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Sir Clive Sinclair: Tireless inventor ahead of his time
Cumbria coalmine firm ‘betting on UK breach of climate targets’
Expert tells inquiry WCM’s plans are not legally compliant under UK’s and EU’s policy frameworks
The company seeking to open the UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years is gambling on the UK’s and EU’s failure to address climate change, the public inquiry into the mining plans has heard.
An expert witness for one of the parties opposed to West Cumbria Mining’s (WCM) plans to dig up 2.7m tonnes of coking coal a year says the firm’s case for the mine rests on the assumption that UK and EU governments will breach their legally binding climate targets by using the coal to supply steelmaking over the coming decades.
Continue reading...Climate experts fear Aukus will dash hopes of China emissions deal
Timing of defence deal, ahead of Cop26 summit where China will be key player, dismays campaigners
The timing of the new defence deal between the US, UK and Australia has dismayed climate experts, who fear it could have a negative effect on hopes of a deal with China on greenhouse gas emissions ahead of vital UN climate talks.
The Aukus trilateral security partnership has been interpreted as seeking to counterbalance Chinese power in the Asia-Pacific region, and has been likened to a new cold war by China. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson warned the three countries to “respect regional people’s aspiration and do more that is conducive to regional peace and stability and development – otherwise they will only end up hurting their own interests”.
Continue reading...‘About damn time’: First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
Residents of Shoal Lake 40 can drink from taps thanks to a new water treatment facility but dozens of communities lack access
Residents of a First Nations community in Canada, who were deprived of clean drinking water for nearly a quarter of a century, can now drink from their taps after a water treatment facility became fully operational earlier this week.
Shoal Lake 40, a community on the Manitoba-Ontario border, has been under drinking water advisory since 1997.
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Internship, Climate Change & Carbon Markets, Hamerkop – London
Junior Consultant, Climate Change & Carbon Markets, Hamerkop – London
Fashion faces a stark choice: stop flogging cheap clothes or go out of style | Jess Cartner-Morley
Unless the industry starts taking sustainability seriously, it risks becoming the thing it most dreads – uncool
Fashion has become a dirty word – and believe me, it hurts. Not long ago, fashion was the VIP room of popular culture and movie stars and politicians flocked to the front row. Now it has come to symbolise everything that is wrong with the modern world – from carbon emissions to global inequality and from crass materialism to unrealistic beauty standards. Fashion is not the only polluting industry, or the only morally dubious one. But even if you love fashion, as I do, it’s hard to deny that it tracks in the 99th percentile for pretty much all of the most problematic contemporary issues.
Everyone in fashion knows that they need to get back on the right side of history, and fast. Sustainability is a baseline responsibility that every self-respecting brand must be seen to engage with. The New York brand Collina Strada last week staged one of the first live shows of the first back-to-real-life catwalk season on the rooftop of Brooklyn Grange, an organic city farm that donates 30% of its produce to community members with limited means. Much of the collection was made out of “deadstock” – fabric and product that already exists, rather than being newly produced. Clothes made in 2020, which had been stuck in lockdown and never shipped or sold, were cut up and repurposed into something new. “Old birthday presents” were taken apart and reassembled into beaded bags and rhinestone jewellery, said the designer Hillary Taymour. Taymour was rewarded with a benediction in the form of Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of the vice-president, Kamala Harris, applauding from the front row.
Continue reading...*Director, Climate Smart Solutions, Radicle – Canada
Who should pay the network costs of neighbourhood batteries?
Regulatory agencies differ on whether small batteries should pay network charges when they withdraw electricity from the grid.
The post Who should pay the network costs of neighbourhood batteries? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Morrison’s lack of ambition putting Australia’s green hydrogen potential at risk
Labor's Chris Bowen not opposed to hydrogen from fossil fuels, but says Morrison government shouldn't 'bastardise' clean energy agencies in pursuit of it.
The post Morrison’s lack of ambition putting Australia’s green hydrogen potential at risk appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Labour condemns new trade secretary for tweets rejecting climate science
Anne-Marie Trevelyan dismisses those who believe in human-made global heating as ‘fanatics’ in resurfaced posts
Labour has condemned the new international trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, for rejecting the science of the climate emergency after a series of tweets emerged showing her dismissing those who believed in human-caused global heating as “fanatics”.
Trevelyan, whose previous junior business minister position took in the brief of promoting clean growth, was promoted to replace Liz Truss, the new foreign secretary, as part of Boris Johnson’s reshuffle on Wednesday.
Continue reading...China flags tougher control of big-emitting projects
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How Japan is making 1 million tonnes of radioactive water safe – video
Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, more than 1m tonnes of radioactive water has been building up at the power plant in central Japan. Soon the plant will run out of space to store the water, which is a big problem. The plan at the moment is to dump it all in the sea. So how do you go about making 1m tonnes of radioactive water, safe to drink?
Continue reading...Victoria’s electric vehicle tax faces high court challenge
Case, launched by two Melbourne EV drivers, will argue the levy is unconstitutional and ‘similar to the GST which is a commonwealth tax’
Two electric vehicle drivers have launched a high court challenge to Victoria’s electric vehicle tax, arguing the levy is unconstitutional.
The challenge was filed on Thursday by Equity Generation Lawyers, the legal firm that represented eight teenagers in a federal court case that found the federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, had a duty to protect young people from the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Taiwan’s CPC signs carbon neutral gas supply deal with industrial giant
Battery storage will force us to rethink network tariffs and structures
Last mile networks are much more valuable than our biggest generators. We need to rethink pricing and regulations to get the best out of distributed energy.
The post Battery storage will force us to rethink network tariffs and structures appeared first on RenewEconomy.
China’s Chongqing launches carbon offset scheme
Your gas stove is leaking air pollution inside your own home. Go electric | Brady Seals
Gas stoves can produce air pollution levels indoors that would be illegal outside
I traveled around the developing world for more than a decade seeing and studying first-hand the damage that wood and charcoal do to the lungs of people – mostly women and children – who use it for cooking. Nearly half the world’s population cooks with solid fuels, and I was proud of my work to bring cleaner options and help prevent pneumonia, lung disease and other effects of breathing in smoke on a daily basis.
And when I got home from these trips, I would turn on my gas stove to cook meals – never once guessing that the invisible gas piped into my house, and its similarly invisible emissions, were also harmful.
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