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Nobel Prize goes to microRNA researchers
Solar recycling machine powers up as key export market closes to used Australian panels
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Article 6 body adopts sustainable development tool
INTERVIEW: ‘A tonne is not a tonne’ – Changing the approach to voluntary carbon crediting could unlock much-needed scale
FEATURE: ‘Panic’ as EU’s new green product reporting rules come into effect
Climate warning as world’s rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years
World Meteorological Organization says water is ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change’ and calls for urgent action
Rivers dried up at the highest rate in three decades in 2023, putting global water supply at risk, data has shown.
Over the past five years, there have been lower-than-average river levels across the globe and reservoirs have also been low, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of Global Water Resources report.
Continue reading...Australian energy firm partners with Japanese government agency to manage methane emissions
AU Market: ACCU price retreats after bumper September
Australia has done nothing to reverse nature-harming govt subsidies, report finds
Swiss pilot to install solar panels in-between railway tracks
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Queensland coal giant adds pumped hydro to growing energy storage mix
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Stanwell snaps up final share of giant Brisbane battery, firming up plans for life after coal
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Why is spring the record-smashing season for Australian renewables?
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Green pass for major solar and battery project, so long as it avoids koala and snake habitat
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Coal town to battery base: Firm keen to make regional power move
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New one-stop solution created for airlines to buy CORSIA, voluntary carbon credits
Bonus solar: Utilities need to change their tune on time of use and flexible tariffs
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Australia is hosting the world’s first ‘nature positive’ summit. What is it, and why does it matter?
Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe
As prime minister Justin Trudeau trails in polls, opposition seek to persuade voters environmental policy is a burden
Mass hunger and malnutrition. A looming nuclear winter. An existential threat to the Canadian way of life. For months, the country’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has issued dire and increasingly apocalyptic warnings about the future. The culprit? A federal carbon levy meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
In the House of Commons this month, the Tory leader said there was only one way to avoid the devastating crisis: embattled prime minister Justin Trudeau must “call a ‘carbon tax’ election”.
Continue reading...Labour could cut financial support for farms damaged by floods
Exclusive: Farmers still awaiting promised payments for uninsurable damage caused by Storm Henk
Labour may cut financial support for flooded farmers, the Guardian has learned, while money to compensate them for deluges in January has still not hit their pockets.
The previous Conservative government earlier this year promised up to £25,000 in payments for uninsurable damage from flooding caused by Storm Henk. However, the eligibility criteria for these grants has still not been set out, leaving farmers out of pocket. The scheme has been plagued with delays, with some affected farmers not being paid because they live too far from a river.
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