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Marginal loss factor rules undermining urgent renewables growth, investors warn
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Solar Sunshot “common sense policy,” says Combet, as critics take aim
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SwitchedOn Podcast: Australia has a heat pump problem
Why Australia is at risk of being flooded by cheap, inefficient, 'faux' hot water heat pumps.
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Hundreds of animals were rescued after the Black Summer bushfires – but how many actually survived?
Wind farm proposed near coal plant embroiled in CCS controversy
Plans unveiled to build 300MW wind farm next to coal plant in south-west Queensland.
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Giant solar project in limbo as Forrest misses another deadline on key green hydrogen project
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Carbon developer and registry partner for orphaned well protocol
Investment funds open new California cap-and-trade accounts in Q1
Emitters and speculators widen net length in most North American carbon markets
Pre-print study highlights inadequacy of forest buffer pools in voluntary carbon offset protocols
NZ signals next climate, ETS policy steps in economy “action plan”
RGGI Market: RGAs set new records as sellers wait to secure higher profits
Washington Clean Fuel Standard ramps up credit surplus in Q3
Victoria weather: storms, flood rescues and hundreds of reports of building damage
Woman has a narrow escape after falling into a flooded drain in Daylesford, as central Victoria and western Melbourne hit by flooding and building damage
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Victoria’s emergency services fielded almost 500 requests for help as thunderstorms, damaging winds and heavy rain pummelled Melbourne’s western suburbs and the centre and east of the state.
There were close to 250 reports of building damage and 110 food-related incidents across the state in the 24 hours to 7am, the State Emergency Service said.
Continue reading...Australia’s most successful renewable and storage developer seeks buyer in biggest asset sale
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Pennsylvania House GOP unveils energy counterproposal to Shapiro’s cap-and-trade
Myrtle rust is lethal to Australian plants. Could citizen scientists help track its spread?
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EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants
CAP scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, drives ‘perverse outcomes for a food transition’, says study
The EU has made polluting diets “artificially cheap” by pumping four times more money into farming animals than growing plants, research has found.
More than 80% of the public money given to farmers through the EU’s common agriculture policy (CAP) went to animal products in 2013 despite the damage they do to society, according to a study in Nature Food. Factoring in animal feed doubled the subsidies that were embodied in a kilogram of beef, the meat with the biggest environmental footprint, from €0.71 to €1.42 (61p to £1.22).
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