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EnergyAustralia teams up with global consortium to propose a giant 5W offshore wind project in Victoria.

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Thinking about getting your home off gas, but don’t know where to begin? Here’s a few handy tips to get you on your way. Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Nicola Willand, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

CEFC invests record amount in wind, solar and storage in last year, but in coming years the big ticket items will be on the grid.

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Kemi Badenoch wants gender-specific lavatories in new venues, but is it wise to release more excrement into our fatally compromised sewage systems?

There are important questions to be asked about lavatories, and Kemi Badenoch is certainly the Tory best suited to answering them. A report in the government’s Daily Telegraph mouthpiece announced that a new government initiative would see the equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, appoint a Tory lavatories tsar, a task that would doubtless make her flush with pride. But the Independent then reported that the government had “distanced” itself from this appointment, for fear of increased bureaucracy, and also, presumably, across-the-board toilet tsar-based ridicule.

Apparently, Kemi Badenoch’s Tory lavatory tsar would have ensured that all new offices, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues have separate male and female lavatories; a big job and a massive piece of business. But our children’s generation seem largely ambivalent about gender identity, and the practical lavatorial considerations that come with it; first-wave feminists, in contrast, are understandably anxious that women’s hard-won recognitions are not, as they see it, eroded; meanwhile, some young women tell me they fear the loss of certified spaces in nightclubs and pubs for crying, vomiting up alcopops and avoiding young men; most young men, however, seem comfortable with the idea of urinating indiscriminately on the floor, while simultaneously passing wind, in any toilet, however Kemi Badenoch choses to designate the toilet’s gender.

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Countries with the greatest biodiversity richness are the ones spending the least on nature, the UNEP Finance Initiative (FI) has found, urging investors to identify whether they are contributing to the trend.

Remote sensing technology shows 70% of tree coverage moved uphill between 2000 and 2010

Mountain treelines are rising in response to the climate crisis, a study has found.

Scientists from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, used remote sensing to map the highest points of patches of tree coverage on mountains. They found that 70% of mountain treelines had moved uphill between 2000 and 2010.

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Exclusive: Assessment that used to happen annually will now take six years despite rising concerns

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A wide swath of industry, non-profits, and utilities have all called for a California cap-and-trade allowance budget adjustment to achieve at least 48% emission reductions by 2030, according to public comments to submitted to state regulator ARB this week.

A Massachusetts-headquartered start-up on Thursday announced it has successfully procured $10.6 million in Series A fundraising as it intends to bring its soil carbon measurement technology to commercial deployment.

Offset standard Climate Action Reserve (CAR) on Friday published its draft China adipic acid production protocol, arguing new design measures can safeguard against integrity concerns that resulted in the EU ETS forbidding the use of such carbon credits a decade ago.

Regulated parties picked up California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) heading into the WCI Q3 auction and sold off RGGI Allowances (RGA), while speculators let go of permits in both markets, data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

The absolute share of renewable and non-GHG electricity supply in California rose to a record high last year on the back of more solar power, while unspecified power imports hit a four-year peak, according to state data published Friday.

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A lack of progress on setting up a registry for the Paris Agreement's Article 6.4 mechanism could delay trade of sovereign credits in the market, warns the President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).

The Brazilian state of Acre is currently negotiating the sale of 100 million tonnes of avoided deforestation carbon credits from the Amazon jurisdiction’s longstanding REDD+ programme, local media reported this week.

Zimbabwe has reportedly rolled back on its plans to take half of all carbon credit sale proceeds and ringfence a further 20% for local communities in the wake of concerns from investors, while neighbouring Mozambique intends to set out its own carbon trade framework next year.

The phase out of EU ETS free allocation for the aviation sector by 2026 is prompting some airlines to already hedge their emission allowance position for 2024 and beyond.

Proposed reforms to the UK carbon market could result in oil and gas major seeing a near £30 million rise in permit costs due to the inclusion of certain emissions in the scheme from the production of offshore fossil fuels, according to an analyst report published in August, though the overall impact on the sector of the changes will be "minimal".

Analysis of EU and US shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat

The “gigantic” power of the meat and dairy industries in the EU and US is blocking the development of the greener alternatives needed to tackle the climate crisis, a study has found.

The analysis of lobbying, subsidies and regulations showed that livestock farmers in the EU received 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based meat or cultivated meat groups. In the US, the animal farmers got 800 times more public funding.

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