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A tie-up between a certification company and a globally renowned inspection and testing firm seeks to provide credibility for burgeoning claims of net-zero trades in markets such as LNG, steel and aluminium.

If national emissions data is incorrect then Australia less likely to be on track to meet Coalition’s target of a 26-28% cut by 2030

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Queensland forests are being cleared at almost twice the rate reflected in national greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis suggests, prompting questions about the climate data that Australia reports to the United Nations.

The study of data from Queensland’s statewide landcover and tree study (Slats) shows 455,756 hectares of forests were cleared across the state in 2018-19.

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Scientists compare findings of tree study to mass coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef

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Australia’s tropical rainforest trees have being dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of global heating, according to new research that raises concerns tropical forests could start to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb.

The study, published in the journal Nature, found the average life of tropical trees in north Queensland had been reduced by about half over the past 35 years . The finding was consistent across different species and rainforests.

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The #everydayclimatecrisis visual petition is a collection of more than 1,000 photographs taken by women and non-binary people across Australia showing the impact of the climate crisis on their lives. The images of fires, floods and environmental destruction will be tabled to parliament in Canberra in June in a call for leaders to do more. The women hope that if a picture is worth 1,000 words, then 1,000 pictures can be a catalyst for change

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It will invest in pipelines in other countries but will speed up a shift to green energy.

Brazil's environment minister, Joaquim Leite, outlines his government's green economy plans and its intention to be the world's biggest exporter of carbon credits.

"If you are black or a woman, you don't see yourself fitting in," a leading female physicist says.

All that the energy giants are interested in is profit. Public ownership – as in France – is the only answer

Our energy system is crucial to two of the biggest issues facing the British public: the cost of living crisis and the climate and environment emergency. Yet we are leaving this sector to be inefficiently and exploitatively run by private companies.

Electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels or by renewable technology such as wind turbines; then it is distributed along the national and regional grids, and finally sold to us by energy suppliers. In the UK, there is no public sector role in this: every part of the process is privatised.

David Hall is a visiting professor and former director of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich

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Fields in Trust charity finds about one in 24 people in Britain live 10 minutes walk from nearest park

Nearly 2.8 million people in the UK live more than 10 minutes walk from a public park, garden or playing field, according to research.

Fields in Trust, which protects and campaigns for public green spaces, found just four out of the 11 regions in Great Britain met its “six-acre standard” for green space provision.

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Emissions of controversial brown coal to hydrogen project may be much higher than claimed, while polling shows people confused by term 'clean hydrogen'.

The post Controversial brown coal to hydrogen plant may lead to higher emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Latest analysis adds to evidence that the impacts of human-caused global heating are already damaging many lives around the world

Record-breaking heatwaves in north-west India and Pakistan have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, according to scientists. The analysis means scorching weather once expected every three centuries is now likely to happen every three years.

The region is currently suffering intense heat, with the Indian capital New Delhi setting a new record on Sunday above 49C and the peak temperature in Pakistan reaching 51C. Millions of people are suffering from crop losses, and water and power outages.

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EUA prices opened sharply lower on Wednesday after reports emerged late on Tuesday that the European Commission is considering selling millions of allowances from the MSR to raise funds for its energy transition initiative.

The European Commission set out its full REPowerEU plan on Wednesday, including more than a dozen proposals designed to accelerate the EU's withdrawal from using Russian fossil fuels and outlined an intention to raise €20 billion for the package from the Market Stability Reserve (MSR).

Australians head to the polls this weekend facing stark choices between the major parties and their climate policies, with a collection of independent candidates campaigning on climate and integrity issues acting as wild cards.

A global standard for green hydrogen, the world’s first, has been launched by the newly-formed Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2) at an industry conference, reflecting stepped up efforts to promote the production and utilisation of the emerging low carbon fuel.

Gump was the last lizard of her kind when she died in 2014, and her demise should be ‘a scar on our conscience’

The last Christmas Island forest skink was named Gump. She lived in a spacious cage filled with rocks, soil, logs and a ready supply of fresh invertebrate food in the island’s national park. She wasn’t particularly active, but then again it’s impossible to know what goes on in the mind of a skink. Her namesake was Forrest Gump – they were both solitary individuals who, despite being mild and unassuming, experienced momentous events while remaining quite unaware of the exceptional courses their lives had taken.

The Christmas island forest skink (or whiptail skink) used to thrive on its island home, an Australian territory off the coast of Indonesia. In 1979, researchers documented that they were its most abundant skink. These lizards were, visually, fairly nondescript. Not too small, but by no means large, they averaged about 20cm (8in) in length, with a slim body covered in brown-yellow scales. They were practically the default image that comes to mind when you think “lizard”.

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Stockholm institute calls for ‘bold science-based decision-making’ to tackle climate, social and economic crises

The world is at “boiling point” and humanity needs to redefine its relationship with nature if it is to address a web of crises, from rising prices to extreme heat and floods, according to a report released ahead of a landmark UN conference.

The research from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Council on Energy Environment and Water says the solutions to the interlinked planetary and inequality crisis exist, but calls for “bold science-based decision-making” to “completely rethink our way of living,”.

Replacing GDP as the single metric to measure progress and instead focus on indicators that take “inclusive wealth” and the caring economy into account.

Establishing a regular UN forum on sustainable lifestyles.

A global campaign on nature-based education for children.

Transforming people’s everyday relationship with nature by integrating it in cities; protecting animal welfare and shifting to more plant-based diets. It also says policymakers should draw on indigenous local knowledge.

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World Meteorological Organization says extreme weather wreaked heavy toll on human lives

Critical global indicators of the climate crisis broke records in 2021, according to a UN report, from rising oceans to the levels of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere.

The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said these were clear signs of humanity’s impact on the planet, which was bringing long-lasting effects. Extreme weather, which the WMO called the day-to-day face of the climate emergency, wreaked a heavy toll on human lives and led to hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, the agency said.

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Cannon-Brookes reveals he has spent $600m cash on his AGL blocking stake, meaning he has "skin in the game", unlike the coal generator's board.

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We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during. Johanna Nalau, Research Fellow, Climate Adaptation, Griffith University Hannah Melville-Rea, Research Fellow, Climate Resilience, Environmental Arts & Humanities, New York University Mark Howden, Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.