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Proposed tax will kill the state’s nascent EV market and make it impossible to meet its own emissions targets, critics say

A coalition of car manufacturers, industry groups, infrastructure companies and environmentalists have branded the Victorian government’s proposed electric vehicle tax the “worst electric vehicle policy in the world”.

In an open letter, published as a full-page advertisement in the Age newspaper on Thursday, the group of 25 organisations lashed the state government’s policy.

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The European Commission will wait until later this year to decide the fate of natural gas and nuclear energy in the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy, a communication released Wednesday confirmed, as the bloc’s 27 capitals and MEPs are split over the role of gas in the energy transition.

EUAs continued their record-busting run on Wednesday, climbing to within a cent of €46 amid what traders said was speculative buying and last-minute compliance demand and as negotiators agreed on the bloc's overall 2030 emissions target.

Dalai Lama among those to sign letter to world leaders calling for rapid shift to renewable energy

A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to help tackle the climate crisis.

In an open letter to world leaders published on Wednesday former presidents, scientists, novelists and religious leaders are urging governments to commit to a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels, and a “transformational plan” to ensure everyone around the world has access to renewable energy.

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Policy is not sufficiently ambitious and out of line with Paris agreement, say environment groups

A new EU target of a 55% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 has been described as a “farce” by environmental groups after it was agreed in Brussels on the eve of Joe Biden’s climate summit for world leaders.

After 14 hours of intensive negotiations, representatives of the EU’s member states and parliament emerged on Wednesday morning to announce a deal in principle on cuts and the establishment of a new independent body of scientists to monitor the policy.

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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother calls on the government to "reduce air pollution immediately".

The EU's climate-change goals of becoming climate neutral by 2050 will become legally binding.

Report following 2013 death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, calls for Britain to follow WHO recommendations

Legally binding maximum levels of particulate air pollution should be lowered in the UK to be in line with World Health Organization limits, a coroner has said.

UK levels for two particularly harmful kinds of pollution are currently twice as high as the WHO recommends.

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As homelessness rises, climate-related disasters make matters worse. But Covid relief measures and Biden’s infrastructure proposal are providing cause for cautious optimism

Terri Domer knows well what a brewing storm looks like.

Domer, 62, an Iowa native, has spent her life watching thunderstorms gather and tornadoes dash across rolling hills. Last August, when the midday sky darkened over the riverside homeless encampment where Domer and four other people spent most nights – built on a sandy bank near downtown, under tall trees – she quickly set about covering up their supplies.

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Australia on Wednesday announced A$540 million ($417 mln) in new funding for CCS and hydrogen technology, a move observers say likely means the government will make no new GHG target commitments at this week's global climate summit.

South Korean emissions allowances notched a fifth consecutive session of gains Wednesday, as the temporary price floor and fresh demand pushed prices to a two-week high.

The $540 million plan will fund carbon capture and storage technology and methods for making 'clean' hydrogen out of gas or coal.

The post Morrison dodges net zero, throws cash at blue hydrogen and CCS instead appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers measure the significant untapped potential of Australian airports as ideal hosts for large-scale solar.

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At present, the distribution market PV demand is increasing year by year. According to IHS, the CAGR for distribution market of PV modules in 2020-2024 will reach 9.81%.

The post Tiger Pro 54p, JinkoSolar’s Brand New Product to Lead Distribution Market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It is extraordinary that the museum is receiving funding from a fossil fuel giant for an exhibition on, of all things, the climate

Taking money from fossil fuel companies today is like taking money from tobacco firms in the 1990s. The damage public institutions inflict on themselves by receiving this sponsorship exceeds any benefits. Just as their hands were once stained with nicotine, now they are stained with oil. The tobacco experience suggests that it can take many years to expunge these damn’d spots and restore their reputations.

This is the position in which the Science Museum now finds itself. It appears to have learned nothing from the reputational harm it caused itself by accepting money from the oil companies BP and Equinor. Last week it revealed that Shell was funding – wait for it – its new exhibition on climate breakdown.

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Oceanex Energy hopes to develop more than 9GW of offshore and floating wind farms in Australia, and another 3GW in New Zealand.

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EU decision-makers sealed early on Wednesday an agreement on the European Climate Law setting the bloc’s net zero objective by 2050 into law, while maintaining the 2030 climate ‘net’ target of at least 55% below 1990 levels.