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Australian climate and environmental groups are pushing the government to ban native forest use in biomass power generation from the country’s Renewable Energy Target (RET), arguing the forests would be better used for sequestering carbon.

The New Zealand government is seeking feedback on legislation that would extend the transition period given to small-scale foresters in its ETS to protect them from hefty fines.

Leading digital travel company Booking.com has formed a partnerhsip with Oslo-based climate tech outfit CHOOOSE with the aim to increase traveller awareness of the carbon footprint of their trips, and to eventually introduce carbon offsetting options for travellers, the companies announced on Wednesday.

Global offset developer South Pole has teamed up with an agtech company to offer farmers across Europe and Africa prepayment for carbon credits from agricultural projects, with 130 farms signed up from the outset.

Commons report finds organised criminals view illegal dumping fines as business expense and there is no coherent plan

The government’s attitude to waste crime is “close to decriminalisation” as fines are so low, the chair of the Commons public accounts committee (Pac) has said.

Organised criminals view the relatively tiny fines as a business expense, MPs have warned, as illegal waste dumping becomes a lucrative income stream for gangs.

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"Little progress" has been made in protecting nature despite a government commitment, concludes a new report

The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of using tactics that will backfire. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored

What does it take? How far must we go to alert other people to the scale of the crisis we face? Only one answer is clear: further than we have yet gone. We are hurtling towards planetary tipping points: the critical thresholds beyond which Earth systems collapse. The consequences are unimaginable. None of the horrors humanity has suffered, great as they are, even hints at the scale of what we now face.

Everywhere I see claims that the “extreme” tactics of environmental campaigners will prompt people to “stop listening”. But how could we listen any less to the warnings of scientists and campaigners and eminent committees? How could we pay any less attention to polite objections by “respectable” protesters to the destruction of the habitable planet? Something must shake us out of our stupor.

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Exclusive: Lancashire site responsible for 192 earthquakes over course of 182 days in 2018-19, Lib Dem analysis has found

Fracking caused an earthquake every day at the UK’s only active site at Preston New Road in Lancashire, analysis has found.

Between 2018 and 2019, the site near Blackpool was responsible for 192 earthquakes over the course of 182 days , according to analysis of House of Commons Library data by the Liberal Democrats.

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Residents of the northern Victorian town spent hours constructing a wall of sandbags to fortify against incoming flood waters from the Murray River. The wall stretched the length of the town's NRMA Holiday Park. Echuca remains under an evacuation warning as the river peaks, and two rain fronts are forecast to hit the region over the next seven days

• ‘You can’t help but help’: year 12 students forgo VCE study to fortify Echuca’s town hall against floods

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Origin will rely on a boost in gas earnings to underscore its business as it navigates the transition to clean energy.

The post Origin counts on profit boost from gas as it prepares for shift to clean energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

News that Marinus Link is being supported by the federal government's Rewiring Australia program has been broadly welcomed. But not everyone sees it as a win.

The post “An ecological and economic disaster:” Green group slams Marinus Link deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The internet is awash with speculation after a viral TikTok video showed a large animal 'part' washed up on the shores of Magnetic Island in northern Queensland. Experts say it could be part of the intestine or even the penis of a whale as the area is known for its humpback whale sightings. However, scientists also said only a proper dissection could ascertain what the pale appendage actually is 

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Fewer than half of those questioned in global poll believe climate change poses a ‘very serious threat’

Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, with fewer than half of those questioned in a new survey believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries over the next 20 years.

Only 20% of people in China, the world’s biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the last survey by Gallup World Risk Poll in 2019.

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Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean

An expedition of scientists and an artist is deploying underwater microphones in the ocean off Greenland to record and preserve the soundscape of melting icebergs.

The hydrophones will record sounds every hour for two years before being collected, harvested for data and the recordings turned into an acoustic composition.

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Rewilding Europe’s 10th project ‘has potential to benefit both nature and people’ in one of the continent’s least populated areas

Black vultures, lynx and wild horses are among the animals being reintroduced to eastern Spain with the launch of a rewilding project spanning 850,000 hectares (2.1m acres) in the Iberian highlands east of Madrid.

Rewilding Europe’s 20-year landscape recovery scheme, which covers an area more than five times the size of Greater London, aims to make the land wilder and more nature-friendly. The protected area is the southern part of the Iberian Chain, a mountain range that stretches 500km (300 miles) from the north-west of the country to the Mediterranean in the south-east.

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The regulator said two of the bank's posters “omitted material information and were therefore misleading".

Renewable Energy Hub buys up TFS Green to form Core Markets, a new entity to meet soaring corporate demand for end-to-end net zero solutions.

The post Climate solutions powerhouse emerges to “demystify” clean energy and carbon markets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Farmers face a multitude of challenges in future. Crops and livestock are not only on the line, but also the mental health of rural communities. Elisabeth Vogel, Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK company Liberty Steel has completed trials of a sustainable raw material that can replace anthracite, the main source of charge carbon in electric steelmaking, and reduce steel’s carbon footprint by as much as 30%, the subsidiary of global conglomerate Gupta Family Group (GFG) announced.

It's unclear how the economic case for Marinus Link is greatly improved by the concessional finance offered by Labor's Rewiring the Nation policy.

The post Does Rewiring the Nation’s concessional finance really change the case for Marinus? appeared first on RenewEconomy.