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Livestock companies with large emissions receive billions of dollars in funding, campaigners say

Twenty livestock companies are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than either Germany, Britain or France – and are receiving billions of dollars in financial backing to do so, according to a new report by environmental campaigners.

Raising livestock contributes significantly to carbon emissions, with animal agriculture accounting for 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Scientific reports have found that rich countries need huge reductions in meat and dairy consumption to tackle the climate emergency.

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South Korea on Tuesday released an administrative notice that will give financial institutions limited access to trading CO2 allowances, perhaps as early as next month.

Coal power has been the foundation for much of what Europe is today. But what has been the cost? Since 2016, half of the continent’s coal plants have closed, or are scheduled to close, as markets shift and the race to save the climate gathers speed. NGOs and grassroots organisations are working with communities to ensure the transition from coal is rapid, focused on renewables, and, most importantly, fair.

This increased attention on the people who have long lived with coal has revealed unsteadiness, illness and deep seams of injustice in communities across the continent. The photographer Dan Wilton joined the environmental law charity ClientEarth to investigate and document Europe’s journey beyond coal

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Plans to export Queensland-made renewable hydrogen to South Korea are being weighed in a memorandum of understanding between Ark Energy and Port of Townsville.

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Investment experts say coordinated and comprehensive climate policies needed for Australia to seize full potential of energy transition.

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WA Labor government announces tens of millions in new funding for the state’s renewable hydrogen industry, including a $50 million fund.

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The site of what was once Australia’s largest oil refinery in WA is being sized up as domestic renewable hydrogen hub by BP.

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Proposed new potash project looks to source two thirds of its power needs from wind, solar and batteries to slash costs and emissions.

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The hardest part of achieving 100 per cent renewables is the last five or 10 per cent. Green hydrogen is now being viewed as a cheap and effective solution.

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There is a superhighway to rapid elimination of 80% of Australian greenhouse emissions, using low-cost, existing technology from vast production runs.

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Oil and gas firm Woodside has agreed with project developer Greening Australia to more than triple the land area on which they plant trees to generate carbon offsets.

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Air pollution kills more than malaria, HIV/Aids and TB combined but receives only 1% of development aid

Governments around the world gave 20% more in overseas aid funding to fossil fuel projects in 2019 and 2020 than to programmes to cut the air pollution they cause.

Dirty air is the world’s biggest environmental killer, responsible for at least 4m early deaths a year. But just 1% of global development aid is used to tackle this crisis, according to an analysis from the Clean Air Fund (CAF).

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The EU has missed a crucial opportunity to include coal mine methane under its proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).

Leading shipping associations have proposed creating a global levy on emissions from ships, seeking a level playing field as the EU advances its plans to regulate the sector’s climate impact.

CORSIA-eligible credit prices have exceeded their nature-based counterparts as prices hit fresh records in the past week, as the investors seen fuelling the rises judge the units to be a safer bet.

Goby fish and coral rely on each other to survive. But new research found gobies are declining under climate change, dealing a double blow to Australia’s reefs. Catheline Y.M. Froehlich, PhD Fellow, University of Wollongong Marian Wong, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong O. Selma Klanten, Research Scientist, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU lawmakers are jostling to gain control of the European Parliament’s scrutiny of the mammoth ‘Fit for 55’ climate package, with the centre-right EPP political group set to steer the main EU ETS reform elements.

Number of species of sharks, rays and chimaeras facing ‘global extinction crisis’ doubles in a decade

A third of shark and ray species have been overfished to near extinction, according to an eight-year scientific study.

“Sharks and rays are the canary in the coalmine of overfishing. If I tell you that three-quarters of tropical and subtropical coastal species are threatened, just imagine a David Attenborough series with 75% of its predators gone. If sharks are declining, there’s a serious problem with fishing,” said the paper’s lead author, Prof Nicholas Dulvy, of Canada’s Simon Fraser University.

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