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Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

• ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

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Nearly eight out of 10 senior executives around the world say they favour a speedy shift from fossil fuels towards renewables-based electricity within the next decade, found a survey released on Tuesday.

A downturn in New Zealand’s emissions allowance prices suggests that none of the emissions trading system (ETS) auctions this year will clear, according to a market analyst.

While some major emitters have set near-term climate targets that could be considered ambitious using certain criteria, none feature goals for 2030 and 2035 that are sufficiently aligned with the Paris Agreement on closer inspection, the World Resources Institute said on Tuesday.

The rhetoric around coal and gas as indispensable economic backbones is misleading. Conversely, a fully electrified scenario represents profound economic and resilience gains. 

The post How electrification could more than halve Australia’s energy needs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans unveiled for what would be the biggest wind farm in South Australia, with two eight-hour big batteries, to help support Whyalla's green steel ambitions.

The post Biggest wind farm and two eight hour batteries slated for Australia’s most advanced renewable state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A lawsuit against one of Australia's largest energy companies threatens to deliver a mortal blow to the nation's carbon offset industry and the government's carbon neutral certification scheme.

The post Beginning of the end for carbon offsets? Parents take energy giant to court appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A wind farm developer is asking for permissions to increase the height of proposed turbines, which it says will help protect Carnaby black cockatoos.

The post Wind farm developer wants taller turbines to avoid collisions with black cockatoos appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lost

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On a stinking hot November day, seven years ago, Grace Vegesana and a handful of other young climate activists set up a small stage in a large square in Sydney’s CBD – and waited. Inspired by the first school striker for climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the high school students decided to organise their own rally.

Vegesana expected a hundred people to show up. Five thousand came. “It was like, oh my God, we’ve unleashed some kind of beast, people want more,” she recalls. In the months afterwards crowds doubled and then tripled.

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Clean energy tax credits are expected to deliver $238.4 million of benefits to Iowa’s economy annually out to 2032, according to a new study.

A North Dakota law on CO2 storage is being challenged in the state’s highest court after it was dismissed in a lower district court last year.

In the wake of potential federal action to terminate state-led cap-and-trade schemes, investors reduced net length across most US compliance carbon markets, with the exception of V26 California Carbon Allowances (CCA), latest figures from the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions (CFTC) showed Friday.

Colorado issued a proposed landfill methane regulation last week that would give the state stricter emissions rules than the current federal requirements.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.