Paul01 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 And the US has turned up the heat on our increasingly isolated Prime Minister https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/breathtaking-what-joe-bidens-sweeping-climate-plan-means-for-scott-morrison?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Link to comment
Midfielder Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 On Bended Knees .... Watch this ... share and spread..... nay shout it at the climate deniers ... Please watch... Arguably the most important speech on CC in Australia in recent years... and because of who is making it .... it has reach... Andrew Forrest’s first Boyer Lecture | ABC Australia wendybr 1 Link to comment
wendybr Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Thanks Middy I heard a bit of it on radio, but will listen to the rest! Link to comment
Midfielder Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 Hunter Valley to have the worlds biggest battery build there. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/05/worlds-biggest-battery-with-1200mw-capacity-set-to-be-built-in-nsw-hunter-valley-australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-05/plans-unveiled-for-worlds-biggest-battery-in-hunter-valley/13124814 wendybr 1 Link to comment
Paul01 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 And ANZ pulls funding. Climate risk sees ANZ divest from Port of Newcastle, the largest thermal coal terminal in the world http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-09/climate-risk-sees-anz-divest-from-port-of-newcastle/13136462 Wonder the ANZ Chairman is going to get a call from the PM Midfielder 1 Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Wow...what a game changer for the future! I do hope it takes off globally! Midfielder 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 Following on from Andrew Forrest ideas above I had no idea of this in his history... wendybr 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 Listen wendybr 1 Link to comment
Paul01 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/17/oecd-chief-angel-gurria-environment-covid-price-carbon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Link to comment
Midfielder Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Coca-Cola Amatil has made a “huge” Australian announcement. One of the world’s best-known brands is making the switch to 100 per cent renewable electricity in Australia and New Zealand by 2025. The company made the announcement as part of its sustainability objectives to 2040 which will focus on four priority areas – water, consumer wellbeing, packaging and carbon reduction. wendybr 1 Link to comment
alexd Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 56 minutes ago, Midfielder said: Coca-Cola Amatil has made a “huge” Australian announcement. One of the world’s best-known brands is making the switch to 100 per cent renewable electricity in Australia and New Zealand by 2025. The company made the announcement as part of its sustainability objectives to 2040 which will focus on four priority areas – water, consumer wellbeing, packaging and carbon reduction. Now if they would only pay a fair price for the water that's gifted to them..... wendybr 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/forrest-s-fortescue-fast-tracks-net-zero-target-to-2030-20210315-p57ar2.html Mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has vowed to neutralise the carbon emissions from Fortescue Metals Group’s operations within nine years under an accelerated push to become a net-zero emitter. Australia’s richest man on Monday said Fortescue would bring forward its net-zero target by 10 years to 2030 – two decades ahead of 2050 goals set by larger mining heavyweights. Fortescue will also link executive pay to achieving these strengthened emissions targets. The move comes as a growing number of the nation’s heaviest emitters escalate efforts to zero out their emissions and work towards achieving the Paris climate accord’s goals to slow global warming. “We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change,” Dr Forrest said on Monday. Fortescue has recently mapped out ambitious plans to expand into a range of green energy industries such as zero-emissions hydrogen manufacturing, solar energy, wind farms and hydro-power in the coming years, both in Australia and around the world. However, the miner remains under pressure for declining to match BHP and Rio Tinto’s pledges to expand their decarbonisation initiatives to take account for the vastly greater emissions footprint caused by the end-use of Australian iron ore in Asia’s carbon-intensive steel mills, called “Scope 3” emissions. Climate-focused shareholder campaigner Market Forces said Fortescue’s direct emissions (Scopes 1 and 2) accounted for 0.85 per cent of the company’s wider carbon footprint. “Over 99 per cent of the company’s emissions are Scope 3, generated when Fortescue’s customers use iron ore to make steel,” Market Forces director Julien Vincent said. “Fortescue Metals Group’s shareholders should be pushing the company to either set a target to reduce its exposure to Scope 3 emissions or define how much of this risk the company is prepared to be exposed to over the next five to 10 years.” The steel-making industry – which mixes iron ore and coking coal in blast furnaces heated to more than 1000 degrees – is a major driver of global warming, accounting for an estimated 8 per cent of the world’s emissions. Mr Vincent also called for Fortescue to clarify the extent to which it planned to rely on purchasing carbon “offsets”, which could include investments in programs such as planting trees that naturally store carbon, to mitigate emissions from its own operations and meet the new 2030 net-zero target. “These need to be at the very