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A major Indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon has advanced the collection of critical data within their territories, which "as a first step" must be integrated into the nascent biodiversity credit markets, its monitoring manager told Carbon Pulse.

South Korea is nowhere close to meeting its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) without doubling its current yearly emissions reductions or the heavy use of international offsets, a paper from two think tanks has warned.

The last of 75 turbines has been installed at the biggest wind project yet built in South Australia which will help edge the state closer to 100 pct net renewables.

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Three out of Australia's four aluminium smelters could risk closure if Australia adopts nuclear power, reducing energy supplied to industry.

The post Commitment to nuclear power could kill off most of Australia’s aluminium industry, study warns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change

The Guardian US is launching a year-long collaborative reporting project that seeks to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about the climate crisis: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people want their governments to take stronger action.

The 89 Percent Project is a partnership between the Guardian US, Covering Climate Now, Agence France-Presse and dozens of other newsrooms across the globe. The collaboration builds on a slate of recent scientific studies finding that between 80-89% of the world’s population want stronger climate action. This overwhelming global majority, however, does not realize that they are a majority; most think their fellow citizens don’t agree. Experts agree breaking this “spiral of silence” could be pivotal to spurring critical climate action.

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An investigation has found that meat producer JBS is likely to miss its goal to eliminate deforestation in its Amazonian supply chain.

India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has announced the draft emission intensity targets for obligated industries under the compliance mechanism of Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS).

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

• Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

How much of a $450 (£339) pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent academic experiment. The answers mattered: real money was handed out as a result to some randomly chosen participants.

The average person gave away about half the money and kept the rest. But what if you had been told beforehand that the vast majority of other people think climate action is really important? Might you have given more to the charity?

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Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

• ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

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Nearly eight out of 10 senior executives around the world say they favour a speedy shift from fossil fuels towards renewables-based electricity within the next decade, found a survey released on Tuesday.

A downturn in New Zealand’s emissions allowance prices suggests that none of the emissions trading system (ETS) auctions this year will clear, according to a market analyst.

While some major emitters have set near-term climate targets that could be considered ambitious using certain criteria, none feature goals for 2030 and 2035 that are sufficiently aligned with the Paris Agreement on closer inspection, the World Resources Institute said on Tuesday.

The rhetoric around coal and gas as indispensable economic backbones is misleading. Conversely, a fully electrified scenario represents profound economic and resilience gains. 

The post How electrification could more than halve Australia’s energy needs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans unveiled for what would be the biggest wind farm in South Australia, with two eight-hour big batteries, to help support Whyalla's green steel ambitions.

The post Biggest wind farm and two eight hour batteries slated for Australia’s most advanced renewable state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A lawsuit against one of Australia's largest energy companies threatens to deliver a mortal blow to the nation's carbon offset industry and the government's carbon neutral certification scheme.

The post Beginning of the end for carbon offsets? Parents take energy giant to court appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A wind farm developer is asking for permissions to increase the height of proposed turbines, which it says will help protect Carnaby black cockatoos.

The post Wind farm developer wants taller turbines to avoid collisions with black cockatoos appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lost

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On a stinking hot November day, seven years ago, Grace Vegesana and a handful of other young climate activists set up a small stage in a large square in Sydney’s CBD – and waited. Inspired by the first school striker for climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the high school students decided to organise their own rally.

Vegesana expected a hundred people to show up. Five thousand came. “It was like, oh my God, we’ve unleashed some kind of beast, people want more,” she recalls. In the months afterwards crowds doubled and then tripled.

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Clean energy tax credits are expected to deliver $238.4 million of benefits to Iowa’s economy annually out to 2032, according to a new study.

A North Dakota law on CO2 storage is being challenged in the state’s highest court after it was dismissed in a lower district court last year.