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Market fracture looms as states and power industry split over “Coal-keeper”
National Electricity Market could be fractured by the split among states and industry over the design of reforms designed to bring it into 21srt century.
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‘So fluffy they’re like teddy bears’: thousands of native bees emerge in Western Australia
Higher than average rainfall and growth of the bees’ two favourite flowers could account for the larger than usual colony
Thousands of fluffy native bees are emerging from the clay pans in Western Australia in bumper nesting colonies, after a year of above-average rainfall has wildflowers blooming.
Dawson’s burrowing bees, or Amegilla dawsoni, emerge from the ground from a few weeks every spring to breed and dig new burrows, which they will line with wax and fill with pollen and eggs.
Continue reading...Going to e-waste: Australia’s recycling failures and the challenge of solar
More than 100,000 tonnes of solar panel waste are forecast to enter Australia’s waste stream by 2035
The first time Dr Pablo Diaz set foot in an Australian recycling facility to see how the nation’s e-waste was processed he was struck by disappointment.
Until that moment the now 31-year-old had romanticised Australia. As a young engineering student in Brazil he had been working to develop methods to safely recycle old photovoltaic (PV) solar cells but when he tried to take it outside the lab, he found himself hamstrung.
Continue reading...English cities could be given national park status under new proposals
Government body Natural England is considering move in response to Glover report on protected landscapes
Cities in England could be granted national park status – affording urban areas the same level of environmental protection as natural landscapes – as part of a new review of open spaces.
The government is considering the proposed status, which would also entail management of the areas to maintain their biodiversity, in response to the Glover review of protected landscapes.
Continue reading...Wrong to label Extinction Rebellion as extremists, says Home Office adviser
Peer at odds with Priti Patel over climate activists on eve of more protests
A government extremism adviser has admitted during a private meeting that it is wrong to label Extinction Rebellion (XR) supporters as “extreme”, despite the home secretary, Priti Patel, condemning the group as “criminals” who threaten the nation’s way of life.
John Woodcock, the former Labour MP who was asked by the Home Office this year to examine disruption and violence by extreme political groups, sought to reassure XR activists that he did not regard the movement as uniformly extreme during a Zoom video conference call last month. “You’re worried that I want to label everyone who supports XR as extremists and that is certainly not the case,” he said.
Continue reading...Climate scientists: Net zero concept is a dangerous trap
The idea of net zero has licensed a recklessly cavalier “burn now, pay later” approach to climate action which has seen carbon emissions continue to soar.
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CP Daily: Friday August 20, 2021
WCI emitters build near-record California carbon short position ahead of Q3 auction
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade
Rainforest lost 10,476 sq km between August 2020 and July 2021, report says, despite increasing global concern
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, a new report has shown, despite increasing global concern over the accelerating devastation since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019.
Between August 2020 and July 2021, the rainforest lost 10.476 square kilometers – an area nearly seven times bigger than greater London and 13 times the size of New York City, according to data released by Imazon, a Brazilian research institute that has been tracking the Amazon deforestation since 2008. The figure is 57% higher than in the previous year and is the worst since 2012.
Continue reading...US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending August 20, 2021
Climate change: Will I still be able to fly in a net zero world?
UPDATE – RFS Market: RINs continue sell-off as market anticipates lower biofuel quotas
Police unswayed by road-block ruling ahead of London climate protests
Metropolitan police vow to tackle ‘wilful obstruction’ in spite of supreme court’s Ziegler judgment
Police preparing for a new campaign of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests in London have said they will not be deterred by a recent supreme court ruling that obstruction can be a legitimate and lawful form of protest.
The Ziegler judgment, handed down by the supreme court in June, had ruled that the exercising of protest rights could constitute a “lawful excuse” for obstructing the highway, even if the protest is considered disruptive.
Continue reading...Protests in Pakistan erupt against China’s belt and road plan
Demonstrations shut down Gwadar, where Chinese are blamed for lack of water and electricity and threat to local fishing
Protests have erupted in Pakistan’s port city Gwadar against a severe shortage of water and electricity and threats to livelihoods blamed on the Chinese. It is part of a growing backlash against China’s multibillion-dollar belt and road projects in the country.
This week, demonstrators including fishers and other local workers blocked the roads in Gwadar, a coastal town in Balochistan. They burned tyres, chanted slogans, and shut down the city, to demand water and electricity and a stop to Chinese trawlers illegally fishing in the nearby waters and then taking the fish to China. Two people were injured when the authorities cracked down on the protesters.
Continue reading...The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer
We are in an emergency. Wildfires are raging across the world as scorching temperatures and dry conditions fuel the blazes that have cost lives and destroyed livelihoods.
The combination of extreme heat, changes in our ecosystem and prolonged drought have in many regions led to the worst fires in almost a decade, and come after the IPCC handed down a damning landmark report on the climate crisis.
But technically, there are fewer wildfires than in the past – the problem now is that they are worse than ever and we are running out of time to act, as the Guardian's global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including wild horses, hungry cats and Wally the walrus
Continue reading...Scientists raise doubts over Leon’s ‘carbon-neutral’ burgers
Experts question credibility of environmental claims made by UK restaurant chain
The environmental credentials of Leon’s “carbon-neutral” burgers have been questioned after it emerged the fast-food chain was using controversial carbon offsets to make the claim.
In January, Leon announced it would become the first restaurant chain in the UK to serve carbon-neutral burgers and fries at more than 60 locations by reducing and offsetting the emissions they produce.
Continue reading...CN Markets: China ETS at standstill as market waits for access, CCER news
Oil firms made ‘false claims’ on blue hydrogen costs, says ex-lobby boss
Chris Jackson believes companies promoted ‘unsustainable’ fossil gas projects to access billions in taxpayer subsidies
Oil companies have used false claims over the cost of producing fossil fuel hydrogen to win over the Treasury and access billions in taxpayer subsidies, according to the outgoing hydrogen lobby boss.
Chris Jackson quit as the chair of a leading hydrogen industry association earlier this week ahead of a government strategy paper featuring support for “blue hydrogen”, which is derived from fossil gas and produces carbon emissions.
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