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EU lawmakers to raise ambition on renewables, fear RePowerEU complications
Colombian airline Avianca offsets 98% of emissions during H1
Australia’s farcical climate policy: market forces to cut emissions and subsidies to destroy carbon sinks | Richard Denniss
Our federal government pays some people to protect native forests, while state governments pay others to cut them down
The climate crisis often gets blamed on market failure, but government failure plays a pretty big role as well. Not only do Australian governments spend more than $11.6bn a year subsidising fossil fuels, at the same time the federal government spends billions paying some landholders to grow more trees, state governments perversely continue to subsidise the logging of native forests. I’m not sure that’s what people mean by the circular economy.
While successive governments have spent billions subsidising research into carbon capture and storage (CCS), the really inconvenient truth is the most effective CCS technology is the humble tree. It’s low cost, low risk and ready to roll. Trees quite literally suck carbon dioxide out of the air and store it safely in their trunks and their roots. And as if that’s not a cool invention, trees throw in water filtration and native species habitat “services” for free. If Elon Musk had invented the tree, he’d be a trillionaire by now.
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Continue reading...Boat owners on UK’s longest canal stuck amid record water shortage
A lack of recent rainfall forces part of the Leeds-Liverpool canal to shut while 5 million face a hosepipe ban
Boat owners on the UK’s longest canal will not be able to move their boats next week, due to a water shortage, while 5 million people have been warned they may be soon facing a hosepipe ban.
Stretches of the Leeds-Liverpool canal will be closed during periods next week after a lack of rainfall has led to low levels in some Yorkshire and Lancashire reservoirs, leaving canal locks unable to be filled.
Continue reading...How streaming videos gives a Danish city hot water
James Webb: Nasa space telescope delivers spectacular pictures
Zephyr breaks own record for longest unmanned flight
UK’s Drax seeks approval for world’s largest carbon capture facility
‘It’s a non-party political issue’: banning the weedkiller glyphosate
The WHO declared it a probable human carcinogen in 2015 and 70-80 UK councils have turned to chemical-free options
Yellow grass and unnaturally bare soil around public trees and paths is increasingly a vision of the past, as indiscriminate use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate is phased out by councils. But changing the way the public realm looks is not without controversy, with some complaining so-called weeds make urban spaces unsightly.
Heavily used in farming, glyphosate’s non-agricultural use extends to parks and green spaces, pavements and playgrounds, hospitals and shopping centres. Since the WHO declared it a “probable human carcinogen” in 2015, after research found “strong” evidence for its toxicity, 70 to 80 UK councils have turned to chemical-free options or simply letting plants grow, from Bath & North East Somerset council, to Highland council in Scotland.
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The Tory green consensus is breaking – this leadership contest could spell the end of net zero | Helena Horton
The party’s climate-sceptic right wing is succeeding in its campaign to push candidates away from climate pledges
This weekend, I received a call from a well-known green Conservative, telling me to stop using the phrase “net zero” in my articles and tweets about the leadership election. It has become too toxic, he said.
While this was shocking, it wasn’t completely unexpected. None of the leadership candidates so far have made the positive case for green jobs and cheap renewable energy. Instead, the only ones speaking out about climate change are culture warriors Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch, who wish to scrap net zero targets.
Continue reading...New Tory leader won’t ditch UK’s net-zero target, says minister
George Eustice reassures public as he announces 50 landowners have applied to rewilding programme
Fifty landowners have applied to a government scheme to rewild their land, the environment secretary has said, as he reassured green Tories that the net-zero target will be protected by the next administration.
Speaking at the Conservative Environment Network’s summer party, George Eustice acknowledged that people who care about the environment feel “apprehensive and anxious” about the Conservative leadership election.
Continue reading...Breaking from China’s clean energy dominance ‘imperative’, US and Australia say after new climate tech deal
New agreement to fast-track climate solutions signed as countries underscore need for diversified supply chains
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The US and Australia have stressed the importance of breaking the near-complete reliance on China for zero emissions technology supplies while signing a new agreement that promises to accelerate the development of climate solutions.
In a joint press conference in Sydney, the US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, and the Australian climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, announced a “net zero technology acceleration partnership”, including an initial focus on long-duration energy storage and digitising power grids.
Continue reading...NSW Forestry gets 2.5GW of wind project proposals for state pine forests
Forestry Corp launches formal tender for renewable and storage projects in state pine forests after receiving nearly 50 different proposals.
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Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions
Research puts US ahead of China, Russia, India and Brazil in terms of global damage as climate expert says numbers ‘very stark’
The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has provided the first measurement of nations’ liability in stoking the climate crisis.
The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest historical emitter, has caused such harm to other, mostly poor, countries through heatwaves, crop failures and other consequences that the US is responsible for $1.91tn in lost global income since 1990, the study found.
Continue reading...Australian market roundup: Govt green bank, superfund launch sustainability tech fund as new landfill gas projects registered
Great Solar Business Podcast: Are grants worth the effort?
Multi-award winning solar pioneer Professor Renate Egan outlines the secrets to getting grants.
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Britons dispose of nearly 100bn pieces of plastic packaging a year, survey finds
UK households recycle just 12% of single-use plastic, says Greenpeace
UK households throw away nearly 100bn pieces of plastic packaging a year, according to a survey by Greenpeace.
The results of one of the largest voluntary research projects into the scale of plastic waste show that only 12% of the single-use packaging used by households is sent for recycling.
Continue reading...Nice work if you can get it: $65,800 a megawatt hour to keep the lights on
Reserve trader mechanism activated in Queensland last week paid a handsome $65,000 a megawatt hour to ensure the lights stayed on.
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