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Chilean national fund eyes $100 mln in financing to enhance conservation of protected areas
Biden brings back rules for wildlife protection cancelled by Trump
UK remote sensing firm enters Japanese carbon market with local partner
State-owned Chinese company buys Australian energy retailer to boost local renewable plans
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Callide coal unit returns to service after multiple delays with new cooling tower
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The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle | Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen
Reducing cattle populations and restoring native ecoystems is our best chance to tackle global heating. Here’s one way to do it
There is a simple, cost-effective and scientifically sound way to turn back the clock on global warming and reverse the catastrophic collapse of biodiversity: pay ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle.
By mass, the world’s 1.7 billion cows are the dominant animal species on Earth, far outweighing the human population, and outweighing all the wild terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians left on Earth by more than 15-fold. More than a third of Earth’s land is used to feed livestock.
Continue reading...Australia’s new Net Zero Authority has a long road ahead but targets achievable, chair says
Net Zero Authority to play job angel for coal workers
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Energy major begins ammonia co-firing trial at coal plant in Japan
China to see big CO2 cuts from first industrial-use nuclear steam supply project
Safeguard facilities offer up reasons for heavy ACCU reliance for first time
The EU’s great green retreat benefits the far right. For the rest of us, it’s a looming disaster | Arthur Neslen
Environmental pledges are being shredded to please agribusiness and appease extremists. It’s a terrible mistake
The EU’s great green deal cave-in has been nothing less than spectacular. As aggressive lobbying and violent farmers protests ramped up in the last year, Brussels has killed plans to cut pesticide use by half, to green farming practices, to ban toxic “forever” chemicals, to rein in livestock emissions and, last week, to restore nature to 20% of Europe’s land and seas.
The aim may have been to create breathing space. Predictably, that hasn’t worked. The bloc’s anti-deforestation regulation seems likely to be the next green reform for the chop, with 20 agriculture ministers reportedly calling for it to be pared back and suspended on Monday, citing “administrative burdens”.
Continue reading...NZ Market: Q1 auction drives new secondary market volume record
Japanese developer to set up biochar project in the Philippines
Ethical shopping on the rise in UK despite cost of living crisis
Increase in fairtrade sales to £13m shows shoppers still prioritising environment and workers’ wellbeing
British consumers might have faced the sharpest increase in living costs for four decades, but despite the cost of living crisis, concerns over the environment and the treatment of farmers in poorer countries has fuelled a steady increase in ethical shopping.
As households across the country rein in their spending to deal with rising bills, Michael Gadney, the chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation trade body, said consumers were still prioritising ethical products.
Continue reading...Marginal loss factor rules undermining urgent renewables growth, investors warn
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Solar Sunshot “common sense policy,” says Combet, as critics take aim
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Japanese IT firm, financial strike nature positive partnership
SwitchedOn Podcast: Australia has a heat pump problem
Why Australia is at risk of being flooded by cheap, inefficient, 'faux' hot water heat pumps.
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