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Resources minister leaps on industry funded report that clear fracking of long term pollutants, but did not study impacts on human health or greenhouse emissions.

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Wind and solar could play key role in the future of Australia's aluminium industry, particularly as dependence on coal becomes a reliability rather than an asset.

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In this role you will be working within our Portfolio Management team and your responsibilities will extend to all registry-related activities, such as ensuring efficient and accurate delivery of carbon credits and RECs to our broad base of clients, and coordinating with our Project Development team for project compliance, registration and issuance.

California regulator ARB does not have a timeline for the next rulemaking process that will alter future power and industrial sector allocations under the state’s ETS, with some sources saying the state could wait until the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is known.

Planet of the Humans documentary is not just bad, it’s old bad. But the outright lies about wind and solar are serious and extremely harmful.

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The Senior Vice President, Climate Change strengthens these efforts by fostering a supportive ecosystem that allows sub-national actors to drive meaningful change in the climate arena. The Senior Vice President also complements work at the sub-national level by designing, coordinating, and leading WWF's engagement with the US Federal government on climate policy in collaboration with WWF's Government Affairs team, and through engagement with bodies such as the Climate Leadership Council.

The first of 31 Goldwind wind turbines successfully installed at BJCE Australia's 110MW Biala wind farm, in Angus Taylor's electorate in the NSW Southern Tablelands.

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Companies may see the cost of removing GHG emissions through direct air capture (DAC) technologies bottom out at $100 per tonne in the near term, even as some entities say they can realise cheaper abatement opportunities, experts said.

Stay connected and engaged to the climate change cause, and you might find we emerge from the coronavirus crisis with more hope than before. Sky Croeser, Lecturer, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs fell back towards €20 on Monday despite signs that Europe's economy may have hit a bottom after weeks of stifling virus containment measures.

France will seek this week to convince EU nations to adopt a carbon price floor and to strengthen the carbon market's MSR, teeing up an early test of EU resolve on climate ambition in the face of coronavirus concerns.

Virginia environmental justice organisations have labelled a recently-passed climate bill inadequate despite it setting a 100% carbon-free power sector goal and allowing the state to join the RGGI ETS, while Governor Ralph Northam (D) removed the final hurdle to link with the US Northeast cap-and-trade programme next year.

Switzerland will reopen its emissions trading registry in mid-May following a two-month closure, and with it the country’s EU-linked carbon market, the government said Monday, also announcing an extension to this year’s compliance deadline and the dates for the next allowance auction.

China’s Guangdong province sold out all 400,000 CO2 allowances on offer at Monday’s auction, with bid interest almost eight times higher than the volume available.

Countries should update their Paris emission pledges this year even as the annual UN climate summit is postponed and the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis, Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulz said on Monday.

NZUs rose 20 cents to their highest since mid-March on Monday as the nation prepared to ease restrictions in place over the past five weeks, including sending the forestry industry back to work.

In 2013, just three adult females remained in the wild, now a much larger group will leave Tasmania to fly north for the winter

There has been little good to say about the recent history of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot. Numbers of the small migratory bird, which makes a return trip from Tasmania’s south-west wilderness to the mainland’s coastal scrubland each year, have fallen so sharply scientists consider it at risk of extinction within five years.

Just 23 birds arrived at the species’ breeding site at Melaleuca, deep in the Tasmanian World Heritage Wilderness Area, last spring.

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At a time of massive environmental change, we need to expand our language to be able to share the emotional upheavals they engender. Glenn Albrecht, Honorary Associate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Curtailing of shipping due to coronavirus allows scientists to study effects of quieter oceans on marine wildlife

In cities, human lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have offered some respite to the natural world, with clear skies and the return of wildlife to waterways. Now evidence of a drop in underwater noise pollution has led experts to predict the crisis may also be good news for whales and other sea mammals.

Researchers examining real-time underwater sound signals from seabed observatories run by Ocean Networks Canada near the port of Vancouver found a significant drop in low-frequency sound associated with ships.

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Electricity prices go negative prices in all five state markets in Australia's main grid for four consecutive settlement intervals over the weekend.

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