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Kellogg’s signs with solar farm to take NSW operations 100% renewable

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2019-07-24 13:13

Kellogg’s Australia to become the latest corporate entity to commit to sourcing the equivalent of 100 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables.

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BHP casts doubt on renewables as it commits $US400m to cut emissions

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2019-07-24 10:21

BHP coal mining climate change announcement nuclear renewables CCSBHP voices concerns about land use of renewables in establishing $US400m fund to reduce emissions across its entire value chain.

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New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details

The Conversation - Wed, 2019-07-24 10:07
Proposed rules for managing energy demand could potentially lower prices and reduce blackout risk, but there are reasons to be skeptical. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns

BBC - Wed, 2019-07-24 09:19
Girls in Ethiopia are being given solar lamps to help stop child marriage and keep them in school.
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The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past

BBC - Wed, 2019-07-24 09:10
The appalling treatment of Congo's rubber workers led to the world's first photographic human rights campaign.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters confront politicians at US Capitol

The Guardian - Wed, 2019-07-24 08:57

Climate crisis group members gluing themselves to doorways to block members of Congress from attending evening vote

Protesters from the climate crisis group Extinction Rebellion are causing disruption at the US Capitol in Washington, confronting politicians and glueing themselves to doorways in order to block them.

Six protesters blocked two doorways connecting the Cannon building to the US Capitol in an attempt to stop members of Congress from attending an evening vote.

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Queensland shortlists 10 big renewable and storage projects for CleanCo contracts

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2019-07-24 08:18

acciona solar farm panels queensland-2Queensland announces 10 wind, solar and battery storage projects that will compete for contracts with newly formed CleanCo.

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CP Daily: Tuesday July 23, 2019

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 08:10
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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US House committee plots “all-market” climate plan for mid-century decarbonisation

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 08:07
House Democrats unveiled plans to develop a market-related strategy that will achieve net-zero GHGs by 2050 in committee on Tuesday, but specific legislation and future compatibility with progressive lawmakers' Green New Deal has not yet been determined. 
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'I want to be part of the solution': Warringah MP Zali Steggall

ABC Environment - Wed, 2019-07-24 07:53
Zali Steggall, the Winter Olympian turned Tony Abbott slayer, will deliver her maiden speech to Federal Parliament this morning.
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Greta Thunberg speech: French MPs boycott teen ‘apocalypse guru’

BBC - Wed, 2019-07-24 07:48
The teen activist is ridiculed by some French MPs ahead of her speech to parliament.
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Ohio legislature greenlights controversial bill subsiding nuclear, phasing out RPS

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 07:47
The Ohio House of Representatives agreed to Senate amendments on Tuesday that will subsidise two nuclear plants while weakening and eventually ending the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), as critics lambasted the bill as a corporate bail-out and regression on promoting clean energy at the US subnational level.
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Uniper, Rolls Royce hit in latest round of UK govt’s EU ETS penalties

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 07:36
The UK government has imposed fines totalling over £80,000 on a dozen companies including utility Uniper and automaker Rolls Royce for EU ETS non-compliance in the latest round of climate-related penalties.
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Specieswatch: the ‘UK rainforest’ threatened by gardeners

The Guardian - Wed, 2019-07-24 06:30

Sphagnum moss is a vital carbon store but peat bogs are being dug up to fuel our love of horticulture

Left to its own devices, Sphagnum fallax, together with a large number of close relatives, will form dense mats of plants on wet ground and become deep peat bogs. These bogs create a habitat for a vast number of creatures, the most prominent of which are dragonflies and frogs but there are literally thousands of others, mostly microscopic.

Related: Plantwatch: is sphagnum the most underrated plant on Earth?

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There's a simple way to drought-proof a town – build more water storage

The Conversation - Wed, 2019-07-24 05:59
Many rural town water supplies cannot weather even a single year of drought. This is a failure of planning and funding on a grand scale. Michael Roderick, Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Each special in its own way: bird spotting on Australia's islands

The Guardian - Wed, 2019-07-24 04:00

Sue Taylor has visited spots as remote as Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean and as familiar as Phillip Island in Victoria in search of rarities

There’s something very romantic about islands. For a start there’s the wonderful isolation, the feeling of relaxing remoteness, the total absence of bustling city commuters. Picture tropical palm trees waving above pristine white beaches, lapped by sparkling turquoise seas. Whatever the reason, everyone loves an island. People go to Rottnest in Western Australia to admire the quokkas, to Norfolk Island to soak up the fascinating history and bucolic scenery, and to Christmas Island for the red crab migration.

I am a twitcher and for me it’s always the birds. I go to Rottnest for terns, waders and red-capped robins, to Norfolk for parakeets, gerygones and California quail, and to Christmas Island for Abbott’s boobies, frigatebirds and rare vagrants. I’ve seen some fantastic vagrants (birds outside their usual range) on my five visits to Christmas Island. Apart from all the exciting endemics (birds that are unique to one place), I’ve seen 12 extraordinary vagrants, including such rarities as a red collared dove, a Malayan night heron and, best of all, a corn crake.

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Tokyo 2020: Meet the Olympic and Paralympic robots

BBC - Wed, 2019-07-24 02:55
With a year to go until the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, meet the robots that will be used on site at the events.
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UK’s post-Brexit plans risk undercutting EU on carbon pricing, experts warn

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 02:01
The UK could drastically undercut the EU ETS if it exits the scheme in November and imposes a replacement scheme that initially only delivers a single-digit carbon price, experts have warned.
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Animals failing to adapt to speed of climate crisis, study finds

The Guardian - Wed, 2019-07-24 01:32

Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ lag between human-driven seasons shift and animals’ behavioural changes

The speed of climate disruption is outstripping many animals’ capacity to adapt, according to a study that warns of a growing threat to even common species such as sparrows, magpies and deer.

Scientists behind the research described the results as alarming because they showed a dangerous lag between a human-driven shift in the seasons and behavioural changes in the natural world.

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Spain’s Endesa reports 45% drop in H1 coal-fired output

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2019-07-24 01:31
Spanish utility Endesa reported on Tuesday a 45% decline in coal power output over the first half of the year while natural gas generation rose, likely reducing the company’s EUA demand.
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