Northern Lights over our home in Froland last night. Not often seen in this part of Norway! Photo: Our neighbour Magnus Torsvik
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'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose all of its glaciers https://nbcnews.com/news/latino/-great-sadness-venezuela-first-andean-country-lose-glaciers-rcna153784… via
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Venezuela has become the first South American country to lose all of its glaciers, following the shrinkage of the Humboldt glacier in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range. This makes it one of two countries — the other being Slovenia — to have lost all of its glaciers, with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru facing heavy losses in the years ahead.

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The climate refugee crisis is here
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Interview: China’s position on ‘international climate finance’ ahead of COP29  https://carbonbrief.org/interview-chinas-position-on-international-climate-finance-ahead-of-cop29/… China’s stance remains controversial. The country did not make a pledge to the “loss-and-damage fund” established at COP28, but has provided alternative climate funding through its South-South Climate Cooperation Fund and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Ahead of next week’s Bonn conference – where delegates are expected to negotiate climate finance – Carbon Brief has interviewed Li Shuo, head of the China climate hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), on the prospects for China’s climate contribution.

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Better late than never: Wealthy nations finally meet $100 billion climate aid goal https://grist.org/international/100-billion-climate-aid-goal-oecd/… Even $100 billion, however, is far lower than the developing world’s estimated need. United Nations-backed research projects that developing countries (excluding China) will need an eye-popping $2.4 trillion per year by 2030 to transition away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change.

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The architecture firm that built the world's tallest skyscraper has a new vision: Turning buildings into batteries https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/chicago-based-architectural-firm-looks-to-turn-to-buildings-into-batteries?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter?sref=Ih2p2ggW… via
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Energy Vault’s current systems can provide energy for about five to 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to Robert Piconi, the Westlake Village, California-based company’s chief executive officer. That’s cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, which come in at about 13.5 cents, according to BloombergNEF. Going higher will shift the economics significantly, and he said the goal is to get that figure down to less than 5 cents, the levelized cost over a project’s lifetime. Once a building gets above about 200 meters, a gravity-storage system could supply more than enough power to cover its operations. That’s when building operators can start to offset the carbon footprint of construction materials, with some of SOM’s designs expected to see that payback in two to four years.

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