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PRESS RELEASE Hogan Lovells acted for Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, as lead counsel on the letter of credit financing to support the construction phase of its over AUD$200 million equity investment on behalf of its clients in the first stage of Murra Warra Wind Farm (Murra Warra 1), one of the...

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Simon Hackett made his fortune in the broadband boom and is now the largest shareholder in battery storage maker Redflow. He’s also Australia’s biggest fan of Tesla electric vehicles.

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A senior carbon and power trader has left US investment bank Citi's London office to join commodities trading house Freepoint, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Erik Solheim, under pressure over frequent flying and rule-breaking, has also now recused himself over wife’s job

The UN’s environment chief, under fire over huge travel expenses and rule-breaking, has been forced leave the UN general assembly in New York early and return to his Nairobi headquarters to deal with the growing crisis.

The problems for Erik Solheim, Norwegian head of the UN Environment Programme (Unep), include the Netherlands becoming the latest nation to withhold millions of dollars in funding until the issues are resolved.

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Japan has released new images from the robot rovers it has deployed to the surface of an asteroid.

Washington man faces prison for role in years-long operation to poach and sell 250,000lb of poorly understood creature

A Seattle-area fish processor who hoped to cash in on China’s appetite for sea cucumber faces years in prison for his role in a $1.5m poaching scheme that rocked an already unstable fishery.

Federal prosecutors claim Hoon Namkoong led a years-long operation to poach and sell sea cucumbers as regulators were cutting the struggling Washington state fishery. Dozens of divers are also implicated in the poaching ring. Namkoong bought at least 250,000lb of stolen sea cucumber taken illegally from waters once rich with the echinoderms.

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A veteran carbon expert has left project developer Sindicatum to pursue other opportunities, Carbon Pulse has learned, several months after the Singapore-based firm sold its US and Asian offset portfolios.

Stronger efforts to cut GHG emissions including triple digit carbon prices should be made to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C without relying on potentially more expensive or risky removal technologies, an analysis found Thursday.

A newly-launched New Zealand carbon fund is aiming at planting 150 million trees on marginal land under a business model that would see the fund and land owners split revenue from carbon credit sales in the NZ ETS.

It connects 17 national parks and runs for 2,800km (1,740 miles) through sparsely populated land.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has signalled she is ready to increase the ambition of the nation's emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement, even as the country is preparing to meet a significant share of its existing goal through the international carbon market.

Tesla offers mobile service for minor repairs and maintenance to EV owners in Australia at their home, or office or wherever is convenient.

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Australian start-up proposes software and apps to link electric vehicle users with charging infrastructure.

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London show brings together powerful and moving images from the world’s top wildlife photographers to raise awareness of the plight of these critically endangered cats

• The exhibition runs on select days at the Royal Albert Hall until 14 Oct.

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Choice of electric vehicles in Australia is finally set to grow this year with a raft of new models promising longer range, low running costs and at long last some priced around the $50,000 mark.

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Bus will clean up air pollution as it drives around the city, using a filtration system on the roof

One of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators has launched the country’s first air filtering bus in an effort to tackle air pollution.

The Go-Ahead Group unveiled the Bluestar bus in Southampton on Thursday claiming that the new filtration system attached to the top of the vehicle will clean the air as it moves around the city.

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Government may let farmers give antibiotics to healthy animals despite fears it could lead to resistance

UK farmers could be allowed to use powerful antibiotics in ways soon to be banned by the European Union, after the government was accused of using Brexit to avoid implementing tougher rules on animal health.

New rules aimed at curbing overuse of the drugs are being brought in by the European commission, but they will not come into effect before the Brexit cut-off date in March. The Guardian understands that government animal health experts have been advising vets and farmers they will therefore not have to implement the change.

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Key UN report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity

The world’s governments are “nowhere near on track” to meet their commitment to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C above the pre-industrial period, according to an author of a key UN report that will outline the dangers of breaching this limit.

A massive, immediate transformation in the way the world’s population generates energy, uses transportation and grows food will be required to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C and the forthcoming analysis is set to lay bare how remote this possibility is.

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SP Group has chosen ABB’s charging stations to drive Singapore’s sustainable mobility revolution.

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The Tesla big battery has defied critics and skeptics at every level. It turns out to be the best deal the South Australia government has ever made.

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