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A significant number of New Zealanders overestimate sea-level rise — and that could stop them from taking action
Founding Executive Director, Carbon Removal Advocacy Europe – Flexible
German energy exchange launches zero-carbon shipping index
London hit by severe flooding after torrential rainfall – video
London, and the other areas in the south of England, were hit by torrential downpours that resulted in significant flooding on Monday night.
London fire brigade said its 999 control officers received more than 150 calls to flooding incidents in the capital. Forecasters said the torrential showers were expected to continue through most of the evening
Continue reading...If wildlife vigilantes smuggle Tassie devils to the Australian mainland, the animals could live in secret for 20 years
Doubled EU carbon price, CBAM to have negligible impact on industry, households -economists
VCM Report: VER issuances, retirements blossom in Q2 as prices increase further
Australian environment groups urge UN to put Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’ list
Letter to world heritage committee comes as minister embarks on week of lobbying against change
Australia’s major environment groups have written to the UN’s world heritage committee, urging it to put the Great Barrier Reef on its “in danger” list as the Morrison government ramps up its lobbying against the change.
The environment minister, Sussan Ley, was due to land in Europe on Monday evening for a week-long campaign against the in-danger recommendation for the ocean jewel.
Continue reading...In a New Zealand estuary, I closed my eyes and floated. It turned out the water was toxic | Ingrid Horrocks
Ingrid Horrocks learned to swim in the wild – but no river or lake in the region she grew up in is ‘swimmable’ any more
For most of those of us who swim, swimming is not something we think about: it is something we do.
I learned to swim in the sea, as some of us did in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1980s, walking down to the beach with my Auckland primary school. One of my earliest memories is of graduating to the “heads under” group and of sucking salt from my hair.
Continue reading...UK ETS cost containment trigger rises 5.4% for October
Head of Low Carbon Projects Portfolio, BP – London
Natural Climate Solutions Technical Project Manager, BP – London
Climate Change Policy Adviser, British High Commission – Canberra
Carbon Stocks Manager, AgriProve – Albury, NSW
Forest Carbon Analyst, Finite Carbon – Oregon/Tallahassee/Flexible
Associate Director, Business Development, Structured Carbon Deals, South Pole – London/Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris
Goldfish dumped in lakes grow to monstrous size, threatening ecosystems
Minnesota pet owners warned not to release fish into wild, where they wreak havoc on native species
Authorities in Minnesota have appealed to aquarium owners to stop releasing pet fish into waterways, after several huge goldfish were pulled from a local lake.
Officials in Burnsville, about 15 miles south of Minneapolis, said released goldfish can grow to several times their normal size and wreak havoc on indigenous species.
Continue reading...Festivals are out; so is the dream holiday. But for once I’m looking forward to summer | Emma Beddington
After 46 years, I’m lowering my expectations. Who needs more than ice-cream and a few salty snacks?
Summer is here: I can smell it (lighter-fuel-doused charcoal and the ammonia punch of After Bite dabbed on giant angry weals) and hear it (strimmers and mowers and the ice-cream van). I can feel it too: a slither of itchy unease at the core of my being, a tight-chested sense that everything is slipping out of my control when I see a few sun icons on my phone.
“Which summer tribe are you?” the magazine quizzes ask, but I’m not mermaidcore, Riviera chic or Amish prairie cowgirl: I’m “looking longingly at cardigans” – and not just because this season has got off to such a damp and chilly start.
Continue reading...‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold
Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.
The goals set out by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help halt and reverse the ecological destruction of Earth by the end of the decade also include protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans and land and providing a third of climate crisis mitigation through nature by 2030.
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