Issue date : Mon 15 February, 2021
Estimated Reading Time : 04 Min 45 Seconds
Number of items : 56
Nationals meet to discuss carbon targets
7 News
Mon 15 February, 2021
Agriculture Minister David Littleproud is calling for calm as the Nationals meet to discuss the party’s approach to climate change targets.
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Indian climate activist Disha Ravi detained over farmer protest 'toolkit' shared by Greta Thunberg
SBS World News Australia
Mon 15 February, 2021
Indian climate activist Disha Ravi has been detained for her involvement in a farmer protest guide linked to Greta Thunberg.
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Australia's lack of effort on climate change is going to cost us
The Guardian
Mon 15 February, 2021
Global momentum is building on increasing climate action to meet the Paris agreement’s 1.5C limit, with all countries under pressure to increase their 2030 emission reductions ahead of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this year. But Australia appears to be going backwards.
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How to make farming carbon part of the 2050 target solution
The Australian Financial Review
Mon 15 February, 2021
No one should underestimate how hard it will be to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Some suggest that excluding agriculture, as New Zealand has done, will make the task easier. On the contrary. If we write off the potential of agriculture to help correct the carbon imbalance, it is hard to see how a country like ours could ever meet the target. By making small but important changes to the way we farm, Australia’s 400 million hectares of agricultural land can be transformed into net consumers of carbon sequestered into the soil.
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Australia lagging behind on electric vehicles and climate action
Independent Australia
Mon 15 February, 2021
The Federal Government’s electric vehicle policy was released two years ago, but they still cannot bring themselves to call it that, writes Dr Graeme McLeay.
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AGL’s plight rams home $1.7t fundie’s climate warning
The Australian Financial Review
Mon 15 February, 2021
AGL shows that while the climate conversation is focused on 2050, impacts are hitting share prices today. The $1.7 trillion asset manager PGIM says investors need to act.
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Why prioritising sustainability is even more important in 2021
Smart Company
Mon 15 February, 2021
Before COVID-19, sustainability was trendy.
Many studies found the majority of consumers in Australia and around the world preferred to buy sustainable, green or ethical products from responsible businesses (or, at least, they said they did).
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What are big batteries and how could they reshape the electricity grid?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 15 February, 2021
Australia’s first “big” battery worked so well there are now more than 40 built or planned across the country. How do these batteries work?
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Brisbane City Council prepares suburban park upgrades across the city
ABC News
Mon 15 February, 2021
A slew of Brisbane parks are slated for upgrades this year as Brisbane City Council plans new playgrounds, picnic areas, shade trees and other facilities across the suburbs.
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The fight to save a wildlife ‘ark’ from a ‘Porpoise Spit’ development
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 15 February, 2021
It is hard to think of a patch of land that has won so many friends as the 20-hectare pocket of wilderness that miraculously survived last summer’s fires at the village of Manyana on the NSW South Coast.
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Kangaroo population declines in NSW by 4 million, 'largely attributed' to drought
ABC News
Mon 15 February, 2021
Another devastating impact of the drought in regional New South Wales has been revealed, with the state's kangaroo population thought to have plummeted by more than a quarter.
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Platypus spotted with plastic ring around neck sparks long-running rescue mission
ABC News
Mon 15 February, 2021
A chance encounter with a platypus in a Far North Queensland creek has led a retired GP on a months-long quest to free it from its plastic bonds.
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What a gas: Seaweed diet to cut cow emissions
The Courier Mail
Sun 14 February, 2021
The Federal Government is pumping more money into an Australian seaweed product that can help cut cows’ greenhouse emissions. It comes as a series of famous Aussies invest in the company that makes it.
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The New DailySurf meets turf: Seaweed additive to cut cows’ greenhouse emissions gets $1m grant
The question Ed Husic wants answered: Why can’t Australia make electric cars?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun 14 February, 2021
Labor’s innovation spokesman Ed Husic has been asking himself the same question for five years, since he first visited Tesla’s California factory in 2016: why can’t Australia build an electric car?
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Viability of ‘flawed’ Dungowan Dam in doubt as costs blow out further
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun 14 February, 2021
The troubled Dungowan Dam project, cited by the Productivity Commission as an exemplar of “flawed decision making”, may be even less viable than thought with an internal NSW government review estimating costs may double again.
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WA Libs fill Labor’s energy policy void with a coal exit and green hydrogen
Reneweconomy
Sun 14 February, 2021
WA Opposition leader Zak Kirkup wants to replace State-owned coal-fired power from Collie with wind and solar from the Mid-West by 2025 in a surprise move that has left Labor as the clean energy laggards in WA.
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‘Devastating’ legal loophole threatens NT ghost bats, environmentalists say
NT News
Sun 14 February, 2021
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are calling on the NT government to close a “devastating” loophole they say puts at risk the future of the vulnerable Northern Australian ghost bat.
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The government is stuck in the fallacy of debt and deficit while ignoring the climate crisis
The Guardian
Sun 14 February, 2021
Despite a year in which there was a massive increase in government debt that had no discernible impact on interest rates or inflation, our politics remains stuck in the fallacy of debt and deficit, even in the face of the great crisis of climate change.
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There are lessons from COVID relevant to Victoria’s climate targets
The Age
Sun 14 February, 2021
This time last year, as bushfire smoke had just started to clear from our suffocating skies, the Victorian government was on the cusp of setting emissions reduction targets for the critical decade to 2030.
