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Korean carbon allowances continued to fall in Thursday trade, hitting their lowest since Feb. 2016 despite the government abandoning plans to auction millions of permits next week.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator handed out 120,000 carbon credits to waste tech firm Global Renewables in its latest issuance round, while a report warned Woodside and BHP’s Scarborough to Pluto LNG project could create almost 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2e emissions over its lifetime.

We asked the world’s press to commit to treating climate change as the emergency that scientists say it is. Their response was dispiriting

The TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow’s bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow’s reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg, Paris and London, explaining that Americans needed some happy news. Murrow wouldn’t do it. “It’ll probably get us fired,” he told his colleagues, but he sent his correspondents to the German-Polish border; they arrived just in time to witness Hitler’s tanks and troops roar into Poland. Suddenly, Europe was at war. And Americans heard about it because journalists at one of the nation’s most influential news outlets defied convention and did their jobs.

Related: ‘This is it. If we don’t amp up, we’re goners’: the last chance to confront the climate crisis?

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Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a $3.4bn deal to restore the freshwater preserve and Biden has earmarked funds to help

For years environmental groups warned the Florida Everglades, a vast 1.5m acre (607,000 hectare) subtropical preserve, may be doomed to extinction. Agricultural pollution, saltwater intrusion, and rampant real estate development had turned the waterways toxic and the state’s iconic environmental landmark was left to slowly choke to death. Perhaps until now.

A sweeping Everglades restoration effort decades in the making is finally seeing renewed optimism thanks to a cast of unlikely champions: Florida state Republicans. In April, Ron DeSantis, the governor, signed an agreement with the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a massive $3.4bn reservoir west of Palm Beach, which would help restore the flow of freshwater to the Everglades. Other state-funded projects to revitalize the region’s delicate ecosystem are already months ahead of schedule, DeSantis said.

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The ‘decade on ecosystem restoration’ launches with a call for ‘imagination’ and action on never-before-seen scale

The world must rewild and restore an area the size of China to meet commitments on nature and the climate, says the UN, and the revival of ecosystems must be met with all the ambition of the space race.

Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to prevent widespread biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, the global body has warned at the launch of the decade on ecosystem restoration, an urgent call for the large-scale revival of nature in farmlands, forests and other ecosystems.

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Discovery of ‘up to 10’ mice inside Murray fish highlights concerns about government’s bid to use bromadiolone poison to tackle plague

After years of drought, Aaron Graham was ecstatic to see the Macquarie River coming to life again. The water is higher, the river is clearer and the Murray cod that live there are fatter than ever.

However, the source of this abundant fish food supply comes from a rather unsavoury place.

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Ligtsource BP lands $330 million in finance to give go-ahead to two new solar projects in NSW and Queensland.

The post Lightsource BP lands finance for two new solar projects in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

British high commissioner’s warning on carbon tariffs follows Scott Morrison’s declaration: ‘We’re going to do it our way’

The top British envoy in Canberra has confirmed that the UK is encouraging Australia to increase its emission reduction target for the 2030s, indicating it is not enough for nations to commit to net zero by 2050.

Before the G7 meeting in Cornwall late next week, where climate is set to be a key focus, the British high commissioner, Vicki Treadell, said the UK was asking all countries to lift their interim emission targets to align with the Paris goal of seeking to limit heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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The worms will launch from the Kennedy Space Centre to help UK researchers understand muscle loss.

The recent IEA report destroys the Government’s justifications for fossil fuel expansion.

The post Video: IEA creates big problem for Australia’ government appeared first on RenewEconomy.

US and UK are only G7 nations proposing to increase climate finance despite failure to meet $100bn-a-year aid pledge

Rich countries are falling behind on their pledges to help the poor world tackle the climate crisis, new research has shown, on the eve of a meeting of the finance ministers of the G7 industrialised economies.

The UK and the US are the only two G7 countries to have set out proposals to increase climate finance in recent months, according to a report by Care Denmark, a member of the international NGO network. Climate finance is used by poor countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, for instance through investment in clean energy generation, and to adapt to the impacts of extreme weather such as floods and droughts.

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The Queensland Greens say the destroyed Callide coal unit should be replaced by a big battery, not a new turbine. Why do the big parties not understand that?

The post Greens are right: Exploded Callide turbine should be replaced by a big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The creatures are set to start their journey to the International Space Station on Thursday.

South Australia's transition to a renewables-dominated grid delivers important lessons to other governments planning the same.

The post South Australia’s key lessons in prioritising a renewables grid over fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scarborough Gas Field being developed by Woodside and BHP would result in an additional pollution equal to 15 new coal-fired power plants.

The post Woodside’s planned Scarborough gas field equivalent to 15 new coal plants, report says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

When a big old tree dies or is cut down, even if we plant a new one we might have to wait hundreds of years before it provides a good possum house. Kylie Soanes, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Australian Energy Market Operator is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Julieanne Alroe and Mr Kee Wong to the AEMO Board as independent directors, effective 1 June 2021.

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An initial report from AEMO into the Callide explosion indicates that multiple coal and gas generators tripped off. Energy experts are not sure why.

The post Queensland coal generators tripped off like dominoes after Callide explosion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Shell Australia CEO Tony Nunan talks about new NSW contract, big batteries, electric vehicles, hydrogen, LNG and carbon capture.

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