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Senate delivers major blow to Taylor’s bid to redirect renewable energy funds to fossil fuel projects
Senate issues major blow to Morrison government, rejecting Taylor's quest to open up ARENA funds for CCS and fossil hydrogen, blocking new regulations.
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Unesco: Great Barrier Reef should be listed as 'in danger'
Australia opens for using carbon offsets in hydrogen GO scheme
Great Barrier Reef timeline: decades of damage and Australia’s fight to stop ‘in danger’ listing
How a series of mass coral bleaching events linked to rising sea temperatures prompted calls for action ahead of world heritage committee meeting
- Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger’, Unesco recommends
- Comment: The Australian government wants to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’ at all costs
The Great Barrier Reef has been under pressure for decades due to rising greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity, notably agriculture along the Queensland coast.
There were mass coral bleaching events linked to rising sea temperatures in 1998 and 2002.
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Congo’s latest killer is the climate crisis. Doing nothing is unthinkable | Vava Tampa
Lake Tanganyika sustains life for millions but ever more erratic weather threatens the entire Congo
For thousands of years, Lake Tanganyika was an exquisite sight that soothed and supported generations of Congolese people. Those living by its shores in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have snoozed in hammocks under the tropical sun, watching their children splash in Africa’s oldest, deepest and longest lake. In the evenings, when boats head out for fishing trips, local people would light campfires on the beaches to fry their catch and dance to rumba.
But in the past two months, storms, torrential rain and flooding have killed at least 13 people and destroyed 4,240 homes and 112 schools along the DRC’s Lake Tanganyika coast. In less than a generation, the stretch from Uvira to Moba, 250 miles long, has become a place of catastrophe for the local people, who are dependent on the lake for food, trade, transport and their livelihood.
Continue reading...The Australian government wants to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’ at all costs| Imogen Zethoven
But the reef needs this listing to survive
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Great Barrier Reef being on the world heritage list. It should be a time to celebrate. Yet Unesco has released a draft report recommending the reef be put on a list of world heritage sites that are “in danger”.
Unesco has absolutely made the right decision. The reef is in danger. It is time for the Australian government to take ambitious climate action for the reef.
Continue reading...Fortescue inks land deal for massive Tasmania green hydrogen project
Fortescue signs exclusive agreement with TasPorts to lock in a Bell Bay location for its massive 250MW green hydrogen project.
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Yarranlea solar farm secures finance with Infradebt, on “merchant” basis
The operational 103MW Yarranlea solar farm developed by Risen Energy in Queensland’s Darling Downs region has announced the close of a senior debt facility.
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Queensland minister says UN warning on Great Barrier Reef status shows Morrison must act
Queensland environment minister Meaghan Scanlon says ‘the world is watching’ and more needs to be done to protect the reef from climate change
Queensland’s environment minister says UN officials recommending the Great Barrier Reef be placed on the world heritage “in danger” list shows the Morrison government must do more to deal with the climate crisis.
Meaghan Scanlon’s comments put the state government at odds with the federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, who has accused the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) of a “complete subversion of normal process”.
Continue reading...Yallourn stuck on quarter capacity as scramble continues to save coal mine
EnergyAustralia says it hopes to seal cracks in coal mine embankment this week, but the really big decision – where to divert the river – has not been taken.
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Cutbacks stopping vital work on river pollution and floods in England
Exclusive: Environment Agency chair warned minister of ‘real-world impacts’, FOI request reveals
Vital work on river pollution and flood defences is being stopped or cut back because the Environment Agency has been underfunded for years, freedom of information documents reveal.
A shortfall in funding of tens of millions of pounds is having real world consequences for our rivers, according to a letter from Emma Howard Boyd, the chair of the EA, to George Eustice, the environment secretary. The letter was obtained by River Action, a campaigning body, under FOI laws.
Continue reading...IKEA & Rockefeller foundations pledge $US1 billion renewable energy catalyst
New billion-dollar charity partnership to unlock finance and resources to provide reliable renewable electricity to the over three billion people globally who currently go without.
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Federal government seeks input on proposed hydrogen “guarantee of origin” scheme
The Morrison government has called for feedback on new "guarantee of origin" certification scheme to track hydrogen production.
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“Blindsided,” says Ley, as developers reel from shock renewable hydrogen decision
Sussan Ley's bizarre decision to block a major renewable hydrogen project is now also ironical, as the environment minister cries foul over lack of consultation on UNESCO's Great Barrier Reef call.
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As Barnaby Joyce unleashes a new strain of climate denial, can Labor plug the credibility gap? | Peter Lewis
While Morrison focuses on his noisy right flank, the ALP can establish its credentials as part of the global consensus
While the prime minister is holed up at the Lodge in quarantine, his Coalition partners have been infecting the body politic with a new Delta strain of climate denial by restoring Barnaby Joyce to the second-highest office in the land.
After barely surviving the “G7 plus besties” event in Cornwall with a combination of anti-China bellicose and embarrassed deflection on Australia’s dogged resistance to global action on climate, Scott Morrison returned home to find his country cousins in turmoil. Rediscovering this particular branch of the family was the last thing the PM was banking on as he was fossicking for his roots in his downtime.
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Will Matt Kean’s EV policy really make NSW the Norway of Australia?
Is Matt Kean's ambitious new EV policy enough to make NSW the Norway of Australia? Is that even the right baseline to be using?
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Gas industry mirrors Morrison, pivots to message of energy security
Having realised it's a "bit on the nose," the gas industry's new marketing strategy plays into the Morrison government's big lie that we need gas for future prosperity.
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