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Countries to talk about climate pledges, finance ahead of COP29
Campaigners win lawsuit against airline’s carbon offsetting claims
Transport to make ‘almost half’ of Europe’s emissions in 2030 -report
Endangered pygmy hippo born at Athens zoo – video
For the first time in 10 years, a baby pygmy hippo has been born at Attica Zoological Park. Zoo staff said they were thrilled to welcome the birth as a lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity made breeding efforts complicated. The rare male calf was born on 19 February and joins his parents, Lizzie and Jamal, as the only pygmy hippos at the zoo. Native to western Africa, pygmy hippos are listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Continue reading...Price crash wipes $5 bln off the value of surplus voluntary carbon credits
Lagging UKA demand to rise by 2030, prices to hit triple digits, say analysts
PREVIEW: France, US to push financing for new projects at world’s first nuclear energy summit
Clermont locals pushed for this Queensland mine. Now Adani is fighting for the right not to employ them
The state rescinded its decision over Carmichael mine fly-in, fly-out jobs but it’s unlikely to be the end of the dispute
When Adani’s north Queensland coalmine obtained its final approvals in 2019, the residents of Clermont held an impromptu celebration at the Leo hotel.
“Our town needs it, everyone’s passionate about it, it will be great for the community. A welcome, welcome thing,” one local at the pub told the ABC.
Continue reading...Global logistics firm partners with bank to scale sustainable aviation fuel
AEMO issues another gas shortage warning, but analysts question why
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World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”.
The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
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Automakers can set 1.5C-aligned targets for cars on the road, with new SBTi guidance
UK Infrastructure Bank commits £50 mln to fund seeking to commercialise nature, climate research
Batteries to turn Kalgoorlie into massive micro-grid after storms tear down network, and gas fails
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FEATURE: Oslo incinerator plans to raise up to €50 mln from voluntary market to fund carbon capture facility
Prioritise Article 6, global coal miner suggests in climate plan
South African exchange to start voluntary carbon credit trade within two months -Bloomberg
South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry
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