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Queensland grid needs to double in size for zero emissions, CleanCo says
CleanCo CEO says time to seize the huge decarbonisation opportunities available through solar - "the lowest cost energy" ever seen.
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Queensland to produce 10-year plan for renewables to bring back industry
Cheap renewables and a focus on renewable hydrogen production could revitalise Australia's manufacturing industries, Queensland minister says.
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CP Daily: Monday July 19, 2021
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Global investors pump hundreds of billions into renewables in shift from fossil fuels
A record $US501 billion ($A683 billion) was invested in the clean energy sector in the last financial year.
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How traditional owners and officials came together to protect a stunning stretch of WA coast
Battery storage faces two year wait for new rules that optimise its use
Battery storage industry happy with new rules that recognise some of their multiple tools, but not pleased with another two-year wait.
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First space tourist Dennis Tito: 'I was euphoric'
BC First Nation, LNG companies offer net zero LNG export facility
Canada doles out funds to develop grasslands carbon offset system
VCM Report: CORSIA credit prices press higher, analyst predicts 2 bln-tonne annual VER demand
'One of the most damaging invasive species on Earth': wild pigs release the same emissions as 1 million cars each year
World’s feral pigs produce as much CO2 as 1.1m cars each year, study finds
Researchers estimate the invasive species releases 4.9m metric tonnes of greenhouse gas annually by uprooting soil
The climate impact of wild pigs around the world is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of 1.1m cars annually, according to new research.
Modelling by an international team of researchers estimates that feral pigs release 4.9m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year globally by uprooting soil.
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The Guardian view on Germany’s floods: another wake-up call | Editorial
The lethal destruction in western states will frame the debate ahead of September’s vital election
Earlier this month, the German Greens unveiled an election poster designed to reassure voters who might be wary of their environmental radicalism. “Economy and climate without crisis”, went its slogan, suggesting that ambitious carbon reduction targets could be met without undue pain for jobs and industry. Days later, ecological crisis struck, in the form of the devastating floods that have overwhelmed western Germany, and parts of Belgium and the Netherlands. More than 190 people are so far known to have died, following flooding of an intensity and scale that has shocked scientists. The record levels of rain in north-west Europe followed record-breaking heat in the Americas. Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal, as climate models have long predicted. But some of the recent spikes have outstripped scientific predictions.
The eventual impact of the floods on Germany’s September election remains to be seen. But this disaster, which the country’s main political parties have broadly agreed was related to global warming, has thrust the climate crisis to the forefront of the campaign. On Sunday, Angela Merkel, who is standing down as chancellor, insisted that Germany needed to “up the pace in the fight against climate change”. Less impressively, the conservative frontrunner to succeed her, Armin Laschet, was caught on video sharing jokes with bystanders during a visit to a flooded town. As the president of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the worst-hit states, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union can make amends by getting to the bottom of a lethal failure to translate satellite warnings into evacuations on the ground.
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