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A new flexible methodology in Australia’s carbon market expected to attract more landholders to start projects and with the potential to scale up offset supply significantly is likely ready for implementation around February next year, according to its developer.

Australian vanadium flow battery maker signs MoU with Sydney-based firm to develop grid-scale opportunities for its long-duration storage technology.

The post Australian vanadium battery technology gets fresh shot at long duration game appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Policy failure and lack of enforcement have left Britain’s waterways and farmland vulnerable to ‘forever chemicals’

We have recently woken up to a disgusting issue. Rather than investing properly in new sewage treatment works, water companies in the UK – since they were privatised in 1989 – have handed £72 bn in dividends to their shareholders. Our sewerage system is antiquated and undersized, and routinely bypassed altogether, as companies allow raw human excrement to pour directly into our rivers. They have reduced some of them to stinking, almost lifeless drains.

This is what you get from years of policy failure and the near-collapse of monitoring and enforcement by successive governments. Untreated sewage not only loads our rivers with excessive nutrients, but it’s also the major source of the microplastics that now pollute them. It contains a wide range of other toxins, including PFASs: the “forever chemicals” that were the subject of the movie Dark Waters. This may explain the recent apparent decline in otter populations: after recovering from the organochlorine pesticides used in the 20th century, they are now being hit by new pollutants.

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Campaigners report incidents of the cruel practice on several certified boats, amid allegations of a flawed auditing system

The Marine Stewardship Council, which certifies fisheries under its blue tick sustainability label, has ordered an independent investigation into allegations of shark finning on tuna vessels in certified Pacific fisheries.

Shark finning is the cruel practice of removing fins from live sharks. A report by the UK charity Shark Guardian with CNS Global Consulting, a sustainable development consultancy, has alleged it took place on board three vessels operating in the western central Pacific that were certified by the MSC, which runs the world’s largest fishery certification programme.

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Five projects to receive funding from Defra and Natural England to tackle wildlife loss and improve access to nature

Up to 99,000 hectares of land in England, from city fringes to wetlands, will be focused on supporting wildlife in five major “nature recovery” projects, the government has said.

The five landscape-scale projects in the West Midlands, Cambridgeshire, the Peak District, Norfolk and Somerset aim to help tackle wildlife loss and the climate crisis, and improve public access to nature.

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Celebrations as Coalition policy bollards swept away, but what does this really mean for the solar industry?

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: What the election result means for solar industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Victoria parliamentary report says Victoria has sufficient resources to go 100 per cent renewables, and the government is being urged to do this by 2030.

The post Victoria urged to aim for 100 pct renewables by 2030 after parliamentary report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Incoming energy minister Chris Bowen says electricity price increases are the legacy of Morrison's energy policy failures.

The post Morrison’s “legacy” is higher power prices: Bowen pins price spike on Coalition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The European Commission’s plan to bring roughly 200-250 million EUAs out of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) and auction them to raise €20 billion to fund the bloc’s shift away from Russian energy has jolted the EU ETS, igniting “trust” concerns by market participants who liken the move to Brussels raising the EU's climate cookie jar.

Work is underway on a potential 400MWh big battery energy storage system being built alongside biggest solar PV project in Australia.

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Queensland - home to most of the LNP climate deniers and technology troglodytes - is paying the very high price of fossil fuel dependence.

The post How expensive coal and gas blew up the Queensland electricity market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first use of Asparigopsis – a type of seaweed endemic to Australia – to reduce methane emissions in livestock could occur in a matter of months, however it may be some time before farmers can begin generating Australian Carbon Credits Units (ACCUs) for it.

DNA from ancient eastern moa bones is unlocking the secrets of their survival during the last ice age, and providing lessons for today’s threatened species. Nic Rawlence, Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Alexander Verry, Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier Kieren Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

MPs say the amount of demolition and rebuilding must be reduced as it adds to the emissions driving climate change.

Carbon offset project originator and portfolio management firm Viridios Capital has filled three senior positions for the Asia-Pacific region.

Barnaby Joyce ponders ditching net zero, while Matt Canavan’s claim the climate goal is ‘a failed agenda’ globally dismissed as ‘laughably untrue’

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The Coalition is picking through the entrails, scouring the wreckage and sifting through whatever other analogies we might have missed as it works out how it lost the election.

In postmortem interviews, the Liberals and Nationals are debating what they should do differently on the core issue of the climate crisis after a wave of seats to pro-climate Greens, independents and a Labor party with bolder climate targets.

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Scientists warn that 24 of Britain's butterfly species are in danger of dying out.

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