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Rare-earth metals are currently mined or recovered via e-waste recycling — methods with drawbacks including high cost, environmental damage, and risks to human safety. This is where we come in. Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

"More gas units will not increase the need for gas generation." Transmission company doubts Angus Taylor's 1,000MW Kurri Kurri gas plant will be built.

The post Transmission company questions Taylor’s gas plant, saying it would be rarely used appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A “precariously” dangled shipping container said to have endangered the lives of workers at the 189MW Suntop solar farm in New South Wales is being investigated.

The post Union slams solar farm construction incident that “endangered lives” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The ElectraNet battery at Dalrymple has kicked plenty of goals in its first two years of operation, including earning enough revenue to repay a $12m grant.

The post South Australia’s “other” big battery repays ARENA grant after windfall returns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Winrock International is recruiting applicants for the position of REDD+ Program Officer for a Winrock initiative, the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART). The attached position description describes the responsibilities and qualifications.  

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We are looking to hire established carbon/emissions brokers (individuals or teams) to join an ambitious and growing firm. Offering immediate access to clients with no competing internal desks or unproductive legacy relationships, we can offer highly competitive and contractual performance-based remuneration and the exciting opportunity to build their team in a new market for the firm.

A near doubling in the US’s Paris Agreement emissions reduction target is within reach, but still requires contributions from all economic sectors, researchers said Thursday.

National agreement on items covered by ban should provide businesses with certainty and ease consumer confusion

Plastic cutlery and straws are among the types of single-use plastics to be phased out in Australia from 2025 under a plan to reduce plastic waste.

A national meeting of environment ministers on Thursday confirmed the phase-out would cover eight types of “problematic and unnecessary” plastic waste: lightweight plastic bags; plastic misleadingly labelled “degradable”; plastic utensils and stirrers; plastic straws; polystyrene food containers; polystyrene consumer goods packaging; and microbeads in personal care products.

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The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finalised a carbon pricing policy statement on Thursday to inform future market rules for regional grid operators, with the agency concluding that incorporating a CO2 price on wholesale power markets was within its purview.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices climbed on the secondary market this week due to rising 2022 floor expectations and an uptick of spread trading, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) values stagnated despite participants’ growing beliefs of unmet demand from emitters. 

EU ETS trading volume rose by more than a fifth in 2020 even as interest in auctions dwindled somewhat, according to a report published on Thursday.

US financial regulators universally agree on the need for carbon pricing and a clear mandate to address climate change as a systemic financial risk, though data availability remains a challenge, participants said at a virtual panel on Thursday.

The EU is likely to only partially link shipping to other carbon market sectors when it includes maritime in its cap-and-trade system, analysts said in a report released Thursday, adding that any move to include shipping would be unlikely before 2023.

Apple announced a fund on Thursday to invest in profitable forestry projects that remove carbon, with the tech giant aiming to use the GHG reductions to reach its 2030 CO2 neutrality goal.

The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) revealed its new climate change strategy on Thursday, with Leader Erin O’Toole proposing to redesign and lower the Liberal government’s carbon charge on fossil fuels while conditioning future price increases under the federal ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) on carbon rates in the US and EU.

Scientists confirm they have made "chimera" embryos from long-tailed macaques and humans.

Victoria's plan has flaws, but it's still likely to bring the feral horse problem under control, and will do a lot better than the very low benchmark set by NSW. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Though Facebook has announced a major renewable milestone, the platform continues to struggle with climate and renewable misinformation on its platform.

The post Facebook hits renewable milestone but fails to stem climate disinformation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Jordan Gerbich, 30, will serve three months in federal prison and pay a $1,000 fine for killing the animal

A man has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for shooting a protected northern elephant seal to death on the central California coast.

Armed with a .45-caliber handgun and a flashlight, on the night of 2 September 2019 Jordan Gerbich, 30, opened fire on an elephant seal at a popular viewing area where the giant aquatic mammals haul out along the shore near the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary. The elephant seal was discovered the following morning with a bullet wound to the head and its tail fins cut off, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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