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WA joins Zero Carbon Certification Scheme for hydrogen
The McGowan Government has become a founding member of the Smart Energy Council's Zero Carbon Certification Scheme to boost the State's fledgling renewable hydrogen industry.
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Australia lifted fossil fuel subsidies more than any G20 nation, says BNEF
Australia had biggest increase in fossil fuel support of any G20 nation over last five years, at nearly $300 per person in 2019.
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Plans unveiled for biggest battery storage system in Victoria
A two-hour battery storage systems on the Mornington Peninsula will be the biggest in the state if built on schedule by the end of 2022.
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CP Daily: Tuesday July 20, 2021
Climate Action Reserve proposes forecast carbon credit methodology for forest fuel treatments
Disheartened by existing voluntary carbon offerings, market veterans launch ‘fair and transparent’ offset service
If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast
Gas generation slumps in first half of 2021, as wind and solar continue to shine
Gas generation declined again in first half of 2021, including in NSW where renewables now supply 17 times more electricity.
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Green hydrogen could get free allocation in EU carbon market reform -official
Coalition believes it has numbers to stop Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’
Exclusive: Diplomatic email suggests whirlwind lobbying trip by Sussan Ley has won over at least nine of 21 members on World Heritage Committee
Australia’s global lobbying offensive to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the world heritage “in danger” list has secured support from at least nine of the 21-member committee that will make the decision, according to a diplomatic email seen by Guardian Australia.
Australia’s Paris-based ambassador to Unesco, Megan Anderson, said in the email she believed the government had won enough support to delay the decision on the “in danger” listing until at least 2023.
Continue reading...‘Airpocalypse’ hits Siberian city as heatwave sparks forest fires
Monitoring suggests toxic smoke in Yakutsk is one of world’s worst ever air pollution events
A heatwave in one of the world’s coldest regions has sparked forest fires and threatened the Siberian city of Yakutsk with an “airpocalypse” of thick toxic smoke, atmospheric monitoring services have reported.
High levels of particulate matter and possibly also chemicals including ozone, benzene and hydrogen cyanide are thought likely to make this one of the world’s worst ever air pollution events.
Continue reading...‘The climate crisis is the test of our times’: John Kerry speaks at Kew Gardens – video
The US climate envoy, appointed by Joe Biden to spearhead the country’s international efforts to tackle the climate emergency, urged all large economies to come forward with new plans to cut emissions before the Cop26 UN climate talks in Glasgow this November.
‘While it may be unfolding in slow motion to some,’ he said, ‘this test is as acute and as existential as any previous one. Time is running out.’
Continue reading...Climate change: US pushes China to make faster carbon cuts
Global stimulus spending not enough to prevent record emissions by 2023 -IEA
Our lives are changing profoundly but we can’t succumb to cynicism and hopelessness | Lenore Taylor
Reporting on the pandemic and global heating is an immense responsibility. More than ever we have to look to the possibility of positive change
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This time last year Victoria was enduring its long winter of Covid isolation. Other states were cautiously loosening restrictions. Most Australians were clinging to the assumption that the pandemic would end, sometime. Vaccines would be developed and, once we’d all got them, the threat would be over. We just had to hang in there until it was done.
Now the idea of a neat end point is far less certain because mutated versions of the virus keep slipping through our defences and closing down our lives again, just as we dare to make even the most modest of plans.
Continue reading...John Kerry: world leaders must step up to avoid worst impacts of climate crisis
US envoy uses landmark speech in London to make impassioned plea for unified global effort
The world still has a chance of staving off the worst impacts of climate breakdown but only if governments step up in the next few months with stronger commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the US envoy for climate change has said.
John Kerry, appointed by Joe Biden to spearhead the US’s international efforts to tackle the crisis, urged all large economies to come forward with new plans to cut emissions before the Cop26 UN climate talks in Glasgow this November.
Continue reading...China’s MEE clamps down on provincial failures regarding coal consumption
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Australia Market Roundup: Strong demand pushes ACCUs to fresh record high, as ERF deliveries close in on 70 mln
The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? | Alex Kotch
Joe Manchin owns millions of dollars in coal stock, founded an energy firm and Exxon lobbyists brag about their access to him. Republicans fundraise on his behalf
As “thousand-year” heat waves caused by the climate crisis rock the west coast and biblical floods engulf major cities, Senate Democrats are negotiating a $3.5tn budget package that could include an attempt to slow the use of fossil fuels over the next decade.
One prominent senator is very concerned about proposals to scale back oil, gas and coal usage. He recently argued that those who want to “get rid of” fossil fuels are wrong. Eliminating fossil fuels won’t help fight global heating, he claimed, against all evidence. “If anything, it would be worse.”
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