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Climate scientists hail 2023 as ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuel era
Cautious optimism among experts that emissions from energy use may have peaked as net zero mission intensifies
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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The city centre is re-imagined as a place for people walking, cycling and wheeling, with excellent public transport accessibility and with the needs of the most vulnerable fully catered for.
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https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/30785/2030-climate-strategy-executive-summary
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Oil industry veteran to lead next round of Cop climate change summit
Mukhtar Babayev is named president-in-waiting of UN climate summit to be held in November
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Tory climate tsar Chris Skidmore quits as MP with brutal attack on Rishi Sunak - full letter
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tory-net-zero-tsar-31817773.amp
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James Meadway is an economist who is not at all impressed with economics. Formerly an adviser to John McDonnell when he was Labour shadow chancellor, Meadway has plenty to say about what mainstream economics gets wrong. But one of his central gripes is the way it treats the environment. “We cannot simply pretend that … the entire ecological crisis is a separate and distinct thing from what’s happening in the economy,” says Meadway, who now works on climate finance. And yet that is precisely what happens.
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Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet.
Conservationists call for end to subsidies that make up 15% to 18% of industry’s income and threaten to ‘empty the ocean of fish’
This tax relief benefits the most fuel-intensive, climate change gas-emitting and industrial fishing methods, such as trawling and dredging, acting as a disincentive to developing a more fuel-efficient and carbon-smart industry, campaigners said
Great! Now do aviation
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Edinburgh City Council's plans for heat pumps and heat
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Climate resolutions
Start the WeekThe data analyst Hannah Ritchie challenges the doomsday climate scenarios dominating the headlines to argue for a more hopeful outlook. In Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet she uses the data to show what progress has been made, and what actions will have the most impact in the future.
Capitalism, consumerism and unfettered growth are often blamed for the climate crisis, but the Bloomberg journalist Akshat Rathi believes that capitalism is the best means we have to tackle the issues in time. In Climate Capitalism he meets the business people and politicians from around the world who are finding innovative ways to go green.
The oceanographer and Joint Director of the UK National Climate Science Partnership, Professor Michael Meredith often works in one of the most difficult and least understood areas of the planet - the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic. He believes that while individual actions and choices are important to tackle climate change, only stronger worldwide governance can slow the irreversible effects of ice sheet decline and rising sea levels.
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Edinburgh LHEES
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/lhees
(the Delivery Plan contains the maps etc).
To be read in conjunction with:
All seems to be a bit dependent on "the Market(TM) will provide" hand-waving/wish-fulfillment
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Oh and the Lothian Road/Old Town heat network is dependent on
" Planning public realm and active travel works at Fountainbridge and Lothian Road may represent an opportunity to future proof via the installation of ducts for pipes."
So that won't be happening anytime soon then
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Drax gets go-ahead for carbon capture project at estimated £40bn cost to bill-payersScheme to convert biomass units could become one of world’s most expensive energy projects, experts say
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Vital legal protections for the environment and human health are being destroyed in post-Brexit departures from European legislation, a detailed analysis by the Guardian reveals.
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Alok Sharma condemns government’s oil and gas bill as vote passes first hurdle
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Yet another trial scheme that sounds great on paper, but still has absolutely no answer for how we would actually create enough green hydrogen to supply full implementation of the idea in a meaningful way. Green hydrogen *only* works in a world where we already have a 100% renewable electricity supply and/or the cost per unit of renewable power is low enough to make installing generating capacity specifically for green hydrogen production facilities is commercially viable. Otherwise it's a boondoggle and will stay that way no matter how much money they waste on trials.
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It’s true: wind turbines do kill birds (and bats). But how many, and are they a bigger threat than other hazards?
In this post, I take a look at estimates of bird deaths from turbines and try to put them in context. I also explore ways that we can reduce them.
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Cats, buildings, and cars kill far more birds than wind power
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https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/wind-power-bird-deaths
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Labour to ditch £28bn annual green investment pledge, party sources say
Exclusive: Party will keep plan to invest in green infrastructure but will in effect cut green ambitions by about two-thirds
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