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Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission gets to work
An independent advisory group has been launched to support ambitious climate action in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission brings together a team of climate leaders from across public, private and third sectors in what is the largest regional commission of its kind in the UK.
Professor Andy Gouldson, Executive Dean at the University Of Leeds’ Faculty of Environment, is director of the new commission and will oversee its work.
Chaired by Liz Barber, CEO of Yorkshire Water, the commission aims to help the region reduce its carbon emissions as quickly as possible and ensure that people in Yorkshire are prepared to cope with the growing impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves, flooding and sea level rise.
Europe’s carbon regime is out of control – just like its vaccine procurement
Rocketing carbon prices risk breaking the €100 barrier this year, making a mockery of Europe s green deal
14 March 2021 • 2:23pm
European carbon prices have exploded to €43 a tonne, doubling in four months and fast reaching levels that profoundly disrupt the EU’s energy architecture.
The surge is driving coal out of the EU market as intended. But it is also starting to threaten the commercial viability of natural gas projects, until now seen as big beneficiaries of the net-zero transition.
Futures contracts under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) have risen eightfold since 2017 as the Commission reforms the broken system.
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Fungi have helped scientists make a breakthrough in transforming wood into a useful source of clean electricity, which could one day lead to “energy ballrooms”.
The possibility of applying pressure to wood to produce an electric charge, known as the piezoelectric effect, has been discussed since the 1940s and 1950s. However, the vanishingly small amount of electricity the process produces has held back the idea.
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Now, a team led by Ingo Burgert at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has discovered how to tweak the internal structure of balsa wood to make the piezoelectric output 55 times higher. The solution was to deliberately rot the wood.
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Date: 27 May 2021