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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is approaching governments to ask them to account for the hidden $10 trillion environmental, social, and health costs of the food system in a report.

Australia’s Westpac on Monday announced it will end lending to the conversion of natural forest to agricultural land, as it became the nation’s first bank to release a natural capital position statement and pledge an ambition to become nature positive.

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021

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Beef, soy and palm oil products driving deforestation are still being imported into the UK, despite government promises this practice would end, data has revealed.

Campaigners have criticised the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for failing to put practices in place to stop the import of goods from areas with high deforestation rates. This is despite the government having promised at the Cop26 climate conference in 2021 to implement the rules.

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Growing awareness of sexual harassment and discrimination in the field prompted an international survey and research into potential solutions. Sarah Hamylton, Associate professor, University of Wollongong Ana Vila Concejo, Associate professor, University of Sydney Hannah Power, Associate Professor in Coastal and Marine Science, University of Newcastle Shari L Gallop, Service Leader - Coastal, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Woodside Energy has progressed to the next stage of a scheme by the Western Australian state government to encourage the private sector to earn carbon credits in exchange for funding conservation work.

Study suggests the dangerous process of ship-to-ship refuelling could be feasible in Pilbara ports, using green ammonia produced in the region.

The post Study suggest Pilbara ports can refuel ships with green ammonia from sun and wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

World's biggest offshore wind developer blames a ship shortage for the decision to dump its US Ocean Winds project. There are lessons for Australia's nascent offshore wind industry too.

The post Ørsted blames lack of ships for New Jersey offshore wind failure and massive write downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Australian parliament is set to pass the government’s legislation to allow the transboundary transport and underground storage of CO2, with the Liberal party joining Labor in support of the bill in the Senate.

Fortescue has stepped back from its ambitious 5.4 gigawatt (GW) Uaroo Renewable Energy Hub but still plans to build something on the site.

The post Fortescue drops massive Uaroo renewable hub as it reorganises Pilbara energy plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Most people with rare genetic diseases are unable to access life-saving medicines due to high costs.

Desalination usually requires a lot of heat and power, but a new system just needs wave energy.

An Australian flight booking website has posted a new record for the number of customers that have chosen to offset their flights and accommodation, but it is still microscopic compared to the overall number of bookings made on the platform.

Neoen 3rd quarter revenue crimped by transition of its biggest solar asset to a fixed contract, and lower battery returns after a stellar performance the previous year.

The post Hangover from battery party and contract for biggest solar farm crimp Neoen revenues appeared first on RenewEconomy.

One barrier to climate action has been our own psychology and reluctance to take action. But as the crisis intensifies, some of these barriers have evaporated. Jeff Rotman, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Consumer Psychology & Co-Director of the Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Neoen says Capital Big Battery delayed until 2024 due to connection issues, with liquidated damages to be paid in a likely first-of-its type case for battery storage projects in Australia.

The post Neoen’s Capital big battery delayed due to connection issues, damages sought appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Projects will have to meet net zero targets, under the proposals to be outlined in the King's Speech.

Governments draw up blueprint for fund to be administered at first by World Bank after tense Abu Dhabi talks

Countries have agreed key measures to supply funds to the world’s most vulnerable people to repair the damage from climate breakdown.

Governments from richer and poorer countries drew up the blueprint for a new “loss and damage” fund after a tense two-day meeting under UN guidance in Abu Dhabi that ended late on Saturday night.

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Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy

A former fracking site in the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, once a lightning rod for environmental protests, may soon be a new frontier in Britain’s clean energy revolution. For the first time in the UK, an abandoned gas well could begin a second life as a source of geothermal energy.

It is a far cry from its beginnings as a highly contested site where frackers hoped to tap fresh reservoirs of gas trapped in layers of shale beneath the earth’s surface. In 2016, Third Energy was granted permission to carry out fracking at an existing well but its plans were ultimately thwarted by a government moratorium on using the technology in the UK.

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I may be in denial about my computer being on the blink, but after another hot and muggy Halloween, one thing is frighteningly clear

I fear the Apple Store. It’s a disorienting cross between a Los Angeles hotel lobby, the place where everyone over 30 gets killed in Logan’s Run and the headquarters of Hydra ™ ®. The protocols for attracting a staff member seem inexplicably opaque, like the rules for bidding in an auction, or initiating a new friendship. They induce mild panic attacks and my heart flutters as groomed twentysomethings, who could be customers or staff, waft by me, geishas for Steve Jobs’s ghost. Why aren’t there any queues? Can I just sit in here quietly and eat the things from my bag? Is there a duty free section?

In the Apple Store, I never know if a commercial transaction is taking place, or if I am just involved in a continuing discussion about my “needs”, a situation I admittedly find replicated in my dealings with my therapist and people generally. And there is now a raised area at the rear of the Regent Street branch in London that suggests a ziggurat. Here, ancient Aztecs tore out people’s hearts to appease Quetzalcoatl, a sacrifice still less demanding than the financial one required buy a new Apple laptop. When I mentioned, to the charming young man attending me, that the shop design made me think of the death rituals of the winged serpent worshippers, he just smiled, as if I were complimenting Apple’s bold aesthetics. But I will have to go to the Apple Store again. Soon.

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National officials agreed recommendations on the design of the new climate loss and damage fund late on Saturday, though US objections could tee up problems when governments consider the plans at the year-end COP28 UN climate summit.