Australia | Climate Action Tracker

CAT has upgraded Australia’s overall rating to “Insufficient” from “Highly Insufficient”.
— Read on climateactiontracker.org/countries/australia/

Will Climate Crisis get any mention in Budget tonight?

CAT has upgraded Australia’s overall rating to “Insufficient” from “Highly Insufficient”.

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Reduce emissions? That’s nowhere near enough

Grim report about carbon sequestration being vital on top of reducing emissions to save Earth scored scant media attention. That’s a tragedy.
— Read on thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/05/08/emissions-climate-crisis-kohler/

Tragedy is insistence that more renewables will fix warming. They might help but won’t fix.

Making Reductions mandatory can help, mandatory down as far as personal quota by MyGov type account to reduce energy consumption, oil, gas and electricity.

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Quadricycle EU certified

cleantechnica.com/2023/05/04/luvly-0-electric-car-from-sweden-is-basic-transportation-very-basic/

Now, if only Australia could accept standards for light and heavy, tricycle and Quadricycle.

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Are Australia’s climate–security risks too hot to handle? – Pearls and Irritations

Climate-related risks to human and regional security is our biggest risk, but there is a big black hole in the government’s discourse.
— Read on johnmenadue.com/are-australias-climate-security-risks-too-hot-to-handle/

When a declassified version of the Defence Security Review (DSR) was released on 24 April, there was a glaring omission. A short chapter on climate change focussed on just domestic climate risks, 

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Europe’s longest cycling tunnel

reasonstobecheerful.world/europes-longest-bicycling-tunnel-opens-in-norway/

Also cheaper than car ferry COWES/Stony Point, all weather, non-polluting, healthy

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Bloomberg Green – Bloomberg

Climate news and data-driven insights from Bloomberg’s global newsroom covering the latest in science, environmental impacts, zero-emission tech and green finance — with a focus on solutions.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/green

Will government step up to subsidise premiums for insurance against climate crisis consequences for farmers?

Or will they stop $12Billion/year subsidies to causes of climate crisis, coal and gas mafia?

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Cargo electric bikes are 60% faster at deliveries than vans. Here’s why

Cargo electric bikes are 60% faster at deliveries than vans. Here’s why
— Read on electrek.co/2021/08/13/electric-cargo-bikes-faster-at-deliveries-than-delivery-vans/

Is it time yet? As roads get bigger, don’t you just get bigger traffic gridlock?

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Emissions from WA gas project with world’s largest industrial carbon capture system rise by more than 50% | Carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Chevron development off Pilbara coast was approved on condition the company store about 4m tonnes of CO2 a year
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/emissions-wa-gas-project-chevron-carbon-capture-system-pilbara-coast

But watch Canberra turn a blind eye, despite Chevron huge profits while paying zero tax

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CATL shares energy-dense battery that will power electric planes

CATL shares energy-dense battery that will power electric planes
— Read on electrek.co/2023/04/19/catl-energy-dense-battery-will-soon-power-electric-passenger-planes-ev/

But any chance possible pigs might fly any time soon? Remarkable possibilities.

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UK still well off track on pledge to cut methane emissions, study says

Analysis suggests government policies would achieve reduction less than half target of 30% by 2030
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/12/uk-off-track-on-pledge-to-cut-methane-emissions-study-30-per-cent-2030

$100M taxpayers money invested to find ways to make in-natural gas viable when as much as 30% CO2 coming out of gas wells. How good is that?

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