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Danish shipping giant signs green fuel deal with Chinese clean energy firm

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 18:50
A large Danish shipping and logistics firm has signed a green hydrogen offtake agreement with a Chinese clean energy multinational, saying the deal is the first of its kind in the global shipping industry.
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Canadian miner welcomes US lawmakers’ push for deep seabed mining

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 18:22
Canadian The Mining Company (TMC) has welcomed moves by US senators and members of Congress to influence the UN seabed authority to finalise rules that would allow for minerals mining at the bottom of the ocean.
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EY report claims nature-positive Australia could see A$47 bln in benefits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 17:34
A report consultants by EY has found that Australia’s carbon market is unlikely to deliver significant nature repair under current settings, but claimed becoming a nature-positive economy could boost Australia’s national income by A$47 billion ($30.7 bln) by 2050.
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Twenty-five billion reasons for ministers to support urgent consumer energy reform

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 15:02

rooftop solar Western AustraliaAustralians have invested $25 billion in solar and batteries, with plenty more to come. We need policy and regulations to complement the investment.

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Low motorway bridges defeat Bluescope’s plans to make wind towers at Port Kembla

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 14:11

The steelmaker says plans to make wind turbines at Port Kembla scrapped because bridges are too small - but it still hopes to provide steel to other makers.

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Akaysha says four-hour batteries will be “new normal” after first gigawatt scale facility

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 14:07

Akaysha Energy says four hour batteries will be the "new normal" in Australian storage projects thanks to design of capacity investment scheme.

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Nature-based carbon standard launches with new reforestation methodology

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 13:58
A new nature-based voluntary carbon market certifier has released its standard and reforestation methodology, it announced Wednesday.  
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Australian oil and gas firm signs with pipeline company to progress third-party CO2 sources for CCS plant

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 13:43
Australia’s Santos has signed an agreement with one of the country’s largest pipeline operators to look at developing more CO2 infrastructure to service its planned carbon capture and storage facility at the Moomba gas plant.
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Another super fund joins green energy wave by sinking $1 billion into Quinbrook projects

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 12:25

Rest Super to invest $1 billion into Quinbrook projects. More than half of its members are young and are driving the fund's shift into green investments.

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Denmark’s CIP unveils 480MWh battery as part of big storage push in Australia

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 11:06

Danish energy giant CIP unveils its first big battery - the biggest in South Australia - as it launches a major storage investment push in Australia.

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Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’

BBC - Wed, 2023-11-22 11:01
Google search queries for “climate anxiety” rise dramatically, data given exclusively to BBC 100 Women suggests.
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Climate change: The villagers building 100ft ice towers

BBC - Wed, 2023-11-22 10:39
The people of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas have used maths to solve a water shortage.
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CP Daily: Tuesday November 21, 2023

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 10:21
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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Imagine if netball mums ran the world. They’d turn up and do the work rain, hail or shine | Antoinette Lattouf

The Guardian - Wed, 2023-11-22 10:04

Netball mums are the unsung heroes of community sport – and it’s time they took their well-honed political, economic and social skills to the world stage

Beyoncé had the right idea about who should run the world (girls!), it’s just that she wasn’t quite specific enough.

For years we’ve been talking about the need for more women in leadership roles, yet change and progress has been glacial. As a result, I believe, we need to cast a different, more distinct, net.

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More or less than expected? Analysts mixed over impact of 2024 EUA auction volume announcement

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 10:01
The European Commission last week published projected EUA auction volumes for 2024, and analysts are mixed as to how the figure compared to their expectations.
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Canada sets aside up to C$7 bln to issue carbon contracts for difference

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 09:40
The Canada Growth Fund, a C$15 billion public investment vehicle, will allocate almost half of its capital to issue carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) and offtake agreements, according to the federal government’s 2023 fall economic statement released Tuesday.
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Too many renters swelter through summer. Efficient cooling should be the law for rental homes

The Conversation - Wed, 2023-11-22 09:00
More Australians than ever live in rented homes, many of which get far too hot. With summers getting longer and hotter, keeping millions of people cool should be a national housing policy priority. Zoe Goodall, Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Sungkavi Selvakumaran, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University, and Lecturer in Public Health, Torrens University Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Rhode Island uses RGGI funds, US DOE monies for energy conservation grant programme

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 09:00
Rhode Island announced funding sourced from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday for the state's new energy efficiency grants for municipalities.
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Pennsylvania governor will appeal RGGI court ruling

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2023-11-22 08:37
The legal battle over whether Pennsylvania can join RGGI through executive action will continue, following an appeal from Governor Josh Shapiro (D) of a Nov. 1 Commonwealth Court ruling that blocked the state's regulations. 
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New 130MW solar farm energised in northern Victoria

RenewEconomy - Wed, 2023-11-22 08:37

glenrowan solar farmThe 130MW Glenrowan solar farm has been energised in northern Victoria and will soon begin generating enough electricity to power 45,000 homes.

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