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Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds
Non-animal proteins can play critical role tackling climate crisis, says Boston Consulting Group
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Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds
Non-animal proteins can play critical role tackling climate crisis, says Boston Consulting Group
Obey Greta and your country loses [$]
Tim Blair
Sri Lanka and the European Union both adopted extreme Thunberg-level climate change policies and now a time of people-power reckoning may be upon them.
Peter Dykstra
In the year 2000, I was overseeing CNN’s science and environment coverage. One day in our daily editorial meeting, one of the top bosses asked me why there seemed to be such scientific doubt about climate change.
National
Labor asked to reassess decisions about coal and gas projects made by previous governments
One expert says that, if the application reaches the courts, it may set an important precedent, forcing the consideration of climate change in assessments of fossil fuel projects.
Australia has key role to play as clean energy reshapes Indo-Pacific relations
A new report by the Perth USAsia Centre, in collaboration with the Climate Council, recommends five practical actions for Australia to secure its economic and strategic clean energy advantages in the Indo-Pacific
British campaigners say Australia uses toxic pesticides prohibited in the UK on health and environmental grounds. Here’s how the countries differ
Environment minister Tanya Plibersek says she would be ‘carefully considering’ projects referred under EPBC Act
Livista Energy eyes Australian lithium producers to secure Europe’s EV battery supplies
A start-up company aiming to build one of Europe’s first lithium refineries in England to supply electric vehicle battery makers is eyeing off major investment in Australia to secure supply of the raw material.
Traditional owners concerned about impact of energy crisis on sacred sites
Indigenous communities are worried that sacred sites will become collateral damage, as resource companies push to produce more gas.
Most feel positive on renewables [$]
Most Australians feel positive about the transition to renewables despite 62 per cent agreeing the shift was a “large or medium contributor” to rising electricity prices.
Seaweed rides the wave of products cutting carbon emissions [$]
An Australian seaweed product that cuts methane production in cattle by at least 80 per cent has hit the market, offering a solution to lowering the industry’s carbon emissions.
Don’t fall for Albanese’s crazy climate change delusion [$]
Andrew Bolt
Anthony Albanese is pushing emissions cuts that will leave us dangerously short of electricity, without making the slightest difference to any floods.
What the oil and gas industry tells itself
Royce Kurmelovs
A week after the devastating floods, the fossil-fuel industry described the scarcity of new projects today as “frightening”
ACT
‘Brutal, barbaric’: Decapitated roos found in Red Hill ‘kangaroo killing fields’ [$]
Distressed Canberrans living near the Red Hill Nature Reserve have claimed the park has turned into a “kangaroo killing field” during roo culling season, while the government maintains population control is necessary for animal welfare.
Queensland
How prickly pear, one of the ‘greatest biological invasions of modern times’, was defeated
Prickly pear infested millions of hectares of rural land in Australia a century ago rendering it virtually useless and worthless. It was conquered thanks to one tiny insect.
Leader David Crisafulli’s announcement drew immediate criticism from environmentalists saying the move is not science-based
The Environment Council of Central Queensland has commenced a legal intervention under a rarely used section of our national environment law. They are asking Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to reconsider nearly all coal and gas proposals currently on her desk – and protect thousands of nationally significant living wonders from climate harm.
South Australia
Rare warru returning to outback Australia with help of Indigenous rangers
Considered one of South Australia’s most endangered mammal species, the APY Warru Rangers have translocated three female warru to Maku Valley and Hinkley to be released.
Tasmania
Porsche-backed company wants to build Australia’s first commercial e-fuel plant in Tasmania
Porsche wants 80 per cent of its cars to be electric by the end of the decade, and is developing a synthetic fuel to power those that will still run on liquid fuels. So what are e-fuels and why choose Tasmania as the site to make them?
Where is the North East rail trail development at? [$]
The North East rail-trail development dispute inches closer to a tangible outcome as Dorset Council waits on a signature from Infrastructure Minister Michael Ferguson to approve the removal of rail tracks.
Sustainability
Dead solar panels are about to become a lot more valuable
In the coming years, recyclers will hopefully be able to mine billions of dollars worth of materials from discarded solar panels, according to a new analysis published this week. That should ease bottlenecks in the supply chain for solar panels while also making the panels themselves more sustainable.
Fears environment bills could be sidelined amid Tory leadership race
Campaigners warn crucial legislation must not be abandoned while the UK government is distracted
Clean energy demand to drive copper price higher in future, despite recent falls
Copper prices tumbled to a 19-month low last week as recession fears plagued markets, but demand for the critical metal in the clean energy transition as large deposits become more scarce could lift prices in the long term.
Electric cars are not the solution to the climate crisis
Electrifying 1 billion cars is forcing us to increase dirty mining — and our EV obsession is making it harder to stave off full-blown climate chaos.
Costa Rica is helping to solve plastic pollution problem
The United Nations Development Program and several Costa Rican entities will remove approximately 200 thousand tons of non-recyclable plastics that are not correctly disposed of and do not reach sanitary landfills.
Why natural disasters are getting worse but killing fewer people
Around the world, disasters in general are becoming less deadly. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the number of disasters over the last 50 years has increased fivefold, but the number of deaths has fallen by two-thirds.
5 big questions about the new Biden plan for offshore oil and gas leases
President Joe Biden has set a goal of reaching net-zero emissions, meaning the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced is no more than the amount removed from the atmosphere, by 2050, and a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by the end of this decade.
Air pollution kills 10 million people a year. Why do we accept that as normal?
Threats often appear larger and more profound the farther off they are, and more manageable and even routine once they arrive
Nature Conservation
Sustainable use of wild species global report co-authored by UH expert
A team of global researchers, including a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa expert, has developed guidelines for the sustainable use of wild species, to ensure their survival for future generations.
‘Extinct’ parrots make a flying comeback in Brazil
The Spix macaw, a bird that had once vanished in the wild, is now thriving in its South American homeland after a successful breeding programme
A law professor from Queen Mary University in London has called a proposal to make “ecocide” the fifth international crime the “most credible and advanced” effort to date to expand the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Jennifer Flegg and Michael P.H. Stumpf
Biology is rich in patterns.
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