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António Guterres says Covid pandemic must not halt preparatory work for key summit in Glasgow

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Governments must step up their efforts ahead of vital climate talks this year by agreeing to negotiate formally online for the first time, the UN secretary general has said.

António Guterres told a meeting of governments and officials on Monday that formal negotiations for the Cop26 summit must be begun virtually owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and the constraints it had placed on governments meeting in person.

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Fifteen teams will get $1m to develop ideas, with a $50m prize awaiting the winner

The Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has offered a $100m (£73m) fund for inventions that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans.

Musk, who has built up an estimated $203bn fortune, said he wanted scientists to make a “truly meaningful impact” and achieve “carbon negativity, not neutrality”.

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Exchange operator ICE will relocate its EU carbon allowance trading from its London-based hub to the Netherlands in Q2 of this year due to Brexit-related limitations, it announced Monday.

A koala crossing one of South Australia’s busiest freeways led to a six-car collision as drivers abandoned their vehicles to mount a rescue of the 'calm' marsupial.

Nadia Tugwell  joined those trying to help the animal on Adelaide’s South Eastern Freeway near Crafers on Monday morning. 'When it saw me it instantly turned around to run backwards but the other lady was there and so we jumped it, bundled it up, and it ended up in my car because she had children,' Tugwell said.

While she waited for a koala centre rescuer to arrive, the animal made itself at home in her car. The volunteer released the uninjured koala back into the wild 1km from the freeway

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Australia’s junior coalition partner has flagged the possibility of keeping farming out of the country's net zero emissions pledge, a move that could potentially jeopardise the offset industry’s ambition to export agriculture-based carbon credits.

Transport expert says the emissions calculations used by Angus Taylor to justify his "do nothing" EV strategy are "fundamentally wrong."

The post Angus Taylor’s electric vehicle emissions claims “fundamentally flawed,” says expert appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Green Homes Grant system is overwhelmed by calls, the Environmental Audit Committee says.

Workers stood down at Shell's first big Australian solar project after reports of a dispute between contractors.

The post Work stops at Shell solar project after contractor dispute leads to stand-downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rice’s whales already considered endangered by the US with a population estimated at fewer than 100

Genetic analysis and a close examination of the skulls from a group of baleen whales in the north-eastern Gulf of Mexico have revealed that they are a new species.

“I was surprised that there could be an unrecognized species of whale out there, especially in our backyard,” says Lynsey Wilcox, a geneticist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who helped uncover the new species. “I never imagined I would be describing a new species in my career, so it is a very exciting discovery.”

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Researchers use drones to map 30,000 sq metres of Heron Island at high resolution so sea cucumbers can be counted

“In the wee hours of the morning … we weren’t too excited to be spooning poo,” reef ecologist Dr Vincent Raulot says.

But that’s exactly what he and a team of researchers did to calculate out how much poop was excreted by an estimated 3 million sea cucumbers on the 20 sq km Heron Island coral reef in Queensland.

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ASX-listed wind farm developer says it has decided to grant a number of suitors access to due diligence material to enable them to prepare binding acquisition proposals.

The post Tilt Renewables says it has “a number” of suitors, invites binding offers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Swedish environmental groups warn test flight could be first step towards the adoption of a potentially “dangerous, unpredictable, and unmanageable” technology

A proposed scientific balloon flight in northern Sweden has attracted opposition from environmental groups over fears it could lead to the use of solar geoengineering to cool the Earth and combat the climate crisis by mimicking the effect of a large volcanic eruption.

In June, a team of Harvard scientists is planning to launch a high-altitude balloon from Kiruna in Lapland to test whether it can carry equipment for a future small-scale experiment on radiation-reflecting particles in the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is taking a minority stake in the Guangzhou Futures, aiming to extend its engagement in low-carbon markets.

Engineers explore using gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity

Hundreds of hills across the UK could be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” through a pioneering hydropower system embedded underground.

A team of engineers have developed a system that adapts one of the oldest forms of energy storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from gentle slopes rather than requiring steep dam walls and mountains.

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Plans to construct a gas import terminal in Victoria met an unexpected opponent, with the state Liberal National party announcing they oppose the project.

The post Victorian Liberal-Nationals oppose controversial gas import terminal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

While the Morrison government buries its head in the sand, Shenzen shows the strong public commitment required to transition to electric transport fleets.

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Price of Australian carbon offsets broke through $17 a tonne last week, as big polluters looked to voluntarily offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

The post Australian carbon credit units surge to 12-month highs: Here’s why appeared first on RenewEconomy.