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The election showed Australia's huge appetite for stronger climate action. What levers can the new government pull?
A letter to incoming minister for climate change, Chris Bowen
Australia can become a global clean energy superpower with a modern and prosperous economy powered by reliable, low-cost, clean energy.
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Offshore wind farm balancing German power grid in green energy “milestone”
Offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations.
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AU Market: ACCU prices jump by 20% on Labor victory
Greens power play: New parliament to be a leadership test for Adam Bandt
The Greens celebrate best ever federal election result, and a win for climate action. But the next three years will be a leadership test for Adam Bandt.
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Carbon Farming Project Manager (Sourcing), Climate Friendly – Brisbane
Originator, brokers, analyst (multiple roles), Carbon Market Solutions – New Zealand
Canberra turns over a new leaf: autumn hues in the capital – in pictures
It’s that time of year in Australia’s capital when a chill hangs in the air, wooly jumpers come out of the wardrobe and deciduous trees put on their annual colour show. Photographer Mike Bowers documents the change of season in Canberra
Continue reading...Why is climate 'doomism' going viral – and how do you fight it?
Five multinationals join facility aiming to buy 1 mln carbon removals credits by 2030
Police warn against vigilante action against duckling hit-and-run driver
Driver’s details shared on social media after allegedly running over ducklings at roundabout as other drivers waited for them to cross
Police have urged the public against any vigilante actions after the registration of a driver who allegedly ran over a brood of ducklings was published online.
Staffordshire police confirmed it is investigating a Facebook post which claimed that at least three ducklings were killed on Friday at a roundabout in Trentham near Stoke-on-Trent. The post claimed they were killed by the driver of a white transit van who allegedly ignored other drivers who were waiting for the ducks to cross the road.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on swallows and swifts: nature’s messengers | Editorial
Migrant birds carry information around the globe. When their arrival is delayed, we should worry
Swifts are back in UK skies, putting an end to the annual hiatus when nature seems to hold its breath, awaiting successive waves of migrant birds whose twittering is the soundscape of summer. But these are worrying times. The swift has joined that traditional herald of summer, the cuckoo, on the RSPB’s latest red list of endangered species, following a 58% fall in their numbers since 1995.
Billions of birds are disappearing, according to a report released this month. “Birds truly are the canary in the coalmine as indicators for the health of our planet, given their sensitivity to ecosystem changes, their ubiquity around the planet, and how well studied they are,” said Patricia Zurita, of BirdLife International.
Continue reading...This ‘super reserve’ is not just for the birds. It could change the landscape of Britain | Stephen Moss
The creation of a “super nature reserve” in Somerset is a gamechanger for wildlife conservation. But the real question is: what happens next?
“Build it, and they will come”, to paraphrase the 1980s feelgood movie Field of Dreams. And they have. Since former peat diggings were transformed into the Avalon Marshes 30 years ago, a host of new species have colonised these watery flatlands. Cranes, bitterns, spoonbills, glossy ibises and three kinds of elegant, snow-white egrets – little, cattle and great white – are now a regular sight here.
Continue reading...Cannon-Brookes says election shows AGL coal plans untenable, as Forrest lays into Coalition
Billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andre Forrest seize on climate driven poll results to push case for rapid green energy transition.
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Labor claims victory in Australia’s climate election, ACCU market set to be transformed
The teals and Greens will turn up the heat on Labor's climate policy. Here's what to expect
Future foods: What you could be eating by 2050
Meet the plant detective helping gardeners and fighting crime
Cataloguing biodiversity is just one part of the job for the scientists at the National Herbarium of NSW, whose forensic skills are putting Australia’s plants under the microscope
Every morning a pile of envelopes full of promise and possibility lands on Andrew Orme’s desk.
In his case, promise and possibility means unidentified organic material waiting to be inspected, identified and preserved for the future.
Continue reading...New Zealand’s promised action on climate is nothing more than a tottering baby’s first steps | Sue Bradford
Instead of taking on vested interests in the agriculture and corporate sectors, the government continues to take the line of least resistance
On the campaign trail during New Zealand’s 2017 election, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern talked about climate change as her generation’s “nuclear-free” moment. She went on to become prime minister, taking Labour to a second-term victory in 2020 with an outright majority, unusual in New Zealand’s proportional representation system.
Her preface to this week’s budget talks about “making investments to secure our future” and says it “makes the greatest strides in climate action by any government to date”.
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