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Thailand’s opposition party is looking to form a coalition government after the weekend’s snap election, promising to introduce a raft of green policies including a cap-and-trade emissions scheme and the phase-out of all coal-fired power stations by 2035.

Bowen says green hydrogen support just the start as he compares Australian reliance on coal and gas in the future to the collapse of Kodak.

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Class action suit alleged commonwealth did not adequately prevent toxic chemicals from firefighting foam contaminating soil and groundwater

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Thousands of landowners around Australia whose properties were contaminated by PFAS – toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals” – due to the use of firefighting foam on air force bases have secured a multimillion-dollar payout.

The settlement announced in the federal court on Monday still requires final approval from a judge.

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Gerry Swiegers will take $3.7 million back to the lab to further improve the hydrogen tech he spun out into Vestas-backed Hysata.

The post Hysata gets new funds for “high efficiency” green hydrogen electrolyser technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WA's main grid enters the big battery era with the official launch of its first battery, to be quickly followed by two even bigger storage projects.

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Two Australian agricultural tech companies are partnering to use 3D-modelling they say will increase transparency in the country’s carbon market, they announced Monday.

The problem of net negative load during the day and steeper evening ramps is becoming stark in California. More storage is needed,

The post California duck curve now a canyon as grid load vanishes in the midday sun appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Funding decisions under the federal program were largely driven by simplistic considerations, such as the cost of each tree, rather than benefits to threatened species. Jayden Engert, PhD Candidate, James Cook University Susan Laurance, Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Britain says it has no need for Biden-style green subsidies as it has a thriving renewables sector. The complacency is staggering

Countries that are serious about manufacturing have industrial strategies. The US and China have one. So do Germany and France.

Britain does not have an industrial strategy. Rishi Sunak talks about turning the UK into a “science and technology superpower” but that’s all it is: talk. It is a PR strategy masquerading as an industrial strategy.

It is no surprise that AstraZeneca recently announced it was building its new factory in Ireland.

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The eco-minded king’s silence about the detention of climate activists at his coronation speaks volumes about his convictions

As a boy, in 1977, I made a stupid monkey face at Queen Elizabeth II as she drove past us in Solihull’s Mell Square on her silver jubilee perambulations. “You aren’t funny, Stewart,” my gran said of the subsequent photograph, unaware that I would one day be declared “the world’s greatest living standup comedian” (the Times).

But like Nick Cave ™ ®, whose best work we now realise was a glorious mistake made while smacked out of his brain in a baby’s nappy, I too was moved by the brown tide of history that flowed over the Queen’s funeral; I enjoyed the warm congratulations of Princess Michael of Kent at the 1984 National Lifesaving Championships in Coventry, where she clearly enjoyed watching my lithe teenage body repeatedly rescued as a volunteer corpse; and a minor royal recently attended one of my performances, where he was pleasant and polite when getting me to sign a DVD afterwards, despite having witnessed his relatives being ridiculed. They’re not so bad, I thought.

Basic Lee is on tour, including six dates at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in June and July, and a fun-size ™ ® version of the show at the Stand’s New Town theatre, Edinburgh, 11-20 August

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Abusive, often violent tweets denying the climate emergency have become a barrage since Elon Musk acquired the platform, say UK experts

Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year.

Since then, key figures who ensured “trusted” content was prioritised have been sacked, according to one scientist, and Twitter’s sustainability arm has vanished. At the same time several users with millions of followers who propagate false statements about the climate emergency, including Donald Trump and rightwing culture warrior Jordan Peterson, have had their accounts reinstated.

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Tanzania has opened discussions with the private sector about developing its forest carbon market, but questions have arisen surrounding one of the foreign companies involved.

Exclusive: Campaigners call for Scottish-style rights to reach nature, as figures show ‘hugely unequal’ distribution of access

People have no right to roam at all in 92 constituencies across England, new data shows, as campaigners call for an outdoor access code to link people to nature.

Next week, MPs will debate the “right to roam”, namely the ability to legally and responsibly walk through the countryside, leaving no trace behind. Currently, just 8% of England has this designation, which covers coastal paths, mountains and moorland.

Penrith and the Border (111,370)
MP: Neil Hudson, Conservative

Hexham (97,495)
MP: Guy Opperman, Conservative

Skipton and Ripon (76,028)
MP: Julian Smith, Conservative

Richmond (Yorks) (62,4935)
MP: Rishi Sunak, Conservative

Copeland (54,787)
MP: Trudy Harrison, Conservative

Westmorland and Lonsdale (48,4135)
MP: Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat

Berwick-upon-Tweed (43,663)
MP: Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative

Bishop Auckland (34,918)
MP: Dehenna Davison, Conservative

Torridge and West Devon (30,295)
MP: Geoffrey Cox, Conservative

North West Durham (26,599)
MP: Richard Holden, Conservative

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More than 3% of eligible installations and airlines covered by the EU and/or Swiss carbon markets remain in non-compliance, according to data published by the European Commission last week.

Financial entities sold off a significant chunk of their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length this week as they continued to pare down in RGGI, while compliance players continued to shed holdings across the board, data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

US President Joe Biden's administration aims to expand its support for carbon removals beyond direct air capture by launching a purchasing programme covering all forms of removals by year-end, a government official told a conference this week, as a bipartisan group of senators on Friday released a bill to support such solutions through a reverse auction. 

A Montreal-based soil science firm this week announced it has netted C$15 mln ($11 mln) from investors to expand its technology that it says will help establish a reliable method to verify nature-based carbon credits.

A summary of legislative, regulatory, and policy action on carbon, clean fuel standard, and clean energy markets at the US federal and subnational levels this week, including the updated status of several carbon market and climate-related California bills, and the Vermont legislature overriding a veto of a bill to draft clean heat standard regulations.