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Why you may only need to charge your EV once a week, or less
Range anxiety? Most EVs would need to be charged less than once a week to meet the average daily commute of Australian drivers.
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Martin Green – Australia’s “father of PV” – beats Elon Musk to Global Energy Prize
UNSW's Martin Green beats Elon Musk for major energy prize for his work in revolutionising efficiency and helping make solar PV cheapest energy option.
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Solar overboard: PV panels sunk in NSW shipping spill
A container-load of solar panels was among those lost at sea in shipping mishap off the NSW coast.
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Ford, Ontario PCs win majority government, threatening province’s cap-and-trade future
Ontario's Progressive Conservative party and leader Doug Ford won a majority government in Thursday’s provincial election, threatening the future of the province’s cap-and-trade programme and its WCI linkage.
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Is Australia's current drought caused by climate change? It's complicated
Southern Australia's debate may be exacerbated by climate change, but it's not that simple.
Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne
Anna Ukkola, Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, Australian National University
Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne
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Deloitte bolsters renewable energy, clean-tech and innovative technologies capability with new partner
Deloitte financial advisory has appointed renewable energy and clean technology specialist John O’Brien as a renewable energies partner within the firm’s energy, resources & industrials group.
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Alesia becomes the world’s first PR agency to accept SolarCoins as means of payment for its services
Alesia Communications announced today that it will now accept payments in SolarCoins for the delivery of its services.
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Behind Sanjeev Gupta’s plans for Australia’s solar-powered economy
GFG Alliance outlines more plans for huge large scale solar and storage investments, including doubling of pumped hydro storage, and more on planned world's biggest battery.
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Yellowstone boss: Trump officials forced me out over wildlife advocacy
Dan Wenk is being used as an example to undermine culture of conservation, say former park service workers
The superintendent of Yellowstone national park says he has been forced out of his job by the Trump administration over his wildlife advocacy.
“It’s a hell of a way to be treated at the end of four decades spent trying to do my best for the park service and places like Yellowstone, but that’s how these guys are,” said Dan Wenk, referring to the US interior department. “Throughout my career, I’ve not encountered anything like this, ever.”
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A bird’s eye view of New Zealand's changing glaciers
Forty years of continuous end-of-summer snowline monitoring of New Zealand's glaciers brings the issue of human-induced climate change into tight focus.
Andrew Lorrey, Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Climate Observations and Processes, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Andrew Mackintosh, Professor & Director of Antarctic Research Centre, expert on glaciers and ice sheets, Victoria University of Wellington
brian.anderson@vuw.ac.nz, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington
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Frydenberg says NEG won’t stop investment in cheap wind and solar
Frydenberg says falling cost of wind, solar, and batteries means renewable investment will continue under proposed National Energy Guarantee.
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Researchers use genetic testing to reveal more about the endangered whale shark
Whale sharks spend winter in the Ningaloo Reef region on the remote north-western coast of Australia, an area with 500 times less debris than the Port of Melbourne.
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Project Manager, Environment & Climate Change, Canadian Standards Association – Toronto
As a Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for CSA Group’s GHG and Accessible Building Registries, standards development activities related to the environment as well as national and international standards for a diverse collection of natural resources sectors including mining, forestry, water resources protection, and oil & gas, as well as conducting business development initiatives to expand the portfolio into new areas of the Environment & Climate Change and Natural Resources Programs.
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Managing Consultant (Energy), Navigant – Abu Dhabi
Navigant Consulting’s Global Energy Practice enables energy companies, governments and regulators to anticipate the changes and to meet the challenges of transforming global energy markets. Our consultants are all dedicated energy specialists, are highly qualified and collectively combine substantial operational experience with deep profession-based skills.
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Environment Advisor, Energy & Carbon Management, Metropolitan Police – London
Help create a cleaner, greener Met. The Met is there to fight crime and protect the people of London. But we’re also committed to reducing our impact on the planet. Managing energy use and carbon emissions is a big part of this, which is why we need an Environment Adviser to give us expert guidance.
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Deputy Directors, EU Exit Energy and Climate Change Programme, BEIS – London
We are looking for two excellent deputy directors to lead the delivery of the EU Exit Energy and Climate Change portfolio.
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Manager/Senior Associate, Sustainability & Climate Change Consulting, PwC – London
PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change (S&CC) practice, part of PwC Consulting, offers services to both public and private sector clients across a range of specialist subject areas, including; economic development, urbanisation, impact assessment, responsible business and climate change.
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Policy Associate, Pacific Forest Trust – San Francisco
The Policy Associate role is crucial to helping understand simply and tangibly the complex, often technical issues that confront forest landowners and stakeholders alike in our rapidly changing world. In particular, the Associate will play a key role in furthering PFT’s goals and objectives to expand the role of forests in meeting state, regional and national targets for reductions of CO2 emissions, both at the compliance offset and the sector level.
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CP Daily: Thursday June 7, 2018
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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Political differences hindering introduction of Washington DC carbon tax
Two contrasting carbon fee proposals between Washington DC lawmakers and environmental coalitions have highlighted the political differences between the groups while delaying the formal introduction of a bill, according to campaigners speaking at a panel on Thursday.
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