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It’s astounding Australia has no policy framework to drive urgent clean energy transition
It is astounding that there is no nationally agreed policy-making framework to guide Australia through a once in a century technological transition.
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Pennsylvania firm seeks ETF linked to global carbon markets index
MEPs expected to approve extension of strengthened MSR, EU nations trail
IPCC’s outlines solutions needed as 1.5C warming goal almost out of reach
Bird populations in Panama rainforest in severe decline, study finds
Of 57 species sampled, 35 decreased in number by 50% over four decades, with climate crisis likely factor
Bird populations in a Central American tropical rainforest are suffering severe declines, with likely factors including climate breakdown and habitat loss.
Scientists from the University of Illinois tracked species of birds in a protected forest reserve in central Panama to determine if and how populations had changed from 1977 to 2020.
Continue reading...World on 'fast track to climate disaster', says UN secretary general – video
António Guterres says the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals 'a litany of broken climate promises' by governments and businesses, and accuses some of them of lying in claiming to be on track to limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In a strongly worded rebuke, he says: 'It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unliveable world'
The Guardian view on the latest IPCC report: a fast track to climate disaster | Editorial
Governments have hitherto been far too hesitant to take on vested interests and are all too ready to protect historic investments in fossil fuels
The continued heating of the planet means that this year will probably be one of this century’s coolest. As the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear, current climate pledges by governments would not keep global heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels – the target promised in the 2015 Paris agreement. Instead greenhouse gas emissions are rising. During the past decade, on average annually they were at their highest levels in human history.
The world is on a pathway to temperature increases of more than 3C in the coming decades. This would make large parts of the world too hot to work in. Severe harvest failures will become common. Disappearing ice caps would submerge major cities. Governments have hitherto been far too hesitant to take on vested interests and are all too ready to protect historic investments in fossil fuels.
Continue reading...‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance
Exclusive: With only 33 of Victoria’s lowland population left, the team charged with their recovery says ‘we need to be proactive’
As dusk has fallen each night for the last seven days, Dan Harley and Arabella Eyre have turned to each other and said: “They’ll be coming out about now.”
A week ago, the pair executed a risky plan to relocate five tiny Leadbeater’s possums – each about as heavy as an apple and the size of a fist – from their last remaining bolthole in Victoria to a new home in a forest swamp, three hours’ drive away.
Continue reading...We urgently need to cut emissions – the good news is we can do it quickly and relatively cheaply
The IPCC finds that emissions could be halved globally by 2030 at affordable costs if action is taken right across the board
Enormous opportunities to cut emissions deeply are there, the time to act is now, and it can be done at affordable cost.
That would be the shortest possible summary of the thousands of pages of careful assessment in the world’s definitive stocktake of how to limit future climate change.
Frank Jotzo is a professor at the Australian National University. He is a lead author of the sixth assessment report of Working Group III of the IPCC, and co-author of its summary for policymakers.
Continue reading...Final warning: what does the IPCC’s third report instalment say?
Explainer: Key points from the final section of the IPCC’s latest review of climate science
- IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster
- Analysis: IPCC spells out what the world needs to do
The world has only a narrow chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and is falling far behind on making the changes needed to transform the global economy to a low-carbon footing.
Continue reading...IPCC says the tools to stop catastrophic climate change are in our hands. Here's how to use them
IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity
Now or never: IPCC says wind and solar key to halving emissions by 2030
Wind, solar and battery storage will play centre-stage to cut emissions in half by 2030, the IPCC says, while more expensive CCS will have a bit part.
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‘World at a crossroads’: IPCC calls for global emissions to halve by 2030
IPCC says world should aim to halve emissions by 2030, through "immediate and deep" emissions cuts, to keep safer limits to global warming within reach.
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IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, say climate scientists in what is in effect their final warning
The world can still hope to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown but only through a “now or never” dash to a low-carbon economy and society, scientists have said in what is in effect a final warning for governments on the climate.
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, and can be nearly halved this decade, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to give the world a chance of limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Continue reading...VCM Report: “Green shoots of recovery” for VERs, as Q1 retirements spike
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Brown bear population in Pyrenees highest for a century, says study
Monitors identify 70 individuals in 2021, with 114 newborns since launch of repopulation scheme in 1996
A scheme to reintroduce brown bears to the Pyrenees is showing signs of success, with 70 individuals identified in 2021, the highest number for a century.
The population has increased from 52 in 2018, according to figures produced by the cross-border group that monitors the bears in France and Spain, with half the creatures living in the Catalan Pyrenean regions of Vall d’Aran, Pallars Sobirà and Alta Ribagorça. Overall, the population is thinly spread over an area of 6,500 sq km.
Continue reading...Protesters block oil depot near Heathrow as action enters fourth day
Just Stop Oil campaigners want moratorium on new fossil fuel projects and are planning London protest for Saturday
Environmental activists have blocked a major oil terminal near Heathrow airport, as protesters’ blockades of fuel distribution facilities around England enter a fourth day.
About 30 members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) arrived at the Esso West facility in west London at about 4am, where they erected two bamboo lock-on structures, XR said.
Continue reading...South Korea looking to fund Article 6 pilot projects
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