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Investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public
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Continue reading...Clean Energy Council cancels annual summit due to Sydney Covid lockdown
Covid outbreak forces Clean Energy Council to cancel Clean Energy Summit, which had been due to take place in Sydney in mid July.
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Conservative group says Germany could reach 100% renewables by 2030 at low cost
Conservative group says Germany could reach 100 pct renewables by 2030, and save $100 billion a year on energy imports.
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Great Solar Business Podcast: Three biggest challenges for solar businesses
We interviewed 5 solar business owners and asked "what are the top 3 issues affecting your business?" Featuring Troy Ryan from the Solar Depot.
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Flying car completes test flight between airports
Fukushima disaster: Tracking the wild boar 'takeover'
UK government's 'toothless policies' failing to protect nature
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed
CP Daily: Tuesday June 29, 2021
Five Asian countries account for 80% of new coal power investment
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units
Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new coal plants, according to a report.
Carbon Tracker, a financial thinktank, has found that China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units, even though renewable energy is cheaper than most new coal plants.
Continue reading...Tories’ ‘toothless’ UK policies failing to halt drastic loss of wildlife
More money is being spent destroying the environment than protecting it, MPs’ report finds
The government’s underfunded green ambitions and “toothless” policies are failing to halt catastrophic loss of wildlife, a committee of MPs has said in a new report that finds the biodiversity crisis is still not being treated with the urgency of the climate crisis.
The UK is the most wildlife-depleted country out of the G7 nations and, despite pledges to improve the environment within a generation, properly funded policies are not in place to make this happen, according to the report from the environmental audit committee (EAC).
Continue reading...Government economists accept reality and slash coal export forecasts
The government's resources forecaster has significantly revised downwards their predictions of thermal coal exports. Is this the beginning of the end?
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Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between a scorpion and tarantula? A venom scientist explains
Brussels adopts 5-year national free allocation tables for EU ETS after months of delays
5,000-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim'
West coast heatwave spurring more carbon-emitting generation in California
PREVIEW: Upcoming EU presidency holder Slovenia braces for climate “legislative tsunami”
Up to 410 million people at risk from sea level rises – study
Majority of land at risk from a 1-metre sea level rise is in the tropics, research finds
Up to 410 million people will be living in areas less than 2 metres above sea level, and at risk from sea level rises, unless global emissions are reduced, according to a new study.
The paper, published in Nature Communications, finds that currently 267 million people worldwide live on land less than 2 metres above sea level. Using a remote sensing method called Lidar, which pulsates laser light across coastal areas to measure elevation on the Earth’s surface, the researchers predicted that by 2100, with a 1 metre sea level rise and zero population growth, that number could increase to 410 million people.
Continue reading...AusNet unveils preferred path for Western Victorian network upgrades
AusNet reveals preferred route for its Western Victoria network upgrades, that it hopes will revive wind and solar investment in the region.
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