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The Indonesian government recently partnered with a local mining company to plant 30,000 mangrove seedlings and releasing 20,000 clams in North Sumatra, as the government earmarked the region as an ideal area for mangrove restoration.

If Australia proceeds with plans to modernise its grid without considering superconductors, it will be a huge missed opportunity.

The post A tenth of all electricity is lost in the grid. Superconducting cables can help appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California policymakers and lawmakers must provide greater certainty on their authority to implement the state’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme after 2030 in order to hit the state’s ambitious GHG reduction targets, a watchdog report said Friday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values rose slightly for the second consecutive week even as transacted volume cratered, with market experts pointing to elevated 2022 CO2 output as one of multiple possible drivers.

California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme reduced air pollution disparities between disadvantaged and other communities in a recent study covering 5% of the state’s reported emissions, potentially allaying concerns that market-based programmes present an equity-efficiency trade off, according to the findings of a new study.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values receded over the past week to levels not seen since December, as traders pointed to the lasting impact of a court ruling on Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance waivers and strong potential credit generation numbers in January.

The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will help increase scrap recycling in steel production, according to a recently-published study, which noted that framing the border policy as a key ingredient to the circular economy has several benefits.

Negotiations to finalise the EU’s revised renewable energy directive (RED) were left in tatters on Monday as senior parliamentarians reacted angrily to the cancellation of the latest round of talks over a row about green hydrogen. 

As we modernise Australia’s power grid, we should look to superconducting cables to save energy, cut emissions and future-proof the system Ian Mackinnon, Professor and Director, Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices, Queensland University of Technology Richard Taylor, Principal research fellow Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

5B lands biggest project yet, as tech provider for PV component of 95MW microgrid to power one of world's largest battery metals mines at up to 100% renewables.

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David Nixon defied judge’s instruction not to cite climate crisis as motivation for causing public nuisance

A supporter of the Insulate Britain climate protest campaign faces a prison sentence after he was convicted for contempt of court for telling a jury his actions were motivated by the climate crisis.

David Nixon was one of four defendants found guilty at Inner London crown court on Monday for causing a public nuisance by blocking the junction of Bishopsgate and Wormwood St in the City of London on 25 October 2021.

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The slump in standardised nature-based offsets continued last week following the claims of widespread over-crediting in the REDD+ avoided deforestation sector, but there were signs that sought-after over-the-counter (OTC) credits may have found a floor.

Coal is set to be pushed out of Poland's power mix by 2032 due to the falling cost of renewables and increasing carbon prices, analysts said in a report published on Monday that suggests Warsaw's current phaseout timelines will be undermined by market forces.

Three new licences for large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) got approval from Denmark to begin work in the country’s part of the North Sea, the government announced on Monday.

Australia’s total of EVs almost doubled in 2022, growing from 44,000 to more than 83,000, sales data shows

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The number of electric vehicles on Australian roads has almost doubled over the past year, growing from 44,000 at the beginning of 2022 to more than 83,000, according to research based on sales data released in the Electric Vehicle Council’s yearly recap.

That figure is expected to top 100,000 in the coming months.

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The stem is evidence, the thing that reminds you the fruit once weighed down a branch in a heavy orchard

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“My father liked his fruit very ripe, so whenever one of us came across an overripe pear we gave it to him,” Natalia Ginzburg writes in The Family Lexicon. “‘Ah, so you give me your rotten pears! What real jackasses you are!’ he’d say with a hearty laugh that reverberated through the apartment, then he’d eat the pear in two bites.”

You can feel it: the almost alcoholic impression a very ripe pear leaves somewhere between your throat and your lungs, more like a smell than a taste. It’s the thing that makes a pear drop a pear drop. It’s the thing that makes it feel like you breathed the pear in, that a moment ago it was a piece of fruit in a dark and golden painting, then it was gone.

Time will go by the way it did
before history, pure and unnoticed,
a mystery that arose between the sun and moon
before there was a word
for dawn or noon or midnight,

before there were names for the earth’s
uncountable things,
when fruit hung anonymously
from scattered groves of trees,
light on the smooth green side,
shadow on the other.

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Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed mining

Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.

The Metals Company (TMC), a Canadian mining firm that is one of the leading industry players, spent September to November of last year testing its underwater extraction vehicle in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone, a section of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii.

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EUA prices continued to strengthen by as much as 3% on Monday morning, with an extension of the recent short squeeze and supportive fundamentals driving prices back above €95.

Tony Abbott joins board of UK-based think tank that attacks net zero and other climate and clean energy policies.

The post “We need more science:” Tony Abbott joins board of climate denial think tank appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China is considering introducing the opportunity to let coal-fired power plants covered by the national emissions trading scheme borrow permits from future years in order to ease the scheme’s short term cost impacts, according to analysts.