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Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph | Adam Morton

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-10-01 08:39

It’s difficult to overstate how rapidly Australians have embraced solar power – there’s now more rooftop solar than coal-fired power. The key question is what policymakers can learn from its success

Australia was a different place in 2011. Julia Gillard’s Labor government, the Greens and a couple of country independents were rewriting the country’s climate policies, including introducing a world-leading carbon pricing system and creating three agencies to back it up.

Those organisations – the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Climate Change Authority – have survived and help shape the investment and policy landscape. The carbon pricing system – falsely described as a tax – famously didn’t.

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Natural gas necessary bridge fuel in US grid decarbonisation, CCS not yet commercially viable -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 08:05
Natural gas will remain important to bridge the gap in energy demand for "many decades" as the US grid expects greater additions of solar and wind power, but carbon capture technology is not yet commercially competitive, according to a study published Monday by a US public policy think tank.
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Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as endangered for first time

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-10-01 07:14

Bethany Beach firefly, found in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, faces dangers to habitat because of climate change

The US government is seeking to consider a firefly species as endangered for the first time, according to a proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Bethany Beach firefly, found in coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, is facing increasing dangers to its natural habitat because of climate change-related events. They include sea level rise, which is predicted to affect all sites within the known distribution by the end of the century, and the lowering of groundwater aquifers.

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Environmental group sues Vermont for alleged failure to comply with state climate law

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 06:24
The Vermont chapter of a New England-focused environmental group filed a lawsuit against the state agency, alleging failure to comply with greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction-related requirements under its climate law.
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Animals in the machine: why the law needs to protect animals from AI

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-10-01 05:51
If left unchecked, artificial intelligence will harm animals. Experts in law, ethics and animal welfare call for AI to be included in the revised Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, coming soon. Lev Bromberg, PhD Candidate and Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Christine Parker, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne Simon Coghlan, Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Morgan Stanley IM closes climate equity fund at $750 mln

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 04:19
Morgan Stanley Investment Management announced Monday that it closed its climate-targeted private equity fund at $750 million after attracting investments from firms in Europe, North America, and Japan.
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Joyful welcome by stranded astronauts for SpaceX capsule crew

BBC - Tue, 2024-10-01 04:00
A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked.
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VCM Report: Market hopeful for COP29 boost despite weak liquidity

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 02:56
Liquidity continued to drag in the voluntary carbon market in the last week of September amid the distraction of New York Climate Week, although the summit has stirred hopes of a breakthrough at COP29 in November.
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Saudi firm to launch voluntary carbon exchange at COP29 -media

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 02:31
A state-backed Saudi company created to scale up the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in developing countries will launch a trading platform at COP29 and seek to integrate regional markets, local media has reported.
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DATA DIVE: Britain’s coal achievement comes against backdrop of ever-increasing global consumption

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 02:21
On Sep. 30, Britain's last coal-fired power plant in operation, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, powered electricity to the UK grid for the final time.
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Majority of buyers prefer carbon removals to avoidance, reductions -survey

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 02:06
A survey of voluntary carbon market (VCM) stakeholders has shown that nearly 90% of buyers do not plan to use ubiquitous reduction or avoidance credits in their corporate decarbonisation strategies.
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Kenyan cookstove manufacturer secures $9 mln investment through carbon credit partnership

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 01:32
A Kenyan clean cookstove manufacturer has received a $9.2 million investment from a London-based financial firm, it announced Monday.
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EU agriculture policy failing on climate, auditors say

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 01:01
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing on its green ambitions, despite its aim to increase environmental and climate ambition for the 2023-27 period, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
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A butterfly: ‘elbowing each other with the joints on their legs, pushing and shoving to get at the liquid’

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-10-01 01:00

We learn about butterflies when we are small because it is foreshadowing: you too will change. But they are an imperfect metaphor for what it feels like to live

The very funny naturalist and writer Redmond O’Hanlon was on a sandbank on the edge of a river in Borneo when hundreds of butterflies started to fly towards him and his travel companion and landed on their boots, trousers, and shirts, and “sucked the sweat from our arms.”

He watched them for a while – “there were Whites, Yellows and Blues, Swallow-tails, black, banded, or spotted with blue-greens” – and then stood up and brushed them off gently.

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Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-10-01 01:00

Labor government has undermined case to co-host 2026 UN climate summit with island nations, Dr Maina Talia declares

Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question its claim to be a “member of the Pacific family”, and undermines the Australian case to co-host the 2026 UN climate summit with island nations.

Dr Maina Talia said last week’s mine approvals that analysts say could generate more than 1.3bn tonnes of carbon dioxide across their lifetime once the coal is shipped and burned overseas was “a direct threat to our collective future”.

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Singapore, Ghana issue first call for Article 6 projects

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 00:36
Singapore and Ghana on Monday issued their first call for projects under their Article 6 partnership, having set out the procedures for the authorisation of carbon offset projects meant to channel financing towards emissions reduction or removals in the African country.
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INTERVIEW: Making fuels from plastics using hydrogenolysis moves one step closer

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-10-01 00:03
Researchers at a Swiss university have made an important advance in the use of a hydrogen-based process for the chemical recycling of plastics, which could ultimately enable the conversion of plastic waste into fuels.
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Over 50 firms sign carbon removal standards commitment

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 23:44
A total of 55 companies have signed the 'Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry Commitments', which aim to establish new standards to scale carbon removal in a bid to keep temperature warming to Paris Agreement goals.
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BRIEFING: Coal still central to emissions-heavy steelmaking, commodities report finds

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 23:19
Metallurgical coal demand is not decreasing in the short or medium term despite calls for steelmakers and the iron ore miners who supply them to cut emissions using new technology.
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LATAM Roundup: J-REDD is king at Climate Week, Colombia releases H1 CO2 tax stats

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 23:13
Jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) starred at Climate Week NYC, and Carbon Pulse has analysed new data about Q2 retirements toward Colombia’s carbon tax, in the week ending Sep. 29.
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