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Vietnam has signed into action the Glasgow Declaration on forests and land use, setting country-specific targets around the treatment of its forests and plans to increase forest cover to the end of the decade.

The Clean Energy Regulator has minted some 1.38 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in its latest update, the largest issuance so far this year.

The MfE is looking for an experienced Senior Policy Analyst to join its Climate Markets directorate.

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Rishi Sunak’s lack of support for expanded scheme risks stunting Londoners’ lungs, says mayor in run-up to Tuesday’s launch

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Rishi Sunak has “put decades of progress on clean air into reverse” and now risks “stunting the lungs” of London’s children by failing to support the expansion of the capital’s ultra-low emissions zone, Sadiq Khan has said.

Ahead of the clean air scheme’s rollout to all boroughs in the capital on Tuesday, the London mayor issued a stark warning to Sunak who he said risked going down in history as the prime minister who “had the chance to save lives but refused to take it”.

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Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and lead author on transport for the IPCC, Peter Newman, says electric transport not only provides an opportunity to produce healthier, net zero vehicles, it enables us to rethink and build healthier, better cities.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: We can’t build cities around cars, even if they’re electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria Labor announces third round of winners from its $10.9 million Neighbourhood Battery Initiative, and launches first round of new beefed up scheme.

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NSW to take more time to consider its options on the closure of Australia's biggest coal generator, as AEMO prepares to release its supply forecasts.

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German grid operator unveils plans to underground power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in the power-hungry west.

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Petrol retailer announces partnership with OneH2 to expand use of the alternative fuel, and expects early adoption by heavier vehicle fleets

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Australia is expected to get more hydrogen service stations after the country’s largest petrol retailer teamed up with a US firm specialising in the alternative fuel.

Ampol announced its partnership with OneH2 on Monday, revealing the companies would work together to speed up the use of hydrogen in the Australian market and help to cut emissions from heavy transport.

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Maintaining the planned schedule for coal closures is crucial to the successful transition of the grid. Just look at the US.

The post Rapid US coal exit has lessons for Australia as it faces down fossil lobby once again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An average of more than 1GW a day of new solar is being installed around the world, according to data from BNEF, with China well and truly leading the charge.

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Large flightless birds, thought to be extinct for 100 years, have been returned to the wilderness of the Greenstone Valley in New Zealand's south island.

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Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting Kate Dutton-Regester, Lecturer, Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Queensland government reveals transition plans for one of the state's biggest coal plants, starting with a research, development and training centre.

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Fortescue says it has a "good idea" of how to eliminate 90 pct of its emissions by 2030, and looking at options for the other 10 per cent as it vows to stop burning fossil fuels.

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Australia's modest 2030 emissions targets are looking harder each quarter as the country's obsession with gas offsets gains in the grid from renewables.

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China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.

Deserts in Australia burn – and burn big – if fuel is left to build up. But this year, Indigenous rangers across the deserts have burned huge tracts early to make Country healthier. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Boyd Elston, Traditional Knowledge Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Low carbon emissions in Europe cannot come at the cost of environmental destruction abroad

Tunisia is one of the driest countries in Africa, and has just suffered three years of drought. Yet the EU sees the country as key to producing “green hydrogen” for export to Europe. The trouble is, this fuel is obtained by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen with electricity generated by renewable sources. Tunisia has lots of sun but precious little fresh water.

The only way of producing the raw material needed for green hydrogen is sucking up Mediterranean water and desalinating it. But a report last year for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated to Germany’s green political movement, warns that this would be a dirty, energy-intensive, water-guzzling process – and put the high cost of decarbonising the rich world on to the shoulders of poorer nations.

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