Just check the large number of articles on the climate catastrophe in today’s List. At plus 2 degrees we’re in serious trouble – and there’s very little chance we can limit global warming to that. We’ve often exceeded 1.5 already and that was agreed as the upper limit that global governments would allow. Splashing soup on a Picasso, gluing hands to coal loaders and blocking traffic on big bridges becomes an understandable response to political impotence.
From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 9 October 2024 at 8:43:21 AM GMT+11
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Subject: Daily Links Oct 9
Date: 9 October 2024 at 8:43:21 AM GMT+11
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Oct 9
Post of the Day
Thomas Newsome and William Ripple
You don’t have to look far to see what climate change is doing to the planet. The word “unprecedented” is everywhere this year.
On This Day
Climate Change
Aware Super and Hesta use Pathzero software. So do 600 fund managers. It’s already the world’s largest data sharing network for private market carbon emissions.
Rebecca Solnit
Behind the violence of extreme weather is that of the fossil fuel industry, and Americans are suffering for it
Jonny Williams and Georgia Rose Grant
National
Indigenous knowledge and ties to land that have survived despite colonisation will be key to supporting fundamental shifts that reverse the destruction of nature, a global summit has been told.
First round of a second climate tech fund has closed with some big-name investors and the CEFC leading the charge into the net zero economy.
Tanya Plibersek claims Labor is protecting 52% of its ocean territory, but experts say that is ‘misleading’
Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says
The Bureau of Meteorology and emergency services say preparations remain urgent, with an “average” season meaning five cyclones are likely to cross the coast.
Australian athletes and initiatives feature prominently in the BBC-backed Green Sports Awards, with everyone involved hoping the increased awareness will lead to more conversations as sport grapples with climate change.
The Australian Security Leaders Climate Group is calling for an overhaul of the way the federal government plans for climate threats, as Sydney hosts the world’s first Global Nature Positive summit, that aims to improve ecosystems and strategies for restoration.
Andrew J Constable
The Albanese government has today declared stronger protections for the waters around Heard Island and McDonald Islands, one of Australia’s wildest, most remote areas. The marine park surrounding the islands will be extended by 310,000 square kilometres, quadrupling its size.
Jessica Yi
Nuclear power is expensive, but it remains a cornerstone of the Coalition’s plan to get Australia to net-zero emissions.
Nick Feik
The answers vary significantly depending on which word you emphasise in that question — but none of them are positive.
Samantha McCulloch
The government has called out the Dutton nuclear plan’s interim reliance on gas. The trouble is that Labor has its own vulnerabilities.
Liam Mannix
Sleeper trains are having a moment in Europe. Could they be a solution to the climate crisis in Australia?
Rebecca Huntley
Turbocharging renewables with rooftop solar and subsidised batteries is a sure-fire vote-winner. So why is the government not doing it?
Victoria
Victoria is seeking federal environmental approval for a transmission project that will be crucial to the state’s target of 2GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2032.
Critically endangered flowers get stay of execution after local environmental group threatens legal action against Victorian government
More than half of Victoria is covered by mining exploration licenses, while the state’s wheatbelt farming families are fighting to stop projects going ahead.
A tonne of carbon removed from the atmosphere costs up to three times more under Victoria’s gas removal program than in similar schemes across Australia – and it’s passed onto consumers in their power bills.
New South Wales
The Alinytjara Wilurara Landscape Board has backed the national call for urgent recognition and greater funding of the critical work being done to restore the health of Australia’s landscapes as the Global Nature Positive Summit proceeds in Sydney this week.
The endangered Beadle’s grevillea only grows in a few areas in the wild. After a harsh drought, the species is now thriving and the couple that saved it wants the plant safeguarded for generations to come.
Harvesting in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, is just 400km from global nature-positive summit the government is hosting
Sev.en Global’s Delta has requested an urgent change to the rules for the electricity market after being unable to extend a bank guarantee because of its coal links.
The new policy expands a Coalition initiative from 2022 and allows the government to take over rezoning proposals already in the planning system if it deems them “unreasonably delayed”.
The land is being used by Transport for NSW to facilitate multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects including the Western Harbour Tunnel.
ACT
Anjali Sharma, the teenager who took the federal government to court over a coal mine, wants politicians to start thinking about their grandchildren’s future.
Canberra Times editorial
The suggestion that stage 2B of the light rail extension to Woden could be further subdivided into two more manageable builds is like the proverbial Curate’s egg: it is good in parts.
Queensland
Cherbourg residents have dealt with unreliable and dangerous water supplies for decades, enduring frequent warnings to boil their tap water or rely on bottled water exclusively.
Katter’s Australian Party says it will aim to wind back Queensland abortion laws “quick as you like” with a repeal bill.
Elvis Okoffo et al
When it rains heavily, plastic waste is washed off our streets into rivers, flowing out to the ocean. Most plastic is trapped in estuaries and coastal ecosystems, with a small fraction ending up offshore in the high seas.
Tasmania
Weather conditions and shifting sands temporarily reveal an ancient “elder” forest on a Tasmanian beach, preserved from thousands of years ago.
Northern Territory
The heads of the NT’s peak legal bodies have expressed their “collective grave concern” at the impact of Legal Aid’s impending service cuts, in a letter sent to the NT Attorney-General.
Western Australia
Proponents hope an historic joint development will help future projects in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region overcome long-term water supply challenges.
The land council representing the Martu native title area terminated an agreement with potash mining companies, Holocene and Reward Minerals, on Tuesday following what it described as a “serious breach”.
Sustainability
David Spratt
“I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists,” was the headline
Nature Conservation
Exclusive: Environment groups urge government to stick to its promises and refuse pesticide application
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