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Raising the wind speed at which turbines start spinning could prevent tens of thousands of bat deaths each year, researchers find

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Australian windfarm operators are being urged to embrace a simple measure used overseas that scientists say could dramatically reduce the number of bats killed by turbines.

Curtailment – lifting the wind speed at which turbines start spinning – is used in some European countries and parts of the US and Canada, but rarely in Australia. A global study published in the journal BioScience found it was an effective way to limit bat deaths.

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Brussels is under pressure to defend its climate policy after approving state aid of €40 million to build Germany’s multi-purpose LNG import terminal in Brunsbuttel.

Zambia has moved closer to issuing letters of autorisation (LoAs) and approval for 10 carbon projects, its government has said, which would enable developers to sell credits internationally in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

Corporate Australia needs to not only get on top of their climate policies but also start educating their employees about what it covers.

The post Australians want to work for firms that take climate change seriously, but few know if that is the case appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Establishing 30 new Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has the potential to ensure native wildlife in the region does not decline due to human activities, a paper has said.

The chamber of commerce in Australia’s largest gas-exporting state has argued the current Labor federal government is not doing enough to support carbon capture and storage (CCS) and should provide the same support it gives to green hydrogen development if the country is serious about meeting its climate goals.

Two oil majors have teamed up with a UK-headquartered firm on the construction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in Malaysia, the companies announced Tuesday.

Guyana President Irfaan Ali announced this week at a national assembly on Indigenous affairs that the government would increase the percentage of carbon proceeds for Amerindian communities, counterbalancing lower earnings in 2024, according to local sources.

Nearly half of the German population disapprove of the current domestic approach to CO2 taxation in transportation and heating, according to a new survey.

European carbon prices rose to their highest in 12 weeks amid an increase in buying interest as coal-fired power continued to make inroads into gas' share of the market, while a pause in the auction schedule on Wednesday added to the bullish sentiment and appeared to trigger some short-covering.

A provincial government body in Sarawak state in Malaysia has entered into several partnerships for the exploration and development of carbon offset projects based on nature-based solutions (NbS), renewable energy, and biodiversity conservation.

US-based environmental credit platform Regen Network Development is trialling a feature to enable the publishing of project data, connected to blockchain, in a bid to improve the storytelling around their environmental credits.

An advanced market commitment for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has released a standardised offtake agreement template for deals in the nascent technology sector.

Voluntary carbon standard Verra has updated its Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework in order to align with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (ICVCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label, the standard announced Tuesday.

Japan has selected around a dozen climate and environment projects across Southeast Asia that will receive government funding, including programmes promoting the development of biochar, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and methane emissions reductions from rice production.

The coalition government’s decision to follow the Climate Change Commission’s advice on emissions trading scheme price settings and auction volumes has been broadly welcomed, participants told a conference Tuesday, but key issues relating to the scheme have yet to be resolved.

The Malaysian government is looking into implementing a carbon tax, particularly on big-emitting industries, and plans to attract green investments into the country, an official told a media conference Tuesday.

The biggest battery project in South Australia has been licensed and registered, paving the way for testing and commissioning.

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Appearance of dark crimson underwing causes excitement on land that would be bisected by road scheme

Beneath oak canopies, in an orchard full of hundred-year-old apple trees, excited exclamations rose from a group of moth enthusiasts last week.

The Cambridgeshire Moth Group had just trapped a dark crimson underwing, a species so rare that none of them had ever seen it before. Indeed, the colourful invertebrate is only usually ever found in the New Forest and is considered nationally scarce.

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Form Energy gets funds for groundbreaking 8.5 GWh iron-air battery, which will be capable of up to 100 hours of storage and will be the world's biggest battery.

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