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Queensland calls for registrations of interest in new renewable generation and storage projects in first formal step towards unlocking new renewable energy zones.

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This position will support the delivery of the UK’s 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) objectives and campaigns in the Philippines and Palau.

Rugged portable solar, hydrogen storage, faster EV charging and residential batteries to replace gas share in grants awarded by ACT government.

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Conservation group WWF says global wildlife populations have shrunk by two-thirds since 1970.

More than 32,000 tonnes of the chemicals were approved for export by the UK in 2018, says Greenpeace.

Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃, but new report by World Meteorological Organisation warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024.

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Additional offsets from a Wisconsin-based dairy digester may be impacted by California state regulator ARB’s decision last week to void nearly 5,000 credits for regulatory non-compliance, market sources said.

The peak bodies representing the major fossil fuel generators and networks question governance of AEMO, but may be more about clipping its wings and its transition plan.

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Climate change: Tax frequent fliers, phase out polluting SUVs, citizens say

The firm's Maybelline brand has set up recycling points in shops including Tesco and Superdrug.

Animal populations have plunged an average of 68% since 1970, as humanity pushes the planet’s life support systems to the edge

Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on Earth.

On average, global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles plunged by 68% between 1970 and 2016, according to the WWF and Zoological Society of London (ZSL)’s biennial Living Planet Report 2020. Two years ago, the figure stood at 60%.

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Extinction rates for birds and mammals since 1993 would have been ‘three to four times higher’ without action

Up to 48 bird and mammal extinctions have been prevented by conservation efforts since a global agreement to protect biodiversity, according to a new study.

The Iberian lynx, California condor and pygmy hog are among animals that would have disappeared without reintroduction programmes, zoo-based conservation and formal legal protections since 1993, research led by scientists at Newcastle University and BirdLife International found.

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Surge in wind energy drives total production of renewables in Australia's main grid to five terawatt hours for the first time in August.

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Pinning hopes of economic recovery on fossil fuel comes at huge environmental cost, analysis warns

Australia’s untapped gas reservoirs could lead to three year’s worth of global greenhouse gas emissions if they were developed to their full extent, an analysis suggests.

With the Morrison government proposing what it has described as a “gas-led recovery”, a report by the thinktank the Australia Institute has estimated the emissions that would be released if the fossil fuel industry were significantly expanded.

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EUAs rebounded from a fresh two-week low on Wednesday as the biggest auction so far this year cleared at a strong premium, as traders readied for a key vote in the European Parliament.

California regulator ARB issued more than 2 million new offsets this week, with the bulk not providing direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), according to state data published Wednesday.

The European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) is close to agreeing on efforts to raise the EU's 2030 emissions reduction goal to 60%, sources said late Wednesday, on the eve of a crunch vote that could signal a drastic increase in the bloc’s climate ambition.

Miners and environmentalists have reached an uneasy truce over lithium – both agree Australia should be mining more of this key ingredient in renewable energy batteries

“Where are you going to find experienced lithium miners? That’s like finding unicorns,” laughs James Brown, the managing director of Western Australian resources firm Altura Mining.

Brown is the next best thing. Hailing from a family five generations deep in coal mining, the burly Queenslander never imagined he’d be applying his expertise to digging out a key building block of a low-carbon economy.

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Critics say permits allowing release of waste after extreme weather are a licence to pollute

Urgent new measures are being taken to address the scale of untreated sewage leaks into rivers and seas as pressure grows on the water industry and government to act.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has set up a taskforce to cut the frequency of sewage discharges into rivers and seas from storm overflows, following revelations in the Guardian that water companies released raw sewage into rivers more than 200,000 times last year.

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