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Australia wind farms blow away monthly production record in July
Australia's fleet of more than 80 wind farms blow away monthly production record, even with a day and a half left in month of July.
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CP Daily: Thursday July 29, 2021
*Officer, Energy, Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote (India/Switzerland/UK)
*Officer, Land Use and Forests, Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote (India/Switzerland/UK)
Originator, CO2 Trading, Shell – Shanghai
Origin takes massive hit on coal and gas generators and renewable contracts
Origin Energy takes massive hit on value of its coal and gas assets, and on its long term renewable energy contracts.
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Longi sets 25.19% record for P-Type TOPCon cell efficiency
This new record, based on monocrystalline cells developed at LONGi’s Cell R&D Centre, was confirmed in testing carried out at the German Institut für Solarenergieforschung (ISFH), and raises the conversion efficiency of cells based on CZ wafers to a new level.
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Environment group sues over Keith Pitt grants to Beetaloo gas projects
Environment group launches legal challenge to Beetaloo gas grants, arguing resources minister Keith Pitt failed to consider risks of climate change.
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The fungus and bacteria tackling plastic waste
NA Markets: CCAs decline further on pre-auction trading, RGGI rises closer to $9
Two Bulgarian coal plants may have under-reported EU ETS emissions -media investigation
A bat: In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads | Helen Sullivan
In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads
Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky. They time their trip so that there is just too little light to make out anything more than a silhouette – which is just enough light so that you can see, very clearly, the outlines of their legs and feet knocking together – an entrechat – as they flap their wings.
I’m not sure that I will ever stop having the exact same thought about this: “Oh my God, you can see their feet knocking together. Oh my God.”
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Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse
Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them
UK’s Drax reports 56% drop in ETS-based output as coal stockpile clears
Italy’s Enel joins EU utilities reporting a rebound in H1 thermal power output
Coalition criticised after Great Barrier Reef Foundation receives $351,000 in jobkeeper payments
Foundation has received $400,000 in total pandemic support despite being awarded $443m government grant three years ago
Labor has asked the Morrison government to explain why a Great Barrier Reef-focused charity received jobkeeper despite still having hundreds of millions of dollars remaining from a nearly $500m grant it received three years ago.
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which expanded from six to 38 full-time staff after accepting a $443m grant that it did not request from the Turnbull government in 2018, confirmed it received about $351,000 in jobkeeper payments in the 2019-20 financial year.
Continue reading...Ryegrass, fire ants and feral cats: major Australian study identifies costliest pests in past 60 years
The study identifies each state’s most economically damaging species and warns costs could rise further without investment
Invasive plants, animals and diseases have cost Australia at least $390bn in damages and management costs over the past 60 years, according to research that has painted the most accurate picture yet of the economic burden of these invaders.
Feral cats are the costliest of the hundreds of individual species studied, accounting for just over $10bn in damages and management expenses. Rodents, pigs and rabbits came close behind.
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