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Dr Gianluca Grimalda told by Kiel Institute for World Economy he must be at his desk on Monday after finishing fieldwork

A climate researcher has been threatened with the sack by his employer after refusing to fly back to Germany at short notice after finishing fieldwork in the Solomon Islands archipelago.

On Friday Dr Gianluca Grimalda, an environmental campaigner who refuses to fly on principle, was told by his employer, Germany’s Kiel Institute for World Economy, that if he was not at his desk on Monday he would no longer have a job to return to.

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Latest SunWiz data shows Australian households are continuing to install bigger systems, with a new all-time high average size reached in September.

The post Another solar record falls as average rooftop PV system size hits new high appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New research shows turning northern rivers inland to irrigate Australia’s dry interior would not increase rainfall. This is another argument against the Bradfield scheme. Kaighin McColl, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University Dongryeol Ryu, Professor, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Federal parliament crossbenchers call for clear incentives to electrify rentals and apartments, while energy consumer lobby group calls for blanket gas ban.

The post Pressure builds to ban gas, electrify Australian homes as “cost of living imperative” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Updated: Octopus continues its rapid build up in Australia with purchase of a gigawatt hour big battery project in Queensland.

The post Octopus Australia snaps up gigawatt hour battery project in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The NZU stockpile has failed to budge between the June and September quarters, but the number of ETS participants holding units has increased, according to government figures.

The Americas branch of spirits producer Remy Cointreau has teamed up with WWF-Mexico to protect and regenerate the Monarch butterfly across the Americas.

The Director of Nature Positive Corporate Partnerships will provide administrative, research, communications, and project support for select corporate grant portfolios as part of CI’s Center for Sustainable Lands and Waters.

The supply of removal credits needs to be scaled up quickly with dramatic potential across North America. As a US Supply Manager you apply your effective negotiation skills to recruit suppliers and play a key consulting role to them to help them scale their carbon removal projects.

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Massive tree-planting carbon offset projects, including those growing single species, are inadvertently degrading tropical ecosystems and biodiversity by focussing solely on carbon sequestration.

The Clean Energy Regulator and soil carbon project developer Agriprove have rejected concerns from scientists around the issuance of soil Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) as more credits from the project type have been issued. 

California regulator ARB presented further modelling of allowance budgets for its cap-and-trade programme until 2045 and opened discussion of accounting for emissions from electricity imports in unlinked jurisdictions with CO2 pricing, in materials released Tuesday ahead of the agency’s forthcoming pre-rulemaking webinar this week for its climate regulation.

Anthony Albanese plays it safe with the sulphur-crested cockatoo while the tawny frogmouth proves popular among MPs who took blue ribbon seats off Liberals

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The tawny frogmouth is the bird of winners – at least politically.

Three of the MPs who chose the introverted icons as their bird of the year also happen to be among those who took blue ribbon seats off Liberal MPs.

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The nation has reeled from disaster to disaster in recent years, as it feels the effects of climate change.

Stakeholders discussed leveraging US hydrogen hub funding to enable technology agnostic production pathways, incentives, and other demand strategies, at a conference on Tuesday.

Fortescue joins global heavyweights in big fund-raise for US hydrogen start-up that claims the most powerful and least cost electrolyser systems.

The post Fortescue signs gigawatt supply deal with maker of world’s biggest electrolyser systems appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Independent senator David Pocock has a simple message for everyone voting in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia bird of the year poll – get on board and vote for the endangered gang-gang cockatoo. 'These charcoal-coloured cockatoos are incredible,' he says

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Australia has a long history of attempts to develop technical standards for smart distributed energy resources. We have no more time to lose.

The post We have wasted years trying to set standards for distributed energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We swift parrots are asking for your vote to be the next bird of the year. We're one of the few migratory parrot species and can be found throughout Australia’s south-east states, but we breed only in Tasmania. We're also critically endangered, with less than 300 to 750 of us left in the wild. Experts think we may become extinct in the next 10 years

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