least, reliable, permanent and independently verifiable,” he said. While Fortescue is yet to pledge Scope 3 goals, Dr Forrest said the company was aiming to launch a pilot plant this year to manufacture “green hydrogen” – hydrogen made through a process using renewable energy. Hydrogen, which burns cleanly and emits only water, could eventually substitute coal in steel-making furnaces and eliminate emissions from the process. “Green hydrogen and direct green electricity have the potential to eliminate fossil fuels from supply chains,” he said “We are trialling and demonstrating green hydrogen technologies in global-scale commercial environments, while also rapidly evolving into a green hydrogen and electricity producer of similar scale,” he said. Worldwide, pressure on mining companies to sign up to bolder climate action has been building from activists and major fund managers alike, as investors seek to reduce fossil fuel exposure on ethical and financial grounds. wendybr 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Very worth while watching... Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Battery teck is amazing... Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 Should be shown on mainstream networks or a summary of it anyway... Edinburgh 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 WOW WOW WOW Just read this an it blows my mind.... Holland, Belgium, UK, Germany, Demark... are building in the North Sea a wind & hydrogen project to power all of Europe... Its not all that expensive as well.... Why is this not well known.... Its called the North Sea Wind Hub Teachers out there this would make an amazing project, so much to look up... I am in awe at what is happening.... Demark started it and others have joined in... the sheer size of the wind farms and the details shown on this site are mind blowing... https://northseawindpowerhub.eu/ Edinburgh and wendybr 2 Link to comment
Cynth Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Midfielder said: WOW WOW WOW Just read this an it blows my mind.... Holland, Belgium, UK, Germany, Demark... are building in the North Sea a wind & hydrogen project to power all of Europe... Its not all that expensive as well.... Why is this not well known.... Its called the North Sea Wind Hub Teachers out there this would make an amazing project, so much to look up... I am in awe at what is happening.... Demark started it and others have joined in... the sheer size of the wind farms and the details shown on this site are mind blowing... https://northseawindpowerhub.eu/ How awesome is that. Must say I love your enthusiasm. wendybr 1 Link to comment
wendybr Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 18 hours ago, Midfielder said: WOW WOW WOW Just read this an it blows my mind.... Holland, Belgium, UK, Germany, Demark... are building in the North Sea a wind & hydrogen project to power all of Europe... Its not all that expensive as well.... Why is this not well known.... Its called the North Sea Wind Hub Teachers out there this would make an amazing project, so much to look up... I am in awe at what is happening.... Demark started it and others have joined in... the sheer size of the wind farms and the details shown on this site are mind blowing... https://northseawindpowerhub.eu/ Thanks Middy! You keep on reminding us that all is not lost. 👍👍 Link to comment
thefairy Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 21 hours ago, wendybr said: Thanks Middy! You keep on reminding us that all is not lost. 👍👍 you sure? they said it will be complete by 2050. that's another 30 years. We only have 11 years left. Too late. “We are the last generation that can prevent irreparable damage to our planet,” General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (Ecuador) warned the gathering in her opening remarks, stressing that 11 years are all that remain to avert catastrophe. Highlighting the meeting’s theme, Ms. Espinosa called for an intergenerational approach to climate change. “Climate justice is intergenerational justice,” she said, calling on States to act collectively and responsibly. https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm I have a better idea Wendy. How about we kill half the human population!! Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 29, 2021 Author Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) Fairy The thing is with most alternative energy solutions they can used, be as they are built... eg if you put solar on your roof, its instantly available... Unlike carbon based power stations and nuclear power station were only when the construct is complete and the plants commissioned can power be added. The lag delay in things like the North Sea Wind Hub is correcting the power to mainland transmission stations... So the pipes for the hydrogen and power lines ... both will be under the ocean ... but once connected existing systems can start to take the power... obviously additional mainland transmission line and pipe lines need to be increased as well... BUT one the North Sea Hub is connected then as the project is built power can be added as each part is finished can be added ... it's not like it takes 30 years to build and then a switch is flicked ... Edited April 29, 2021 by Midfielder wendybr 1 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted April 29, 2021 Author Share Posted April 29, 2021 From Tassie wendybr and alexd 2 Link to comment
Midfielder Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 So Singapore knows how to use our sun... Link to comment
Midfielder Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 https://time.com/5952586/biden-offshore-wind/ From Time... very good news... Biden Is Pouring Billions into Offshore Wind Energy. Will It Be Enough? Link to comment
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