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Thérèse Coffey accused of undermining Cop15 talks with weak targets
Environment secretary disappoints campaigners by failing to set overall targets for river health and protected habitats
The UK government has undermined talks at the Cop15 biodiversity conference by failing to set targets for water quality or habitat protections in England, campaigners have said.
Environmental experts have been disappointed by the delayed legally binding targets mandated by the 2021 Environment Act, which were released on Friday, six weeks after the deadline.
Continue reading...UK may ban sandeel fishing in move to save threatened seabirds
Exclusive: government hopes ban in UK waters will protect birds, including puffins, that feed on small fish
Sandeel fishing in UK waters could be banned next year under “gamechanging” government plans to protect puffin and kittiwake numbers, the Guardian can reveal.
The sandeel is a small fish that is critical to marine food webs in the UK, and is an important part of many seabird diets. For example, the number of kittiwakes – which are particularly sandeel-dependent – has fallen by half in the UK since the 1960s, with diminishing availability of prey during the breeding season thought to be mainly responsible.
Continue reading...Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon
In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more
I thought it was a blood moon at first. The dark orange glow appeared at dusk on the far side of the shimmering silver band that is the Xingu River. It was just before 8pm, after the parrots had squawked back to their nests and the insects and frogs were noisily starting the forest nightshift. A flash of lightning from a cloud appeared above almost the same location but the rest of the sky was clear. How could there be a storm? I peered more intently and took a photograph that I could magnify. And there was the answer – a fire, which grew fiercer as I watched, the flames spreading sideways and upwards, flickering red and yellow, billowing smoke into the sky, sparking flashes of lightning every couple of minutes.
I felt sick to the stomach. The Amazon rainforest was being destroyed in front of my eyes. I have been writing about the climate crisis for 16 years, always with a sense of horror but until now, mostly with a sense of distance. This was the first time I had seen it from my home, and it was stranger than I expected. I had not realised until that moment that fire can create its own lightning storms, by creating pyrocumulonimbus, which scientists describe as “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds”.
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
Norwegian Air faces €70 mln EU ETS bill for non-compliance after losing appeal
Australia backs $2.7bn of big batteries to narrow gap to 100 pct renewables
Australia to fund eight big battery projects with advanced "grid forming" inverters that will help close coal and narrow the gap to 100 pct renewables
The post Australia backs $2.7bn of big batteries to narrow gap to 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
CN Markets: CEA price continues to drop, as analysts express modest expectations for 2023
Nature gets less than 1% of unprecedented EU budget -report
South Korea to sell fewer carbon allowances in 2023
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including hungry puppies, a snow leopard and migratory birds
Continue reading...COP15: US and Australia agree to work together to measure nature’s economic value
Capturing Ecology 2022 – in pictures
A selection of the winning and highly commended images in the British Ecological Society’s annual competition Capturing Ecology, taken by international ecologists and students across the globe. From a hungry mother leopard hunting to the calm of a bird floating on water, the images illustrate the intricacies of nature and our relationship with the natural world
Continue reading...Calls for tougher regulations as Queensland records highest rate of land clearing in country
Conservation groups warn not enough is being done to protect ecosystems as state government data shows more than 400,000ha of land was cleared in 2019-20
Queensland continues to record the highest rate of land clearing in the country, with more than 400,000 hectares destroyed in 2019-20, according to new government data.
The Queensland government’s annual statewide landcover and tree study shows 418,656 hectares was cleared, a 38% decline from 680,688 hectares the previous year but still the equivalent of about 567 Melbourne Cricket Grounds a day.
Continue reading...Coal demand to reach new global high in ’22 but then flatten until mid-decade, IEA says
CP Daily: Thursday December 15, 2022
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NZ Market: NZU price drops 12% in reaction to “status quo” ETS price settings
GE’s monster Haliade-X offshore wind turbine now officially most powerful in world
GE's Haliade-X wind turbine receives full type certificate for operations up to 14.7 MW from DNV GL, the world’s largest independent certification body.
The post GE’s monster Haliade-X offshore wind turbine now officially most powerful in world appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Greens hail blow to “ludicrous” practice of burning native forests for energy
The generation of electricity by burning native forest wood waste will no longer be counted as renewable in Australia, as Labor makes good on Climate Bill negotiation promise.
The post Greens hail blow to “ludicrous” practice of burning native forests for energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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