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Japan considers J-Credit scheme expansion to include carbon storage, removals
Queensland to invest hundreds of millions in battery export industry that could employ thousands
Investment comes after research showing Australia is at risk of missing out on global renewables manufacturing boom
Thousands of Queenslanders could soon be employed in a globally competitive grid-scale battery export industry, with the state committing hundreds of millions in backing for the sector.
Centre for Future Work director, Jim Stanford, said the state’s shift towards long-unfashionable “industry policy” was “absolutely the right direction” for the entire country, not just Queensland.
$275m to support industry to innovate and commercialise battery technologies, including a new Australian battery industrialisation centre.
$92.2m to drive battery investment and supply chain growth, including grants.
$202.5m to promote the local industry, including a new state government clearing house.
Continue reading...UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies
Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero
The UK is pulling out of a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over their climate policies.
The UK will quit the controversial energy charter treaty (ECT) after efforts to align it with net zero emissions plans failed, the government announced late on Wednesday.
Continue reading...UN credit union signs up to global initiative to standardise GHG accounting across financial sector
China to draft technical standards for CCUS development, carbon management
Limited policy and manufacturing data impede construction sector’s ability to cut emissions -report
Indonesia ups already massive CCS potential estimate
Herd of puppets to trek 20,000km to highlight urgency of climate crisis
Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create ‘visceral engagement’ with issues caused by climate emergency
The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness about the plight of the refugee crisis in Europe, hope their next project – a herd of animal puppets going on a 20,000km trek – will start a new global conversation about the climate crisis.
Amir Nizar Zuabi, the Palestinian artist who helped launch the Amal project, said The Herd – which will tour through several African and European cities and feature dozens of puppets – will be a “soft, beautiful evocation to think differently” about the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Major parties set to block Pocock move to enshrine climate change “duty of care” for children
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NGOs lodge legal challenge against vast new petrochemical plant in Antwerp
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s proposed Project One cracking plant is ‘hugely destructive’, says Client Earth
The creation of the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years faces a new legal challenge by a group of NGOs arguing that the true impact of the development on people, nature and the climate has not been considered.
Client Earth lodged papers on Wednesday evening in court which aim to halt the building of Project One, a vast cracking plant to produce the chemicals to make plastic, which is being built in Antwerp by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos.
Continue reading...‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: how monitoring nature from space could keep Earth healthy
With current data on global biodiversity either lacking or flawed, a global satellite scheme aims to fill the gaps to target protection of our seas, soils and wildlife
For the handful of people who get the chance to observe Earth from space, the impact is often profound. Called the “overview effect”, astronauts report being deeply moved by the experience, as the planet’s fragility and beauty became clear. Others, such as the actor William Shatner, said they were overcome with grief.
Now, scientists are proposing the creation of a new system that they hope will use the view from space to transform our understanding of Earth’s changing ecology and its complex systems.
Continue reading...Japanese heavyweights, international development agency sign on for Indonesian energy master plan
SwitchedOn Podcast: Rooftop solar, batteries, EVs and heat pumps could save Australians $19 billion in energy costs
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Here we go again: Coalition adds rooftop solar to its “disrupt and delay” handbook
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New solar tracker tech promises to “drastically reduce” costly development hurdles
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Can Australia’s biggest manufacturing assets be saved by biggest wind and solar farms?
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Energy Insiders Podcast: The boom in wind energy
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Australian environmental groups call for land-clearing trigger in EPBC reforms
Queensland unveils $571m plan to make Sunshine state the “battery capital” of Australia
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