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Why Australia needs to create a renewable storage target
New report argues that Labor should focus less on poles and wires and more on putting together a national storage target to support the renewables transition.
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NGO report casts doubt over Qatar football World Cup carbon neutral claims
The real climate wars are only just getting started
What are the climate wars? There has been bipartisan agreement to not act sufficiently on climate between major parties. They're at peace. We are not.
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Tapping mineral wealth in mining waste could offset damage from new green economy mines
EU leaders line up deal to ban all seaborne Russian oil, opposition builds to MSR sale idea
Extend life of Hinkley Point B reactor to avert blackout risk, say experts
Ministers are running out of time to persuade EDF to apply for postponement of shutdown, say industry insiders
Ministers have just weeks to intervene to extend the life of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, industry sources have warned, as officials raise concerns over the danger of blackouts this winter.
The two reactors of the Somerset nuclear power station are due to be shut down on 8 July and 1 August, removing nearly a gigawatt of power generation capacity from the UK’s system – enough to power 1.5m homes – and as the nights draw in, the war in Ukraine is expected to weigh heavily on electricity supplies.
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Queen’s jubilee tree planting sponsors ‘linked to deforestation’
Queen’s Green Canopy scheme’s ‘platinum supporters’ include firms that have been connected to environmental harm, say campaigners
The Queen’s jubilee tree planting scheme has been sponsored by companies with links to deforestation, say campaigners.
Across the country, people have been asked to “plant a tree for the jubilee” in honour of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
Continue reading...Norwegian companies ‘greenwashing’ by mistake, finds report
Australian carbon group puts ACCU exports back on agenda, urges govt rethink of Safeguard credits
Greenhouse gas removal ‘not a silver bullet to achieve net zero’
UK scientists say carbon capture is ‘hard and expensive’ and focus must be on reducing emissions
Many of the UK’s top scientists working on carbon capture technologies do not believe they will be developed and scaled up in time to reach net zero and limit global heating to 1.5C.
Experts speaking at a Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub event in London warned that these techniques, including direct air capture, biofuels, biochar, afforestation and advanced weathering, are not a silver bullet and should make up just a fraction of the efforts to decarbonise.
Continue reading...Malaysian stock exchange teams up with Verra for voluntary market launch
Ailing orca lost in France’s River Seine dies after failed rescue bid
Terminally ill and disorientated orca believed to have been suffering from disease not before seen in Europe
An ailing orca adrift in the River Seine has been found dead after a plan to guide it back to sea failed and scientists concluded it was in agonising pain and terminally ill.
The local French prefecture had said the orca, also known as a killer whale, would be euthanised to end its suffering.
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China to back continued use of renewables-based offsets in ETS
Harmful bacteria survives longer on plastic Scottish beach waste
G7 countries to stop funding fossil fuel development overseas
Ministers from world’s biggest economies reach agreement that could shift estimated $33bn a year to clean energy sources
The world’s biggest economies are to stop funding any overseas fossil fuel development from the end of this year, in a move likely to choke off some of the investment in “carbon bombs” that are imperilling efforts to meet the world’s climate targets.
The agreement could shift about $33bn (£26bn) a year from fossil fuels to clean energy sources, according to analysts’ estimates.
Continue reading...Maori leader blasts land development fund as Microsoft to monitor NZ forest cover
Australian market regulator takes hands-off approach to benefit sharing framework
‘The ocean is everything’: Pacific state of Niue declares all of its waters protected
Tiny island nation with no navy sets out bold ambition to protect 100% of its ocean, an area the size of Vietnam, from illegal fishing
The Pacific island state of Niue has announced that it will protect 100% of the ocean in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which spans 317,500 sq km (122,000 sq miles), roughly the area of Vietnam.
The water that surrounds one of the world’s largest raised coral atolls is the only place where the katuali is found – a sea snake that lives in the island’s honeycomb of underwater caves. Humpback whales migrate to Niue from Antarctica to give birth, spinner dolphins swim near the coast and Niue boasts the world’s highest density of grey reef sharks.
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