Issue date : Fri 28 February, 2020
Estimated Reading Time : 03 Min 39 Seconds
Number of items : 43
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Angus Taylor to announce shift in climate investment away from wind and solar
The Guardian
Fri 28 February, 2020
Hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, lithium and advanced livestock feed supplements to be at heart of Coalition’s technology roadmap
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The AustralianAngus Taylor shifts dollars to hydrogen and lithium
The Age
Emissions strategy to look beyond renewables to 'next challenges'
The Brisbane Times
The Sydney Morning Herald
WAToday
9 News
Emissions strategy to be taken to summit
7 News
The Canberra Times
Perthnow
The Newcastle Herald
SBS World News Australia
The West Australian
Yahoo News
Angus Taylor sets down ‘markers’ to measure success of government’s technology roadmap
The Conversation
Fri 28 February, 2020
The government would be looking for the private sector to put in four or five times as much as it invests in research and development of particular technologies to reduce emissions, Energy Minister Angus Taylor says.
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Farmers wait for Government's $100 million water to flow months after drought deal announced
ABC News
Fri 28 February, 2020
Months after paying for much-needed water, farmers in the southern Murray-Darling Basin are waiting for the Federal Government's Water for Fodder program to deliver.
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Labor's mayoral candidate plans to make Brisbane carbon neutral by 2050
The Brisbane Times
Fri 28 February, 2020
Brisbane would become a net zero emissions city by 2050 through improved public transport, building efficiency and green space, under a proposal by Labor's lord mayoral candidate, Pat Condren.
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WAToday
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Vital Signs: a 3-point plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050
The Conversation
Fri 28 February, 2020
Every January Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest funds manager, BlackRock, sends a letter to the chief executives of major public companies.
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The Sydney Morning HeraldHeathrow's wings clipped after court rules expansion violates Paris climate pledge
The Age
The Brisbane Times
WAToday
SBS World News Australia
Proposed third runway at London's Heathrow Airport deemed illegal over climate change
Insurance in parts of the Gold Coast now unavailable or unaffordable due to flood risk
Domain
Fri 28 February, 2020
Some home insurers will no longer touch parts of the Gold Coast, leaving residents with unaffordable premiums or without insurance as what experts call the “red-zone” phenomenon expands.
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Rio smelters feeling the heat
The Australian
Fri 28 February, 2020
The outlook for Rio Tinto’s Australian aluminium smelters remains uncertain, with Rio boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques identifying the smelters’ carbon footprint as an additional barrier to keeping them open.
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Brand purpose must be all year round
CMO
Fri 28 February, 2020
Brands that do not stand for something are wasting their power and their voice, not to mention commercial opportunities, according to a professor of management at Macquarie Business School.
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London's Heathrow Airport expansion ruled illegal in victory for climate activists
ABC News
Fri 28 February, 2020
The planned expansion of London's Heathrow Airport has been declared unlawful on environmental grounds, a court ruling that could sink a $27 billion project dogged by decades of dispute and indecision.
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Infrastructure Australia steers a sustainable direction
The Fifth Estate
Fri 28 February, 2020
It might be a sign of changing times or Romilly Madew’s green pedigree coming through, but climate adaption and response projects topped Infrastructure Australia’s priority list for 2020.
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This fish is a sucker, but no fool
Cosmopolitan
Fri 28 February, 2020
The unique remora fish (order Carangiformes) – appropriately also known as the suckerfish or sharksucker – has such a powerful suction disc on its head that it can stay attached even to fast-moving sharks and leaping dolphins.
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Rare bristlebirds rescued in chinook helicopter mercy dash during bushfires
ABC News
Fri 28 February, 2020
It was a daring mission to rescue some of Australia's rarest birds from the ferocious East Gippsland bushfires.
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Sixteen zoo staff. More than 200 animals. An encroaching fire. The rescue operation that became the pride of Mogo
The Sydney Morning Herald
Fri 28 February, 2020
With bushfires bearing down on them, staff members at a NSW South Coast zoo had to choose whether to save themselves or stay and protect their animal charges. It was no contest.
