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South Africa maps out proposed annual carbon tax increases through 2030
South Australia’s biggest renewables hub lands a second power offtake deal
The stage one wind farm of Neoen's massive Goyder Renewables Zone has notched up its second power purchase deal, this time with Flow Power.
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New Zealand is touting a green hydrogen economy, but it will face big environmental and cultural hurdles
Countryside crime rise linked to cost-of-living crisis
Mechanical failure causes blade to fall off wind turbine in Boston
A blade has fallen off a wind turbine at an Industrial Park in Massachusetts, US – the latest in a spate of incidents at wind farms.
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NT trials territory’s first hydrogen energy storage system
The Northern Territory is rolling out its first hydrogen energy storage system, with 8kWh of storage, in partnership with the Charles Darwin University.
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“Breakthrough:” Bluescope, Vestas back $42.5m raising for Australian hydrogen start-up
Hysata, an Australian start-up claiming the world's most efficient and lowest cost green hydrogen electrolyser, raises $42.5 million for its first pilot plant.
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Top California LCFS credit holder stops 3-yr skid in Q1
US agriculture offset firm loses another senior staffer
ANALYSIS: German policy pivot on nuclear would have muted EUA impact
RGGI CO2 output ticks up in Q2 as strong burns persist
Just one-fifth of VER buyers disclosing carbon credit purchases in opaque market -report
Women are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for Australia
Climate change: More studies needed on possibility of human extinction
Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’
Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe
The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis.
They call such a catastrophe the “climate endgame”. Though it had a small chance of occurring, given the uncertainties in future emissions and the climate system, cataclysmic scenarios could not be ruled out, they said.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on the warming of the Alps: a challenge for tourism | Editorial
Higher temperatures mean less snow snow and ice, more rockfalls and more fatalities on Europe’s overcrowded mountains. This cannot go on
The Victorian writer and mountaineer Leslie Stephen – the father of Virginia Woolf – called the Alps “the playground of Europe”. And so they have been, in winter and summer alike, for many generations. But with excessive warming now placing some of the Alps’ most iconic summits out of bounds, for how much longer can the freedom of Europe’s playground continue?
The basic problem is the warming of the Alps. Snowfall this past winter – especially in the southern Alps – was down by two-thirds from what was once considered normal. The loss of snowmelt is a direct cause of this summer’s brutal drought in the Po valley. Last month, Swiss scientists found that weather balloons were having to rise to 5,184 metres (over 17,000ft), well above the very highest peaks, before they finally reached freezing point.
Continue reading...VCM Report: Bear market continues as GEO price slumps close to CDM offsets
Driest July in England since 1935 - Met Office
Euro Markets: Midday Update
Hotter than Dubai: US cities at risk of Middle Eastern temperatures by 2100
Unchecked global heating will bring once unthinkable extreme heat, with 16 US cities to rival summer highs seen in Middle East
The climate crisis risks pushing many Americans into entirely new climatic realities, with a new analysis finding there are 16 US cities at risk of having summer temperatures on a par with locations in the Middle East by the end of the century.
Heatwaves have roiled huge swaths of the US this summer, placing nearly a third of the population under some sort of heat advisory and driving temperatures to as high as 115F (46C) in parts of the Great Plains. Hundreds of heat records have tumbled, from Boston, Massachusetts, which hit 100F (37C), to Portland, Oregon, which reached 102F (38.9C) on Tuesday.
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