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Climate Change: What are the big polluters doing to cut carbon emissions?
Europe's floods: Lessons from German tragedy
COP26: Four number that set the stage for climate change negotiations
Bluescope and Rio in renewable steel venture, Fortescue buys green hydrogen tech
Rio Tinto and Bluescope team up to use renewables to make green steel, while Fortescue buys another hydrogen technology company.
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Liberal senator tells CSIRO boss that net zero target will “destroy our plant life”
Queensland Liberal senator suggests to CSIRO boss that zero net emissions targets could they spell an end to all plant life on earth. (Probably not).
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ECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE – Shades of REDD+: Managing expectations for Glasgow
Canada’s 2030 climate plan deemed credible, but speed of implementation crucial -analysis
Microsoft, Goldmans back new climate impact asset manager launched by Al Gore’s Generation IM
South Australia makes big leap towards 100 pct renewables as wind and solar set free
South Australia has made a major leap towards its 100 per cent renewables target this week after constraints relaxed on wind and solar.
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Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor and journalists discuss Australia's climate policies – video
Australia has pledged to cut emissions to net zero by 2050, but is it enough to prevent disastrous global heating? Guardian Australia's resident experts on all things climate change - editor Lenore Taylor, environment editor Adam Morton and environment reporter Graham Readfearn - chat with off-platform editor Antoun Issa on Instagram Live, answering audience questions on Australia's climate policies ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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- Scott Morrison refuses to release net zero 2050 modelling amid condemnation of climate policy
- ‘Hollow’: how the Morrison government’s 2050 net zero pledge was reported around the world
- We’ve spent a year waiting for this 2050 climate plan and it’s actually just the status quo with some new speculative graphs | Katharine Murphy
- Australia’s net zero emissions ‘plan’: the five things you should know
- How does Australia’s response to the climate crisis compare with the rest of the world?
NSW seeks gigawatts of wind, solar and storage proposals in South-West REZ
NSW seeking gigawatts of wind, solar and storage proposals in new REZ, and is also looking for load changes, and innovative network solutions.
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RFS Market: RIN prices head south as traders await biofuel quotas
NA Markets: California carbon hits $31, RGGI $13 before both retrace
Utility RWE sees EU ETS-covered emissions rise nearly 24%
UK unveils plans for mandatory climate risk disclosures from next year
Exxon CEO accused of lying about climate science to congressional panel
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney likens oil company bosses’ responses to those of tobacco industry at historic hearing
The chief executive of ExxonMobil, Darren Woods, was accused of lying to Congress on Thursday after he denied that the company covered up its own research about oil’s contribution to the climate crisis.
For the first time, Woods and the heads of three other major petroleum companies were questioned under oath at a congressional hearing into the industry’s long campaign to discredit and deny the evidence that burning fossil fuels drove global heating. When pressed to make specific pledges or to stop lobbying against climate initiatives, all four executives declined.
Continue reading...Labor doesn't have a 2030 target yet either – what do we know of the ALP's climate policy so far?
Biden deal cuts size of US spending package, chops key climate elements
US envoy Kerry touts six-fold hike in adaptation aid as COP26 credibility at risk
Yes it’s expensive, but failing to meet climate challenge will cost a lot more | Larry Elliott
Cop26 breakthrough will require rich nations to finally make good on promise to help poorer ones
Next month’s Cop26 talks could end in abject failure. Anybody who has monitored the tortuous attempts of the World Trade Organization to piece together a global free trade agreement knows how hard multilateral negotiations can be.
A breakthrough in Glasgow is possible but requires two things to happen: the world’s leading emitters of greenhouse gases need to accelerate their net zero carbon plans; and they have to recognise it is their own self-interest to help the less fortunate countries already struggling with the effects of global heating.
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