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WAToday
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Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here’s what has happened since
The Conversation
Fri 28 February, 2020
As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee in Lower Darling River made global headlines.
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Great Barrier Reef: coral bleaching to worsen unless weather conditions change
The Guardian
Fri 28 February, 2020
The Great Barrier Reef is still at risk of a widespread outbreak of coral bleaching despite a cyclone to the far west helping to temporarily cool stressed corals, according to US and Australian science agencies.
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Port Lincoln Wastewater Treatment Plant hits key milestone
Utility Magazine
Fri 28 February, 2020
A 20-tonne steel cover for the new anaerobic digester has been craned in place at SA Water’s Port Lincoln Wastewater Treatment Plant at Billy Lights Point, South Australia, marking a milestone for the $18 million upgrade project.
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Nuclear waste law could extinguish native title without owners' consent, Senate committee says
ABC News
Thu 27 February, 2020
Native title could be extinguished without the consent of traditional owners in certain circumstances if a bill to build a nuclear waste facility in rural South Australia becomes law, a multi-party Senate committee says.
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PFAS class actions over groundwater contaminated by toxic firefighting foam settled by Federal Government
ABC News
Thu 27 February, 2020
An "in-principle" settlement has been reached between the Australian Government and residents of three communities who had their groundwater contaminated by toxic firefighting foams used at defence bases until the early 2000s.
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Climate activist to target Liberal seats at election
The Australian
Thu 27 February, 2020
Climate change activist Simon Holmes a Court has vowed to help fund independent candidates to run against Liberal MPs at the next election.
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Scathing report into NSW coal seam gas could create new hurdles for Santos Narrabri project
The Guardian
Thu 27 February, 2020
Santos’s coal seam gas project near Narrabri could face further obstacles after a parliamentary inquiry delivered a scathing assessment of the state government’s progress in implementing recommendations to regulate coal seam gas extraction.
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Help us to manage the environment, Queensland farmers ask government
The Brisbane Times
Thu 27 February, 2020
Sixteen farming, conservation and Indigenous groups are together lobbying the Queensland government for extra money to protect Queensland's network of privately owned nature refuges.
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The AgeThe Sydney Morning Herald
WAToday
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NSW's CSG inquiry finds most recommendations ignored
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thu 27 February, 2020
A parliamentary inquiry into the coal seam gas industry in NSW has found two of 16 recommendations for the controversial industry have been implemented, more than five years after the Chief Scientist made them.
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The AgeThe Brisbane Times
WAToday
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State Government funding for ‘blue carbon’ projects to restore seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves
The Advertiser
Thu 27 February, 2020
Storing carbon in seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves is a future money-spinner with extra benefits for water quality, biodiversity and nature-based tourism.
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Australia must commit to net-zero emissions, influential Conservative warns
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thu 27 February, 2020
London: Former British Conservative Party leader William Hague has called on Scott Morrison to end Australia's climate wars and adopt a net-zero carbon emissions target ahead of the United Nations climate change conference to be held in Glasgow this November.
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Grattan on Friday: Morrison looks to his messaging on coronavirus and climate
The Conversation
Thu 27 February, 2020
Two issues are currently presenting the Morrison government with fast-moving targets.
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Changing climate, changing minds
Particle
Thu 27 February, 2020
How invoking a sense of legacy could help prompt climate change action.
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How access to land plus a participation income could change the world
The Fifth Estate
Thu 27 February, 2020
We’ve spent enough time criticising our broken system characterised by overconsumption and inequality so here’s a solution that should appeal to both sides of the political divide.
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Audiences have had a gutful of incessant pontificating and virtue signalling of actors
The Australian
Thu 27 February, 2020
While normally not one to believe conspiracy theories, I sometimes muse there is a secret and sinister political movement that over many years has infiltrated our creative and performing arts industry and now controls it. Its members are actors, writers and singers, and they range from the highest paid celebrities to those struggling to make a name for themselves.
