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Date: 18 April 2023 at 8:45:43 am AEST
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Subject: Daily Links Apr 18
Post of the Day
Yolanda Lee Waters and Angela Dean
Promoting small actions, such as reducing plastic use, can be a useful entry point for other actions around climate change. It’s an example of ‘positive spillover behaviour’.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Climate protesters interrupt world snooker championship at famous Crucible Theatre
Two protesters interrupt the world snooker championship, with one climbing on a table during the match and throwing orange powder while shouting “oil and gas will kill us”.
Peter Boyer
We know the story: carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere from coal, oil and gas deposits leads to accelerating global warming, putting stress on species and ecosystems around the world. Except this is not now, but about 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period and the beginning of the Triassic.
Poorer countries must be compensated for climate damage. But how exactly do we crunch the numbers?
Andrew King et al
As the planet warms, a key concern in international climate negotiations is to compensate developing nations for the damage they suffer. But which nations should receive money? And which extreme weather events were influenced by climate change?
Antarctica’s heart of ice has skipped a beat. Time to take our medicine
Edward Doddridge
The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But lately, there’s been a skip in the beat. During each of the last two summers, the ice around Antarctica has retreated farther than ever before.
Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds
Dana Nuccitelli
New study adds to growing body of evidence that the economic benefits of climate action outweigh the costs.
National
Motor industry urges government to impose ‘ambitious’ emissions on car makers
For years car manufacturers have been in the unusual position of asking to be regulated on their carbon emissions. Now the motor industry says its latest figures show room for the government to be “ambitious”, as it considers imposing a CO2 standard.
Authority’s warning shot: Emission targets will fail unless technology delivers
Australia could fail on emissions reduction commitments unless climate engineering technologies are accepted, a federal body warns.
Investors release “credible” 1.5°C grid plan with rapid exit for coal
Australia’s biggest clean energy investors reveal 1.5°C plan for accelerated coal closures and massive spend in wind, solar, storage and transmission.
Australian super funds sink $25 billion into coal, oil and gas
Australia’s 15 largest super funds have invested a total of more than $25 billion into new and expanding coal, oil and gas projects, new analysis shows.
Is this packaging made from plastic from the ocean? A complaint to the watchdog says probably not
More consumer products are claiming to be made from recycled ocean or ocean-bound plastics, but green groups say the claims are difficult to prove and may be misleading consumers.
Solar panels should be “new kind of mining”: Recycler backs landfill ban
Recyclers call for national ban on throwing solar panels in landfill, with potentially millions of PV modules heading for waste each year.
Cassandra Goldie
As energy prices skyrocket, people on low incomes face the cruel choice of eating or heating. But there are steps the government can take to ease their plight
Safeguarding Australian climate policy; A lesson from Wales.
Gwynn MacCarrick and Michelle Maloney
A Future Generations Commissioner can take the point-scoring out of politics and policy
Victoria
Deputy premier blames Melbourne Airport for delay in completion of airport rail
The Victorian government says Melbourne’s airport rail line won’t be completed by its scheduled finish date in 2029 because of “challenging” negotiations with airport operator.
New South Wales
Major housing development in the heart of ‘Koalatown’ gets council approval
Campbelltown City Council has given the tick of approval to developer Lendlease to proceed with the next stage of a controversial housing development south-west of Sydney.
New bins on their way for inner west in bid to slash landfill by 40 per cent
Inner West residents will soon get a fourth bin – with a burgundy-coloured lid – to recycle food scraps in a bid to cut landfill waste by up to 40 per cent.
The wingless grasshopper that could cross Bass Strait, but not the Yarra River
New genomic approaches can track the movement of Australia’s flightless matchstick grasshopper
Big coal to big solar: NSW leads nation on new large-scale PV capacity
One of Australia’s biggest coal states is rapidly becoming a leader in big solar – but much more wind power and storage needs to come.
ACT
Customer rebates grow 95% in ACT, driven by electricity connection issues
The rebates were worth a total close to $300,000.
South Australia
Historic gathering of Aboriginal Land and Sea Managers calls on SA government to boost investment
More than 75 representatives from the South Australian Aboriginal Land & Sea Sector – Aboriginal Rangers, Indigenous Protected Area Managers, Aboriginal Land & Sea Management staff, Traditional Owner groups interested in caring for Country work and other stakeholders – came together in Hahndorf for a two-day workshop last week.
Let’s not understate the cost of undergrounding powerlines
Paul Roberts
Residents and councils alike object to a continual campaign of street tree pruning near powerlines across the state, with increased demands for undergrounding. SA Power Networks’ Paul Roberts argues that it’s not a realistic option.
Tasmania
Global solar energy system provider launches in Tasmania [$]
A global solar energy business has launched in Tasmania as concerns grow about energy costs increasing as winter approaches.
Northern Territory
After years of community concern about dust levels from the world’s biggest manganese mine on a remote island, the NT Environment Department says it is now willing to install a monitoring station.
Western Australia
Why Woodside shareholders are rich but not happy
Elizabeth Knight
Conscience is trumping returns at Woodside Petroleum as shareholders demand clarity on climate action.
Sustainability
Lords amendment to energy bill may stop new coalmines in England
Change to bill says opening and licensing of new coalmines by the Coal Authority to be prohibited
The culprit behind dead zones and the threat to our water supply
In his new book, “The Devil’s Element,” award-winning journalist Dan Egan explores the impact of phosphorus on our water and our world.
Nature Conservation
Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis
Mark Cocker
More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life
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