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If any anger is justified, it should be directed at those who create our throwaway culture and make people’s lives a misery

Rubbish seems to be everywhere you look. As one of the leaders of a community wetlands group in north-west London, I’ve witnessed a cormorant diving into a bobbing flotilla of plastic, shores made up of plastic and a heron starving to death due to red nylon tangled around its beak.

Last month, a new disease caused solely by plastics was discovered in seabirds. And in February, our group, Friends of the Welsh Harp, removed four tonnes of rubbish from a river and the surrounding woodland. Our rivers are not only open sewers, they’re also open dustbins that lead to the sea.

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Carbon offsets are not the solution to climate change, nor should they be the central pillar of any country or government’s net zero plans. But they are very important in the short and medium term because many emissions that cannot be reduced away can be offset, taking that damaging CO2 back out of the atmosphere, writes Ed Mitchard, chief scientist at UK-headquartered nature tech firm Space Intelligence.

A range of available flexibility technologies can help China's power system accommodate the uptake of renewable generation, though more supporting policies are needed to create the conditions for such technologies to compete against coal power, according to analysts.

Footage of unknown snailfish captured by researchers from Western Australia and Tokyo in Izu-Ogasawara trench

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Scientists have captured footage of a fish swimming more than 8km underwater, setting a new record for the deepest fish ever recorded.

The animal, an unknown snailfish species belonging to the genus Pseudoliparis, was filmed at a depth of 8,336 metres in the Izu-Ogasawara trench, south-east of Japan.

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NatureCo has multiple roles available for Carbon Project Officers at different levels of experience from junior through to senior.

Total traded volumes of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) rose significantly over the past week as the government successfully passed its Safeguard Mechanism reforms through parliament, while the Clean Energy Regulator has warned of timeline blowouts on accrediting human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects.

Petroleum emissions are set to overtake those from electricity and gas combined, as transport becomes Australia's newest climate embarrassment.

The post Petrol is the new coal, as roadtrips and Bali holidays push up emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Based in our Sydney Carbon Team, the Executive Director role in carbon is both diverse and challenging and will include engagement with external clients as well as key internal stakeholders with a focus on originating and executing successful carbon projects.

Based in our Sydney Dealing Room, the Associate Director or Director role in Carbon is both diverse and challenging and will include engagement with key stakeholders internal as well as external with a focus on carbon market demand and risk management.

The successful candidate will work closely with Australian domiciled clients and beyond, where you will build new strategic relationships.

The sodium-sulfur battery, topped with solar panels and offering just under six hours of storage capacity, is being tested at a remote WA mine site.

The post Sodium-sulfur battery tests long duration energy storage in Australian first pilot appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Senior Officer will lead the overall management of the Mobilizing Article 6 Trading Structures (MATS) Program as well as provide technical expertise to several programs that include carbon outputs managed by our country teams.

New analysis shows future gas supply gaps could be eradicated by energy efficiency and electrification, while also alleviating the cost of living crisis.

The post Australia can and should eradicate its gas supply gap – but not with more gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UK energy giant SSE teams up with Equis to seek a feasibility licence for its massive Poseidon offshore wind project in Victoria.

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NSW formally launches tender for 380MW of new firming capacity, as questions remain over new Labor government's intentions for country's biggest coal plant.

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Deeply schooled in traditional law through language, song and dance, this extraordinary Aboriginal leader’s voice will not be forgotten

• Yunupingu, Yolŋu leader and campaigner for Indigenous rights, dies aged 74
• ‘A great Australian’: Anthony Albanese leads tributes to Yunupingu
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In remembering this extraordinary Aboriginal leader, it is difficult to forget the meaning of his family name, Yunupingu – which in the Gumatj dialect of the Yolŋu Matha language means “the rock that stands against time”.

Across so many decades, Yunupingu’s deeds and actions in the struggles for lands, seas, language and rights have surely reflected the meaning of that name. From his father’s campfire accounts of surviving being shot by Europeans in the 1920s “by a man licensed to do so”, to becoming the longest-serving member and chairman of the powerful Northern Land Council, leading the Yothu Yindi Foundation and hosting the annual Garma festival. His passing leaves an indelible mark far beyond the north-east Arnhem Land home of his people.

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Snowy Hydro and the major contractor for the Snowy 2.0 project hit by fines in the latest bad news to affect the controversial project.

The post Snowy 2.0 contractor and owner fined for river pollution in national park appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Some of country's biggest wind and solar projects hit badly by new grid assessment, although impact has been muted by delays to transmission upgrades and coal plant repairs.

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While the ACCC, ASIC and a new senate inquiry begin to flush out greenwashing, we take a closer look at dodgy climate claims. Complaints and court cases are stacking up. Here’s what you need to know. Laura Schuijers, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The industry has not delivered what it promised, and critics are right to be sceptical

The emerging carbon offsets market is chaotic and dysfunctional. Problems need to be addressed openly, and resolved as quickly as possible. A joint investigation by the Guardian, the German weekly Die Zeit and SourceMaterial revealed in January that the vast majority of rainforest offset credits from the leading certifier – which are sold to companies that then use them to make claims about their overall emissions – do not offer the environmental benefits that they claim. Since then, scrutiny has only increased, with more questions being asked of the western businesses behind projects such as Kariba, a huge offset-promoted forest in Zimbabwe.

Recognising the urgent need to rebuild flagging confidence, if the carbon-trading system is not to collapse as it did once before, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market last week announced that new rules for offset issuers will be announced in May. A separate process overseen by a different body is reviewing the claims that businesses make, based on their offset purchases. While all this might sound remote from the concerns of most people, the stakes could hardly be higher. Many environmentalists would prefer governments to oversee a transfer of resources from rich countries to the forested nations that need incentives to conserve precious carbon sinks. The reality is that due to the way our global economic system is organised, we all depend on market mechanisms.

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