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Great Solar Business Podcast: A US perspective on Australian solar
Benoy Thanjan, CEO and founder of Reneu Energy and host of the Solar Mavericks Podcast, spells out the similarities and the stark differences in how Australia and the US are adopting solar.
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CP Daily: Wednesday September 8, 2021
World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland
Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised
The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock started has running, the companies behind the project said on Wednesday.
The plant, named Orca after the Icelandic word “orka” meaning “energy”, consists of four units, each made up of two metal boxes that look like shipping containers.
Continue reading...Argentina makes plea for debt-for-climate swaps ahead of COP26
UK 'cut climate pledges' to clinch Australia trade deal
Climate change: Fossil fuels must stay underground, scientists say
COMMENT: What does the current price of EUAs actually represent?
LCFS Market: California prices drop to a five-month low on bearish outlooks
UK trade deal: Morrison begins COP26 season by causing a major international mess
Australia's eternal quest to protect its fossil fuel industry has caused an incredible and embarrassing international climate policy incident for the hosts of COP26.
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World’s largest renewable energy-powered DAC project starts up in Iceland
California offset issuances sink to lowest since June
Yes, it is entirely possible for Australia to phase out thermal coal within a decade
Huge wind, solar and battery project proposed for central Queensland
RES and Energy Estate propose a 900MW wind, solar and battery project, part of a plan for 2GW of renewables to support major industrial loads.
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PREVIEW: RGGI traders anticipate at or above market clear for Q3 auction
Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience
At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s ancient forests
A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.
The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of resistance such as locking their bodies to the logging road and police responded by beating, dragging and pepper-spraying demonstrators – has surpassed the previous record of arrests set in the 1990s at the anti-logging protests dubbed the “War in the Woods”.
Continue reading...95 per cent of Australia’s coal must remain in ground to meet global climate targets
Virtually all of Australia's coal reserves must go unburnt, and global fossil fuel use must peak 'over next decade', new research finds.
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Vast majority of fossil fuels ‘must stay in ground’ to stem climate crisis
Analysis shows future is bleak for fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake
The vast majority of fossil fuel reserves owned today by countries and companies must remain in the ground if the climate crisis is to be ended, an analysis has found.
The research found 90% of coal and 60% of oil and gas reserves could not be extracted if there was to be even a 50% chance of keeping global heating below 1.5C, the temperature beyond which the worst climate impacts hit.
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