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Unsettled weather to continue across western Europe and southern Australia forecast to experience unseasonably cold spell

After causing devastation in Florida last week, Hurricane Nicole travelled along the east coast of the US and across the Atlantic towards western Europe as an extratropical cyclone. The remnants of Nicole brought heavy rain and strong winds to Ireland, the UK and parts of northern France during Monday night and Tuesday.

Unsettled conditions are set to continue throughout the next few days across western Europe as several areas of low pressure move in from the Atlantic. These lows are expected to affect areas as far east as Norway and as far south as the Bay of Biscay, and will bring the potential of some localised flooding for the worst affected areas.

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The ETS Officer is responsible for supporting and delivering excellent services to Carbon Forest Services’ client base.

The Max Carbon programme is providing the first opportunity to step back and consider how forests are included in the regulations and how this aligns with the outcomes being sought within the ETS and wider outcomes [e.g. biodiversity, alternative species].

Carbon Tracker thinktank says investors in fossil fuels on the continent would be left with stranded assets

Expanding oil and gas exports would threaten the economic stability of many African countries, new analysis has found, despite soaring fossil fuel prices.

Demand for fossil fuels is likely to fall sharply in the medium term, according to a report published on Monday by the Carbon Tracker thinktank. That makes relying on gas exports to fuel economic growth a short-term, risky strategy, while boosting solar power would prove a better long-term bet, the analysis found.

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Days scheduled to discuss issues such as women’s rights and civil society alongside formal negotiations

Water and the affects of the climate crisis on water scarcity will come under scrutiny on Monday at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh as it enters its second week.

The talks are scheduled to end on Friday, though it is likely they will continue at least into Saturday, with new measures and pledges hoped for on issues from greenhouse gas emissions cuts to financial assistance for the poorest nations.

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FFI and Windlab to co-develop 10GW-plus wind and solar "Super Hub" in northern Queensland to fast-track the state's green hydrogen ambitions.

The post Forrest unveils 10GW renewable “super hub” to power grid and green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brisbane Airport says it will be powered with 100% renewables by 2025 after inking deal to source Queensland solar and wind from Stanwell Corporation.

The post “First of many:” State coal utility signs renewable power deal for Brisbane Airport appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There are fears the commitment to a key warming limit may soften as nations seek agreement in Egypt.

Brush turkeys, bats, and cockroaches are crucial for the environment – including our gardens. Each have fascinating ways of coping in wet weather. Elise Oakman, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Caitlyn Forster, PhD Candidate, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Matthew Hall, Casual Academic, University of Sydney Mei-Ting Kao, PhD student, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Long before Green Square was a huge urban renewal project it was Country known to Traditional Owners for its wetlands. Until now, those water stories have remained largely invisible. Ilaria Vanni, Associate Professor, International Studies and Global Societies, University of Technology Sydney Alexandra Crosby, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Shannon Foster, D'harawal Knowledge Keeper, PhD Candidate and Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A former coal mine in NSW to be first test site for a new gravity storage technology.

The post Former Yancoal mine to be first test site for Australian gravity storage technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BeZero Carbon has secured $50 mln in second round funding as it seeks to establish itself as the market leading ratings agency in the global voluntary carbon market.

We're halfway through COP27 and there's been no shortage of news and announcements from this year's UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh.  Below is a recast of the *44 articles* published by Carbon Pulse relating to the first week of the summit.

First tender for wind, solar and storage projects in NSW swamped by six times the capacity sought, including battery projects bidding for long duration storage.

The post NSW swamped by wind, solar and storage bids in first big tender to replace coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Momentum matters on climate, and he won’t get another chance to make an urgent first impression

It lasted only three hours, but Joe Biden’s visit to Egypt on Friday afternoon underlined that it was a mistake for Anthony Albanese not to attend the annual UN climate conference known as Cop27.

Not a disastrous mistake, but an avoidable one, and a lost opportunity. The prime minister has turned down a chance to argue in front of more than 110 other leaders that his still-new government is serious about pushing for greater action – that, in the words of the climate change minister, Chris Bowen, “we’re back” after years as a global laggard. Momentum matters on climate, and Albanese won’t get another chance to make an urgent first impression.

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With voters increasingly fearful about fires, floods and extreme temperatures, can the Tories find a way back towards reality?

On 8 November 1989, Margaret Thatcher gave a 4,000-word address to the United Nations general assembly in New York. It was an eloquent, urgent speech, book-ended with references to Charles Darwin and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and full of portents of looming climate disaster that we now know all too well: the melting of polar ice, the shrinking of the Amazon rainforest, and the prospect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and water shortages.

In response, “squabbling over who is responsible or who should pay” was a self-evident path to catastrophe: what was needed, she told her audience, was “a vast international, co-operative effort”, with no refusers or deniers. “Every country will be affected,” she said, “and no one can opt out.”

John Harris is a Guardian columnist

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The Papua New Guinea government will entrust its carbon regulation framework to a UAE-based company launched less than a month ago, according to media reports, adding to campaigner concerns that the number of actors involved in the heavily-forested nation's climate policy was creating confusion.

Carbon market players have raised long-running concerns about the prospect of a grievance mechanism being designed under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, as little progress was made by parties Saturday. 

The Met says Just Stop Oil are a tiny minority causing ‘disproportionate’ disruption. Isn’t environmental Armageddon enough justification?

Sometimes, a report of bad news makes me realise that the world circumstances I’d been living in weren’t as bleak as I’d been assuming. The death of Ella Fitzgerald did this for me. I’d thought she was long dead. It made me realise that I’d missed years of enjoying the fact of her still being alive. Perhaps, along with the “in memoriam” segment at the Baftas, there should also be a “surprisingly still alive” video to encourage us to appreciate some elderly stars while they’re still faintly twinkling.

I used to get the same sensation of retrospective positivity from reported job losses in the British car industry. I was always pleasantly surprised that there were still that many jobs left to lose. That’ll be it now though, I always thought, but then, a year or so later, another gargantuan layoff was announced and I was once again impressed by how many people in the UK had apparently still been making cars all this time.

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Rooftop solar PV switched off in South Australia after state cut off from rest of grid because of storm damage to transmission towers.

The post Rooftop solar switched off in South Australia, as state isolated after storm damage to network appeared first on RenewEconomy.