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“Re-industrialise the nation:” Australia urged to provide $100 bn in clean energy initiatives
A new coalition of organisations says responding to US plan could provide kick-start to green industries in Australia with a $300 million export revenue goal by 2035.
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Solar reaches record 120 per cent of electricity demand in South Australia
South Australia sets a new record with solar providing 120 per cent of it electricity demand.
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Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean
Countries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment
In a landmark hearing, small island nations disproportionately affected by the climate crisis will take on high-emitting countries in a court in Hamburg, Germany, on 11 September, in what is being seen as the first climate justice case aimed at protecting the ocean.
During the two-day hearing, the nations – including the Bahamas, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda among others – will ask the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos) to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions absorbed by the marine environment should be considered pollution.
Continue reading...Solar panel technology is set to be turbo-charged – but first, a few big roadblocks have to be cleared
Investors and unions press Labor to invest $100bn to compete in global green economy
Exclusive: Stakeholders hope to influence Albanese government before decisions are taken on clean energy investments in mid-year update
The Albanese government is being pushed to provide an extra $100bn over 10 years to boost jobs and reduce emissions including through investments in clean industries and manufacturing of renewable energy components.
At the Australian Renewables Industry summit in Canberra on Monday unions, the renewable energy sector, community and investor groups willcall for the package to respond to massive investment overseas including the US’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Continue reading...US-Peru debt-for-nature swap to protect Amazonian biodiversity hotspots
UK’s net zero ambitions at risk after ‘disastrous’ offshore wind auction
Industry figures and the TUC warn of missed carbon reduction targets and lost jobs unless government boosts green investment
Fears are growing that existing offshore wind projects could be shelved, after industry insiders warned that “disastrous” handling by the government had created a big shortfall in future renewable energy.
Ministers revealed last week that no additional offshore windfarms will go ahead in the UK after the latest government auction. No bids were made in the auction, after the government ignored warnings that offshore schemes were no longer economically viable under the current system.
Continue reading...Queensland man in 60s dies from snake bite after removing animal from friend’s leg
Ambulance service uncertain of the species that bit the man but says symptoms point to a brown snake
A man in his 60s has died from a snake bite in central Queensland, after helping to remove a snake which had coiled around his friend’s leg.
Two men were treated by the Queensland Ambulance Service in Koumala, a town 60km south of Mackay, shortly after 6.30pm on Saturday evening.
Continue reading...Tanya Plibersek announced swift parrot plan without showing recovery team who helped develop it
Conservation groups say plan contains no meaningful action to address bird’s key threat of native forest logging
The swift parrot recovery plan announced by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, to mark threatened species day was not actually finalised and had not been shared with the experts who helped to develop it.
Once they had seen it, conservation groups and scientists said the recovery plan released on Thursday contained no meaningful action to address the key threat to the survival of the species: the logging of native forests.
Continue reading...G20 agrees to pursue tripling renewables by 2030, fails to set targets
Instead of tilting at turbines we should see them for what they are: beautiful | Rowan Moore
Growing up in the countryside, it was a feature of drives with my parents that electricity pylons would be deplored. So I am familiar with the instinct to oppose wind turbines, which like pylons are large, energy-providing infrastructure, among some country dwellers, leading David Cameron to tighten up rules in 2015 in a way that led to a 97% reduction in the numbers granted planning permission.
Although the current government has just announced an easing of these rules, they still give plenty of power to objectors. But I would ask country dwellers still inclined to block them to see that they are in fact beautiful. They are prettier than power stations, less destructive than fracking, certainly lovelier than floods, fires, droughts and other effects of climate change. They enrich the nation with the help of its abundant wind, and make us less dependent on fossil-fuel despots. Wind turbines are in a long rural tradition of robust practical structures that also includes barns, mills, viaducts, canals and others that have become beloved and protected. On those same drives I was always happy to see an old windmill. It shouldn’t be too hard to love their modern equivalents.
Continue reading...Global push for commitment to phase out fossil fuels gathers pace ahead of Cop28
UN hopes to galvanise summit talks by persuading world leaders to commit to stop burning coal, oil and gas, despite industry lobbying
A global push to commit to phasing out fossil fuels is gathering new momentum before a crucial UN climate conference this autumn, despite stiff opposition from oil-producing countries.
Campaigners are ramping up efforts to put an undertaking to stop burning not just coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, but also oil and gas on the UN agenda ahead of the Cop28 summit in Dubai in late November, the Observer has learned.
Continue reading...US hands out $24 mln to research ocean-based CO2 removal methods
Rishi Sunak avoiding UN climate summit over potential rejection
Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition
Rishi Sunak was warned that he faced exclusion from key discussions on the climate among world leaders at the UN before he decided to snub a global summit later this month.
It was announced last month that Sunak would be the first prime minister in a decade to avoid attending the annual UN general assembly gathering of world leaders. The reason given was his busy schedule, but the Guardian has learned that turning up risked severe embarrassment for the prime minister.
Continue reading...Lough Neagh: What does future hold for UK's largest freshwater lake?
Conservationists call for help to save London’s glowworms
London Wildlife Trust asks volunteers to seek out endangered beetles’ strongholds
They were celebrated as “ye country comets” by the poet Andrew Marvell but glowworms are defying light pollution to still shine their lights in the city of London.
Now volunteers and enthusiasts are being sought to count and save the much-celebrated but declining beetles, whose females emit a remarkable bright green bioluminescent beam to attract males.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Friday September 8, 2023
Emitters build, financial participants erode CCA and RGA net length
OECD climate group to discuss national carbon pricing approaches, advance stocktake work at fall dialogue meeting
California opts for 30% LCFS reduction target by 2030, alongside step change and auto-acceleration mechanism
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