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ANU experts trash governments draft landfill gas ACCU method options
Study reveals increased human and natural disturbances in Europe’s forests
Global insurance broker launches carbon credit protection offering
Australia’s AgriProve issued 9,000 ACCUs from soil carbon projects
Conglomerate, developer to offer insurance for forestry-based J-Credits
Australian opposition signals intention to quit the Paris Agreement
Climate superfund legislation passes New York legislature, awaits governor’s signature
Dominion approved to withdraw RGGI rider after Virginia’s exit from scheme
New Paris pledges could triple emission reductions, if they reflect existing technologies, goals
Dutton confirms nuclear push and climate denial go hand in hand: The pretence has gone
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Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse
UPDATE – EU elections: Parliament lurches to the right as 2019 ‘Green wave’ recedes
I’m an eco-friendly grower – so why do I want to murder all these vile slugs? | Claire Ratinon
The warm winter and wet spring spawned a mollusc army. Now they’ve invaded my brassicas, I’m at war with my conscience
It’s the beginning of summer, yet as I type these words, I’m watching sheets of rain coming down at an angle as my chickens cower under their hen house. Aside from a few gloriously sunny days, it feels like the rain hasn’t stopped since the middle of last autumn. While most of my plants appreciate the moisture, the wetter than usual weather has led to some issues in my veg patch.
Our heavy clay soil is more compacted than ever and the slugs and snails now reign, busily mowing down the young plants I raised from seed and entrusted to the veg beds. They came for the lettuces first, which didn’t survive their first night in the soil. Then they came for the brassicas – the radishes, the kohlrabi and the red Russian kale – stripping their leaves back to the scrawny mid-rib, destroying the centre so there was no chance of them growing back. After I convinced myself that they wouldn’t go for strong flavours, they devoured the coriander and dill seedlings that I’d planted, too. All the crops that I’d hoped to be harvesting by now are nowhere to be seen.
Claire Ratinon is an organic food grower and writer
Continue reading...Dutton’s dumping of climate target would be a disaster for power prices, families and business
It appears some people have learned absolutely nothing from 20 years of climate wars.
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Government offers up to $40,000 to neighbours with views spoiled by new transmission lines
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Coalition savaged for claiming it is committed to net zero by 2050 but would ditch 2030 emissions target
Federal government says opposition is saying ‘white is black’ following Peter Dutton’s comments to News Corp on Paris climate agreement
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The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has savaged the Coalition after a frontbencher insisted the opposition was “absolutely committed” to the Paris climate agreement a day after leader Peter Dutton foreshadowed he would scrap Labor’s target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030.
Dutton told the Weekend Australian he would oppose the legislated 2030 target – a 43% cut compared with 2005 levels – at the next election, declaring there was “no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.
Continue reading...Winds of fortune: Coal workers eye “jobs for life” with offshore renewables
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“Global laughing stock:” Dutton’s threat to tear up Paris climate target labeled a disaster
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