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'Boring' research reveals what lies beneath Glasgow
Home battery trial set to launch in all-electric, all-solar Canberra suburb
Evoenergy prepares to launch a government-backed battery storage trial across up to 75 solar homes in the all-electric ACT suburb of Ginninderry.
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ANALYSIS: Standard opens door to voluntary offset use for company net zero goals
California’s IEMAC calls for rigid ETS supply adjustment mechanism
Oregon Democrats will drop WCI-modelled carbon market bill from 2021 agenda
Australian Carbon Projects Sourcing Manager, South Pole – Sydney/Melbourne
Australian Carbon Projects Development Coordinator, South Pole – Sydney/Melbourne
Analyst (x2), The Carbon Trust – London
EUA prices could reach €51 by 2030 under EU’s proposed climate target -analysts
Climate Policy Officer, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Suva, Fiji
Environment Minister Sussan Ley faces a critical test: will she let a mine destroy koala breeding grounds?
New Zealand invests in growing its domestic recycling industry to create jobs and dump less rubbish at landfills
ARENA to be given $1.4 billion as Coalition channels funds to CCS, EVs and pubs
ARENA to get $1.4 billion, but it and the CEFC will have mandates broadened to include the Coalition's favoured "low emissions" technologies, including CCS.
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The Guardian view on politics and the environment: we demand better | Editorial
The British public are way ahead of the government in their ideas for a fairer, greener country. Time for Downing Street to listen
Earlier this month, a dance troupe on an ITV light entertainment show created one of the most complained-about television moments of the past decade. In their performance, the dancers of Diversity reflected the carnage of Covid, deep-seated inequalities and, most of all, racism. They recreated the murder of George Floyd, then took the knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Unusual fare for Saturday prime-time, yet the audience lapped it up, whooping in the studio and enthusing on social media. And then the media regulator, Ofcom, was deluged with complaints – well over 20,000 by the start of this week, objecting to its political nature. That in turn provoked a petition supporting Diversity.
In this small story lies much that makes people despair of the state of UK democracy: deeply tribalistic, talking past rather than to each other, and with some (notably on the right) nursing their resentments like the dregs of an expensive cocktail. Yet it isn’t always so. A report by a cross-party group of MPs, to be published on Thursday, shows the public is far more thoughtful, is happy to talk across party divides, and way ahead of the government in ideas for a fairer, greener society.
Continue reading...US conservation group, developers launch voluntary offset pilot for land trusts
Plastic pollution: Washed clothing's synthetic mountain of 'fluff'
Liddell report shows Morrison and Taylor exaggerated case for gas intervention
Modelling for the Liddell Task Force reveals that Angus Taylor and Scott Morrison exaggerated the price impacts used to justify their extraordinary gas intervention.
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EU Market: EUAs stick near €30 as Brussels confirms higher climate ambition, funds pile into market
The Green Recovery: can I still eat meat if I care about the environment? – video
The average Australian eats half a kilogram of meat every week. But meat production has a huge impact on the environment – it’s responsible for almost 10% of Australia’s carbon emissions. So can we still eat meat if we care about the environment? Experts say yes, but with some caveats. And there are things that industry and governments should be doing to make meat production more sustainable, too
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How Australia's meat industry could be part of the climate solution
It’s the omnivore’s dilemma: is there an environmentally responsible way to continue eating meat? Cattle farmers like Charlie Arnott are working on a fix
“I would see paddocks blowing away in the wind,” laments pastoralist Charlie Arnott, as if confessing a crime. “That was confronting. Did I make that happen? Did decisions I make allow that topsoil to blow away?”
It was about 15 years ago, as the Millennium drought baked the life out of his farm in Boorowa, south-west of Sydney, that Arnott resolved to put a stop to the gusts of dirt being lost to the sky.
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