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Carbon Project Manager, Climate Neutral Group – Cape Town/Johannesburg
Financial firm pushes for NZ govt to go for Australian carbon credits
Spanish slugs: Moscow alarm over giant invasive pests
Australia’s New South Wales threatens to go it alone on climate, energy policy
Ban fracking in UK, Jeremy Corbyn urges Boris Johnson
Labour says fracking for gas will prevent Britain meeting carbon emissions target
Jeremy Corbyn has urged Boris Johnson to ban fracking for gas as research by Labour shows it will stop the UK meeting a net zero target for carbon emissions this century.
The analysis was published ahead of a visit by the Labour leader to join anti-fracking protesters at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
Continue reading...Butterflywatch: the return of the dazzling purple emperor
This iridescent beauty is back in Norfolk for the first time since the 70s – and marching north
Every July in the 1980s, my dad and I visited Foxley Wood, an ancient woodland close to my home. We were searching for the purple emperor, an iridescent purple, treetop-dwelling insect that inspires more obsession than any other butterfly.
Last seen in Norfolk in the early 70s, it fell extinct because Foxley, like many ancient woodlands, was turned over to conifers after the war. We hoped this notoriously elusive creature survived but, if it did, it always eluded us.
Continue reading...Director of Forest Carbon Origination, Finite Carbon – Portland/Tallahassee
Engie’s 119MW Willogoleche wind farm formally opens in South Australia
The 119MW wind farm, made up of 32 cutting edge GE turbines, officially opens in South Australia's mid-north.
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Will hydrogen from coal and gas be necessary to meet future energy demands?
Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel says that the production of hydrogen from coal and gas may be neccessary to meet global transport energy needs.
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Schott says Feds “can’t get their act together” on climate, so states will step up
ESB chair tells Clean Energy Summit state governments are leading the energy transition, as NSW threatens to go it alone if federal Coalition doesn't get its act together.
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Project Manager, ClimateWorks Australia – Melbourne
Fossil fuel giant BP wants to charge electric cars 100% in 5 minutes by 2021
BP’s head of technology David Eyton tells BNEF that BP wants to charge EVs to 100% within just five minutes.
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Solar dominates day-time markets, lifting share and pushing down prices
Solar boom that began in 2016 is having marked impact on wholesale prices, even in winter, and may rethink investment decisions.
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Henderson Island: a Pacific paradise turning into a plastic trap – video
Thousands of tonnes of plastic have accumulated on the pristine beaches of Henderson Island in the Pacific's Pitcairn archipelago. Along one stretch of 2.5km, an estimated 18 tonnes has piled up over decades, at the rate of several thousand pieces of plastic per day. A team of scientists, conservationists and two journalists from New Zealand’s Stuff.co.nz spent two weeks collecting six tonnes of the rubbish to gain more insight into where it had come from, and how it could be prevented in future.
Continue reading...Program reveals fantastic line up at EV conference, early bird tickets close soon
The Driven and RenewEconomy are delighted to announce the program for the inaugural Electric Vehicle Transition Conference, featuring many of the country’s leading policy and technology experts and analysts.
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Running out of sand: part two
Tesla’s Australian chair – surprise, surprise – has a Tesla car, battery and solar
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, an Australian, outlines her passion for the company's products and says Australia can lead in the transition to clean energy.
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Telsa takes aim at gas plants with 3MWh “megapack” battery unit
Tesla says new "mega-pack" battery unit will allow deployment of "gigawatt" scale storage in a matter of months - cheaper, cleaner and quicker than gas generators.
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Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste
Rubbish has been washing up on its isolated beaches in the Pitcairn chain at a rate of several thousand bits of plastic a day
Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day’s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise.
Instead its beaches, which were awarded Unesco world heritage status in 1988, are a monument to humanity’s destructive, disposable culture.
Continue reading...Philippines is deadliest country for defenders of environment
Nation replaces Brazil for first time in annual list of murders compiled by Global Witness
The Philippines has replaced Brazil as the most murderous country in the world for people defending their land and environment, according to research that puts a spotlight on the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
More than three defenders were killed across the world every week in 2018, according to the annual toll by the independent watchdog Global Witness, highlighting the continued dangers facing those who stand up to miners, loggers, farmers, poachers and other extractive industries.
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