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Batteries in South Australia have been paid to charge throughout September and October 2021 due to a record number of negative price intervals.

The post SA batteries paid to charge over two months as solar sends prices below zero appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A key claim in a column by the Danish thinktank head frustrates scientists who modelled reducing emissions

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What will it cost to get greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by mid-century, and are people around the world prepared to pay it?

This was a question posed by the Danish thinktank head Bjørn Lomborg for a column in the Australian on Saturday.

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A massive ramp up of renewable energy production is key to cutting the costs of decarbonised products, like green steel, aluminium and hydrogen.

The post Could Australia produce 3,000 per cent renewables? Experts says it might be necessary appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It’s 650 metres below the surface, across 6,000 square kilometres – and has been overlooked for far too long. Graeme Beardsmore, Senior Fellow in Crustal Heat Flow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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*PREMIUM LISTING - The Policy Manager is an important role within ART contributing to the strategic positioning of the ART program as well as serving as a liaison to external stakeholders. This individual will help ensure ART continues to represent the highest environmental and social integrity by facilitating appropriate accreditations and recognitions and representing ART within appropriate voluntary carbon market initiatives. The Manager will also develop and foster strong relationships with stakeholders.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The Portfolio Manager is an important role within ART providing support to the ART Managing Director, and other ART staff on all aspects of implementation of this program. This will include significant technical support to jurisdictions and stakeholders, technical inputs and analyses, development of outreach materials, document review, report writing and registry management.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The Industrial Associate is a technical role within the American Carbon Registry (ACR), contributing to all aspects of ACR services, including, but not limited to ensuring the highest level of quality for all ACR-registered industrial projects and related offset credits issued by ACR.

Verra’s Innovations Team is looking for a Senior Program Officer to support our nature-based innovations work, focusing on blue carbon and our engagement with the Seascape Carbon Initiative.

A landmark study has found one in six Australian birds are now threatened. Here are some of the species most likely to be headed to a museum, unless more is done

There seems to be a perversity to human nature, in that we don’t really care about wild creatures until there are so few left that we can put a name to them. Think Martha, the last passenger pigeon, or the haunting images of Benjamin the last thylacine, pacing around its cage at Hobart zoo in 1936.

The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 (released this week by CSIRO Publishing) bandies a lot of names of birds you may never have heard of, which are now classified as on the path to extinction – 214 to be exact, around one in six of Australia’s bird species and subspecies. It can all be too much to take in. So here is a guide to six birds of which there are so few left in the wild that we could easily remember them all if they had individual names.

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Emitters in California’s carbon market used offsets to cover nearly 7% of their emissions during the 2018-20 compliance period, government data released Wednesday showed, while Quebec’s usage rate came in slightly higher.

But scientists say ‘moral imperative’ remains to prepare vulnerable populations for increasingly extreme weather

Poverty and a heavy reliance on annual rains are the key factors behind the devastating food crisis in southern Madagascar not climate breakdown, a new study finds.

A million people in the region are struggling for food following the worst drought in 30 years. But the scientific analysis did not show a convincing link to global heating, despite the World Food Programme describing it as the “world’s first climate-induced famine”.

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How can we improve the management of Queensland’s heritage sites? Can farming and the conservation of Aboriginal heritage co-exist? Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Joshua Gorringe, General Manager Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge Kelsey M. Lowe, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Richard Martin, Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland Ross Mitchell, Common Law holder and director of Kooma Aboriginal Corporation Native Title PBC, Indigenous Knowledge Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

British utility Drax is aiming to generate some 12 Mt of carbon removals a year by 2030, with 8 Mt within the UK and 4 Mt abroad, it said as part of its capital markets day on Wednesday.

The reserve price in California and Quebec's carbon market auctions will rise to $19.70 in 2022 after higher inflation drove up the minimum bid value by more than 11% year-on-year, as the WCI jurisdictions also announced next year's auction size. 

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season has now officially ended, and it's been the third most active on record.

The European Commission, EU member states and financial institutions on Wednesday teamed up to mobilise up to €300 billion towards foreign investments over the next five years, aiming to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) while championing the bloc’s green transition and digital priorities.

Europe's biggest port signs agreement with W.A. government to pursue import opportunities for new "green energy from down under."

The post Western Australia teams up with Europe’s biggest port for green hydrogen exports appeared first on RenewEconomy.

GHG emissions under the California-Quebec cap-and-trade programme next year will continue to bounce back from a COVID-induced downturn and sit just below the WCI system’s combined allowance budget, analysts told a conference on Wednesday.

Norway's decision this week to deny oil exploration licences in virgin or little-explored areas in 2022 is seen by experts as a largely symbolic move that nonetheless reflects the mounting pressure on the major fossil fuel producer to curb its exported emissions.