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An Australian biochar and carbon dioxide removal project developer has formed a partnership with a Japanese agri-tech firm to focus on scaling the global biochar market, they announced Wednesday.

A 95MW off-grid system comprised mostly of wind, solar and battery power switched on to power new lithium mine.

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A US-headquartered soil carbon startup has signed an agreement with the Mongolian government to introduce regenerative agriculture and provide carbon finance to farmers and herders and with Mitsubishi for a JCM project in the country.

State reportedly arrested at least 25 journalists and activists in last year as it prepares for September climate summit

Azerbaijan’s government has been accused of cracking down on media and civil society activism before the country’s hosting of crucial UN climate talks later this year.

Human Rights Watch has found at least 25 instances of the arrest or sentencing of journalists and activists in the past year, almost all of whom remain in custody.

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Origin is juggling its portfolio of gas, battery and renewables projects to take advantage of a "messy" transition. But its biggest play is tapping into the assets of its retail customers.

The post Origin reckons it sitting pretty for “messy and volatile” transition with coal deal, gas, big batteries and VPP appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Prices in the EU’s second emissions trading system could jump more than four-fold within the first four years of the market’s operation as an initial excess in allowance supply is rapidly replaced by a deficit as an early market-priming initiative gives way to strong demand, according to analysts.

Federal regulators are planning to roll out a number of offset protocols in the near future, though future Canadian carbon credit demand remains uncertain as several elections could threaten markets, a conference heard Tuesday.

As coal-fired power plants retire, experts insist renewable energy supported by hydro, batteries and gas is the "lowest cost" way to supply homes and business.

The post Energy tsars call for “stability in policies” to get on with enormous transition to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As well as spending billions subsidising fossil fuels, we are spending billions more repairing the damage global heating is doing

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Peter Dutton’s proposed energy policy, in the face of our climate emergency, is utterly irresponsible. Not just irresponsible environmentally, but also economically. Given community attitudes, it looks like the silliest political death wish in recent history.

Joëlle Gergis’s recent Quarterly Essay, Highway to Hell, was a frightening reminder of the price we are already paying for climate change. In property damage from floods and fires as well as lost agricultural production, the bills keep rolling in. As well as spending billions subsidising fossil fuels, we are spending billions more repairing the damage global heating is doing. It would be in our direct interest to be urging a rapid increase in ambition from the inadequate Paris targets. Becoming the first country in the world to weaken our response would undermine the growing impetus for a concerted program of action. We should be increasing the rate of decarbonisation, not slowing it.

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Industrial emissions trading systems are here to stay in Canada regardless of the potential change in the political landscape provincially and on a federal level, panellists at a conference said Tuesday.

A rooftop solar system installed more than 30 years ago in France is still operating at just under 80 per cent of its original output, a new report has found.

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California's electricity sector recorded the lowest CO2 output since the state’s independent system operator began recordkeeping a decade ago, as renewables’ share made up more than half of the grid, data published Monday showed.

Without Japanese public funding, Australia’s LNG boom would have slowed Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Exeter University study has origins in 1950 discovery by ornithologists who ‘chanced upon a spectacle’

It is a weird and wonderful sight: millions of migratory insects funnelling through a single narrow pass high in the Pyrenees, looking like a dark flying carpet and emitting a low, deep hum.

A team of scientists from a British university that has been studying the phenomenon for the last four years has now concluded that more than 17 million insects fly each year through the 30 metre-wide Puerto de Bujaruelo on the border of France and Spain.

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A Montreal-based fund that develops carbon offsets announced Tuesday a request for proposal (RFP) for its first project in Quebec at the Carbon Forward North America conference.

Canada’s C$15 billion ($10.9 bln) public investment vehicle will purchase up to 200,000 credits per annum over 15 years at an initial fixed price from an Alberta carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, but an expert criticised the bespoke nature of federal offtake agreements thus far as insufficient to meeting climate goals.

A US-based agricultural offset project developer announced Tuesday credit generation for large-scale sustainable rice cultivation, which it said was the first of its kind in the country.

Negotiations on setting a new global climate finance goal have been pushed out to later this year without a clear path for progress ahead, as national diplomats reached an impasse at the mid-year UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday.

Here’s how to reduce heat-related health risks during major sporting events, from the Summer Olympics to test cricket. Athletes, officials, spectators and volunteers all need to take responsibility. Hannah Mason, Research assistant in Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Anthony Leicht, Professor in Exercise Science, James Cook University Jemma King, Lecturer, Public Health, James Cook University Richard Franklin, Professor of Public Health, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists say atmospheric levels of damaging gases peaked five years ahead of projections, as substances phased out

International efforts to protect the ozone layer have been a “huge global success”, scientists have said, after revealing that damaging gases in the atmosphere were declining faster than expected.

The Montreal protocol, signed in 1987, aimed to phase out ozone-depleting substances found primarily in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol sprays.

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