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Home battery installs jump 55 pct as solar households turn to storage in record numbers
Home battery installations charted a 55% increase in 2022, a new record and the sign of a turning point for consumer energy independence.
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The 70s nuclear relic that may be about to open at last
New York planning cap-and-invest programme with future RGGI linkage in mind
Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean 'overturning' – and threaten its collapse
Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists know the sea is rising
ANALYSIS: EU urged to incorporate engineered removals into ETS “as soon as possible”, but big questions remain
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Thousands of shellfish wash up dead on north-east England’s coast
Incident at Saltburn-by-the-Sea occurs in same area as number of die-offs reported in 2021 and 2022
Thousands more dead or dying shellfish have washed up on a beach on the same stretch of coast that saw a number of crustacean die-offs in autumn 2021 and last year.
Visitors to Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a few miles south-east of the River Tees, were met by the sight of hundreds of thousands of dead mussels on the shoreline, as well as starfish, crabs and razor clams.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on a water crisis: targets need to be binding | Editorial
The global response to an escalating water crisis is belated and inadequate. But last week’s UN conference was an important marker
The more than 700 pledges that emerged from the UN water conference, which concluded last weekend, were an insufficient response to the worsening global water crisis. But the scientific panel that the UN has committed to create, along with a new water envoy, should help bring greater clarity and raise awareness of the multiplying risks. These include sea level rises, floods, droughts and other extreme weather caused by global heating, and the lack of access of about 2 billion people to clean drinking water. The trouble is that the commitments made by attenders – who included very few world leaders – are voluntary and unenforceable. Given the broken climate pledges of the past, there is every reason to worry that the promises will not be kept.
Many participants in the three days of talks in New York were angered by the prominent role played by corporations, including manufacturers who are heavy users of water, and the lack of representation of grassroots organisations from the poorer countries that are the worst affected. As with recent reports of the influence of oil companies in US universities, there are growing concerns about the ways in which businesses are seeking to shape environmental legislation, and public understanding of the threats, to promote their own short-term economic interests.
Continue reading...Shipping sector not yet ready for looming EU ETS phase-in, say experts
EU legislators to face yet another trilogue talk to finalise renewables directive
United Nations adopts landmark resolution on climate justice
Resolution hailed as ‘win for climate justice of epic proportions’ should make it easier to hold countries accountable for failures
A UN resolution was adopted on Wednesday that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency, in a vote which was hailed as a historic victory for climate justice.
The UN general assembly adopted by consensus the resolution spearheaded by Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific island nation vulnerable to extreme climate effects, and youth activists to secure a legal opinion from the international court of justice (ICJ) to clarify states’ obligations to tackle the climate crisis – and specify any consequences countries should face for inaction.
Continue reading...EU experts look to avoid multiple methodologies for removal activities
Switzerland and France accused of lack of climate action in ECHR hearing
Group of Swiss women and French ex-mayor suing their governments in first such cases heard by rights court
The governments of Switzerland and France have been accused of breaching the human rights of their citizens by not acting decisively enough on climate change, at a landmark legal hearing in Strasbourg.
A panel of judges at the European court of human rights heard petitions from a group of Swiss women and a French former mayor seeking to bolster climate action in their countries. Although climate litigation has spread quickly around the world, these are the first such cases to be heard by the ECHR.
Continue reading...Senior lawmaker warns against giving the US exemptions from EU’s carbon border measure
Global gas flaring falls to lowest level since 2010 -World Bank
The UK’s ‘green day’ has turned into a fossil fuel bonanza – dirty money powers the Sunak government | George Monbiot
In prioritising oil and gas over renewables, ministers are doing the bidding of the polluters. And we’ll all pay the price
Money for the criminals, prison for the heroes: this, in brief, is the government’s climate policy. If something is damaging to the public interest, it’s likely to be rewarded and subsidised. If it’s beneficial, it will find itself in a hostile environment.
This government represents the denouement of the Pollution Paradox: as dirty money has the greatest incentive to invest in politics, it comes to run the whole system. Across these 13 years of misrule, we have seen the perversities of Conservative government multiply and intensify.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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