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Australian firms team up to launch global nature-based carbon business
Climate change: Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland
Intermediaries increase ACCU holdings as Australia’s offset market gets busier
Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest
Scientists are trying to find the cause of an affliction that leaves victims with crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly
A mysterious illness is killing birds across several states in the south and midwestern US, and wildlife scientists are rushing to try to find the cause, with many victims suffering from crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly.
Wildlife managers in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia first began receiving reports of sick and dying birds with eye swelling and crusty discharge, as well as neurological signs in late May, according to a statement from the US Geological Survey, which added: “No definitive cause of death is identified at this time.”
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UK connects its first grid-scale “big battery” in Oxford
The 50MW lithium-ion battery is the first component of a major hybrid storage hub that will combine lithium-ion and vanadium redox flow systems.
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Building new solar now cheaper than keeping existing coal plants open: BNEF
Plunging costs of solar could prompt coal plants in India, China and much of Europe to be shutdown early, delivering another blow to Australia's huge thermal coal export industry.
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US Republicans form new Conservative Climate Caucus – and talk up gas
New GOP group claims Republicans care deeply about the Earth, but insists fossil fuels can be a major part of the global solution to climate change. Sound familiar?
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Vale Chloe Munro: Clean energy pioneer and “true leader” of Australian renewables
Tributes flow for Chloe Munro, the inaugural chair of the Clean Energy Regulator and leading Australian energy market expert, who died this week from cancer.
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Global offshore wind farm pipeline balloons by 200GW since 2020
New data shows the global offshore wind pipeline has ballooned by more than 200GW since 2020, but completion of all these project is expected to be much slower.
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The RET is met but it’s corporate demand driving renewables growth, regulator says
Clean Energy Regulator says commitments from major energy users, including Australia's three largest supermarket chains, is spurring demand for renewable energy certificates.
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Gulf between PM's promises and action on climate change, advisory group warns
An offset loophole could be the saviour for high emissions fossil hydrogen
Will hydrogen be a blessing or a curse? Probably a bit of both, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting for much more of the second.
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UK policies will not deliver emission cuts pledge, says climate adviser
Climate Change Committee says government needs to ‘step up very rapidly’ to meet ‘historic’ targets
Boris Johnson’s government has set “historic” targets on the climate crisis but has failed so far to come up with the policies needed to reach them, the government’s independent advisers on the climate have warned.
The Climate Change Committee published two progress reports on Thursday, showing the UK lagging behind on its key goal of 78% cuts to greenhouse gases by 2035 and making recommendations on how to get back on track.
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California offset issuance maintains snail’s pace as monthly total drops to 3-year low
The government’s idea of ‘national environment standards’ would entrench Australia's global pariah status
Great Barrier Reef: Labor calls on Sussan Ley to back up claim Unesco bowed to political pressure
Evidence the reef is in trouble has been building for years, federal opposition environment spokesperson Terri Butler says
Labor has called on the government to justify its claim a UN body bowed to political pressure in recommending the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a world heritage “in danger” list, saying there had been warning signs the site had been in trouble for years.
Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday that Dr Fanny Douvere, of Unesco’s World Heritage Centre in Paris, had rejected a suggestion by the environment minister, Sussan Ley, that the body told the Australian government a week ago it would not be recommending the reef be moved to the “in danger” list.
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