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Let’s be honest: Australia’s claim to have cut climate pollution isn’t as good as it seems | Adam Morton
Take renewable energy out of the equation and there isn’t much else expected to reduce fossil fuel use this side of 2030
Australia has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions – a bigger problem than the political debate concedes.
Late last week, as Australians endured record August warmth and global heating-fuelled extreme rain, the federal government released data that suggest heat-trapping gases across most of the economy are currently headed in the wrong direction or yet to budge much from historic highs.
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Nice auction, but Ed Miliband is still a long way from his 2030 targets for offshore wind | Nils Pratley
Arithmetic over capacity does not add up, with supply chains a constraining factor
It was a “record-setting auction” and “a significant step forward in our mission for clean power for 2030”, trumpeted the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, enjoying the contrast with last year’s auction flop under the Tories in which precisely zero bids were received to build offshore windfarms.
Miliband was claiming credit when it wasn’t entirely due, of course, because this year’s competition was designed well before the general election. Some version of success was guaranteed from the moment the last government said it was prepared to pay up to £73 a megawatt hour (in 2012 prices, confusingly) for offshore wind, a mighty leap from the £44 level that produced no takers in 2023. At the higher level of incentive, developers were bound to come out to play again.
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UK acknowledges flagship carbon capture programme faces challenges staying on track
VCM Report: Signs of life emerge but voluntary carbon market still yet to spark
Spain’s Ribera seen as most likely pick for EU climate chief
Longship carbon capture project near-complete, on track for 2025 start, confirms Norwegian oil minister
Biofuels need to be diverted and power ramped up to decarbonise EU aviation, says think tank
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Dutch direct air capture startup raises €15 mln in Series A funding
UK renewables auction blows new life into offshore wind developments
Two blockchain platforms link up to offer voluntary carbon credit lifecycle services
PCX Markets reports 100,000 tonnes of plastic waste diverted through credits
UK carbon removal intermediary secures agreement to sell Bolivian biochar credits
Pakistan’s Sindh province to generate millions of voluntary carbon credits through reforestation projects
COP29 host launches support platform to aid developing nations submit climate reports
UK govt sells first statutory biodiversity credits
England’s nature-friendly farming budget to be cut by £100m
Exclusive: Cut would mean at least 239,000 fewer hectares of nature-friendly farmland, according to RSPB
The government is to slash the nature-friendly farming budget in England by £100m in order to help fill what ministers say is a £22bn Treasury shortfall, the Guardian can reveal.
Nature groups and farmers have called this a “big mistake”, saying it jeopardised the government’s legally binding targets to improve nature.
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