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An analysis firm has cautioned that one of the proposed designs of the Australian government’s reformed Safeguard Mechanism is fundamentally flawed, and could lead to the country missing its climate targets if it was used.

Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery sell out of Vales Point coal generator at massive profit, and new buyer shows no signs of contemplating an early closure.

The post St Baker and Flannery cash in on Vales Point coal plant in sale to Czechs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers hope to learn about movement of small birds using solar-powered devices tracked by satellite

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A joint plan to save an endangered bird species from extinction is benefitting from an experimental tool – tiny solar-powered backpacks.

Plains wanderers are small, fawn-coloured, ground-dwelling birds with speckled throats that live in the semi-arid grasslands of north-western Victoria and the New South Wales Riverina.

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Wind and solar hit new record peaks in main grid, pushing coal and fossil fuels to record lows, but curtailment also hits new high in South Australia.

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Behavioural ecologist says 77-year-old Western Australian owner was probably seen by the hand-reared animal as a fellow marsupial

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Kangaroos are often considered friend, not foe. But the marsupial’s reputation took a hit this week when a 77-year-old Western Australian man was killed by the pet western grey he hand-reared from a joey.

As Peter Eades lay dying on his Redmond farm, 398km south of Perth, police were forced to shoot the three-year-old male kangaroo, which was preventing an ambulance crew from reaching the injured man.

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A new film celebrates the 1980s battle to protect the Tasmanian environment, but now protest rights in Australia are under attack

The imagery is iconic, etched into the Australian national consciousness. Pristine Tasmanian wilderness. Bulldozers trying to destroy it. A man with nothing more than a placard, desperately trying to stop heavy machinery with his bare hands. Masses of people taking to city streets. Bodies, and campsites, in the path of construction. Heavy-handed police intervention. The power of the people against the power of the state.

This past comes rushing back through archival footage in Franklin, a new feature-length documentary on the most significant environmental protest campaign in Australian history: the battle to save Tasmania’s wild, white-water river. The film has a happy ending: the protesters won and the Franklin still runs today.

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The US presidential envoy says the King can "leverage" the action needed to tackle global warming.

Fury as ‘explosive’ files reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists

Criticism in the US of the oil industry’s obfuscation over the climate crisis is intensifying after internal documents showed companies attempted to distance themselves from agreed climate goals, admitted “gaslighting” the public over purported efforts to go green, and even wished critical activists be infested by bedbugs.

The communications were unveiled as part of a congressional hearing held in Washington DC, where an investigation into the role of fossil fuels in driving the climate crisis produced documents obtained from the oil giants ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP.

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A group of eight cats is due to arrive from Namibia on the occasion of PM Narendra Modi's birthday.

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Heatwaves hit China, Europe and the US, causing lakes and rivers to dry up. Is this year the driest ever?

The wild bird trade is set to make tropical forests "drab", a study shows.

Emitters continued widening their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length this week, while financial players marked the fourth consecutive week of decreasing their position, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

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California and Quebec will increase the number of current vintage allowances offered in the jurisdictions’ November cap-and-trade sale, breaking from the trend of declining volumes up for sale at the prior two auctions, according to an official notice published Friday.

Exclusive: Prof Lesley Hughes, a climate specialist appointed this week, says current target is not good enough

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A new scientific member of the government’s revamped Climate Change Authority has said Australia should be aiming to reach net zero at least a decade earlier than 2050.

Prof Lesley Hughes, a biologist and climate change specialist, said Australia’s current climate target for 2030 was “not good enough” but said the new government was showing a willingness to listen to the science.

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Campaigners who blockaded Staffordshire oil terminal remanded for refusing to comply with court proceedings

More than 50 protesters who are demanding urgent action to address the climate crisis were sent to jail on one day this week after refusing to comply with court proceedings.

The campaigners, who were appearing before judges at two separate hearings in London and Birmingham, had broken an injunction to take part in a blockade of the Kingsbury oil terminal near Tamworth in Staffordshire on Wednesday.

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A REDD forestry project developer is negotiating a new revenue share model from offset sales in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at a time when heightened prices are helping to spur booming activity.

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The Swiss federal council on Friday adopted a revision of the country's climate law for 2025-30, seeking to halve greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels via targeted incentives rather than new or higher CO2-related pricing.