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Carbon credit delivery to Australia’s ERF surpasses 50 mln

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 19:53
Australian offset project developers delivered almost 660,000 credits to the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) over January, taking the fund’s total generation above 50 MtCO2e since its first auction in Apr. 2015.
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Coalition passes on Teslas to pick diesels for new COMCAR fleet

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 16:53

BMW 6 series GT COMCARCOMCAR fleet, that serves Australia's politicians snubs EVs to choose "fuel-efficient" BMW diesel sedan after "desk-top" assessment rejects Tesla EVs.

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Welcome to Taylor-ball: How the game has changed in Australia’s energy markets

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 13:56

Scott Morrison Ace GuttersCoalition says it's "all about markets", but nearly every action it takes is effectively blocking new energy investment. And the biggest bollard is Angus Taylor's UNGI scheme.

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Queensland hails Shell’s first ever solar farm – which will “power gas plants”

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 13:15

Construction begins on Shell's first global investment in "industrial scale" solar – a 120MW PV farm in Queensland that will be used to power the state's gas plants.

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Oil giant Total flexes renewable muscle with stake in Adani solar portfolio

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 12:46

French oil and gas giant extends reach into renewables in $US510m deal with Adani Group giving it 50/50 ownership of more than 2GW of solar capacity in India.

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Windlab told to wear costs of Kennedy project delays in key ruling for renewables industry

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 12:44

Kennedy Energy Park wind turbine construction 2 - optimisedQueensland adjudicators rule developers of Kennedy Energy Park must pay contractors $7.5M despite ongoing delays to project completion.

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World’s largest offshore wind turbine clocks new 24-hour generation record

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 11:29

World's biggest turbine sets a new record for generation over a 24-hour period - enough to meet the power needs of more than 30,000 households on its own.

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Climate change: Loss of bumblebees driven by 'climate chaos'

BBC - Fri, 2020-02-07 11:25
"Climate chaos" has caused widespread losses of bumblebees across continents, experts say.
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CP Daily: Thursday February 6, 2020

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 10:36
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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Fireflies face extinction risk - and tourists are partly to blame

BBC - Fri, 2020-02-07 10:35
Tourists love the sight of fireflies glowing at night but it can kill the insects, scientists say.
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Poorer households may get help on energy bills

BBC - Fri, 2020-02-07 10:01
The burden of paying for clean energy technology could be shifted to the tax payer.
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Climate Policy Manager, Office of Sustainability & Environment, City of Seattle – Seattle

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 09:01
As the Climate Policy Manager, you will bring strong analytic, policy, and communications skills to shape the City of Seattle's climate program. The program includes policies aimed at reducing pollution in the built environment, from transportation, as well as from internal city operations.
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NA Markets: CCAs continue bullish trend with speculative purchases, RGGI falls on emissions data

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 08:48
California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose for the second consecutive week as speculators continued to take long positions on the back end of the curve, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) retraced previous gains after data showed emissions from the power plants covered by the ETS fell to an all-time low in 2019.
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Finland’s utility Fortum goes emissions-free over second half of 2019

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 08:39
Finnish utility Fortum reported zero emissions from its ETS-covered facilities over the entire second half of last year, it said on Thursday, as its profits were boosted by higher hydro output.
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Trump finalizes plans to open Utah monuments for mining and drilling

The Guardian - Fri, 2020-02-07 08:10

Lawsuits are pending from groups who have challenged the constitutionality of shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante

Plans finalized on Thursday for two national monuments in Utah downsized by Donald Trump would ensure that lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling.

The move comes despite pending lawsuits from conservation, tribal and paleontology groups, who have challenged the constitutionality of the president’s action. The Trump administration slashed the size of Bears Ears national monument by 85% and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument by nearly half in December 2017, in what represented the largest elimination of public lands protections in US history.

Conservation groups criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for spending time on management plans they believe will become moot when the court sides with their assertion that Trump misused the Antiquities Act to reverse decisions by previous presidents.

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Tesla could be worth $6 trillion in four years if it can land autonomous driving

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2020-02-07 07:14

 TeslaThe Driven Tesla’s share price surge over the past few days, and the past year, has stunned the financial markets and the automotive industry. But some analysts believe that we’ve seen nothing yet, and if Tesla can land its “full self driving” technology, and lead the switch to autonomous vehicles, the stock could be worth...

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Largest maker of pesticide linked to brain damage in kids to stop producing chemical

The Guardian - Fri, 2020-02-07 07:11

Announcement comes after Trump administration reversed plans to ban chlorpyrifos and rejected scientific conclusions of experts

The world’s largest manufacturer of chlorpyrifos, an agricultural pesticide linked to brain damage in children, has announced that it will stop producing the chemical by the end of the year.

The announcement on Thursday by Corteva, the corporation formed from a Dow Chemical and DuPont merger, comes after the Trump administration reversed regulatory plans to ban the pesticide and rejected the scientific conclusions of US government experts.

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Refinitiv hires former energy and carbon analyst to lead European gas research

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2020-02-07 07:10
Financial market data firm Refinitiv has hired a former energy and carbon analyst to head its European gas research division, Carbon Pulse has learned.
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Terror police's Extinction Rebellion 'risk report' sent out a year ago

The Guardian - Fri, 2020-02-07 06:18

Police say Rising Up report was commissioned as group had a ‘large following’ and concluded XR was not a threat

Counter-terrorism chiefs ordered a formal assessment of whether Extinction Rebellion was a national security threat one year ago and then sent a secret report about the group to police forces, the Guardian has learned.

The revelation shows that counter-terrorism police’s interest in the non-violent climate emergency group began earlier and was more extensive than previously thought.

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OneWeb: London start-up set to launch first big batch of satellites

BBC - Fri, 2020-02-07 05:34
The UK-based firm plans near-monthly launches of spacecraft to deliver a broadband internet service.
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