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Windlab Limited (ASX:WND) (‘Windlab’ or the ‘Company’) today announces that it plans to exit the North American market.

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The prospect of tighter emissions regulation may lead to a more bullish outlook for carbon prices over 2020.

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It’s impossible to suppress an incipient rage against the political leaders and coal lobbyists who have only pretended to take the scientific warnings seriously, or dismissed them as fantasies.

The post Letter from Canberra: The apocalyptic fires in Australia signal another future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

$50 million Wildlife and Habitat Recovery Package announced.

$50 million Wildlife and Habitat Recovery Package announced.

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Chilean emitters may use offset credits to comply with potential GHG limits under part of the country’s updated draft climate change law, as the beleaguered national government resumes work to hit more ambitious emission reduction targets.

Cattle Hill sends first regular output into the grid in Tasmania, adding a third producing wind farm to the island state's grid.

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Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth.

Scientists discover how the gingko lives to such an old age, surviving for centuries or millennia.

The latest bushfires cannot be compared to Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday. Our nation's fire history is being rewritten. Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Geoff Cary, Associate Professor, Bushfire Science, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

US asset manager that built up fossil fuel portfolio fails to join rivals in engaging with climate

Vanguard, the world’s second largest asset manager, has refused to sign up to a group of major investors demanding that polluters respond to the climate crisis, despite its rival BlackRock relenting to pressure to do so.

The US investment manager’s decision leaves it increasingly isolated after BlackRock last week joined Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), a group of asset managers that pushes the largest fossil fuel producers to show how they will meet carbon dioxide reduction targets.

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We must use energy more wisely going forward and trust in the actions of our youth

Each year, unfathomable amounts of energy are added to the oceans. Scientists measure heat in joules; the amount of heat in the oceans is so large that we report it in zettajoules. What is a zettajoule? It is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. The amount of heat we are putting into the oceans is equivalent to about five Hiroshima atom bombs of energy every second.

I am part of the team of researchers that published a paper on ocean warming that shows the total heat of Earth is increasing with global heating, as scientists have predicted for decades.

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Climate Advisers Trust - a respected research and public policy group dedicated to strengthening climate action in the United States and around the world - seeks a Senior ESG Research and Data Analyst to join our growing team.

Climate Advisers Trust —a respected research and public policy group dedicated to strengthening climate action in the United States and around the world—seeks a Sr. Director for a new supply chain transparency initiative working to address commodity-driven deforestation and environmental wrongdoing.

Climate Advisers Trust—a respected research and public policy group dedicated to strengthening climate action in the United States and around the world—is seeking a Research Fellow to join our growing team. The Research Fellow will conduct important quantitative and qualitative analysis on an exciting new Climate Advisers Trust project.

Oregon’s potential cap-and-trade programme would operate independently of the WCI scheme during the initial part of the ETS, but lawmakers will still include language in a new bill to enable a future linkage with California and Quebec, a state senator told Carbon Pulse.

Protest group leader Luisa Neubauer says she would lose right to criticise the company

The leader of Germany’s Friday for Future climate protests has said she turned down a seat on the board of Siemens’ new energy business amid growing anger over its role in a controversial coal mining project in Australia as she feared she would lose the right to criticise the company.

Luisa Neubauer, 23, the German face of the campaign group inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who has campaigned alongside her, said on Monday the position would jeopardise her independence if she had taken up the offer from its chief executive, Joe Kaeser, made at a meeting in Berlin on Friday.

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Everything you need to know about the significance of the heat record set last year

The new record represents the most stark demonstration that global heating is unequivocally real and driving the climate crisis. With emissions still rising every year, more heat is being trapped by greenhouse gases, and the ocean data is crystal clear: an unrelenting and accelerating rise for at least the past half century. Lijing Cheng, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: “There are no reasonable alternatives aside from the human emissions of heat-trapping gases to explain this.”

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Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they absorb 90% of heat trapped by greenhouse gases

The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet.

The world’s oceans are the clearest measure of the climate emergency because they absorb more than 90% of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases emitted by fossil fuel burning, forest destruction and other human activities.

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