Feed aggregator

A climate tech startup backed by computing legend Bill Gates claims it can permanently remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere for more than a millennium at a cost under $100 per tonne.

Brookfield's bid for Origin is good for Australia. But Australia's biggest super fund is signalling that fundamental value is less important than just stopping the bid.

The post The super fund giant and advisory firm blocking Australia’s renewable energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The US is experiencing a rapid escalation in climate change impacts, with the threat of worsening consequences that will affect human health, key infrastructure, and the economy while sparing no region, according to a comprehensive report published Tuesday.

Every living thing leaves traces in its environment. By sampling water or even air for this environmental DNA, we can know which species live where. Maarten De Brauwer, Research fellow, CSIRO Oliver Berry, Leader, Environomics Future Science Platform, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

With a slidedeck for the California regulator's cap-and-trade programme public workshop set to release half an hour after the upcoming fourth quarter carbon allowance sale, WCI market participants deliberated on whether the ARB's release would affect bids at Wednesday's auction.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to temporarily exempt home heating oil from carbon pricing has only amplified existing dissent with the Liberal government’s approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and introduces uncertainty to the future of Canadian climate policy, experts say.

A suite of legislation passed in California mandating disclosure of Scope 1-3 emissions and climate-related financial risk for large companies, as well as standardised requirements for voluntary carbon market participants, sets the stage for high-quality climate action from the private sector, a panel of experts discussed Tuesday.

The WCI-linked cap-and-trade and Washington cap-and-invest 2024 auction floor prices were set unofficially as October inflation held unchanged month-over-month for the first time all year, according to federal data published Tuesday.

The upcoming calls for the EU ETS-financed Innovation Fund will represent a major step-up in scale under new rules that also promise a greater spread of awards for pioneering carbon-cutting projects across the 27-nation bloc.

Understanding the success of the ABC’s War on Waste is a lesson in behavioural psychology. Research reveals five ways to guide other entertainment-education interventions to similar success. Danie Nilsson, Behavioural Scientist, CSIRO Rachael Vorwerk, Science Communicator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS), RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A charter airline service provider announced on Tuesday a partnership with Canadian-headquartered carbon project developer to offset GHG output from aviation fuel burn and customer air travels.

UK-based green industries, from electric car chargers to solar panels, are looking to the finance minister's autumn statement next week for a response to transition strategies elsewhere, particularly the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and say that more potential investment will be lost without a strong government commitment.

A twice-weekly summary of our biodiversity news plus bite-sized updates from around the world. All articles in this edition are free to read (no subscription required).

Certifier Gold Standard on Tuesday said it had opened an investigation into the Bachu Biomass Power Generation Project in China in the wake of media reports that suggested the initiative may be at risk of being implicated in potential forced labour. 

Accredited REDD+ developers in an Amazonian Brazilian state have more than doubled after the jurisdiction's Secretariat for the Environment (SEMA) confirmed that an additional 14 entities were awarded the title of executing agents.

A Google DeepMind tool predicted where one would hit three days ahead of existing methods.

The worst of this year's acrimony among EU lawmakers over green issues may now have passed after a deal was found on the bloc’s nature bill, MEPs suggested at an event in Brussels on Tuesday as a leading global climate policy expert eyed the importance of next year’s elections for determining the bloc's level of climate ambition.

The proposed EU target to scale up annual operational CO2 injection capacity to 50 million tonnes by 2030 is "aggressive" but "possible with better policy and regulatory support", an event heard this week.

Here are some of the standout images from the 2023 Nature Conservancy photo contest. Entries from more than 80,000 photographers in 191 countries and territories were judged across 12 categories

Continue reading...

It has a complicated face, like an intricate chest of drawers, or a jewellery box: press on this part and it opens to reveal a mouth, on that, and an eye pops out

This is a recipe for moéche, the green, soft-shelled crabs that live in Venetian lagoons: mix a batter of flour, eggs, salt and parmesan cheese in a bucket. Drop live crabs into the batter, which must be cold so that the crabs will feel at home. For 30 minutes, the last of their lives, let the moéche scuttle around in the batter, eating it. Then drop them into a pot of boiling hot oil: self-stuffing crabs.

The moéche are crabs – “true crabs” – that have moulted: they have soft shells for just a few hours, before their exoskeletons turn hard. To climb out of their too-small skins, they fill themselves up with water, so that the carapace splits. Then, they pull every part of themselves from their own skins – from the tips of their legs to their eyeballs.

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us as if it must have been sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. ‘I am no such thing,’ it would say, ‘I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.’

Continue reading...