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NSW Minerals Council says that campaign aims to educate the public – but its claims of responsible, low-emissions coal mining don’t stack up

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“Because in New South Wales, we mine responsibly. For today and tomorrow,” comes the proud declaration at the end of an advert from the state’s mining lobby.

The advertisement from the NSW Minerals Council, seen on streaming services including SBS, features four people wearing the logos of the majority Chinese-owned company Yancoal.

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California regulator ARB slashed its compliance offset issuances by almost half in comparison to its prior distribution, state data published Wednesday showed, while premiums for units tagged with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEB) surpassed previous records.

Federal Labor's move to underwrite 32GW of renewables and storage is nothing short revolutionary. But abandoning market-based mechanisms carries its own serious risks.

The post How to ensure Bowen’s underwriting scheme doesn’t create another Snowy 2.0 debacle appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Australian government will expand its capacity investment scheme (CIS) to secure 32 GW of new wind, solar, and storage output, in a major gear shift to meet its 82% renewable energy target by 2030.

A pharmaceutical and biotech giant as well as a nutrition company launched a regenerative agriculture programme to improve soil health and productivity in Brazil on the same day Brazilian President Lula da Silva is expected to announce the country's restorative pastureland policy.

One of a suite of new big batteries to soon join the grid in Queensland has been registered and officially connected, with work on commissioning to start soon.

The post Chinchilla big battery connects to the grid near Australia’s biggest coal unit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW will get three big new batteries at little or no cost to consumers. It's been urged to go out and get more, and end the costly idea of paying to keep the Eraring coal generator open.

The post NSW just got three huge batteries for next to nothing – time now to dump Coalkeeper 2.0 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The EU’s petrochemicals sector faces a fight for survival amid persistently high energy and carbon costs, though some firms are planning for the long-haul by tapping the ETS-financed Innovation Fund as a key source of support.

Geert Wilders, known for his anti-Islam and eurosceptic views, is set to be the unexpected winner of Wednesday’s Dutch election, according to media reports citing exit polls.

The August California-Quebec current vintage carbon auction settled at an all-time peak, even surpassing secondary market prices, while the advance sale clearing price also achieved a new high, according to government data published Wednesday.

Carbon farming has its problems, but we shouldn’t write it off. After all, good projects can store carbon – and bring back habitat. Rachel Standish, Associate Professor, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A voluntary carbon market registry announced Wednesday a public comment period for a US and Canadian biochar protocol that will provide guidance on how to quantify, monitor, report, and verify emissions reductions from the production and use of biochar.

The European Commission published a proposal on Wednesday for a monitoring framework to help protect the EU's forests, which have become increasingly at risk amid rising temperatures.

NGOs have won a legal battle against illegal pollution caused by coal plants in Romania that is expected to lead to the closure of a number of facilities in the country, they announced on Wednesday. 

OBR analysis suggests higher energy prices and interest rates could reduce proportion of new cars sold that are electric from 67% to 38%

Britain has downgraded its forecasts for the takeup of electric cars over the next seven years as higher financing costs and rising energy prices threaten to cut the incentive for drivers to replace combustion engines.

The latest forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), released alongside the chancellor’s autumn statement, said that just 38% of new vehicles sold in the UK in 2027 would be electric, down from the 67% it predicted in March.

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The UK government on Wednesday said it is extending to 2030 climate levy reductions for companies that meet emissions targets, among other measures to bolster the path to net zero and reassure investors in green industries, in a finance statement that was lighter on climate policy than some had hoped.

International stakeholders have ahead of COP28 called on world leaders to vastly improve monitoring, reporting, and verification of ocean-based climate activities, including carbon removals, to improve understanding of mitigation and adaptation strategies, in what has been coined the Dubai Ocean Declaration.

French economist says class inequality must be at centre of climate response and calls for progressive carbon taxes

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Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the carbon footprints of the rich and poor and prevent a backlash against climate policies, the economist Thomas Piketty has said.

Regulations will be needed to outlaw goods and services that have unnecessarily high greenhouse gas emissions, such as private jets, outsized vehicles, and flights over short distances, he said in an interview with the Guardian.

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The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) will look to ramp up its focus on attracting private capital as part of reforms to the mechanism, as it seeks to scale funding to $50 billion by 2030 and address criticism of its role in channeling climate finance, a senior member of the body told Carbon Pulse.

The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) has launched a new accelerator programme to boost carbon finance in the clean cooking sector of West Africa.