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Growers hosting lectures by academic who says Great Barrier Reef is ‘in great order’

Queensland sugarcane farmers – among the biggest polluters of the Great Barrier Reef catchment – have labelled the scientific consensus about the natural wonder as “unsubstantiated scaremongering”.

Their peak organisation, Canegrowers, says it is attempting to bring “balance” to scientific debate about the reef by hosting and promoting two lectures next month by the controversial academic Peter Ridd.

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BBC Click's Spencer Kelly takes a ride in some in some of Nasa's latest vehicles.

As August allotment of rooftop solar rebates opens to applications, Victoria energy minister says scheme's controversial design will stay as it is.

The post “D-day” for Victoria solar rebate, as government refuses to budge on design appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Neoen's Tesla big battery increases revenue in second half, but last three months clipped as other batteries grab their share of the FCAS pie.

The post Tesla big battery revenue dips in second quarter as FCAS market recedes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla's mass-market Model 3 electric sedan wins highest possible safety rating in Australia – a 5-Star from the Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

The post Tesla Model 3 achieves 5-star ANCAP safety rating in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Southern Right Whales rely on Victoria's coastline to rest and calf during migration. Is enough being done to protect these areas?

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California regulator ARB is planning to stay the course with its proposed maximum price for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits, while floating further changes to the potential borrowed credits mechanism and existing Credit Clearance Market process.

World’s biggest fund urged to invest in clean energy for good of the climate and its investors

BlackRock, the world’s biggest investor, has lost an estimated $90bn over the last decade by ignoring the serious financial risk of investing in fossil fuel companies, according to economists.

A report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has found that BlackRock has eroded the value of the $6.5tn fund by betting on oil companies that were falling in value and by missing out on growth in clean energy investments.

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Deficit generation exceeded credits under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) during the first quarter of 2019, as renewable diesel and electric vehicle credit growth could not outpace the year’s more ambitious carbon intensity target.

Market participants anticipate the California Carbon Allowance (CCA) spread to rise in the coming weeks as speculators and compliance entities look to shift delivery to the following year to maintain holding limit space, but it remains to be seen whether the rate will eclipse this year's previous high.

Verra seeks a manager to oversee operation of its new registry (Registry), and to build its base of users. The ideal candidate will possess an ability to build and lead a team responsible for the smooth day-to-day administration of the Registry, and an ability to work with key market stakeholders to drive greater uptake of Verra programs.

A global leader in helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental challenges, Verra seeks two Registry Administrators to join its Registry team. The ideal candidates will possess excellent customer service skills, a strong work ethic, an ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and a high attention to detail.

Australia's recycling woes belong to everyone, from households to government to business. It's time to stop pointing fingers and get to work on a solution. Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New Zealand has proposed new fuel standards, along with a consumer rebates for cleaner cars – paid for by higher costs for high-polluting cars – to cut its rising transport emissions. Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bank of England governor says firms that ignore crisis ‘will go bankrupt without question’

Capitalism is “very much part of the solution” to tackling the climate crisis, according to the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney.

Challenged in an interview by the Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow over whether capitalism itself was fuelling the climate emergency, Carney gave a strident defence of the economic system predicated on private ownership and growth but said companies that ignored climate change would “go bankrupt without question”.

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Godfrey Boyle, who has died aged 74, was founder-editor in 1972 of Undercurrents, a magazine of “radical science and people’s technology”, which inspired a variety of sustainable energy, housing, transport and community projects. In its founding year he led the editorial team of Undercurrents (known affectionately as Undies) to the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, where they distributed a special issue on energy and organised an exhibition on alternative technologies. The publication lasted 10 years before merging with Resurgence magazine.

In 1975 Godfrey co-edited (with Peter Harper) Radical Technology, a book with contributions from many of the Undies stable that was perhaps best known for the series of Visions drawings by the anarchist artist Clifford Harper. In the same year Godfrey published his influential book Living on the Sun, which advanced the then novel idea that industrial countries could make a transition to renewable power.

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The British-based land speed record team is heading to Northern Cape to conduct high-speed trials.

The Czech government has established a commission to consider coal’s future role in the country’s energy mix and to make recommendations to manage its reduced production and use.