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Australia cited as COP28 host caught planning fossil fuel deals at UN climate talks
Leaked documents and an undercover investigation suggest UAE has been using its role as host of the COP28 to secure oil and gas deals.
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Incoming! Nats add “carpet bomb” of wind turbines to list of anti-renewable tropes
NSW Forestry Corp hoses down claim it plans to "carpet bomb" pine plantations with "hundreds of giant wind towers." Guess who's spreading them?
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Sunak accused of trying to ‘reset’ climate credentials at Cop28
British PM to tell UN summit of plans for rainforests and new national park – but green groups remain sceptical
Rishi Sunak is to announce a new package of green measures as the Cop28 UN climate summit begins in Dubai, including a search for a national park, a strategy on British rainforests and landscape recovery projects with farmers.
But green groups have told the Guardian the package is greenwashing and an attempt by the UK prime minister to “reset” his reputation after previously opposing environmental measures.
Continue reading...Podcast Special: AI, inverters and a smarter grid
Kate Muller from Norton Rose Fulbright talks with Habitat’s Ben Irons and colleague Nick Abrahams on the role AI will play in a grid making switch from spinning machines to inverter-based tech.
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Alberta announces 12% CCUS tax credit, partially funded by TIER
“Megaton Moon:” Danish developer plans 60GW solar and wind energy park
Danish developer GreenGo Energy announces plans to build one of the world's biggest green energy parks – a 60GW/190TWh project in West Africa.
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Lot’s of talk, not enough action: Wind, solar and storage projects stalled at starting gate
The promises, plans and targets of state and federal governments and ambitious developers for wind, solar and storage are not being reflected on the ground. Something must be missing.
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UPDATE – Alberta invokes Sovereignty Act in face of draft federal Clean Electricity Regulations
NSW planning department can’t see the forest for the trees
The NSW Planning Department has made life difficult for project developers. If it continues, consumers will pay a heavy price for unreliable power from coal stations that should have been closed years ago.
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Experts divided over VCMI’s proposed new carbon credit buyers’ claim
Three entities launch northern BC forest conservation initiative across 3.9 mln hectares
As disasters and heat intensify, can the world meet the urgency of the moment at the COP28 climate talks?
The Guardian view on betting the planet: a big oil producer presiding over Cop28 is a risk | Editorial
The success of this week’s UN climate summit will depend on one man who must know that a favourable result would be bad news for the industry he represents
History was made in Glasgow in 2021 when “fossil fuels” appeared in the Cop26 declaration. It was the first time they had ever been mentioned in the text of a Cop agreement – officially recognising the taproot of a human-led climate emergency. Two years is a long time in geopolitics. This year’s Cop28, which begins on Thursday in Dubai, will be presided over by Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, which has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any fossil fuel business in the world.
It was already doubtful that Mr Al Jaber was fit to lead global climate negotiations while responsible for planet-wrecking activities. This week’s revelations that he planned to lobby on oil and gas deals during meetings with foreign governments ahead of Cop28 further damage his credibility as an honest broker in climate negotiations. Mr Al Jaber had a hard enough job without hustles making a mockery of his independence.
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