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China to conduct research on railway-related offset methodologies
AU Market: ACCU prices inch higher as outlook says market well-supplied for the rest of decade
Tanzania project applications hit 35 as carbon trading interest grow
Climate change will strike Australia’s precious World Heritage sites – and Indigenous knowledge is a key defence
China biochar has great negative emissions potential, though market-based mechanism needed -research
Rally betrays anti-renewables desperation, as Joyce calls on “army” to go home and recruit
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Better grades of iron ore needed for newer, cleaner steel making processes -report
As Barnaby rails against “filthy” turbines, NSW approves plans for a 335MW wind farm
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Australians keep buying huge cars in huge numbers. If we want to cut emissions, this can’t go on | Richard Denniss
We subsidise the purchase of twin-cab utes and charge GST on bikes and public transport. It’s absurd
Parisians just voted to charge large vehicles three times more to park in the city than small vehicles. In Australia we offer the most convenient parking for free to people driving enormous twin-cab utes (we call them loading zones, even though you don’t have to load up anything more than your groceries). Policy choices matter.
Last year all of Australia’s top 10 selling cars were twin-cab utes or large SUVs. And just as most utes aren’t really shifting cargo around our cities, “sports utility vehicles” are not engaged in sport – and they clearly aren’t utilities. But the names used to describe these expensive, inefficient and dangerous forms of transport are by no means the most absurd thing about Australian car culture.
Continue reading...AGL’s great hope is the timely exit of coal. Too bad Origin has dropped the ball on Eraring
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Lords urge action on electric car 'misinformation'
Unique flying reptile soared above Isle of Skye
Australian carbon tech start-up raises A$600,000 in pre-seed funding
Make used electric cars cheaper and tackle battery fears, peers tell ministers
Grants needed towards buying EVs as well as a battery health testing standard to reassure consumers
Ministers need to intervene to boost the secondhand electric vehicle market and allay “uncertainty and concerns” over the health of their batteries, a House of Lords committee has said.
Peers on the environment and climate change committee urged the government to step up efforts to encourage electric vehicle adoption amid consumer jitters over the cost of vehicles, the longevity of their batteries and the availability of charging points.
Continue reading...South Australia’s biggest wind farm and Blyth battery hit financial close, on track to power BHP mine
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Is it time for a Category 6 for super cyclones? No – warnings of floods or storm surges are more useful
RGGI Market: RGAs rocket to record highs again, market in programme review limbo
US DOE awards four large pilot projects $304 mln for power, industrial CCS
Anti-renewables rally hears from who’s who of climate deniers, fossil boosters
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“A deeply troubling discovery:” Earth may have already passed crucial warming limit
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