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Even with rooftop solar boom, households are paying dearly for what lies beneath
Australians have led the world in solar installations on their rooftops, but lag way behind in terms of what they do under the roof. And it's costing them dearly.
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CP Daily: Monday June 1, 2020
ABC’s QandA: Old fossils versus smart advocates of clean energy transition
Two old fossils put the case for dirty, old, and incumbent technologies. Three smart women argued environmental, economic and engineering case for a clean energy transition.
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Head of Climate Centre of Excellence and Environment, RBS – London
Investment and advisory group snaps up EIB climate finance expert
New Zealand ups fixed price option, sets inaugural ETS cap
The Leadbeater's possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in Australia
Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn
Analysis shows 500 species on brink of extinction – as many as were lost over previous century
The sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, according to an analysis by scientists who warn it may be a tipping point for the collapse of civilisation.
More than 500 species of land animals were found to be on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost within 20 years. In comparison, the same number were lost over the whole of the last century. Without the human destruction of nature, even this rate of loss would have taken thousands of years, the scientists said.
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Renewables jobs could boom to 44,000 by 2025, but only with the right policy support
CEC report finds enormous employment opportunity from renewable energy in Australia but warns failure to address policy barriers could see jobs head in opposite direction.
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Carbon Project Manager, UpEnergy – Kampala, Uganda
Climate change: May was sunniest calendar month on record in UK
California gasoline volumes rose ahead of COVID-19 pandemic, though drops expected in March
British Columbia still planning near-term updates to large emitter programme, LCFS
Gaslighting Australia: How gas industry is driving up emissions
Analysis of emissions data shows that using gas as a transition fuel is dangerous in a world badly missing its climate targets.
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EU Midday Market Briefing
How a new mega battery will help Hawaii say goodbye to its last coal generator
American utility-scale energy storage developer Plus Power is to build a 185MW/565MWh battery storage facility in Hawaii that will have as its primary role to ensure that the AES coal plant – the last- remaining coal-fired generation in Hawaii – will end operations in September, 2022. The Kapolei Energy Storage project is the largest battery...
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China set provincial renewable targets as REC scheme nears launch
China’s Tianjin to auction 2 mln CO2 allowances on June 10
Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future | Christiana Figueres
Lockdown won’t save the world from warming, but the pandemic offers an opportunity to green the global economy
The air is clean and fresh, fish have reappeared in urban waterways, birds are frequenting uncut gardens, wild mammals are meandering through cities and greenhouse gas emissions will likely drop by an unprecedented 8% this year. Nature has clearly benefited from several months of dramatically reduced economic activity. From a climate crisis perspective, this drop in emissions is astonishingly close to the 7.6% yearly reduction in emissions that scientists have advised will be necessary during the next decade. And yet none of this is cause for celebration.
Most surprising are the carbon-intensive industries that confirm they are continuing to decarbonise despite the pandemic
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