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Landmark FOI ruling could shed new light on Taylor’s big energy market ploy
State and territory energy ministers may be freed from federal cabinet confidentiality rules, following a landmark FOI ruling.
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Offshore wind adds new option to Australia’s future grid, and Morrison’s Glasgow play
Offshore wind is emerging as a major new player in Australia's renewable transition, and could be part of Morrison's Glasgow offerings.
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To fix unequal rooftop solar benefits, there’s a better way than taxes
Rather than a solar tax, we should keep growing the solar pie, and improve benefit sharing through technologies like community batteries.
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Global green hydrogen supply is surging, but can demand keep pace?
Global market for renewable hydrogen production is surging BloombergNEF says. The next challenge is to work out what to do with it.
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‘Mega-drought’ leaves many Andes mountains without snow cover
Satellite images confirm snow decrease spurred by climate crisis as glaciers recede and communities reliant on mountain water face shortages
The Andes mountain range is facing historically low snowfall this year during a decade-long drought that scientists link to global heating.
Scant rain and snowfall are leaving many of the majestic mountains between Ecuador and Argentina with patchy snow cover or no snow at all as dry, brown earth lies exposed.
Continue reading...The wind farm where turbines shut down 400 times a day when eagles approach
Tasmania wind farm has been making progress on one of the industry’s most divisive issues: turbine-related bird deaths.
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Why artificial intelligence is being used to write adverts
Cop26 president Alok Sharma flew to 30 countries in 7 months
Minister responsible for climate conference travelled mainly during winter and spring and did not isolate
The government minister responsible for this year’s UN climate change conference in Glasgow has flown to 30 countries in the past seven months, it has been reported.
Alok Sharma, who was appointed as president of Cop26 in January, has visited countries including Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya since February, according to the Daily Mail.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Thursday August 5, 2021
Large GWSA emitter pushes for cap-and-trade revisions, as others flag concerns about Massachusetts clean energy programmes
NA Markets: CCAs recover losses as financial firms return, RGGI rises to new all-time high
Canada sheds more light on new CO2 pricing benchmark, begins CBAM consultation
More countries plan to participate in carbon markets under revised Paris pledges
“Get serious”: Eight technologies that could eliminate nearly all emissions by 2035
Stanford's Tony Seba says world has technologies to achieve rapid emission reductions. We just need to deploy them at speed and scale.
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Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming
US targets 50% ZEV sales by 2030, borrows California-brokered clean car standards
Olympic athletes and volunteers in Tokyo ‘tortured’ by heat
Hottest Games in history will put pressure on organisers to rethink sport in light of climate change
Olympic athletes and volunteers in Tokyo are being “tortured” by dangerous heat, meteorologists have warned, as the hottest Games in history puts pressure on organisers to rethink the future of sport in a climate-disrupted world.
Temperatures hit 34C in the Japanese capital on Thursday with humidity of nearly 70%. Athletes and sports scientists say this combination of heat and moisture has led to “brutal” conditions, which must be avoided at future events.
Continue reading...German government urged to do more to help rebuild flood-hit communities
Homes still lack water and power three weeks after at least 187 people died
Three weeks after catastrophic floods in western Germany devastated communities and claimed at least 187 lives, those affected are calling on the government to increase its effort to salvage homes and businesses.
More than 20 people are still missing after the disaster, which came after heavy rainfall caused scores of rivers to burst their banks, and led to the loss of large numbers of houses, roads and bridges.
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