2022 levels, defying fears of dented market confidence
Fund launches call for climate contribution projects ahead of fourth cash allocation
ART programme lists Burkina Faso REDD+ concept
UK lawmakers urge govt to consider curbing aviation demand, account for carbon-intensive SAFs
No escape from CBAM: Indian industries bound to be severely impacted by new UK policy -experts
Euro Markets: EUAs post fifth increase in a row as market shrugs off 22% increase in auction volumes
EU nations seek to keep rules for climate-related equity indices despite red tape cull
‘We are not hardcore hippies’: why our family chose a low income in order to have a richer life
Despite a typical suburban upbringing – and two PhDs – Jonathan Cornford and his family decided to restrain their consumption
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When my wife, Kim, and I got married in 1995 we decided, in our youthful idealism, that we would try to “live simply so that others might simply live”. It turns out that living simply can sometimes be quite complicated. Nevertheless, from the outset it was clear to us that living simply should involve living on a lower income than the Australian norm. We were sort of downshifters, except we had never shifted up in the first place.
The bulk of our married life has been spent living at an income level that put us in the bottom 20% of Australian households. We now have two older teenagers, and for most of their lives our family technically hovered around the Australian household poverty line. But “poverty” has been very far from our experience.
Continue reading...Sales of electric vehicles surge as fast-charging sites double across Australia in a year
EVs made up just 2% of new car sales in May 2022, but now 8.3% of new car sales in 2023 are battery powered
The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has welcomed a boom in electric vehicle sales, revealing the number of fast-charging sites has nearly doubled in the last year.
National strategies on electric vehicles are expected to more than double the number of charger stations again within three years, as the federal government seeks to incentivise the use of cleaner cars. New fuel efficiency standards, expected to be outlined in early 2024, are likely to further discourage the sale of higher-emitting vehicles, making electric cars more attractive.
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Conservationists challenge UK in court for overfishing
2023 was the year governments looked at the climate crisis – and decided to persecute the activists | Owen Jones
Around the world, the people fighting for the survival of our planet are being shamefully silenced and villified
Injustice is easy to oppose after it has receded into the past, and there is no cost to imagining yourself as a hero long after the event. Everyone celebrates the suffragettes now, but at the time they were vilified as hateful spinsters and terrorists. McCarthyism is a pejorative political label on right and left alike now, but at his peak, more Americans approved of Senator Joseph McCarthy than frowned on his witch-hunt. Most people would like to believe they’d have stood up against the homophobia of 1980s Britain – yet, by 1987, only 11% of the British public believed same-sex relations to be “not wrong at all”.
Which takes us to climate activism. This year has seen a global onslaught against people agitating for more action to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. Courts can issue stern judgments, but so can history, and you have to wonder its future verdict on how the persecution and silencing of those raising the alarm only escalated when the scientific evidence had become so cast-iron, and when extreme weather events hammered home the imminent danger facing the human species. Here in Britain, a government which is reneging on its climate commitments – not least by expanding oil and gas licences – is simultaneously introducing repressive legislation to silence those holding them to account.
Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Sweden could be the epicentre for producing green steel ingredients, says industry initiative
COMMENT: Update of the EU ETS free allocation – polluting for free during a climate crisis
FEATURE: Digital MRV is growing up, set to bring greater transparency to voluntary carbon market
CN Markets: Chinese CO2 permits hit two-month high ahead of final compliance deadline
The week in wildlife – in pictures: eagles battle, a swimming buck and a leopard on the loose
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...California-based startup eyes Indian tea plantation carbon credits
‘Ghost gear’: the Senegalese team battling a lethal fishing legacy – in pictures
Fishing nets abandoned or lost in the sea – known as ‘ghost nets’ or ‘ghost gear’ – have been called ‘the most deadly form of marine plastic debris’. Dolphins, fish, whales, seabirds and turtles become entangled and die slow, painful deaths. But divers in Dakar are working to remove the threat
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