#carbon-neutrality

#carbon-neutrality

Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week.In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time.Named Laboratory of the Future, this year's edition will see various interpretations and exhibits of themes including decolonisation and decarbonisation across the city of Venice.

Negotiators were at odds over how quickly to end free CO2 permits the EU gives industries to protect from foreign competition.European Union negotiators have reached an agreement on overhauling the bloc's carbon market, the central plank of its ambitions to reduce emissions and invest in climate-friendly technologies.

Prince William has announced the five winning projects of this year's Earthshot Prize, founded by the royal together with British wildlife presenter David Attenborough to find solutions to "repair our planet".The Earthshot Prize winners each received a £1 million grant to scale their projects, with each tackling a different topic from regenerating nature and fighting climate change to eliminating pollution - whether at sea, on land or in the air - based loosely on the United Nations' sustainable development goals.

The net-zero emissions plans of 24 multinational companies are not only largely misleading, but also distract from a failure to cut climate-wrecking emissions in line with the Paris climate goals.The latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor, which is authored by German think tank, the New Climate Institute, paints a picture of private sector obfuscation in regard to meaningful decarbonization.

Africa's most industrialised economy is heavily dependent on coal, which generates 80 percent of its electricity.South Africa, one of the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitters, has been granted financing of $497m to decommission one of its largest coal-fired power plants and convert it to renewable energy, the World Bank said.

Transit Ridership Highest in Months (SFExaminer)
BART Not Stopping at Lafayette (SFStandard)
'Mayors' of Slow Streets (SFChron)
Driver Kills Pedestrian at Franklin and Eddy (SFGate)
Oakland Cop is Hit and Run Driver (SFStandard, Oaklandside)
Why Doesn't Berkeley Have More Condos?(Berkeleyside)
Walking all the Streets of Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
Did 'Bioswales' Work? (SFChron)
Artist Steals Muni Maps (SFStandard)
Commentary: Carbon Neutrality Won't be Easy with Transit Ridership Low (MercNews)
Commentary: High Security Deposits Contributing to Housing Crisis (SFChron)
Commentary: S.F.'s 'Free' Bathroom?

Canadian studio KPMB Architects has completed a campus building in Boston with a series of cantilevered volumes that is the largest "fossil-free building" in the city.KPMB Architects designed the Boston University Centre for Computing & Data Science to stand 305 feet tall (92 metres) on the Charles River.

A new licensing round for oil and gas exploration will boost both the UK's economy and energy security, Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has insisted.Ensuring our energy independence means exploiting the full potential of our North Sea assets to boost domestic production recognising that producing gas in the UK has a lower carbon footprint than importing from abroad.This licensing round includes gas discoveries in the Southern North Sea which can be rapidly tied back to existing infrastructure.