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UPDATE – RFS Market: RINs undergo volatile stretch on gas import strength, biofuel quota progress
Bluesource Methane president departs for new emissions management firm
Uniper coal plant future in doubt after German court ruling
Female hummingbirds look like males to avoid attacks, study suggests
Some females found to have evolved with bright plumage, which seems to protect against male aggression
They may zip around looking cute and sociable, but the world of hummingbirds is rife with aggression. Now it looks like some female hummingbirds have evolved to avoid this – by adopting the bright plumage of their male counterparts.
US researchers captured more than 400 white-necked Jacobin hummingbirds in Panama.
Continue reading...Animal Rebellion paints Buckingham Palace fountain red
Group linked to Extinction Rebellion says Queen has ‘blood on her hands’ over hunting and animal agriculture
Animal rights activists linked to Extinction Rebellion have painted the fountain outside Buckingham Palace red, accusing the Queen of having “blood on her hands”.
Animal Rebellion activists stained the fountain and its waters on Thursday, protesting against the use of crown lands for hunting and animal agriculture, as well as the Queen’s attempts to have her land exempted from an initiative to cut carbon emissions.
Continue reading...New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt
NSW stuns with 34GW of wind, solar proposals for New England renewable zone
NSW gets 34GW of rproject proposals for its New England renewable energy zone, one of five designed to build the capacity to replace coal.
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Spain bans fertilisers near saltwater lagoon after dead fish wash up
Officials close eight beaches as residents complain of cloudy, green water that emits a foul smell
Spanish officials have banned the use of fertilisers near one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons after five tons of dead fish washed up on its shores.
The alarm bells began to sound in the south-eastern region of Murcia last week as scores of small fish and shrimp began turning up along the beaches of the coastal lagoon known as Mar Menor.
Continue reading...How a ‘lazy’ siesta could transform the UK’s working day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Longer breaks could mitigate some effects of extreme weather due to the climate crisis
I will confess that my sleepy heart sang when I read the news that the National Trust would be introducing siestas for its staff. My people, I thought. A French friend of mine notes that Britain is one of the only countries where it is acceptable to withdraw socially for “a lie down” simply because you’re tired of company, but the working day, in its punishing Protestantism, is a different matter. Part of my dislike of offices, aside from them being the enemy of creativity for anyone who needs peace in which to work, is that there are never enough places to nap.
Naturally, I’ll be met with accusations of laziness for even saying this. We are in the middle of a tedious and strung-out debate about work and flexibility, and a disturbing number of people seem to have Stockholm syndrome. Only yesterday I read a piece in Fortune magazine entitled: “Want to work 9-to-5? Good luck building a career”. The concept of work/life balance has “become emblematic of a woke work environment – one that acknowledges that an employee base is composed of actual humans, often with spouses, children and outside interests”, said the writer. God forbid!
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
What if it's too late to save our planet without geoengineering? | Moira Donegan
Climate engineering sounds scary. But is coming whether we like it or not, this scientist says
The realities of climate change are front-page news every day. Temperature records are being smashed. Wildfires are raging. There is no sign of things going back to “normal”. If anything, they will only get worse.
Last year, when the planet was convulsing with the arrival of a pandemic, we pinned our hopes on technology – in the form of an mRNA vaccine – getting us out of our crisis. The vaccine was a technological intervention, injected into the arms of billions of people. Could we (should we?) look to technological solutions to our climate crisis, too?
Continue reading...Australia Market Roundup: ERF reaches 1,000 projects
Oil & gas firm Santos taken to court over net zero target
World’s largest floating wind farm completed in Scotland
The 48MW Kincardine Offshore Wind farm has been completed off the coast of Aberdeenshire.
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Blackouts and soaring electricity bills drive US homeowners to solar
A combination of high-profile grid failures, power outages, and mounting electricity bills, has put a rocket under the US home solar and battery market.
The post Blackouts and soaring electricity bills drive US homeowners to solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Shareholder group sues Santos over “misleading” claims that gas is “clean energy”
Santos sued by shareholder group alleging claims gas is "clean energy" are misleading, and that the company's zero emissions strategies are not credible.
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Just how ‘green’ is Nicola Sturgeon’s deal with the Scottish Greens? | Dani Garavelli
Those who catastrophise about the fate of smaller parties within coalitions may be betraying their southern perspective
At the press conference to announce the SNP’s landmark cooperation agreement with the Scottish Greens, Nicola Sturgeon could scarcely contain her glee. And no wonder. What better way to burnish her government’s environmental credentials at the UN climate conference, Cop26, in Glasgow than to trumpet its willingness to engage in “grownup politics” for the betterment of the planet?
In Westminster, Boris Johnson is struggling. Earlier this month, a new climate breakdown report reinforced the severity of the crisis. Yet civil servants fear he has left it too late to push the world’s worst polluters to cut their greenhouse gases in order to meet the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Having initially refused to give Sturgeon a seat at the Cop26 negotiating table, the prime minister must be spitting feathers at the way she has turned the spotlight on her government at his expense.
Continue reading...Independent advice to ESB was strongly against Taylor’s favoured “Coalkeeper” subsidy
Independent advice to ESB warned against capacity mechanism championed by Angus Taylor, and which may pay coal plants to do things they can't do.
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After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar
Angus Taylor's main goal when he became energy minister was to stop wind and solar in their tracks. He may finally be succeeding.
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The Driven Podcast: Inner city blues – Where to find a fast EV charge
Clean Energy Finance Corp boss Ian Learmonth has an EV, but no garage, and struggles to find a fast EV charger in the city. He shares his views on the EV transition.
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