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Global survey finds 74% also want climate crises and protecting nature prioritised over jobs and profit

Three-quarters of people in the world’s wealthiest nations believe humanity is pushing the planet towards a dangerous tipping point and support a shift of priorities away from economic profit, according to a global survey.

The Ipsos Mori survey for the Global Commons Alliance (GCA) also found a majority (58%) were very concerned or extremely concerned about the state of the planet.

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Academic research can shed light on crucial questions about what life on Earth will be like under the most plausible emissions scenarios. And a warning: the answers are confronting. Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, The University of Melbourne Nerilie Abram, Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Mr Bezos's Blue Origin says it was unfairly treated after being excluded from lunar landing contract.

Standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) values soared to new heights over the past week as transacted volume accelerated, while voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants noted offset prices on the non-standardised, over-the-counter market were also rising in tandem with exchange-traded products.

Many people have mixed feelings about arachnids, but like many more popular animals they need our help

Much less visible for most of the year, spiders make their presence felt in late August and through the early autumn. This is the mating season of some of the most common varieties, when male house spiders come out of hidden corners to look for females, and garden spiders reach adult size and spin their biggest, most dazzling webs.

Yet while the spider is familiar, the star of one of the great children’s books, Charlotte’s Web, and a fixture of nursery rhymes and Halloween decor, its relationship with humans is complicated. Fear of spiders, arachnophobia, is common and has serious impacts on the lives of sufferers. Its prevalence appears unrelated to any rational assessment of risk. Spiders in the UK are almost all harmless. Farmland species perform valuable ecosystem services, by predating on insects that are our competitors for crops. But they have proved durable repositories of human anxieties – with a cultural association with witches and wickedness dating back to the middle ages.

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With service industries and foreign tourism decimated, the potential fall in ore prices and demand shows just how much the country relies on mining exports

It seems not all that long ago all the talk was about how gloriously the economy was going and how the Covid recession was in the past. But now the two states encompassing 55% of the nation’s economy are in lockdown and the second half of this year looks to be tough for the economy – especially as our iron ore exports might be about to take a hit.

One of weird things about the pandemic is that our major exports of iron ore and coal have seen an absolute prices boom:

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Analysis finds focus on stress tests and modelling impact of most extreme scenarios leaves sector blind to real risks

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The financial world is making the same mistakes regarding climate change as it did with the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, a new report warns.

Degrees of Risk – co-authored by Ian Dunlop, a former head of the Australian Coal Association – found that while regulators and the financial sector had begun to grapple with the risks posed by the climate crisis, they were not moving fast enough.

Instead, they were relying on modelling scenarios of 3C and 4C of global heating without properly factoring in how catastrophic they would be.

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Germany is forecast to record its biggest rise in GHG emissions since 1990 this year as the economy rebounds from the pandemic-related downturn, according to a report published on Monday.

EUAs rose sharply early on Monday, clawing back last week's losses as dip buyers entered the market and European gas prices surged.

As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding

Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be most insulated from the worst effects. Unfortunately, it seems that US population flows are going in the wrong direction – new census data shows a nation moving out of the safer areas and into some of the most dangerous places of all.

To quote Planes, Trains and Automobiles: we’re going the wrong way.

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Campaigners say Chichester harbour at risk of environmental ruin from dumping of raw sewage

Discharges of raw sewage by Southern Water into a protected natural harbour risk causing an environmental catastrophe, say campaigners.

Chichester harbour in West Sussex is one of the most highly protected marine environments in the country. But the latest analysis from Natural England shows that 80% of the protected waters are in an unfavourable or declining condition.

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Bluescope sets net zero target and says renewables and green hydrogen the key, not gas.

The post Steel giant snubs gas on road to net zero, focus on renewables and green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China’s thermal power generation rose 12.7% last month compared to July 2020, the highest year-on-year growth rate since March, according to government data, but analysts say emissions output might slow in the second half as economic growth is projected to soften.

A breakthrough in the development of organic solar cells could deliver a much-needed boost in efficiency and get them further along the road to commercialisation.

The post Bendy, lightweight organic solar cells could be fast-tracked by new research appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Blue hydrogen is often touted as a low-carbon fuel, but new report by Cornell and Stanford researchers shows it is likely much worse for the climate.

The post Study finds blue hydrogen worse for climate than burning coal or gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy storage hopeful files two patent applications for battery recycling processes, saying products could no longer go to landfill.

The post Australia storage start-up applies for li-ion battery recycling patents appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Lord Deben says he is ‘pressing very hard’ to get details of strategy published as Cop26 approaches

Boris Johnson’s delay in publishing the net zero emissions strategy has left a space for climate sceptics to “complain, attack and undermine” on cost grounds, and other countries could do with seeing more “proper leadership” from the UK before Cop26, the government’s independent climate adviser has said.

Lord Deben, the Conservative peer and chair of the climate change committee, said critics of the net zero policy had been vocal in the public debate because “it hasn’t been put into context by the government”.

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University student makes pitch for AGL board seat, as Matt Canavan disgraces himself by wondering if Taliban will support net zero.

The post Melbourne uni student takes tilt at AGL board, to cut emissions at the source appeared first on RenewEconomy.