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Sydney-based pioneer of no-cost solar and battery service closes $4.28 million funding round towards plans to deploy solar and battery systems to 2,000 homes a month.

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Rather than relying on a big solar button, rapid rule changes could help AEMO manage minimum load while also getting the most out of rooftop solar for consumers.

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Chinese steelmakers need stronger demand signals, such as a much larger volume of purchase commitments, to spur investment in technologies to make green steel at scale, according to a report released Tuesday.

A North Carolina-based research non-profit is set to launch a carbon credit project in Ethiopia with a US development agency, aiming to expand its approach for reducing enteric methane emissions from small farmers' livestock in the developing world, representatives of the organisation told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of COP29.

Instead of waiting years for a handful of billion-dollar projects, tens of thousands of electricians can rewire hundreds of thousands of households. It is lower risk and faster than boondoggles like Snowy 2.0. 

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Research has found people see backyard chickens as pets – but wouldn’t take them to the vet. It raises important questions about how we relate to the non-human world. Emily A. Buddle, Research Fellow in Humanities, University of Adelaide Rachel A. Ankeny, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Wageningen University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Retirements in the Verra voluntary carbon registry surged to just over 7 million last week, as the market started to show some life after having failed to ignite after the COP climate talks last month.

New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects

The natural history GCSE has been shelved because it is “seen as a Conservative party initiative”, one of the architects of the proposed new qualification has said.

The conservationist and campaigner Mary Colwell told the Guardian she was “hugely frustrated” with the halt to the proposed new GCSE, which had been announced in 2022 and was supposed to be taught in schools by 2025.

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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued a A$700-million ($451 mln) so-called green kangaroo bond in the Australian market to help close the biodiversity funding gap in emerging markets, it announced Monday.

A “first-of-its-kind” guide to try to galvanise action from insurers to engage with a nature-positive future, enabling investments in ecosystems and innovative biodiversity-linked products, was published Monday by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

Carbon credit rating provider BeZero has introduced standardised datasets with technical carbon data to simplify project analysis, the London-based agency announced on Monday.

A veteran carbon analyst has joined carbon analytics and consulting firm ClearBlue Markets after leaving London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) earlier this year.

The UK showed renewed climate leadership among developed countries at COP29 across the public, private, academic spheres, observers have said, making the new Labour government a standout at a summit that many found disappointing.

The chemicals can harm insects and marine wildlife, environmental charities warn.

The new registry containing information about importers of goods covered by the EU's new carbon border fee should be as transparent as its ETS registry, a group of European business association have told the European Commission.

Paul Watson, an early Greenpeace member, says his imprisonment in Greenland is a ‘political case’

The anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will learn within 14 days whether he will be extradited to Japan, a court has been told, as his four-month imprisonment in Greenland was extended.

At a hearing in Nuuk on Monday, the capital of the autonomous territory of Denmark, the judge Lars-Christian Sinkbæk said that Watson, who turned 74 today, would continue to be detained in a high security prison pending a decision from the Danish government. Watson’s legal team immediately submitted an appeal to Greenland’s high court.

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EU carbon prices gave up an early rally that took them above a key psychological and technical level but held on to some of their gains while gas prices also faded their early strength amid news that Azerbaijan had started shipping the fuel to Slovakia.

The word ‘probably’ will haunt this fish for the rest of its days – a deflating description for a cute, toxic creature

Pufferfish are cute, and most pufferfish are toxic. Like people, they spend their weeks moving between states of puffed up and deflated. Or, really, three states: normal, puffed up and then the hangover after the puffing up. Ironically, the pufferfish toxin, called tetrodotoxin, is deadly because it stops a person’s diaphragm from moving – in other words, it stops you from being able to puff yourself up. And you could see that as a lesson for wanting to eat them in the first place.

You’re wondering what is inside a blown-up pufferfish, how they inflate. Firstly: it is not air, or else they would pop up and out of the water like a balloon in a swimming pool. Also, air is hard to come by down there. They turn themselves into absurd-looking spherical objects by sucking water – something called, grossly, “buccal pumping” – into their extremely elastic stomachs. They don’t have ribs, which helps. This gives predators a fright – but perhaps more to the point, large spheres are hard to swallow.

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Readers are led to believe a short-on-facts advertorial exhorting government to let companies extract more gas is straight news coverage

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The big news on Monday morning was that the story splashed across the front of News Corp’s biggest-selling tabloid newspapers wasn’t news at all. It was an advertorial paid for by a fossil fuel industry. Not that readers glancing at page one of the Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier-Mail or Adelaide Advertiser were let in on this secret.

Instead, they were sold a lie – that the story was straight news coverage, in some cases described as an “exclusive” or a “special report”, on how (in the words of the Courier-Mail) Australia must “step on the gas” as it was the “only way to avoid higher bills, blackouts”.

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Authorities accused of ‘wasting time in court’ rather than working to fix the problem in towns across the Northern Territory

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Lawyers for Aboriginal residents of a remote town in the Northern Territory say it is “shocking and disappointing” that the NT government is trying to overturn a landmark court ruling which found it was legally required to provide them safe drinking water.

The challenge is the latest development in a five-year legal stoush between the NT government and residents of Laramba, an Aboriginal community 205km north-west of Alice Springs, who took the government to court over elevated levels of uranium in their drinking water.

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