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Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe

admin — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:00:31 +0000

As prime minister Justin Trudeau trails in polls, opposition seek to persuade voters environmental policy is a burden

Mass hunger and malnutrition. A looming nuclear winter. An existential threat to the Canadian way of life. For months, the country’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has issued dire and increasingly apocalyptic warnings about the future. The culprit? A federal carbon levy meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal

admin — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:00:25 +0000

New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints

Lobbyists for Britain’s biggest food brands successfully pushed for a £1.7bn packaging tax to be deferred, new documents reveal.

Flash floods and landslides hit parts of Bosnia, killing at least 16

admin — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:57:32 +0000

Rescuers search for missing after huge volumes of rain fall in area around Jablanica and Konjic, causing sudden flooding

Rescue teams are searching for survivors after flash floods and landslides hit parts of Bosnia, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more.

Construction machines worked to remove piles of rocks and debris covering the central town of Jablanica after the rainstorm early on Friday.

Labour could cut financial support for farms damaged by floods

admin — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 06:00:16 +0000

Exclusive: Farmers still awaiting promised payments for uninsurable damage caused by Storm Henk

Labour may cut financial support for flooded farmers, the Guardian has learned, while money to compensate them for deluges in January has still not hit their pockets.

At least 14 killed in Bosnian floods after torrential rainstorm overnight – video

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:50:53 +0000

At least 14 people died in floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday and others were missing as torrential rain and landslides destroyed homes, roads and bridges across the centre of the country, officials said. Bosnia's presidency said it had requested military help for the wider Jablanica area, and engineers, rescue units and a helicopter were deployed, including to rescue 17 people from a mental health hospital. Neighbouring Croatia was hit by floods on Friday, though there were no reports of casualties.

Starmer pledges to avoid rerun of 1980s deindustrialisation with clean energy plans

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:40:31 +0000

Prime minister suggests there will be more public money made available for new technologies

What is carbon capture, usage and storage?

Keir Starmer has signalled his government will drastically increase its green investment plans in an attempt to avoid a rerun of 1980s-style industrial decline by safeguarding jobs in heartland manufacturing communities.

‘VCs need their money back’: why sustainable startups struggle to fix our broken food system

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:00:05 +0000

Firms such as Smallhold have lessons to be learned on what business can – and can’t – do in transforming agriculture

When Andrew Carter and Adam DeMartino started their business Smallhold in 2017, they set out with a simple vision they thought could have a big impact: feed people mushrooms.

“Mushrooms are one of the most sustainable calories on the planet, in every aspect,” Carter said, whether you’re looking at water, waste, plastic use or greenhouse gas emissions. “We just wanted to get more people eating them.”

Outraged that some plastic you send for recycling ends up being burned? Don’t be | James Piper

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:33:53 +0000

Recycling is, by its nature, complicated. The imperfections in the process don’t mean the whole system is a con

Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:00:05 +0000

Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal

Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid expansion of gas exports from the US to Europe and Asia.

Chris Packham urges protesters to stop blocking roads as he takes climate role

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:43:25 +0000

Exclusive: Broadcaster joins board of Climate Emergency Fund and says there needs to be new ways of pushing for change

Climate activists need to stop blocking roads and start holding fossil fuel executives personally to account, Chris Packham has said, after being appointed to the board of one of the biggest activist funds in the world.

The naturalist and broadcaster is the first non-US-based director of the Climate Emergency Fund, which has given almost $15m (£11.4m) to activists taking part in non-violent civil disobedience around the world since 2019.