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Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production

Billion-dollar financing is driving unsustainable increases in global meat and dairy production, a report has found.

Global meat production rose 9% between 2015 and 2021, the report said, while dairy production increased 13% in that time.

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Scarcity isn't driving prices for battery sites, but landowners with solar farm leases are enjoying multi-million annuities.

The post Best battery storage sites going quickly, and some lucky landowners are cashing in appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The biggest utilities and the biggest energy consumers say they don't want nuclear. So who does the Coalition expect to pay for it?

The post “Prohibitive:” Australia’s biggest energy consumers and producers say no to nuclear, but is Coalition listening? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Wind, water and solar produce more than state demand in California, the world's fifth biggest economy, in nine out of last 10 days.

The post Chart of the Day: California surges beyond 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Holders of J-Credits from five projects registered under the scheme have been asked to not carry out any trades until faulty information in the scheme’s registry regarding their projects have been corrected.

The Australian government is likely to delay the Integrated Farm Land Management method, according to market sources, with potential alternatives to be considered as several outstanding issues remaining.

In the 19th century, the world ran on steam. In the 21st century, little has changed. Every thermal power plant still relies on steam as a final stage. Andreas Helwig, Associate Professor, Electro-Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ballarat looks at creating its own behind-the-meter network, as it pushes towards its target of 100 per cent renewables.

The post Ballarat mulls city-wide behind the meter network in push for 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Pressure mounts on federal Labor to underwrite rooftop solar, home batteries and electrification amid concerns a growing energy divide is being "weaponised" to delay climate action.

The post “People Power” plan gains support as a budget must – and a bridge over the energy divide appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greenpeace could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing deep-sea mining for obstructing a research expedition.

The NZU market has seen a ramp up in activity over the last week in anticipation of Wednesday’s ETS auction, as participants expect it to clear.  

The spending watchdog says the costs remain too high and public awareness of the technology remains low.

Norman Crowley, founder and chair of the emissions-busting CoolPlanet Group, is visiting Australia to recruit like-minded partners to his mission.

The post “Decarb army” targets self driving electric utes, heat pumps and saving energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The amount of detailed real-time data a smart grid needs to manage the push for electrification and renewables presents challenges – but there’s an affordable solution. Ali Pourmousavi Kani, Senior Lecturer of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide Rui Yuan, Industry PhD Candidate, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

What better way to test if Australians are up for nuclear energy than by asking them: Do you support removing the current ban? Would you support a reactor in your area?

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When the Coalition was paralysed by whether or not to legislate marriage equality, it turned to the wisdom of the people.

The plebiscite was divisive, an obstacle to marriage equality which could have been dealt with by a free parliamentary vote, and which many queer people felt was a referendum on their dignity.

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An expert says the latest flare-up on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is the most powerful so far.

Blockades at facilities in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, with protests in Scotland and action expected in Denmark

Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest.

Blockades have been taking place at oil and gas terminals, refineries and ports in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, in protest at the continued exploitation of North Sea fossil fuel deposits.

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Researchers found that the Victorians brought so many seeds and saplings to Britain that the trees now outnumber those in their US homeland

Three redwoods tower over Wakehurst’s Elizabethan mansion like skyscrapers. Yet at 40 metres (131ft) high, these are almost saplings – not even 150 years old and already almost twice as high as Cleopatra’s Needle.

“At the moment they’re some of the tallest trees in the UK and they are starting to poke above the forest canopy. But if they grow to their full potential, they’re going to be three times taller than most trees,” says Dr Phil Wilkes, part of the research team at Wakehurst, in West Sussex, an outpost of Kew Gardens. One or two of these California imports would be curiosities, such as the 100-metre high redwood that was stripped of its bark in 1854 and exhibited to Victorian crowds at the Crystal Palace in south-east London, until it was destroyed by fire in 1866.

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GPs with convictions over protests face tribunals to determine whether they can keep licence to practise

Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in 2019 inspired her and her husband to go further. “We thought: well, if we don’t do it then who else is going to?”

While working as a GP near Birmingham, Benn became increasingly involved in direct action over the next few years, and once glued her hand to the door of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in protest at the government’s inaction on the climate.

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The capacity of household batteries in Germany has reached 6 GW, about equal to the country's pumped hydro capacity.

The post Home battery capacity equals that of pumped hydro in Germany appeared first on RenewEconomy.