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Sarah Ott spent years as a climate change sceptic - now she's an advocate for clean energy.

A giant ice block more than twice the size on Greater London is on the move, years after its formation.

After weeks of negotiations, the National, Act, and NZ First government on Friday revealed the makeup of their cabinet, having agreed to a power sharing arrangement which says the review into the country’s emissions trading scheme will be scuppered.

Australia needs to create markets for local energy trading that properly value energy generated and stored from rooftop solar, batteries and EVs.

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This Associate Scientist position, housed in Conservation International’s (CI) Moore Center for Science, will lead methodological development technical analysis, stakeholder engagement, and project coordination associated with the joint CI-UCSB project 'Spatial Planning for Climate Change: Land Use for Conservation, Agriculture, and Energy' (SPARCLE).

NBN Co signs its third renewable Power Purchase Agreement – a 10-year deal that will help to underwrite the construction of a new 120MW solar farm.

The post NBN inks 10-year contract with new solar farm in race to 100 pct renewables by 2026 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nine countries bordering the North Sea announce plans to synchronise offshore wind tenders, with auctions for around 15GW each year, up to almost 100GW by 2030.

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The businessman has dropped his second appeal against a $6.5 billion coal mine being blocked over "unacceptable climate change impacts."

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If the government gets this right, Australia’s 82% target will be smashed ahead of time and budget. Like all the targets that have gone before.

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RSPB says figures distorted by failure to examine raptors caught in avian flu outbreak for signs of shooting or poisoning

Confirmed incidents of the illegal persecution of birds of prey have fallen to their lowest levels for more than a decade, according to the latest RSPB Birdcrime report.

But the conservation charity warned that the reduction in incidents to 61 in 2022 is distorted by a failure to examine dead raptors caught in the avian flu outbreak for signs of illegal killing.

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Canada's federal government amended its ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) Wednesday to increase the stringency of covered entities’ GHG emissions per unit of output, now set to decline at a fixed tightening rate with no end date, resulting in estimated net benefits that offset the costs to Canadian household welfare.

Global GHG output may reach its peak this year, meeting an IPCC deadline, but emissions could still exceed the IPCC's 2030 GHG target deemed necessary to limit global warming to 1.5C, according to a report by a climate think-tank.

The Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank has approved a recommendation to investigate the lender's own development project in Tanzania after allegations that more than 20,000 people are being violently evicted and their cattle illegally seized to make way for the expansion of the Ruaha National Park.

Global Carbon Council (GCC) has received letters of authorisation from Oman and the UAE for projects to offer correspondingly adjusted (CA) carbon credits on its registry, as part of expansion plans that involve adding a CCS methodology and gaining eligibility for phase one of CORSIA, a senior executive at the carbon credit certifier has told Carbon Pulse.

Australian freshwater turtles are a vital part of healthy waterways, but we don’t know enough about them. A new roundup of turtle research aims to buck the trend. Deborah Bower, Associate Professor in Zoology and Ecology, University of New England Donald McKnight, James Cook University Eric Nordberg, Senior Lecturer (Applied Ecology and Landscape Management), University of New England James Van Dyke, Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences, La Trobe University Michael B Thompson, Emeritus Professor in Zoology, University of Sydney Ricky Spencer, Associate Professor of Ecology, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5

Coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 Americans during the past two decades, causing twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, new research has found.

Cars, factories, fire smoke and electricity plants emit tiny toxic air pollutants known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5, which elevate the risk of an array of life-shortening medical conditions including asthma, heart disease, low birth weight and some cancers.

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The EU contributed €28.5 billion in climate finance to developing nations from public sources last year, up from €23 bln in 2021, according to figures approved by the Council of member states on Thursday that also outlined a further €11.9 bln mobilised from private sources. 

Carbon credit certifier Gold Standard on Thursday launched a consultation on a new methodology for phasing out coal power while ensuring a just transition to clean energy, adding to the voluntary carbon market initiatives seeking to accelerate the world's exit from the emissions-intensive fossil fuel.

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