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Bowen plays down power price fears, fans flames of hope and hype from gas lobby

RenewEconomy - Tue, 2023-03-14 14:00

Federal energy minister seeks to downplay power price fears, and provides some nuggets to feed the gas industry chooks.

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Remote renewable hydrogen project reaches critical milestone with water supply deal

RenewEconomy - Tue, 2023-03-14 13:59

WA renewable hydrogen project reaches critical milestone, securing more than its needed supply of water for stage one of the project.

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EnergyAustralia finds smarter platform for zero down home solar and battery offering

RenewEconomy - Tue, 2023-03-14 13:15

EnergyAustralia shifts to a new, more future focused billing and data platform for its zero upfront cost solar and battery offering, Solar Home Bundle.

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Another big battery wanted to help replace Australia’s biggest coal generator

RenewEconomy - Tue, 2023-03-14 13:14

NSW is launching a new tender - likely for a big battery - focused on the "firming" gap created by the planned retirement of Australia's biggest coal generator.

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Ruthless Chris Hipkins backpedals on climate action as New Zealand elections near | Henry Cooke

The Guardian - Tue, 2023-03-14 11:38

Jacinda Ardern called climate change the ‘nuclear-free moment’ of her generation. Her replacement doesn’t seem so sure

Chris Hipkins loves to cycle.

New Zealand’s newish prime minister, who stepped into the job after Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation earlier this year, has been pedalling the 30km from his home in Upper Hutt to parliament for years. It’s not a particularly safe route, with many sections where Hipkins would be riding right alongside 100kmh traffic. It’s this kind of danger that stops cycle commuting from being particularly mainstream – just 2% commuted by bike at the last census – but this is far from a political priority for Hipkins. He loves to cycle, but the main thing he wants to do is win.

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UK swan conservation success gives cause for hope

BBC - Tue, 2023-03-14 10:44
Numbers of migratory swans are on the rise, giving hope that declines in nature can be reversed.
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Turkey earthquake: UK team to assess building damage

BBC - Tue, 2023-03-14 10:22
They are carrying out detailed assessments of why so many buildings collapsed.
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Thousands of our native plants have no public photographs available. Here's why that matters

The Conversation - Tue, 2023-03-14 09:49
Almost 4,000 Australian plant species have never been photographed in the field, particularly in remote corners of the country. Without a proper record, they could die out without us even knowing. Thomas Mesaglio, PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney Hervé Sauquet, Senior Research Scientist, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Will Cornwell, Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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New carbon accounting tool takes aim at elusive Scope 3 emissions

RenewEconomy - Tue, 2023-03-14 09:01

Australia's emissions jumped higher in 2021, despite strong growth in renewables.Australian carbon accounting outfit teams with Schneider Electric to create software that allows businesses to track their full carbon footprint.

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Soil carbon credit platform receives $16 mln from French hedge fund

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 06:59
A Paris-based hedge fund on Monday announced an equity investment into a new platform that will generate carbon removal credits from soil-based climate practices.
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RGGI Market: RGAs recover after touching 6-mth low in wake of US bank collapse, weak auction

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 06:10
RGGI Allowance (RGA) values held steady over the majority of the week and immediately after member states published the March auction result, but briefly collapsed to near six-month lows on Monday as traders went risk-off following the recent collapse of two US-based financial institutions.
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If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages as climate chaos intensifies

The Conversation - Tue, 2023-03-14 05:04
Growing meat in vats could help us prepare for climate change - and curb the environmental damage done by traditional meat. But only if we can scale it up. Bianca Le, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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VCM Report: Prices edge lower amid thin liquidity

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 04:24
Standardised and over-the-counter offset prices generally edged lower over the past week to extend a trend amid a continued dearth of activity in the market, and a continued build-up of surplus credits.
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Brussels shuffles timings in packed week of EU climate-related proposals

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 03:35
The European Commission has brought forward plans to present the its revised Electricity Market Reform to proposal to Tuesday, according to a Commission spokesperson on Monday, a date two days earlier than previously had been foreseen. 
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Willow Project: US government approves Alaska oil and gas development

BBC - Tue, 2023-03-14 03:13
President Biden approves an $8bn oil drilling project, in a move that has angered climate activists.
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COMMENT: The need for clarity around corporate climate claims: a review of the defining elements of corporate climate claims

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 03:00
While public, private, and hybrid efforts are emerging that seek to better govern climate-related claims, currently the engagement of companies in voluntary carbon markets is greatly hampered by the lack of understanding and clarity around the types of claims that can be accurately and credibly made when integrating carbon credits into corporate climate strategies. A recently published academic paper seeks to review and define the core elements of such claims.
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Plans by Westminster to block Scottish bottle deposit scheme a ‘travesty’

The Guardian - Tue, 2023-03-14 01:58

Environmental campaigners furious Alister Jack intends to deny trade exemption for bottle recycling proposals

Blocking the Scottish deposit return scheme for bottles would be an environmental travesty, campaigners have said, in a growing backlash to the UK government plans to undermine the project.

The charity City to Sea, which has been pushing for a deposit return scheme (DRS) to tackle plastic pollution, said the UK government could have avoided the clash with Scotland by working with the devolved countries to deliver a unified deposit scheme years ago. Instead Westminster had repeatedly delayed its own deposit scheme, which was only coming into force in 2025 – seven years after it was first promised by ministers.

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Coal burn in Turkey hits record high as Ankara turns to Russia for imports

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2023-03-14 01:00
Annual coal burn in Turkey jumped 10% year-on-year in 2022 to hit a new annual record, according to generation data published Monday by an environmental think-tank, with Russian exports to the country surging last year even as prices shot up.
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UK river levels already at record lows forecast to be ‘devastated’ by dry spring

The Guardian - Tue, 2023-03-14 00:00

Campaigners warn that government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies

River levels across the UK have been at record lows and are likely to be “devastated”, as new data forecasts broadly dry weather until at least May.

Campaigners have warned that the government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies by building reservoirs and fixing leaks, as months of low rainfall could cause some areas to run out of water.

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I’ve watched the Murray-Darling for 30 years and I’ve never seen carp numbers like this

The Guardian - Tue, 2023-03-14 00:00

The great flood of late 2022 changed the ecology of the basin’s rivers, and not in a good way

As a fish ecologist who lives on the northern shoreline of Lake Cargelligo in western New South Wales, I’ve been fortunate to have had a front-row seat to the ever-changing drama of all aspects of the Murray-Darling Basin over the last 30 years.

It’s never been more dramatic than this past spring and summer.

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