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Harvard University will divest its $42bn endowment from all fossil fuels
• Student campaigners: ‘Activism works, plain and simple’
• University president cites need to decarbonize economy
Harvard will divest itself from holdings in fossil fuels, the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, announced late on Thursday.
Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s vast endowment of almost $42bn, has already been reducing its financial exposure to fossil fuels and has no direct investments in companies that explore for or develop further reserves of fossil fuels, Bacow said in a message posted on the university’s website.
Continue reading...COP26: Poorest countries fear not reaching UK for climate summit
RGGI auction clears within market expectations as emitters’ share dwindles
US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending September 10, 2021
UK planning last-ditch China climate talks to break impasse before Cop26
Exclusive: crunch meeting of world leaders tabled for this month with China key to success of climate summit
Boris Johnson is planning to convene last-ditch climate talks with the president of China, Xi Jinping, at a crunch meeting of world leaders later this month, in hopes of breaking the global impasse on climate action ahead of the Cop26 climate summit being hosted in Glasgow this November.
Xi will be invited, along with the leaders of about 30 other countries, to a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on 20 September, the Guardian has learned.
Continue reading...UK ministers ‘met fossil fuel firms nine times as often as clean energy ones’
Exclusive: revelations come amid rising concerns over government’s plans to meet net zero target
UK government ministers have held private meetings with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers roughly nine times as often as they met companies involved in clean energy production, despite the increasing urgency of meeting the government’s climate targets.
Analysis by DeSmog, the environmental investigation group, of publicly available data shows that ministers from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) held 63 private meetings – with one company present, along with ministers and advisers – with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers between 22 July 2019 and 18 March 2021.
Continue reading...Criticism of animal farming in the west risks health of world’s poorest | Emma Naluyima Mugerwa and Lora Iannotti
In the developing world most people are not factory farming and livestock is essential to preventing poverty and malnutrition
The pandemic has pushed poverty and malnutrition to rates not seen in more than a decade, wiping out years of progress. In 2020, the number of people in extreme poverty rose by 97 million and the number of malnourished people by between 118 million and 161 million.
Recent data from the World Bank and the UN shows how poverty is heavily concentrated in rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America where people are surviving by smallholder farming. This autumn there will be two key events that could rally support for them.
Continue reading...The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a coloured photo of Tasmanian tiger, humpback whale and friendly donkey
Continue reading...Forget plans to lower emissions by 2050 – this is deadly procrastination | Peter Kalmus
Fixating on ‘net zero’ means betting the future of life on Earth that someone will invent some kind of whiz-bang tech to draw down CO2
The world has by and large adopted “net zero by 2050” as its de facto climate goal, but two fatal flaws hide in plain sight within those 16 characters. One is “net zero.” The other is “by 2050”.
These two flaws provide cover for big oil and politicians who wish to preserve the status quo. Together they comprise a deadly prescription for inaction and catastrophically high levels of irreversible climate and ecological breakdown.
Continue reading...CN Markets: Trade in China’s CO2 market shrivels further, leaving traders frustrated
Chevron seeks equity interest in US clean energy storage project
AU Market: ACCUs surge to record highs as demand persists
Controversial incineration projects shifted out of Sydney in waste-to-energy plan
The new NSW waste-to-energy plan shifts incineration projects out of Sydney and into the regions. Can it win support?
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Pole Position – Networks want more battery storage
Greg Hannan, the head strategy at three Victoria network owners, on why batteries will be hanging from poles, and the need for more storage.
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The daily dance of flowers tracking the sun is more fascinating than most of us realise
Gelion strikes Sydney manufacturing deal for “safe and durable” zinc-bromide battery
University of Sydney spin off Gelion secures a deal to have its long-life and fire resistant battery technology manufactured in Australia.
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Infratil pivots to Asian renewables market, after $2 billion exit from Australia
ASX-listed Infratil to make a may pivot to the Asian renewables market, after exiting Australia with the sale of Tilt Renewables.
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Matt Kean: We absolutely can cut out coal generation by 2030
NSW energy minister says "we absolutely can" end coal generation by 2030, and says he won't appeal a recent court case.
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Flexible PV: South Australia trials new solar export rules as it heads to 100 pct solar
South Australia to introduce flexible exports for new and upgraded systems as it seeks to manage the growing dominance of rooftop solar.
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