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New Kathleen Valley lithium project will feature Australia's biggest off grid wind, solar and battery storage facility, enabling it to run "engine off" for lengthy periods.

The post Australian lithium mine to be powered by biggest off-grid solar, wind and battery plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The integrity of the voluntary carbon market (VCM) will always remain in doubt, and that problem will not go away even with added levels of review, a VER project developer and intermediary said Monday.

A senior member of Washington's Department of Ecology on Monday announced the state's first cap-and-trade auction schedule in 2023, while a utility company representative said she was expecting a "wild ride" in the first year of the WCI-modelled programme.

New UK Prime Minister appoints multiple advisors with a record of opposing climate action, including a key aide from a think tank funded by oil giant BP.

The post Liz Truss hires climate sceptics and “delayers” with ties to libertarian think tanks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The new monarch’s views on environmental issues are well known but will they influence his reign?

A Toronto-based voluntary carbon offset investor has reached an "exclusive" royalty agreement covering four Brazilian REDD+ projects.

While Australia's new climate bill brings us closer to the international consensus, we should be aiming to go much further, much faster.

The post Ten simple ways to make Australia’s climate game truly next level appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CME Group is extending its nature-based offset future, the CBL N-GEO, to December 2027 as it seeks to maintain liquidity in the nature-based offset and stave off competition from rival exchanges.

New report explains benefits of adopting more efficient technology and warns failure to do so could mean climate chaos

Adopting more efficient and low-carbon technology could create 29m new jobs and double the turnover of the chemicals industry, one of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, according to a new report.

Failure to do so could condemn the world to climate chaos, however, as the climbing emissions from the manufacture of chemicals could result in a global temperature rise of as much as 4C above pre-industrial levels, which would bring catastrophe.

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Pierre Poilievre won the Conservative Party of Canada’s (CPC) leadership race on Saturday, pledging to undo Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon taxes and energy policies that climate experts consider challenging to unravel.

Switzerland has cancelled and rescheduled an aviation carbon permit auction due to weak demand, the government said Monday.

California regulator ARB will evaluate the role of the state’s cap-and-trade programme in hitting more ambitious GHG reduction goals as part of the agency’s updated Scoping Plan modelling, a conference heard Monday.

Australia last week moved to tackle the climate crisis when federal parliament passed Labor’s climate bill. But the new law is just the first step. Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New research documented 50 different ways Sydneysiders tried to stop sulphur-crested cockatoos opening their bins, from rubber snakes to custom locks. Humans didn’t always win. John Martin, Animal Ecology Lab, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Two experienced carbon offset company founders have formed a new venture that aims to launch seven nature-based projects within the next five years in Southeast Asia.

Forest restoration company Terraformation announced a new partnership on Monday to create storage for up to 50 million seeds in East Africa, including for projects in Kenya and Mozambique.

Standardised spot prices climbed to recover from last week’s dip, but sources over the past week reported a generally quiet over-the-counter bespoke market amid wide bids and offers.

The goal of 1.5C by 2030 is arbitrary and now unachievable – yet working to prevent every 0.1C rise can still give us hope

• Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL

Keeping the global average temperature rise (since pre-industrial times) below 1.5C is widely regarded as critical if we are to sidestep dangerous, all-pervasive climate change.

This idea of a 1.5C temperature threshold is in the news again because just-published research has revealed that several catastrophic climate tipping points are in danger of being crossed at around this level of warming, including collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets, which would lock in about 12 metres of sea-level rise.

Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL, and the author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s Guide

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Strict no-take policies urged by scientists, who note there is less protection in 59% of marine protected areas than outside MPAs

The waters of the EU are in a “dismal” state, with only a third of fish populations studied in the north-east Atlantic considered to be in good condition, according to more than 200 scientists and conservationists.

The analysis, issued on Monday, follows a scathing report from the European court of auditors two years ago, which warned that the EU had failed to halt marine biodiversity loss in Europe’s waters and to restore fishing to sustainable levels.

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