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Australia needs loud, fast and furious climate policy – now more than ever
To get out of Australia's climate funk we need to make climate policy loud again, and challenge Morrison's fantasy of a quiet and unambitious Australia.
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California-registered CITSS accounts near peak as allowance prices remain near all-time highs
Virginia industry group asks court to void RGGI regulation, declare programme unconstitutional
EU carbon rally near exhausted amid pronounced H2 downside risk, investment bank warns
Climate crisis is driving US heatwave, says Joe Biden – video
The US president blamed the climate crisis for a record-breaking heatwave when he met governors from western states as fierce wildfires burn in northern California. 'Climate change is driving a dangerous confluence of extreme heat and prolonged drought,' Biden said. 'Wildfires are not a partisan phenomenon. They don't stop at a county or a state line or country line for that matter.'
- Heatwave: Biden and Harris meet western governors as region in emergency
- Joe Biden blames climate crisis for deadly heatwave in western US and Canada
Australia’s threatened species plan has failed on several counts. Without change, more extinctions are assured
Euro Markets: EUAs withstand UK auction pressure as gas rally continues
RGGI revenues could lessen burden to Pennsylvania coal communities -report
UN aviation emissions body decried for hiring industry lobbyist
Campaigners criticise appointment of Michael Gill as ICAO’s director of legal affairs and external relations
Environmental groups have criticised the UN body tasked with cutting global aircraft emissions for hiring a former senior airline industry lobbyist to a senior role.
Campaigners say the recruitment of Michael Gill to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reflects its flaws and bias toward the industry.
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Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans | Simon Lewis
Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth’s uninhabitable areas will keep growing
The climate crisis means that summer is a time of increasingly dangerous heat. This week in the Pacific north-west, temperature records are not just being broken, they are being obliterated. Temperatures reached a shocking 47.9C in British Columbia, Canada. Amid temperatures more typically found in the Sahara desert, dozens have died of heat stress, with “roads buckling and power cables melting”.
Related: How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?
Continue reading...Vestas strengthens investment in wooden turbine tower manufacturer
Vestas increases investment in Swedish wooden wind turbine manufacturer Modvion.
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How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth? | Eric Holthaus
The unprecedented heatwave in the Pacific north-west risks becoming the new normal if we don’t act now
On Sunday, the small mountain town of Lytton, British Columbia, became one of the hottest places in the world. Then, on Monday, Lytton got even hotter – 47.9C (118F – hotter than it’s ever been in Las Vegas, 1,300 miles to the south.
Lytton is at 50 deg N latitude – about the same as London. This part of the world should never get this hot. Seattle’s new all-time record of 108F, also set Monday, is hotter than it’s ever been in Miami. In Portland, the new record of 116F would beat the warmest day ever recorded in Houston by nearly 10 degrees.
Continue reading...Japan casts wide net in funding new batch of JCM projects
Brussels plans inclusion of int’l shipping in EU carbon market from 2023 -draft
China’s Baotou Steel strikes 50-mln tonne forest carbon offset deal
Video: New electric motorcycle launched in Australia
Nigel Morris test rides the all-new electric Evoke, and talks to its distributors.
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Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price
Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes.
An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels – and covering up what they knew along the way.
Continue reading...The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted | Mark Hertsgaard
Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative?
Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene.
This crime has been going on for decades. We see its effects in the horrific heat and wildfires unfolding this summer in the American west; in the mega-storms that were so numerous in 2020 that scientists ran out of names for them; in the global projections that sea levels are set to rise by at least 20ft. Our only hope is to slow this inexorable ascent so our children may figure out some way to cope.
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