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The impacts of climate change and nature loss dominate the top risks over the next decade for experts across the private and public sectors, as the world approaches climate tipping points that could trigger further socio-environmental crises, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

A new carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) project has opened in Texas, capturing some 180,000 tonnes of CO2 per year while producing 130,000 tonnes of methanol.

Climate Council finds average Australian car needs more petrol to travel same distance as more efficient models common overseas

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The average Australian car needs more petrol to travel the same distance as more efficient models common overseas, with climate advocates saying inaction from the government on fuel efficiency standards is adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of road trips.

Analysis from the Climate Council has found that while drivers of battery electric vehicles charging their cars pay only a fifth of the cost of fuelling an internal combustion engine car, there is still a large discrepancy between how much it costs to run petrol-reliant vehicles of varying efficiency.

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The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a government-funded agency dedicated to granting international aid programmes, has decided to terminate a Vietnam-focused forest fund that can generate carbon credits, local media reported.

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European carbon prices extended their losses for a third day as bearish sentiment gathered momentum amid reports of compliance selling and utility fuel-switching from coal to gas, while the weekly Commitment of Traders report showed that commercial participants had added a hefty 40 Mt of short positions last week.

The construction sector's CO2 emissions could be reduced by up to 75% by 2050 by establishing a circular economy, which would also boost profits substantially, according to a report published on Wednesday that called for more scalable solutions.

Norway has given the go-ahead to open up for deep sea mining in the Arctic region after a vote in parliament Tuesday, making it the first country to open up its seabed to the controversial activity.

James Meadway, once a Labour adviser and now a podcast host, says the separation between climate and economy has to end

James Meadway is an economist who is not at all impressed with economics. Formerly an adviser to John McDonnell when he was Labour shadow chancellor, Meadway has plenty to say about what mainstream economics gets wrong. But one of his central gripes is the way it treats the environment. “We cannot simply pretend that … the entire ecological crisis is a separate and distinct thing from what’s happening in the economy,” says Meadway, who now works on climate finance. And yet that is precisely what happens.

This critique informs the podcast, Macrodose, which Meadway presents and which has recently turned one year old. Its tagline is “Your weekly fix of climate economics”. Every Wednesday, in 15 minutes or so, Meadway analyses the key economic stories of the week. Part of the aim is to make economics more accessible because, he says, it is often thought of as something so difficult that “you have to be really clever to do it”.

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While the Coalition conjures nuclear as a "non-left" alternative to wind and solar, Australia is establishing itself as a world leader in variable renewables.

The post Australia’s task is clear: build more wind and solar. LNP’s task? Anything but wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alexander Darwall is challenging decision last year to overturn ban on wild camping on the moors

The right to wild camp on Dartmoor could be under threat again after the supreme court granted permission for a wealthy landowner to bring a case against it.

Last year, the Dartmoor National Park Authority won an appeal against a decision to ban wild camping on the moors.

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South Korea on Wednesday sold fewer than 50% of the allowances on offer in its monthly CO2 permit auction amid dwindling buy interest, with analysts expecting the carbon price to remain at relatively low levels this year due to a lasting oversupply.

Green ammonia could supply a large amount of the world’s shipping fuel needs by 2050 at a cost of $2 trillion if 10 ‘hubs’ are created, according to a report released this week.

Carbon-financed clean cookstove provider Koko Networks has secured scalable, long-term debt from a commercial bank that recognises the value of the company’s future cash flows from carbon credit generation.

Increased flooding blamed on years of government delays over ‘sponge cities’ rules

Increased sewage pollution, urban flooding and water supply interruptions are the result of a decade of failures by the Conservative ministers, according to water experts who are demanding an independent inquiry into water be set up by the next government.

The repeated failure of the Tories to implement rules to create “sponge cities” has led to much more visible sewage pollution, more flooding and increasing instances of water being cut off for householders and businesses, they say.

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The share of wind power in total electricity generation is also increasing as new capacity is added and existing projects are re-powered.

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Pushed along by the US government, companies are designing heat pumps that can work through a northern winter and not resort to gas backup.

The post Sub-zero heat pump challenge delivers new tech – and a fresh blow to gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The sharp-tailed sandpiper migrates from Siberia to a Port of Hastings site that Tanya Plibersek last week blocked a state plan to develop

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A migratory shorebird that visits globally important wetlands the Victorian government wanted to dredge to make way for an offshore wind industry terminal is among eight birds added to the nation’s threatened species list.

The sharp-tailed sandpiper migrates from Siberia for the Australian summer and is now listed in Australia as vulnerable.

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Australia’s climate change and energy minister has called on the federal opposition to explain its climate policies and “stop the nonsense” following media reports that multiple Liberal and National MPs were opposed to Australia setting a 2035 emission reduction target.

ClearVue marks its commercial launch in Australia with its first order to supply a solar window facade for a new building in Melbourne.

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