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Fewer than half of those questioned in global poll believe climate change poses a ‘very serious threat’

Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, with fewer than half of those questioned in a new survey believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries over the next 20 years.

Only 20% of people in China, the world’s biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the last survey by Gallup World Risk Poll in 2019.

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Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean

An expedition of scientists and an artist is deploying underwater microphones in the ocean off Greenland to record and preserve the soundscape of melting icebergs.

The hydrophones will record sounds every hour for two years before being collected, harvested for data and the recordings turned into an acoustic composition.

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Rewilding Europe’s 10th project ‘has potential to benefit both nature and people’ in one of the continent’s least populated areas

Black vultures, lynx and wild horses are among the animals being reintroduced to eastern Spain with the launch of a rewilding project spanning 850,000 hectares (2.1m acres) in the Iberian highlands east of Madrid.

Rewilding Europe’s 20-year landscape recovery scheme, which covers an area more than five times the size of Greater London, aims to make the land wilder and more nature-friendly. The protected area is the southern part of the Iberian Chain, a mountain range that stretches 500km (300 miles) from the north-west of the country to the Mediterranean in the south-east.

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The regulator said two of the bank's posters “omitted material information and were therefore misleading".

Renewable Energy Hub buys up TFS Green to form Core Markets, a new entity to meet soaring corporate demand for end-to-end net zero solutions.

The post Climate solutions powerhouse emerges to “demystify” clean energy and carbon markets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Farmers face a multitude of challenges in future. Crops and livestock are not only on the line, but also the mental health of rural communities. Elisabeth Vogel, Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK company Liberty Steel has completed trials of a sustainable raw material that can replace anthracite, the main source of charge carbon in electric steelmaking, and reduce steel’s carbon footprint by as much as 30%, the subsidiary of global conglomerate Gupta Family Group (GFG) announced.

It's unclear how the economic case for Marinus Link is greatly improved by the concessional finance offered by Labor's Rewiring the Nation policy.

The post Does Rewiring the Nation’s concessional finance really change the case for Marinus? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BZE says Australia can't afford to wait for new inventions and doesn’t need to, with off-the-shelf technologies ready and able to "eliminate" emissions.

The post Australia can slash emissions 81 pct by 2030 using six existing technologies, report says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hong Kong real estate specialist enters Australia renewables market with deal to help fund Maoneng's $2 billion portfolio of battery and solar projects.

The post Hong Kong real estate fund backs $2 billion of battery and solar projects in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canada’s logging emissions are roughly equivalent to those from the country’s oilsands, according to a report published Tuesday, which also accused the federal government of significantly underestimating the CO2 output from the forestry industry.

Carbon emissions from California's electricity sector through the first nine months of the year were almost identical to levels recorded for the same period a year ago, as natural gas-fired generation overtook renewables to become the dominant source of power on the grid, data published Tuesday from network manager California Independent System Operator (CAISO) showed.

The percentage of allowable offsets to be included in Colombia’s carbon tax reform remains a key point of contention among stakeholders closely following the ongoing tax reform debate process in congress.

Government’s ‘dangerous deregulatory agenda’ risks missing pledge to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030, says report

The UK will miss its key nature pledge to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030 unless it scraps plans to deregulate environmental protections, a new report has warned.

The UK is one of more than 100 countries committed to protecting “30x30” as a way to halt the destruction of the natural world. However, just 3.22% of land in England and 8% of the sea is being properly protected and managed for nature, according to the report from the environmental charities coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL).

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As big firms stop insuring coal, complex schemes unlikely to find expertise needed, says Insure Our Future

New coal power projects are becoming “effectively uninsurable” outside China because so many insurance companies have ruled out support for them, a report has found.

Recent commitments to stop underwriting coal by prominent US insurers AIG and Travelers have brought the number of coal insurance exit policies to 41, according to the latest industry scorecard by the climate campaign Insure Our Future.

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An Asia Pacific carbon and clean energy tech and services firm has acquired an Asia-based environmental and energy commodity markets brokerage company, as part of a strategy to offer end-to-end markets, tech and climate solutions for business.

Demand for CORSIA-eligible units will remain limited until at least 2024 with most airlines unlikely to need credits to comply with ICAO's recently-agreed weaker baseline, according to sector stakeholders, while many potential buyers are still confused about their compliance obligations and credit eligibility and will therefore stay on the sidelines until greater clarity emerges.

Labor unveils multi-billion dollar packages to support offshore wind, the Marinus Link and other transmission upgrades.

The post “This is a big deal:” Labor rolls out package for offshore wind, Marinus and Victoria renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and a major US developer announced on Tuesday the details of a public comment period for a sizeable forest protection offset project.