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The curious case of Tomago: fake blackouts feeding a fossil fuelled future
Australia is entering its fifth-year of post-blackout hysteria, but a lack of real blackouts mean the threat has to be fabricated.
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California gasoline consumption slips in February for second straight month
Oregon Clean Fuels Program rebounds with small credit surplus in Q4
Swiss initiative proposes blueprint for climate neutral commodity trade
European Markets: EUAs gain 2% in quiet trade as rebound continues
Algae proteins partially restore man's sight
Shell and Edify in landmark big battery storage deal in NSW
Shell and Edify in landmark deal to build a 100MW big battery in Riverina as part of new electricity supply agreement with NSW government.
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Australia Market Roundup: Latest ACCU issuance tops 1.1 mln, as regulator floats new soil carbon method
Coronavirus: Training dogs to identify the scent of Covid-19
The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech | Peter Sutoris
This moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess
We are living through what scientists call the Anthropocene, a new geological age during which humans have become the dominant force shaping the natural environment. Many scientists date this new period to the post-second world war economic boom, the “great acceleration”. This rapid increase in our control over the Earth has brought us to the precipice of catastrophic climate change, triggered a mass extinction, disrupted our planet’s nitrogen cycles and acidified its oceans, among other things.
Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution. Electricity from renewable sources, energy-efficient buildings, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuels are among the many innovations that we hope will play a decisive role in reducing emissions. Most of the mainstream climate-change models now assume some degree of “negative emissions” in the future, relying on large-scale carbon capture technology, despite the fact that it is far from ready to be implemented. And if all else fails, the story goes, we can geoengineer the Earth.
Continue reading...Carbon Programs Manager, CO2 Australia Limited – ACT
The Obama library is coming to Chicago. Will local residents be displaced?
Complex slated for South Side’s Jackson Park prompts fears that low-income Black residents will be displaced
Construction of the Obama Presidential Center is expected to begin this fall in Chicago after years of debate over whether the complex will benefit low-income residents of the surrounding neighborhoods.
It will be located in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago – one of the most historically significant parks in the city, and originally designed for the 27 million visitors to the 1893 World’s Fair. The roughly $500m Obama Presidential Center (OPC) will feature a museum, playground, public library, and an open plaza.
Continue reading...Cheaper electric vehicles could increase uptake in Australia ‘sooner than expected’
New technology could soon make electric cars much more affordable, which ‘may sway consumers’, the country’s automotive retailers say
Australia’s automotive industry is at a “revolutionary turning point” amid the transition to zero-emission vehicles, a report has found.
The shift towards electric cars will also bring structural change and pose significant challenges to the sector, the Motor Trades Association of Australia says.
Continue reading...Low Carbon Trader, bp – Singapore
Britain’s electric car charging network to get £300m boost
Ofgem to build infrastructure for 3,550 new ultra-rapid charging points on motorways and in towns
Britain’s energy regulator is investing £300m to help triple the number of ultra-rapid charging points for electric vehicles across the country, as part of efforts to accelerate the UK’s shift to clean energy.
Ofgem will use the cash to build new infrastructure supporting 3,550 new ultra-rapid charging points – 1,800 at motorway service stations and 1,750 in towns and cities.
Continue reading...NSW smart meter program to soak up solar with “everyday batteries”
Endeavour Energy gets smart about better managing record numbers of residential rooftop solar systems, with not a solar export charge in sight.
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Energy retailer asks ACCC to probe possible “market gaming” in NSW
Energy retailer asks ACCC to investigate sustained price spikes in NSW as analysts question why some gas generators remained idle as prices soared.
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“It is crazy:” Greens push new climate laws after Coalition’s fossil fuel subsidy spree
Australian Greens propose laws to make fossil fuel companies legally liable for climate change, labelling contradictory Morrison government budget "crazy".
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Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK
A major £30m project will test trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal as ways of removing climate-heating emissions
Climate-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in major new trials across the UK.
Scientists said the past failure to rapidly cut emissions means some CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere to reach net zero by 2050 and halt the climate crisis. The £30m government-funded project will test ways to do this effectively and affordably on over 100 hectares (247 acres) of land, making it one of the biggest trials in the world.
Continue reading...UK under growing pressure to ban all exports of plastic waste
Call for environment bill returning to parliament to be strengthened to tackle global plastic waste crisis
Campaigners are urging the UK government to ban the export of plastic waste to all countries, invest in a domestic recycling industry, and set a binding target for plastic reduction.
Activists are pushing for the environment bill – which is returning to parliament on Wednesday – to be strengthened to tackle more effectively the global plastic waste crisis.
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