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Governments need to boost backing for low-carbon hydrogen, IEA says
Electrify everything and go renewable. Turns out it’s much cheaper than thought
A fully electrifed home powered by renewables will need less than 40% of the energy of its fossil-fueled counterpart. And save thousands.
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Kishida takes reins at crucial time for Japan climate policy
Did Matt Kean’s Tesla diplomacy really work on Perrottet? We’re about to find out
Matt Kean and his Tesla have done a wonderful job in convincing Dominic Perrottet to go green. But will the ideas stick when he becomes Premier?
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Surging gas prices and fuel bills focus Tory minds on the nuclear option
Growing fears of energy security are leading a rethink on Chinese involvement in atomic plans. But what alternative are there?
Among the subjects preoccupying delegates at the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Monday, energy will be near the top of the list.
Soaring global gas prices, a lack of windpower and surging household bills have focused minds on Britain’s energy needs – and the role of nuclear power in particular.
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Carbon & Net Zero Consultant, Mott MacDonald – Melbourne
New Zealand releases 2022 ETS auction calendar
The fossil fuel industry’s CCS offsets scheme is aggressively absurd
The fossil fuel industry has won a fight to enable the granting of offset certificates to carbon capture projects. It's so much worse than it sounds.
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The classic cars being converted to electric vehicles
Living on a ship next to 174 North Sea wind turbines
Better building standards are good for the climate, your health, and your wallet. Here's what the National Construction Code could do better
Austria unveils German-inspired carbon levy in tax overhaul
‘Rogue’ paddleboarders and kayakers threaten seabird sanctuary
Human activity disturbs nesting of puffins and rare roseate terns at Coquet Island in Northumberland
A bird sanctuary island in Northumberland, home to Britain’s rarest nesting seabird, is being threatened by an influx of “rogue” paddleboarders and kayakers who are causing major disturbances.
Dr Paul Morrison, the site manager of Coquet Island, said in his 37 years in the job he had seen a lot of changes, but “this is one of the most serious ones”.
Continue reading...Fuel crisis and supply shortages are a product of the UK’s economic model
Rising prices and lack of goods are what happens when just-in-time economy collides with skin-of-the-pants government
It all seems to have happened so fast. Only a few months ago, the government was congratulating itself for the speed at which Britain was emerging from the pandemic. But as the nights have lengthened, there have been empty shelves at supermarkets, spiralling energy prices and queues snaking back from petrol stations.
If there is a general sense of bemusement at all this, then there really shouldn’t be. This is what happens when just in time production methods collide with just in time government and turn a problem into a crisis.
Britain now has just 1% of Europe’s storage capacity, enough to cope with four or five cold winter days.
Continue reading...Pandemic forces BBC into new approach for David Attenborough’s The Mating Game
BBC One natural history series relied on local film-makers to be in the right place at the right time
African bullfrogs converging on pools in South Africa and fighting like bar room brawlers; a school of ghostly-looking manta rays assembling off the Australian coast; vivid images of amphibious snot otters working co-operatively in a cold north American river.
These are all scenes from the new BBC One David Attenborough blockbuster series The Mating Game, filmed during the Covid crisis using a markedly different approach to the 50-year-old tried-and-tested way of doing things.
Continue reading...Heatwaves, sewage, pesticides: why England’s rivers need a ‘new deal’ to avert crisis
A water industry group is calling for legislation and planning controls to protect waterways from climate change and pollution
England’s rivers are facing a crisis from climate change, agricultural pollution and lack of effective planning controls. That is the key warning of Water UK, the industry group that represents the nation’s water suppliers.
In a report to be published this week, the authority will call for the government to set up a national rivers plan and enact a rivers act to ensure the health of the country’s waterways. “We are calling for a new deal for rivers in England,” it states.
Continue reading...Tax flights and ditch gas boilers: ‘blue wall’ voters back green policy
A majority of voters in the Conservative party’s key 41 constituencies believe the UK should be a world leader on climate
Voters in Tory heartlands want the government to do more to tackle the climate crisis, and support measures that many backbench Conservative MPs have balked at, from ditching gas boilers to taxing flights, new polling shows.
The government has delayed or dialled back key measures in recent weeks. There is no sign of the long-awaited heat and building strategy,the net zero strategy has been postponed to later this month, while the environment bill is stuck in parliament as ministers rejected strengthening amendments from the Lords.
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