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Backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Andrew Forrest, approved iron air battery is one of two set to replace retiring coal power plants.

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There’s more than one factor at work as our warming planet kicks into overdrive.

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Humans must kill animals in many cases, but they can still modify their behaviours to improve the welfare of animals while they are alive. Benjamin Allen, Wildlife ecologist, University of Southern Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Siemens woes deepen with another big blade failure. At least two Australian wind farm projects are considering models from the same series.

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Scientists are concerned about the environmental impact if commercial deep sea mining begins.

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An Australian bank has made an equity investment in a local carbon and natural capital investor as part of a successful A$220 million ($147 mln) Series A capital raising, it announced Monday.

A Belarusian group, through former South African President Jacob Zuma, has donated 2 million questionable carbon credits towards Zimbabwe’s nascent emissions trading efforts.

Malawi has ordered a review of all carbon projects in the country, making it the latest African nation to seek more control and possibly a greater share of voluntary credit sale revenues.

Carbon trading scheme for aviation fuel proposed to help Australia meet 70 per cent emissions cuts by 2035.

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Earth draws parallels between human impact on climate and volcanic eruptions that ripped through planet’s crust 250 million years ago

The “terror factor” generated by the new BBC series Earth – which re-creates a climate change event that wiped out most species 250 million years ago – could help “spur us on to do something” about the environment crisis, according to its presenter, Chris Packham.

Using the latest scientific discoveries and visual effects, the BBC’s “biography of Earth” shows the parallels between a deadly change in the atmosphere caused by a series of cataclysmic supervolcano eruptions millions of years ago and mankind’s fossil fuel emissions, which Packham explains are “destabilising … with terrifying rapidity” Earth’s protective layer of gases.

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Scheme aims to raise standard of insulation in 19m of the UK’s leakiest homes

Labour has said that job opportunities for almost 4 million workers would be created under its plan to bring 19m of the UK’s leakiest homes up to an acceptable standard of insulation.

While it has previously said that the plan would reduce annual household energy bills by up to £500, the party has set out details of what it said would be a major expansion of the retrofitting workforce.

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Many hoped the economic recovery from COVID would steer global development towards a greener footing. But CO₂ emissions from China, the world’s biggest emitter, are worse than before the pandemic. David Stern, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Khalid Ahmed, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Group thanks woman who threw confetti at former chancellor’s wedding but urges people to focus on ‘out of control’ global heating

Just Stop Oil has applauded a woman who threw orange confetti at the wedding of the ex-chancellor George Osborne but denied that it, as a campaign group, was responsible.

The protest took place as Osborne and his bride Thea Rogers left a church in the village of Bruton, Somerset on Saturday.

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Majority of Australia's energy minister reject proposal from the ACT to use the term fossil gas rather than "natural gas" favoured by the fossil fuel industry.

The post Fossil gas: Labor energy ministers reject proposal to rename “natural” gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plastics consumed nationally in 2019-20 created 16m tonnes of greenhouse gases, report says

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The plastics consumed yearly by Australians have a greenhouse emissions impact equivalent to 5.7m cars – more than a third of the cars on Australia’s roads, new analysis suggests.

A report commissioned by the Australian Marine Conservation Society and WWF Australia has found that the plastics consumed nationally in the 2019-20 financial year created 16m tonnes of greenhouse gases.

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Australia should cut GHG emissions by “well above 70%” by 2035 compared to 2005 levels, according to an industry body’s submission to the Climate Change Authority.

A protester from the environmental group Just Stop Oil disrupted the wedding of the former chancellor George Osborne on Saturday. Footage showed the protester throwing orange confetti over Osborne and his wife, Thea Rogers, as they walked out of St Mary's Church in the Somerset village of Bruton. The protester followed the couple and continued to empty the confetti from a union jack bag over them until she was chased away by a security guard. About 200 people, including well-known politicians and journalists, were attending the wedding

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Governments focus on the climate when they have few other economic worries. That can no longer be the case

First it was the pandemic. Then it was the war in Ukraine. Next it could be the climate crisis.

On Monday last week the world registered its hottest-ever day but the record lasted only 24 hours before it was beaten by an even-more sizzling Tuesday. And while the temperature continues to warm up the global economy continues to cool down.

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Tory mismanagement of public finances will make the party’s task difficult if it wins power, and that is why we won’t pledge what we can’t deliver on

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Friday in my constituency summed up for me the state of our country. Local headteachers I respect and admire were in tears as they described the challenges they are grappling with. The owner of a popular local chippy showed me his energy bill, up from £5,000 a quarter to £11,000, as he shared his fears for his business. A parent showed me a photo of his straight-A son beaten black and blue in the middle of his GCSEs and shared his frustration that he has put more work into the investigation than the police.

People are increasingly looking to Labour to get Britain out of this mess. Last week Keir Starmer set out the fifth of Labour’s five missions for government: to smash the class ceiling that holds back kids from working-class backgrounds like mine. Taken together with our ambition to build an NHS fit for the future out of the ashes of the worst crisis in its history, to make our streets safe, to deliver clean power by 2030 and to get our economy racing ahead of the world, with the benefits shared so that we’re all better off, Keir’s missions amount to an ambitious vision of what our country can look like in the 2030s.

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