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Per Bolund, Sweden's Financial Markets Minister, speaks with RN Breakfast over the nation's decision to sell of bonds from Australia due to concerns over lack of climate action.

Scientists say shifting ocean circulation patterns may have triggered rapid wind speed rise

The global climate crisis could help to generate more renewable electricity by spurring faster wind speeds for the world’s growing number of windfarms, according to new research.

Scientists have discovered that the world’s shifting ocean circulation patterns may have triggered a rapid increase in wind speeds over the last 10 years.

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Measurements and modelling have found nitrous oxide emissions, a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than carbon dioxide, are significantly higher than previously reported. Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Hanqin Tian, Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn University Prabir Patra, Senior Scientist, Dy. Group Leader, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Rona Thompson, Senior scientist, Norwegian Institute for Air Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

NSW Health is warning people with health conditions in the state to be vigilant this morning, as smoke from over 50 fires across the state is reducing air quality to very poor.

A leading London scientist quits the Geological Society over its ties with fossil fuel companies.

The EU’s buildings sector will be more quickly and effectively decarbonised under a European Green Deal than through inclusion in the bloc’s ETS, according to a trade group.

New financial entities are building length in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) ahead of this week's WCI auction as prices have stabilised above $17.00, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

Rising winds could increase energy production from turbines by a third over the next decade.

Tara Clark says the central claim of the Institute of Public Affairs’ YouTube film attacking her coral report is wrong

A coral scientist whose work is attacked in a mini-documentary from the Institute of Public Affairs says the rightwing thinktank has misrepresented her study.

The IPA says its YouTube film, Beige Reef, is a “must watch” because it shows healthy Acropora corals living at Stone Island, near Bowen. This, the film claims, is in a place where a study published in 2016 claimed all those corals had died.

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10,000 sq kms lost in year to August according to new data from Brazilian government

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, according to new government data which highlights the impact the president, Jair Bolsonaro, has made on the world’s biggest rainforest.

The new numbers, showing almost 10,000 sq kms were lost in the year to August, were released as emboldened farm owners scuffled with forest defenders in Altamira, the Amazonian city at the heart of the recent devastation.

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A study identifies the genetics in ash trees that confers resistance to a deadly disease.

The rainforest loses 9,762 sq km in 12 months, an increase of nearly 30%, Brazil's space agency says.

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Activists stage protests at party HQs to push climate emergency on to general election agenda

Extinction Rebellion activists have begun hunger strikes outside a number of UK political party headquarters to push for more robust policies on tackling the climate emergency in the general election.

The action, in which one group of demonstators has occupied a lobby at the Labour party’s London headquarters, is part of a wider global Extinction Rebellion protest centred on a week-long hunger strike.

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Corporate energy users have supported 5.2GW of new renewable energy capacity and procured nearly 2.3GW of mostly solar and wind powered electricity, new report shows.

The post Business demand is helping drive the energy transition to wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EUAs hit a five-week low early on Monday, extending Friday's bottom trade as weak energy markets helped push carbon clear of a key support level despite a stronger auction.

Swiss carbon prices have soared by 150% in the country’s latest allowance auction, with values finally starting to converge with EU prices as the two markets near linkage.

The biggest threat to Victoria’s future power supply comes not from more renewables, but unreliable brown coal power plants, and government efforts to prop up black coal units.

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