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Southeast Asian Cities Have Some of the Most Polluted Air in the World. El Niño Is Making it Worse

The City Fix

Residents of Jakarta, Indonesia woke up on August 31, 2023, to a thick blanket of haze and news that their city was again ranked the most polluted in the world — one of many times during the last several months when air quality became.

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The key to scaling greenhouse gas removals? Robust monitoring, reporting and verification

Business Green

and no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels. The role and risks of monitoring, reporting and verification Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) frameworks are increasingly seen as a GGR ‘market shaper', in other words a targeted intervention that addresses a market failure, thus removing a scaling obstacle.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

Clean Power (Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is developing a novel, low-cost, highly durable hydrogen polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell delivering zero-emission electricity. SPEC Sensors (Newark, CA) is creating a robust and reliable meshed sensor network for hydrogen leak detection and line-monitoring systems.

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'Private jets must be consigned to history': Greenpeace reveals private jet emissions quadrupled during last year's Davos Summit

Business Green

The rich and powerful are swarming to Davos to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors using the most unequal and polluting form of transport: private jets," she said. Paris Climate Target, this annual private jet bonanza is a distasteful masterclass in hypocrisy.

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The Net Zero Strategy: All the top announcements at a glance

Business Green

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. make polluters pay the most through fair carbon pricing.

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The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

Grist

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids

DeSmogBlog

The news follows criticism from the government’s own climate advisers that the country’s recently-announced net zero strategy excludes measures to tackle aviation growth, an increasing source of emissions. The PRI was working with investors to make the aviation sector “less carbon?intensive, carbon budget if left unchecked.