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Exclusive: Letter signed by more than 1,200 leading figures calls for ‘unambiguous statement’ about climate crisis

The Royal Society is under pressure from more than 1,200 leading academics to issue a clear condemnation of the fossil fuel industry.

The academics have written to the association of the world’s most eminent scientists calling for an “unambiguous statement about the culpability of the fossil fuel industry in driving the climate crisis”.

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Advocates say state governments, especially NSW, are ‘trashing and trampling’ natural, Indigenous and historic values by failing to cull brumbies

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The failure of state governments to manage feral horse populations is “trashing and trampling” the natural values of the Australian alps, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

The Invasive Species Council has expressed concern about the “devastating impact of feral horses in the Australian alps, and also the failure of state governments, particularly in New South Wales, to take adequate action to address this”.

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A new grant-funded programme in the UK will seek to introduce keystone species and enhance marine protections across the country, in line with the country's Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) targets.

Australia’s Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Centre (Fenex CRC) has signed with a consortium of Japanese shipping and gas companies to work towards more cost effective shipping of liquefied CO2.

Report says hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of work hours in productivity are at risk due to hotter conditions

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Success in limiting global warming will spare Australia a sharp fall in economic activity but would see coal exports fall to a trickle by 2063 under a low-emissions scenario, according to the government’s intergenerational report.

The report, to be released in full on Thursday, will provide much greater detail on the range of impacts and their scale in a warming world than the five previous intergenerational reports.

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Taiwan plans to push back the timeline for its upcoming carbon levy scheme by a year given the slower-than-expected policy progress, despite rising concerns over the island's climate goals and industry competitiveness, local media has reported.

Solar developers have been invited to pitch for 100MW of new capacity in the Top End, but the projects will need to come with their own grid forming batteries.

The post Top End puts out call for 100MW of solar, but they must come with grid forming batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An alliance of former Pacific national leaders are urging countries in the region to hold off their support on Australia hosting COP31 until it takes stronger action to limit support for fossil fuel projects and subsidies, they announced Wednesday.

Making sure carbon credit sales don't impact a seller country's ability to meet its own targets and setting a fee structure that allows project hosts to make a profit without alienating foreign buyers are among the most important challenges facing developing countries in the implementation of Article 6, according to the Global Green Growth Institute.

Clean energy industry leaders call on NSW government to rule out a taxpayer funded extension to the operating life of Australia's largest coal plant.

The post “Massive retrograde step:” Renewables industry says “no case” to extend Eraring appeared first on RenewEconomy.

IPPR wants government to take a stake in green technology firms to help Britain keep up with EU and US

The UK risks losing out to the US and EU in the global race to a net zero economy unless the government increases green investment by taking a stake in the companies of the future, a thinktank has said.

The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research said Britain needed a “national investment fund” (NIF) that would back new firms and secure a share of any future profits for the public as it called for the state to adopt a “Dragons’ Den” type approach to supporting enterprises.

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Events that inject smoke and gas into high atmosphere help to cool planet but are no solution to climate crisis, says study

Explosive volcanic eruptions and wildfires have offset global heating by around a fifth over the last eight years, a study shows. In particular the eruption of Calbuco in southern Chile in 2015 and the 2019-20 Australian wildfires injected vast amounts of smoke and gas into the high atmosphere, which helped to cool the planet by absorbing heat leaving the Earth and reflecting sunlight back to space.

Pengfei Yu from Jinan University in China and his colleagues used data gathered by high altitude balloons over the Tibetan plateau and the US to model the cooling impact of stratospheric volcanic eruptions – those that inject ash into the high atmosphere – and wildfires.

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Results are in from the two-year study of ClearVue's demonstration solar greenhouse in Perth, revealing a “significant offset" of energy consumption and remarkably consistent generation.

The post Solar glass cuts greenhouse energy use almost in half, Australian study shows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A tax on investments rather than consumption would do more to force wealthy people to act on emissions - if only to protect their own portfolio income from stranded assets.

The post Carbon tax on the rich: Why world’s wealthiest should pay for their emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Solar and China lead the way as global investments in renewable energy surge in first half, but remain short of net zero targets.

The post Solar and China lead way as global renewable investments hit record $A557 billion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Building the federal government's promised 1.2 million homes climate-friendly would transform construction in Australia, to make housing part of the climate solution.

The post Better than net zero? Building new homes climate-friendly appeared first on RenewEconomy.

India is attempting to make history by landing Chandrayaan-3 near the Moon's little-explored south pole.

It’s not always “worth it for the ‘gram”. People risk life, limb, and the environment for a selfie – and land managers can’t keep up. Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The charge for the most polluting vehicles will be expanded to all London boroughs next week.

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