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EU Commission study proposes to add ecosystems’ economic value to GDP accounting
Swedes urge major rethink of EU green claims law to spur carbon removals
Irish forestry group to pilot biodiversity monitoring for corporate disclosures
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Australia’s major retirement funds remain too committed to fossil fuel-weighted investment -report
A sixth of Malaysian rainforest seen to be under threat from deforestation
US university partners with satellite monitoring start-up to scale up sustainable rice growing practices through carbon credits
Eraring deal: A smarter way to keep prices down would be to build more wind and solar
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Ealing beavers: Dams, canals - and perhaps babies
Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in PNG – but it’s not a silver bullet
German energy giant presses go on Australia’s first eight-hour big battery
Green light given for Australia's first eight-hour big battery, with Tesla to supply the technology.
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Changing native vegetation laws to allow burning on private land is good fire management
Symmetry and simplicity lost as networks impose “sun tax” on solar exports
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No Tory MPs voted positively on climate issues since party took power, study finds
Labour and Liberal Democrats dominated list of MPs who were rated as very good in backing environmental policies
No elected Tory MPs have been rated as voting positively on climate issues, under a survey of parliamentary voting patterns since the Conservatives took power in 2010.
Only a single sitting Conservative was rated as “good” on climate votes in the ranking, but that was Lisa Cameron, the MP for East Kilbride, who defected from the Scottish National Party in October.
Continue reading...Clean steam age: Solar thermal can be an economic lifeline for coal and gas regions
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Rethinking roads as public spaces – what NZ cities can learn from Barcelona’s ‘superblock’ urban design
Tasmania launches consultation on state’s first REZ in “windy north west”
Tasmania launches six weeks of consultation on the final design of its first renewable energy zone.
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Salmon v skate: environmentalists take fish fight to Tanya Plibersek’s door
Campaigners urge Australians not to buy Tasmanian farmed salmon to avoid ‘extinction event’ for Maugean skate
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Campaigners working to save the critically endangered Maugean skate – a ray-like fish species found only on Tasmania’s west coast – have brought the battle to the door of the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, in inner-city Sydney.
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