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Macquarie’s Eku gets to work on two more big batteries
Macquarie-owned energy storage developer has a global big battery development pipeline that has ballooned to 1.2GWh in under a year.
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A voluntary biodiversity market is coming to Australia with or without the nature repair market bill, experts say
Works complete to connect South Australia’s biggest wind farm to grid
Works to connect South Australia's largest wind farm to the state's grid – and take it a major step closer to “net” 100 per cent renewables – have been completed.
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Watch: Hundreds of baby seahorses released in Sydney Harbour
Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi factory near Sao Paolo
CP Daily: Thursday July 20, 2023
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Building energy leak-sealer raises $67 mln in Series B fundraise
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Leading Nasa climate expert says July likely to be hottest month on record
Gavin Schmidt of Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planet
July will likely be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, Gavin Schmidt, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters on Thursday, as a persistent heatwave baked swaths of the US south.
Schmidt made the announcement during a meeting at Nasa’s Washington headquarters that convened agency climate experts and other leaders, including Nasa administrator Bill Nelson and chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin.
Continue reading...UPDATE – Developer plans largest ever forest project in the Americas, won’t use REDD+
Nature-based solutions could help European cities cut emissions by up to 25% -study
Mining the seabed for clean-tech minerals could destroy ecosystems. Will it get the green light?
Life in maars: why it's worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interests
Xpansiv to host new ecosystem-focused voluntary carbon standard
I used to ride private planes. Now I’d rather get arrested protesting them | Abigail Disney
Our planet faces ecological catastrophe – and 50% of aviation carbon emissions are caused by private flights. That’s untenable
Last Friday, I was arrested along with a group of climate activists for blocking the entrance to the East Hampton airport in New York and stopping private jet arrivals and departures. Many people have asked me why.
The truth is I am terrified of the future of our climate, and I believe that non-violent civil disobedience is the best way to create transformative change. I have covered disruptive protest and social issues in my films, and supported movements through philanthropy. So, at 63, I decided it was time for me to stand in protest with other activists, to put my body on the line.
Abigail E Disney is an Emmy-winning documentary film-maker and activist and the great-niece of Walt Disney
Continue reading...‘Greenhushing’ claims look unfounded as carbon credit disclosures hold, say analysts
Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones
Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded.
The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found.
Continue reading...An inconvenient truth: you can’t sell the green revolution to people who can’t afford it | Gaby Hinsliff
In a cost of living crisis, heat pumps and electric cars are out of reach for most. Britain needs to fund a genuinely fair transition – and fast
It can’t be easy being Barbie. As if life wasn’t tough enough for an ageing doll with a decorative dimwit for a boyfriend, this week she suffered the indignity of being dragged into a byelection.
Or more precisely, her bright pink classic Corvette did. In easily the most excruciating moment of an already awkward attempt to cling on to Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat, Tory HQ briefly tried to enliven its main line of attack by suggesting to friendly newspapers that if Barbie for some unexplained reason rocked up in the suburbs, she might have to pay £12.50 for breaching mayor Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), due to be extended to the capital’s outer fringes from August. At the time of writing, the voters’ verdict on this one is still hotly awaited. But whatever the outcome, hiding behind a dolly feels like the kind of political low point nobody gets over in a hurry.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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