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Carbon tariffs will be great for Australia’s solar exports, says Sun Cable CEO
Carbon border taxes will turbocharge demand for clean energy in Southeast Asia, providing opportunities to export Australia's solar resources.
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*Senior Technical Specialist, Forestry & Forest Carbon, Fauna & Flora International – Cambridge, UK
California offset prices lagging behind speculator-fuelled CCA rise
NA Markets: RGGI finds bullish support amid thin demand as CCAs decline ahead of Q2 auction
Lightsource bp to create 600MW solar hub that will be one of biggest on grid
Lightsource bp gets planning approval for north Wellington solar project, which will help create largest solar hub in the state.
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How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art
Russia picks team for film shot on International Space Station
Environment department tried to bury research that found huge underspend on Australian threatened species
Exclusive: a departmental briefing note prepared for a meeting with government-funded scientists suggested they ‘don’t publish the paper’
The federal government tried to stop the publication of an academic paper that found it needed to drastically increase its spending on threatened Australian wildlife.
Internal documents released to Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws show senior officials in the federal environment department spent months pressuring the scientists from the government-funded Threatened Species Recovery Hub.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs fall back below €54 amid wider market correction
Boris Johnson took ‘unnecessary’ helicopter trip to promote bike scheme
Exclusive: prime minister’s short flights cast doubt on the sincerity of his pledges to fight the climate crisis, say critics
Boris Johnson has been criticised for taking a short helicopter flight from London to the West Midlands to promote a local bike hire scheme, despite the train from London taking just more than two hours.
Critics said the flight was “completely unnecessary” and cast doubt on the sincerity of the prime minister’s pledges to fight the climate crisis. Air travel produces far more global-heating emissions than other modes of transport.
Continue reading...Native oysters reintroduced into Firth of Clyde
Japanese oil and gas firm to lean on CCS for net zero goal, eyes on offsets
Startup raises $7.8 mln for nature-based offset ratings service
Wastewater is 'polluting rivers with microplastic'
Water firms are main source of microplastics in UK rivers, study says
Research says discharge of untreated sewage and wastewater during dry spells to blame
Water companies are causing high levels of microplastic contamination in UK rivers by discharging untreated sewage and wastewater into the water system, new research reveals.
As pressure builds on water companies, the Environment Agency and ministers to tackle the way water firms release untreated effluent into rivers, scientists have for the first time linked the practice to microplastic pollution.
Continue reading...Video: Changing the world with solar, batteries and EVs
The Smart Energy Conference shone a bright light how technologies such as solar, storage, hydrogen and EVs are transforming our economy.
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Meet the workers who put food on America’s tables – but can’t afford groceries
Undocumented immigrants are doing the backbreaking farm work that keeps the US food system running but struggle to feed their families
Photographs by Encarni Pindado
In the piercing midday heat of southern Texas, farmhand Linda Villarreal moves methodically to weed row after row of parsley, rising only occasionally to stretch her achy back and nibble on sugary biscuits she keeps in her pockets. In the distance, a green and white border patrol truck drives along the levy beside the towering steel border wall.
For this backbreaking work, Villareal is paid $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage since 2009, with no benefits. She takes home between $300 and $400 a week depending on the amount of orders from the bodegas – packaging warehouses which supply the country’s supermarkets with fruits and vegetables harvested by crews of undocumented mostly Mexican farmworkers.
Continue reading...Mice ‘napalm’ to combat plague could also kill native and domestic animals, experts warn
Poison promoted by NSW government to fight eastern Australia plague stays in mice after death and can ‘accumulate up through the food chain’
Leading rodent experts say they “aren’t convinced” a new poison spruiked by the New South Wales government as “napalm” for mice will significantly impact the state’s plague, and warn it comes at a vastly higher risk of killing native and domestic animals.
Rodents are still running rampant across large tracts of inland NSW and southern Queensland, costing some farmers more than $100,000 in destroyed crops and damage to stored hay and grain. Cases of leptospirosis – a potentially deadly disease that can transfer from mice to humans – have almost doubled in Queensland this year, with health authorities citing the increased rodent numbers as a possible cause.
Continue reading...Video: Smart Energy Conference Wrap – Day 1
Giles Parkinson & David Leitch discuss Day 1 of the 2021 Smart Energy Conference in Sydney. Stay tuned for our wrap of Day 2.
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Taylor’s Kurri Kurri “gas” plant to run on dirty diesel first
Environmental Impact Statement for the gas plant proposed for the NSW Hunter region by Angus Taylor reveals it would run for 6 months on diesel, before switching to mostly gas.
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