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China will promote the inclusion of biodiesel projects in the national carbon offset scheme, as part of a broader plan to popularise the applications of green fuels in the country.

The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis

When you talk about the climate crisis, sooner or later someone is going to say that population is the issue and fret about the sheer number of humans now living on Earth. But population per se is not the problem, because the farmer in Bangladesh or the street vendor in Brazil doesn’t have nearly the impact of the venture capitalist in California or the petroleum oligarchs of Russia and the Middle East. The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%. The rich are bad for the Earth, and the richer they are the bigger their adverse impact (including the impact of money invested in banks, and stocks financing fossil fuels and other forms of climate destruction).

In other words, we are not all the same size. Billionaires loom large over our politics and environment in ways that are hard to understand without taking on the shocking scale of their wealth. That impact, both through their climate emissions and their manipulations of politics and public life means they are not at all like the rest of humanity. They are behemoths, and they mostly use their outsize power in ugly ways – both in how much they consume and how much they influence the world’s climate response.

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An industry lobby group has urged the government of Papua New Guinea to establish a Customary Land Department in the country, saying it could both protect the rights and interests of indigenous communities and foster sustainable development.  

More than half the installed power capacity from the China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is coal and gas, though their share has declined over the past two years, a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie has found.

A third round of plastic talks ended in Nairobi Sunday, with negotiators failing to achieve the goal of agreeing a draft treaty text for approval next year and observers blaming excessive influence from fossil fuel and petrochemicals lobbyists.

Carbon project developer Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC) has fired two staff members at the Kasigau Corridor REDD project in Kenya in relation to its ongoing investigation into sexual harassment and abuse allegations, the company said Monday, whilst apologising to the individuals affected.

"At least" six wind farms proposed for development in Tasmania face major delays, or worse, in the fallout from the decision to cut the MarinusLink project in half.

The post “Hard to fathom:” Six wind farms in doubt in Tasmania as transmission plans change appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The new battery will store power from the expanded 6.2 MW gas to energy power plant for dispatch during peak periods.

The post ACT adds new 24 MWh battery as it expands landfill gas generation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Massive wind turbine blade hits the road, for an epic road trip too ne of the largest off-grid hybrid renewable energy systems to power a mining operation in Australia.

The post First turbine blade leaves port for epic road trip to mine’s remote renewable microgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Experimenting with climate messaging reveals the best ways to inspire individual action. Here’s how to talk about the Great Barrier Reef this summer. Yolanda Lee Waters, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Angela Dean, Lecturer, School of Agriculture and Food Science & Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The National Trust says climate change-linked extreme weather is now the biggest threat to its sites.

Renowned for clean-energy tech, the billionaire seems to be at one now with super-emitters and far-right global climate deniers

Elon Musk was once lauded as a sort of green Tony Stark – the genius inventor who leads a double life as superhero Iron Man – for single-handedly tackling the climate crisis one Tesla at a time, helping to forge a clean energy future and pushing for new taxes to drive down fossil fuel use.

But the climate credentials of the world’s richest person have become clouded by his embrace of rightwing politicians, some of whom dismiss global heating, as well as by his management of X, formerly known as Twitter, during which many climate scientists have fled the platform amid a proliferation of misinformation about the climate crisis.

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Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk

• Introduction: the great carbon divide
• Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%

Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, research shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals.

The tycoons include the Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the tech billionaires Bill Gates, Larry Page and Michael Dell, the inventor and social media company owner Elon Musk and the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim.

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‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

• Introduction: the great carbon divide
• Twelve billionaires’ emissions equal to fuelling 2.1m homes

The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says.

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report.

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Macquarie launches new Australian-based onshore renewables business, with an initial project pipeline of 4 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects, and plans to build much more.

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A new approach to deciding which areas get selected for protection can save almost twice as many mammals from extinction globally, a study has found, with more than half of the most crucial habitat located in just seven countries.

Imagine the year is 2030. You are walking down your street. Your local newsletter just announced that your community is now running on 100% renewable energy.

The post The future of energy is community energy, and 100 per cent renewable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rooftop and utility scale solar set new records in Australia's main grid, as coal output from the country's biggest coal state also sent to a new low.

The post Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low appeared first on RenewEconomy.