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National Parks and Wildlife Service says threat ‘should be condemned by all Australians’

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Police are investigating a letter threatening to “firebomb” a New South Wales national parks office in the Snowy Mountains region over the culling of feral horses in the Kosciuszko national park.

The state’s environment minister, James Griffin, said the “disgraceful and unacceptable” behaviour had been reported to NSW police, while the head of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Atticus Fleming, said the threat “is a criminal act, and should be condemned by all Australians”.

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Gelion launches production of its “safe and durable” Endure batteries at a newly repurposed manufacturing facility in Western Sydney.

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EnergyCo releases draft declaration of key NSW REZ that attracted almost 40GW of renewable energy storage projects, including offshore wind.

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Both California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices fell further towards six-month lows this week as EU carbon permits and broader equity markets took a beating, though both clawed back small gains towards mid-week amid uncertain short-term outlooks for both programmes.

FRV Australia confirms $7 million in funding from the Victorian government to build the Terang big battery with grid forming inverters.

The post FRV says Victoria grid forming battery will be the first of many appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As the Carbon Credits and Removals Lead, you will develop and manage Google’s carbon credits program and emerging removals portfolio. You will lead a strategy for carbon credits and removals, playing a role in accelerating the realization of Google’s goal to reach Net Zero by 2030, steering multiple initiatives underway.

As it continues on its growth trajectory and looks to the future, Tradewater is seeking a Director of Verification and Logistics. The position links key components of Tradewater’s work – a mastery of carbon offset protocols, management of the movement and destruction of greenhouse gases globally, and project documentation and quality control to ensure that all of Tradewater’s work meets the requirements of carbon offset protocols in a manner that can be successfully verified by third-parties.  The position reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer.

The Alberta government must increase the stringency of its Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) programme even more than it is planning in order to prevent a downturn in emissions performance credit and offset prices, researchers said Wednesday.

US Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to combat deforestation and aid global CO2 reduction efforts, including by helping countries to participate in carbon markets.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Thursday published its final WCI-modelled carbon market regulation, making a slight alteration in the initial GHG budgets ahead of the programme launch in January.

Our oceans have absorbed almost all the extra heat we’ve trapped with our emissions. Now we know how this heat moves in ocean currents. Moninya Roughan, Professor in Oceanography, UNSW Sydney Junde Li, Postdoctoral research associate Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Lillipillies are one of Australia’s great gifts to the natural world. But the story of these homegrown heroes may be taking a grim turn. Darren Crayn, Professor and Director, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Central Bank is leading efforts among its peers worldwide to step up the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss, but evidence suggests these moves will have scant impact compared to even a modest carbon price.

Energy ministers will meet on Friday to finally adopt long-floated measures aimed at taming rocketing energy prices, ranging from mandatory electricity curbs to taxing windfall profits, against the backdrop of a worsened geopolitical scenario since the EU-27 gathered only a couple of weeks prior.

Scientists ‘shocked’ by rate of change as rapid sea-ice melt drives absorption of CO2 – with ‘huge implications’ for Arctic sea life

Acidification of the western Arctic Ocean is happening three to four times faster than in other ocean basins, a new study has found.

The ocean, which absorbs a third of all of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, has grown more acidic because of fossil fuel use. Rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic region over the past three decades has accelerated the rate of long-term acidification, according to the study, published in Science on Thursday.

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The Supervisory Body for the UN's new crediting mechanism has issued recommendations on carbon removals and called on experts to help finalise its guidance, despite fears that the ideas are too vague.

Planting trees, rainwater gardens and de-paving can mitigate effects of climate crisis, according to analysis of 2,000 cities

Urban greening initiatives such as planting street trees, rainwater gardens and de-paving can help mitigate the impacts of urban heating due to the climate crisis and urban expansion, according to a study that has found cities have been warming by 0.5C a decade on average.

Scientists at Nanjing and Yale Universities analysed satellite data from across 2,000 cities and compared surface temperature readings between cities and rural areas from 2002 to 2021.

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Leaks from Nord Stream pipelines this week may emit greenhouse gases equivalent to more-than 70% of Danish annual output over a 20-year period, according to analysis of government figures that would place them among the biggest gas leaks ever and pose a major climate threat.

New analysis finds Bitcoin as damaging to the planet as some of the world’s most dirtiest industries, including beef, gas and oil. But an answer could be in the ether.

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