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New digital library helps financiers dig deeper into sustainability
The Fifth Estate
Thu 27 February, 2020
There has been plenty of talk recently about a sea change in attitudes regarding climate-related financial risks but making the business case for sustainable finance isn’t always easy.
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Unsatisfied HESTA members head for exit
Financial Standard
Thu 27 February, 2020
An activist group who met with $50 billion industry fund HESTA following a protest have revealed that several from their group were so disappointed with the outcome of the meeting that they're leaving the fund.
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Banks’ climate vulnerability assessment positive for investors: Moody’s
Investor Daily
Thu 27 February, 2020
APRA’s climate change financial vulnerability assessments for the banks will boost the quality of disclosures and risk management, according to Moody’s Investors Services, dubbing it a win for investors.
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Water Corporation takes on $30 million solar project
Utility Magazine
Thu 27 February, 2020
The Western Australian Government has partnered with Water Corporation and committed $30 million over three years for solar energy projects, which will see the utility install 45,000 rooftop solar panels on around 50 of its pump stations, other buildings and borefields throughout the state.
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ISPT tops NABERS Indoor Environment charts
The Fifth Estate
Thu 27 February, 2020
Quality air and daylight is no longer a nice-to-have for office workers, according to ISPT’s Alicia Maynard, who says tenants now expect health and wellness in the workplace.
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Infrastructure priorities in the face of bushfire, floods and droughts
Architecture AU
Thu 27 February, 2020
Infrastructure Australia has called on governments to fund infrastructure projects that boost resilience in its 2020 Infrastructure Priority List, as the consequences of inaction on climate change loom.
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After rescuing 74 burnt and starving koalas, volunteer Kai is heading home
Triple J Hack
Thu 27 February, 2020
In late January, when the forests were burning, self-employed tree surgeon Kai Wild jumped in his ute and drove west out of Sydney, heading for Kangaroo Island more than 1500km away.
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Queen guitarist Brian May takes swipe at Marion council's cat curfew proposal
ABC News
Thu 27 February, 2020
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May has taken a swipe at an Adelaide council's "revolting" proposal to implement a nightly cat curfew for local residents' felines.
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Native Australian smoky mouse becomes first species to be killed from bushfire smoke inhalation
ABC News
Thu 27 February, 2020
The bushfire smoke that enveloped the Canberra region over summer was so hazardous it killed a group of critically endangered native mice held in a breeding program more than 50 kilometres away from the fires.
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Microalgae, and future food for thought
Lens
Thu 27 February, 2020
They’re responsible for more than 75 per cent of the Earth’s oxygen supply, but often get no credit for it.
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Water towers are crucial to 1.9 billion people but are at risk
News.com.au
Thu 27 February, 2020
Global warming is putting supplies of fresh water to almost a quarter of the world’s population in grave danger.
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The Advertiser
The Courier Mail
The Daily Telegraph
The Geelong Advertiser
The Gold Coast Bulletin
The Herald Sun
The Mercury
The Weekly Times
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Why our driest state leads the way on water
The Fifth Estate
Thu 27 February, 2020
South Australian Water is collaborating with Sydney Water, researchers and the NSW Smart Sensing Network on water saving technologies. Funny that the driest place in the country, South Australia, is pretty savvy on H2O.
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Toxic landfill in St Albans has been known and not talked about for years
The Age
Thu 27 February, 2020
The Environment Protection Authority and Brimbank Council knew seven years ago that hundreds of residents in the western suburbs were living above a former landfill site containing toxic and radioactive waste, but failed to warn them.
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WAToday
BOM's autumn outlook forecasts a generally drier north and wetter south
ABC News
Thu 27 February, 2020
As the traumatic summer officially creeps to a close, it is with weary eyes that we look to what autumn might hold.