Impressively we are actually going backwards on protecting land for nature. "The amount of land protected for nature is down from last year’s update, which was at 3.11%, while 8% of sea in England was effectively protected for nature in 2023." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Experts are calling for ‘rapid rescue package’ for nature to improve condition of protected sites
imagine being one of the most powerful climate finance people in the world and thinking that the scary climate driver of stranded property assets is decarbonization www.ft.com/content/d092...
Real estate investors squeezed between falling valuations and pressure to upgrade energy efficiency
Breaking News! Code Yikes! September was 1.53°C above the 1850-1900 baseline, making the 16th straight month above pre-2023 records. On the plus side, at least September wasn't as totally f&%king nuts as last year.
i knew there was a good reason for coming to bluesky!
This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony. www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...
Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...
Colossal surprise.
Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals - US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year #ClimateCrisis Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year
Poor old telegraph so many shocks coming down the line for them
absolutely bats.
lot of competition for those prizes tho
Seventy per cent of soft plastic collected in supermarket recycling schemes and tracked after collection ended up being burned, an investigation by campaigners has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Campaigners call supermarket takeback schemes a diversion and say there is too much plastic packaging