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Carbon capture and storage isn’t working close to a scale that would significantly lower emissions – despite billions in taxpayers’ cash thrown at it

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Scott Morrison’s loving embrace and financial backing of the gas industry has been a defining feature of his prime ministership.

Hit with a historical pandemic, Morrison chose gas – not renewables – to fire an economic recovery.

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Climate change has figured little in the 2022 federal election campaign. But the need for sensible, long-term measures is now dire.

The post A new climate politics: The 47th parliament must be a contest of ideas for a hotter, low-carbon Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Associate, Food and Forests position will support Ceres' efforts to drive company and investor action on deforestation and land conversion, greenhouse gas emissions from food systems, and natural climate solutions.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices out to 2030 will depend on the status of extending a nuclear power plant and the level of renewable power capacity reached by the end of the decade, analysts said.

February fuel consumption in California maintained its upward trajectory compared to 2021 levels, but remained below pre-pandemic levels, driven by the gasoline side, according to state data published Wednesday.

The issues before us are too difficult, too important and too pressing to abandon them to political point-scoring or ideological zealotry. Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Some 922 of the 957 installations and airlines regulated by the UK carbon market were in compliance in the scheme's inaugural year, the British government announced late Wednesday, with those entities surrendering permits covering more than 99% of verified emissions.

Carbon credit demand could rise fivefold to 1 billion tonnes in 2030, according to a bank analyst report published this week, spurred by corporate climate commitments outpacing those of governments.

A European Parliament committee this week backed a far more aggressive introduction of a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) than Brussels initially proposed, a move that experts see as being littered with practical challenges. 

An online marketplace has launched a service to help carbon sink projects into the voluntary carbon market, which will involve buying future credits generated by the scheme in advance.

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'.

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