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LCFS Market: Trade in California futures picks up after dearth of activity
Grande America: France braces for oil spill damage after ship blaze
EU Parliament piles pressure on leaders to take ambitious line on bloc’s 2050 climate strategy
Environment groups urge oil watchdog not to speak at pro-industry event
Nopsema head Stuart Smith is listed to speak at The Great Australian Bight: The Big Opportunity
Environmental groups have written to Australia’s offshore petroleum watchdog to urge him against speaking alongside the oil lobby at a pro-industry event titled The Great Australian Bight: The Big Opportunity.
The head of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (Nopsema), Stuart Smith, is listed as one of three keynote speakers at the South Australian “parliamentary friends of the resource sector” forum dinner on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Coal seam gas: NSW communities in limbo due to expired licences
Lack of action on 14 expired coal seam gas exploration licences now an election issue for uncertain communities
The New South Wales government has failed to close a loophole that effectively allows expired coal seam gas exploration licences to be extended indefinitely, despite calls from rural communities for certainty ahead of the state election.
More than a dozen licences, mostly in the state’s north-west, have remained active past their expiration dates while the government assesses renewal applications from gas companies. In some cases, those applications have been held up in the system for years.
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European satellite captures Nasa Mars lander from orbit
Business Development & Sourcing Manager (South East Asia), First Climate Markets – Thailand/Malaysia/Singapore
Spring Statement: Cambridge data team gets £45m boost
Study reveals the wolf within your pet dog
Youth climate strikes to take place in more than 100 countries
Movement inspired by Greta Thunberg has snowballed, as Belgian workers join strike
Hundreds of thousands of children are expected to walk out of their classrooms on Friday for a global climate strike amid growing anger at the failure of politicians to tackle the escalating ecological crisis.
Children at tens of thousands of schools in more than 100 countries are due to take part in the walkouts which began last year when one teenager – Greta Thunberg – held a solo protest outside the Swedish parliament.
Continue reading...Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for climate activism
Carbon Market Analyst, International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) – Berlin
Comic Relief: School shuns red nose plastic because of pollution fears
NT councils offered grants to install solar, batteries, EV chargers
Northern Territory Labor government opens $2m grant scheme to help make councils more energy efficient and reduce costs to consumers and taxpayers.
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007 goes electric with Aston Martin Rapide E
James Bond makes the move to all-electric mobility with a luxury, limited edition Aston Martin Rapide E.
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Mercedes begins “massive EV onslaught” with all-electric SUV reveal in Melbourne
"Electric now has a Mercedes!" German car-maker gives Australian customers sneak peek – and test drive – of its first all-electric crossover, the "family size" EQC SUV.
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RWE moves ahead on hedging, as emissions fall 10.5% in 2018
EU carbon prices to top €30 in second half of 2019, say analysts
Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel peace prize
Climate strike founder shortlisted ahead of global strikes planned in more than 105 countries
Greta Thunberg, the founder of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, just before the biggest day yet of global action.
Thunberg began a solo protest in Sweden in August but has since inspired students around the globe. Strikes are expected in 1,659 towns and cities in 105 countries on Friday, involving hundreds of thousands of young people.
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