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Tian Xuejun rejects Australia’s ‘groundless accusations’ that China influenced the finding to score political points

The Chinese host of a United Nations world heritage committee has defended a proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, and rejected Australian government suspicion that China influenced the finding for political reasons.

It came as the Morrison government sought to use a new report by Australia’s marine science agency to argue there had been widespread coral recovery on the reef.

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Enel Green Power Australia (EGPA) has partnered with Monash University to support the launch of its innovative and award-winning Green Steps program for 2021.

The post Enel Green Power Australia joins Monash University to support the next generation of sustainability leaders appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As temperatures rise and pollution increases, wildfires, floods and extreme winds have battered many parts of the world in the last six months

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With construction sand in short supply crushed plastic is being used as an alternative.

New alliance urges governments to work together to deliver a just transition to a green economy

People around the world need a “global green deal” that would tackle the climate crisis and restore the natural world as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of politicians from the UK, Europe and developing countries has said.

The Global Alliance for a Green New Deal is inviting politicians from legislatures in all countries to work together on policies that would deliver a just transition to a green economy ahead of Cop26 UN climate talks in Glasgow this November.

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Plans for a 33 turbine wind farm overlooking the site of the former Hazelwood coal-fired power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley have been put on public exhibition.

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This weekend marks the seventh anniversary of when Coalition MPs danced with joy at the repeal of the carbon price. Their policies are still baked in denial and stupidity.

The post Seven years after carbon price was scrapped, Australia’s policies still baked in denial appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Severe floods have impacted German hydropower stations and a lignite mine and power plant, utility RWE announced Saturday.

Animal Rebellion activists began blockade of Scunthorpe site on Thursday over fast food chain’s meat products

Four activists have been arrested at a protest that began more than 48 hours ago at a McDonald’s burger factory in Scunthorpe.

About 50 activists from Animal Rebellion have been preventing meat products leaving the factory, urging the fast food chain to move to a meat- and dairy-free menu by 2025.

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Former Bank chief says governments must act as free markets will not reduce emissions alone

Governments must step up their regulation of businesses to tackle the climate crisis, the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has urged, because the financial free markets will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions alone.

Carney, who left the Bank of England last year before the first Covid-19 lockdown, is now one of the most influential figures working on Cop26, the vital UN climate talks to be held in Glasgow in November. He is a UN envoy on climate change and Boris Johnson’s finance adviser on the climate.

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Ministers say elephants are not the only animals at risk from hunters, as they launch consultation.

Pressed flowers and a poem found inside a centuries-old botany book sparked a quest to find the owner.

Ros Atkins explains the link between climate change and recent heat waves in the US and Canada.

Investors are seen as bigger buyers of EU carbon allowances than Europe's heavy industries over the coming months and years because utilities are rapidly decarbonising and industrials lack financial clout or are cushioned by ongoing free allocation, a conference heard on Friday.

Regulated entities boosted their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) length for the first time in 10 weeks over the most recent five-day stretch, while speculators kept their positions nearly unchanged, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

It comes amid growing concern about congestion, competition and even an arms race in space.

Rule changes aimed at making room for more household solar systems and batteries on the grid would be unfair to current owners, some say

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Michael Streatfeild was an early solar adopter. About a decade ago he withdrew $15,000 from his mortgage to install a 3.6kW system of panels on a north-east facing section of his roof in western Sydney.

Three years ago, in a bid to wipe out his reliance on coal-fired grid electricity, he added a 4kW system and positioned it to catch sun later in the day, when it comes from the north-west.

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Sweden is inviting carbon-cutting cutting projects in the Dominican Republic to bid to be the first initiatives that could ultimately deliver Paris Agreement-era carbon credits to the Nordic country.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including developments in North Carolina.