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Japan’s Inpex to buy 5 million REDD credits from Indonesian project
Swiss initiative taps trading firms to spur growth in climate neutral commodities
Chevron, Pavilion strike deal on GHG-accounted LNG
Keep funding green homes to meet emissions target, say businesses
CBI, Energy UK and others tell chancellor cutting scheme will risk target of net zero emissions by 2050
Business groups are urging the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to keep funding home insulation and other low-carbon measures under the green homes grant, which is under threat from cuts.
They warned that moves to reduce the amount of money paid out under the scheme, or abandon it altogether, would make it harder to reach the government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050, and damage the UK’s credibility as host nation of this year’s Cop26 UN climate summit and president of the G7 group of rich nations.
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For $100 billion, Australia could have a low cost and reliable zero emissions grid
An investment in major transmission lines linking Australia's best wind and solar resources could deliver reliable and cheap and clean electricity.
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Hydrogen start-up seeks funds to convert old coal generator to biomass
Verdant Technologies raises $2m in a pre-IPO investment round, as it plans to revive the Redbank power station to produce hydrogen.
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Environment department failed to investigate allegations rare Australian birds were exported for profit
Independent review says department received allegations soon after first permits were issued but exports continued
The federal environment department failed to investigate allegations endangered and rare Australian birds were being sold in Europe at a huge profit and instead continued issuing permits to allow more birds to be exported to a secretive German charity, an independent review has found.
The investigation, by KPMG, was triggered after reporting by Guardian Australia revealed hundreds of birds, including endangered species, were exported to the Berlin-based Association for the Conservation for Threatened Parrots (ACTP) on the grounds that they would be used for a zoo exhibition.
Continue reading...Cleantech stocks continue to soar in the post-Covid economy
The outperformance of cleantech stocks in the post-Covid market has illustrated their "two birds, one stone" appeal to investors.
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First Solar awarded $6m plus interest in case against Lyon
Federal Court orders failed Australian solar and battery project developer to pay roughly $A6 million plus interest to global PV giant First Solar.
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Coal generators fined after failing to match big batteries and putting grid at risk
Owner of two Queensland coal generators fined for failing to deliver grid services as promised, including in one incident when the power supply was put at risk.
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Zero-sum game: The rise of solar export limits, and what can be done about it
An increasing number of households are coming up against strict limits to the amount of energy they are allowed to export to the grid, and some cannot export their solar at all.
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Queensland Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery – Agency application 2021
Before the coup, Myanmar’s stunning biodiversity had a chance. Now it is not so certain
Cyprus urged to ban hunting at coast to protect flamingoes from shotgun pellets
Ingestion of lead shotgun pellets from bed of Larnaca Salt Lake blamed for rise in deaths of migrating flamingos
Conservationists in Cyprus are urging authorities to expand a hunting ban throughout a coastal salt lake network, amid concerns that migrating flamingos could swallow lethal quantities of lead shotgun pellets.
Martin Hellicar, the director of Birdlife Cyprus, said flamingos were at risk of ingesting the tiny pellets lying on the lakebed as they fed. Like other birds, flamingos swallow small pebbles to aid digestion but cannot distinguish between pebbles and the lead pellets.
Continue reading...Haines proposes $483m Local Power Agency to help communities buy in to wind and solar
Independent MP Helen Haines introduces legislation to establish a new Australian Local Power Agency to support community ownership of renewable energy.
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Moonflower: timelapse of rare Amazonian cactus blooming for one night only – video
A rare Amazonian cactus called the moonflower has bloomed for what botanists believe is the first time in the UK. Experts at the University of Cambridge's Botanic Garden kept a night watch throughout the week so they did not miss the flowering of Selenicereus wittii – an event that usually begins at sunset and is over by sunrise.
The moonflower actually bloomed earlier on Saturday afternoon at about 3pm, and the garden said it was 28cm (11in) long. The flower produces a sweet-smelling scent that turns 'rancid' after just two hours, as the plant begins to die
- Rare Amazonian cactus flowers for first time in UK
- Ready, steady, bloom! Botanists wait for rare cactus to open for one night only
Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us | Robert Reich
The Lone Star State is aptly named. If you’re not part of the Republican oil elite with Cruz and Abbott, you’re on your own
Texas has long represented a wild west individualism that elevates personal freedom – this week, the freedom to freeze – above all else.
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Soil carbon: what role can it play in reducing Australia's emissions?
We break down the facts around one of the Coalition’s five priority areas in its ‘technology, not taxes’ response to the climate crisis
The Morrison government is backing soil carbon – drawing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the land – as a major part of its response to the climate crisis.
The idea isn’t new, and at times has been derided as “soil magic” due to exorbitant claims about what it could achieve. But it is receiving renewed focus after the government listed it as one of five priority areas under its so-called “technology, not taxes” approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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