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Google search queries for “climate anxiety” rise dramatically, data given exclusively to BBC 100 Women suggests.

The people of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas have used maths to solve a water shortage.

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Netball mums are the unsung heroes of community sport – and it’s time they took their well-honed political, economic and social skills to the world stage

Beyoncé had the right idea about who should run the world (girls!), it’s just that she wasn’t quite specific enough.

For years we’ve been talking about the need for more women in leadership roles, yet change and progress has been glacial. As a result, I believe, we need to cast a different, more distinct, net.

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The European Commission last week published projected EUA auction volumes for 2024, and analysts are mixed as to how the figure compared to their expectations.

The Canada Growth Fund, a C$15 billion public investment vehicle, will allocate almost half of its capital to issue carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) and offtake agreements, according to the federal government’s 2023 fall economic statement released Tuesday.

More Australians than ever live in rented homes, many of which get far too hot. With summers getting longer and hotter, keeping millions of people cool should be a national housing policy priority. Zoe Goodall, Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Sungkavi Selvakumaran, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University, and Lecturer in Public Health, Torrens University Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Rhode Island announced funding sourced from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday for the state's new energy efficiency grants for municipalities.

The legal battle over whether Pennsylvania can join RGGI through executive action will continue, following an appeal from Governor Josh Shapiro (D) of a Nov. 1 Commonwealth Court ruling that blocked the state's regulations. 

The 130MW Glenrowan solar farm has been energised in northern Victoria and will soon begin generating enough electricity to power 45,000 homes.

The post New 130MW solar farm energised in northern Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The cost of Britain’s commercial forestry has fallen for the first time in a decade, though the value of listed land with natural capital potential has soared, according to a new report.

BlackRock's Akaysha to build Australia's biggest four hour battery, and AGL to install a huge battery at Liddell after winning tender to fill gap from Eraring closure.

The post Liddell to host giant battery after AGL and Akaysha win Australia’s biggest capacity tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The EU and Switzerland have published the ETS allowance transfer window schedule for 2024, providing near-daily opportunities for units to flow between the linked carbon markets.

Allowance holdings of power sector emitters under the RGGI carbon market increased at the end of the third quarter even as their estimated short position widened, while traded volumes cratered through Q3, according to a report published Tuesday.

Northvolt hails breakthrough in sodium ion batteries, providing big advances for battery storage and ultimately for electric vehicles.

The post Northvolt hails sodium-ion battery breakthrough for storage and electric vehicles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Community-driven programmes to install low- and zero-emission technologies, reduce GHG output, and improve climate resiliency are eligible for $2 billion in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the US EPA announced Tuesday.

Whether the Netherlands adopts a more ambitious climate agenda than that of the outgoing government will hinge on how much the electorate engages in tactical voting to keep the extreme right-wing out of government, as polls reveal a surge in popularity for the populist, anti-climate policy Party For Freedom (PVV) ahead of Wednesday's vote.

EU lawmakers facing a difficult time agreeing on a text to reduce the use of pesticides, with a debate in the European Parliament on Tuesday replicating some of the controversies seen earlier in the year for the bloc's nature restoration bill. 

California electricity sector CO2 emissions continued to decrease from the previous year's levels in October, but at a more moderate pace than in recent months, as shares of natural gas CO2 output skyrocketed and renewables fell back, data published Monday showed.

Between Black Friday and Christmas we will see adverts encouraging people to desire things that don’t reveal what they could cost the planet

Late in November 1998, a British newspaper alerted its readers to a strange quirk of American culture. At 5am on the day after Thanksgiving, queues were forming at US shopping malls, and the roads were busy with more would-be shoppers. It was called “Black Friday”, explained the reporter, the day when retailers could expect to see their bottom lines magically go from red to black. And what was selling this year? Fluffy robots called Furby dolls. By 6.05am, the main toyshop inside one mall in Boston had sold out of its entire stock of Furby dolls. The Guardian’s librarians believe that this is the first mention of Black Friday in any British national newspaper. A quarter of a century later, your Furby may be a relic but Black Friday has gone global.

Marketing changes our norms, and the eight weeks of Christmas broadcasts are the industry’s yearly jamboree. It’s forecast that this month and next, a record £9.5bn will be blown on advertising, more than the UK government spends on prisons in a year. This is the philosophy of “spending like there’s no tomorrow” – literally, given the climate crisis. Once Christmas has passed, the adverts will offer up many alternative ways to fry the planet.

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