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A record-sized carbon capture plant has launched in Iceland, in what advocates say is another “proof point” for the climate-change-tackling technology. The Mammoth direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) plant run by Climeworks is 10 times bigger than the Swiss company’s previous plant, Orca. Both are based inside the Hellisheiði geothermal park, which holds a large power plant. Once fully operational, the modular Mammoth will suck up to 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the surrounding air a year using giant fans. By contrast, carbon capture is carried out at the point of emissions - before they can r...
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A green group has called for a phased rollout of a controversial waste charging scheme, whereby it could cover most government premises but exclude public housing estates when it takes effect this August. In an open letter, environmental group The Green Earth urged the government to roll out the waste tax in phases, requiring government premises – including their offices, public schools, government staff quarters, and government-operated malls and factory estates – to take part. Public rental housing estates, however, should be exempt from the tax in the proposed first phase of the charging sc...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong authorities have said a road in Sai Kung that was partially closed due to a landslide on Saturday should reopen by Monday morning, after the city saw its first red rainstorm of the year. After inspecting an affected section of Clear Water Bay Road, Secretary for Transport and Logistics Lam Sai-hung said that workers were carrying out “temporary consolidation work” by spraying concrete onto the slope. “Our contractor and the Highways Department will keep monitoring the situation here,” Lam told reporters. “We’ll also liaise with the observatory to see if the weather will worsen, and w...
Hong Kong Free Press
The government has urged employers of outdoor workers to develop their own rules to prevent heatstroke after rolling out revisions to an official warning system that was slammed as ineffective and disruptive when introduced last year. The adjustments were made after stakeholders aired views to the Labour Department, Deputy Commissioner for Occupational Safety and Health Vincent Fung told RTHK on Friday. The pilot scheme was not originally due for review for two years. The Labour Department launched the revisions on Thursday to minimise situations in which a heat warning is cancelled and then r...
Hong Kong Free Press
A damning new report has accused Big Oil of privately acknowledging its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels - while publicly stating they were opposed to the practice. The report, headed up by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the United States, says oil giants including ExxonMobil and Chevron - as well as several industry trade groups - were behind a campaign aimed at defending the industry's interests. They claim this has all been done at the expense of the planet. "Big Oil has run campaigns to confuse and mislead the public while working unceasingly to lo...
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On 9 February 2024, Dutch MEP Rob Roos told an audience in Poland that the EU Green Deal was “destroying our food system”. In his closing remarks, he warned, “We are heading toward what I call a new kind of communism.” Roos is a radical-right politician who currently sits as an independent in the Parliament’s European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, alongside far-right parties including Brothers of Italy and Spain’s Vox. When he made the comments, for which there is no evidence, Roos was speaking at a relatively minor event in Warsaw. Posted to YouTube, a nearly two-hour video of the...
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Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics is going smoothly, Chief Executive John Lee has said, despite confusion surrounding how the rules are being implemented and poor compliance. Speaking at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, the city’s leader said more people were purchasing reusable alternatives, suggesting that Hongkongers were beginning to change their daily habits. See also: Restaurants slow to adopt eco-friendly alternatives as Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics takes effect “Generally speaking, from what I can see, [the single-use plastics ban] has been smooth and orderly,” he s...
Hong Kong Free Press
The Department of Education ordered students in more than 47,000 public schools to study from home due to health risks from record-high temperatures. The Philippines is among the worst affected by the sweltering weather in Southeast Asia.
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Leaders from Germany and Spain are calling for a global tax on billionaires to help tackle the costs of the climate crisis. Brazil, which chairs the G20 group of the world’s largest economies, first proposed a tax on the super-rich at a meeting of finance ministers in February. Now, finance chiefs from Germany, Spain and South Africa have joined Brazil in fleshing out the proposal which could see the world’s 3,000 billionaires made to pay a minimum 2 per cent levy on their wealth. “It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public go...
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Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight. The skies are predicted to clear on Wednesday as winds shift and move the dust, with temperatures dipping. On Tuesday, the daily high in parts of the southern island of Crete topped 30 degrees Celsius, more than 20 degrees higher than what was registered in much of northern Greece. People took to social media to express surprise at the orange skies that covered the city. The strong southerly winds over the past few days have also fanned...
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