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Scott Morrison must find a way to make net-zero targets viable
Independent Australia
Sun 14 February, 2021
After seemingly changing his stance on a 2050 net-zero emissions target, it's now up to Scott Morrison to actually do something about it, writes Stephen Saunders.
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Why the Nationals’ net-zero play will hurt the very communities they want to protect
The New Daily
Sun 14 February, 2021
Last week saw the Nationals out again doing their best to slow the momentum building for Australia to join most of our major trading partners and adopt a target of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Social cost of carbon to be determined for future emissions
The Canberra Times
Sun 14 February, 2021
The economic damage of emitting one tonne of greenhouse gas into Canberra's skies would be assigned a dollar value following a social cost of carbon analysis.
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Climate change inaction spurs Berowra residents to take some action themselves with local ideas
ABC News
Sun 14 February, 2021
In late 2019 when Australia's first "mega-blaze" tore through Gospers Mountain in northern Sydney, all Kate Friend felt was hopelessness.
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Kosciuszko brumbies trapping plan setting ‘most fertile’ animals free
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun 14 February, 2021
About one in three brumbies trapped as part of the Berejiklian government’s plan to cut feral horse numbers in the Kosciuszko National Park is being released rather than rehomed because of animal welfare issues.
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Massive NSW property Narriearra Station hailed by conservationists as ecological treasure trove
ABC News
Sun 14 February, 2021
In 1960, Bill O'Connor was a strapping 24-year-old on a remote pastoral property when, in a split second, his life changed forever.
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Ashley Judd describes how she broke her leg in the Congo
ABC News
Sun 14 February, 2021
Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her a leg after she tripped in a Congolese rainforest and was evacuated by motorbike.
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Hundreds of Victorian home gardeners angry and out of pocket after using toxic compost from major recycler Suez
ABC News
Sun 14 February, 2021
Some time in October last year, a batch of commercial compost left a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne, bound for garden centres in central Victoria and Melbourne.
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Far West groups pour scorn on potential water infrastructure projects for region during water inquiry hearing
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
A New South Wales Upper House inquiry has heard from groups from the far west of the state about their concerns regarding the Menindee Lakes Water Savings Project and water issues in general.
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Legal action launched against NT Government over McArthur River Mine security bond
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
Traditional owners near the Gulf of Carpentaria have launched legal action against the Northern Territory Government over its decision to slash the security bond paid by a massive lead and zinc mine.
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Real-world 'Game of Thrones' is accelerating the climate crisis
Independent Australia
Sat 13 February, 2021
Squabbling governments and evil rulers with mindless minions isn't just the plot of a TV show but a real-world crisis putting our planet in peril, writes Stephen Fitzgerald.
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Talking Point: Tasmanian forestry practice the exemplar of sustainability thanks to the RFA
The Mercury
Sat 13 February, 2021
NICK STEEL corrects the misconceptions that continue to surround the state’s logging industry.
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Green jobs revolution running out of power
The Australian
Sat 13 February, 2021
Once, “learning to code” was the key for workers facing the economic scrap heap to stay in jobs.
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Shell in Nigeria: Polluted communities 'can sue in English courts'
Yahoo News
Sat 13 February, 2021
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that oil-polluted Nigerian communities can sue Shell in English courts.
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Climate change business to boom as riches are about to flow
The Advertiser
Sat 13 February, 2021
Stopping climate change is tipped to deliver huge wealth to those taking advantage of business opportunities.
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Farmers slam Nationals’ climate change inaction, say it’s already costing them
The New Daily
Sat 13 February, 2021
Inaction on climate change is already costing Australia’s farmers countless dollars, and urgent political action is needed to avoid more extreme droughts, fires and floods, they say.
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Bight Petroleum application to extend Great Australian Bight work rejected
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
The national petroleum titles administrator has knocked back an oil and gas exploration company from extending its work program in the Great Australian Bight, which could have significant implications in any future attempts to renew its exploration leases.
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'Ecocide' proposal aiming to make environmental destruction an international crime
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
A group of leading international law experts has defined a new super-crime.
They're calling it "ecocide".
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Travelers Europe rules out insurance for controversial Adani coal mine
Insurance Business
Sat 13 February, 2021
Travelers Europe, which has a syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, has joined nearly 30 major insurers in ruling out coverage for the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine project.
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The West Australian
Yahoo News
Salmon giant Tassal silent on mass death of fish near Port Arthur
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
Tasmanian aquaculture giant Tassal has reported a sizeable salmon mortality event affecting its Long Bay lease near Port Arthur in the state's south but is refusing to detail the scale or cause of the deaths.
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Hippies and crime gangs rake in millions selling native Australian wildlife on the black market
The Daily Telegraph
Sat 13 February, 2021
This is how organised crime gangs and wildlife traffickers are raking in millions of dollars a year selling native species on the black market.
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Bizarre 'blue fleet' blows onto Australia's east coast
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
A bunch of bizarre-looking blue-coloured sea creatures are washing up on Australia's east coast.
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Unusual song and collected poo confirms obscure Asian bird species brown-streaked flycatcher found in Australia
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
It started with a strange song, but it was only after a DNA test of a poo that bird researchers have been able to confirm Australia's first record of an obscure Asian bird, rarely seen even in its native range.
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From ‘moonscape’ to emission offsets: the farmers breaking new ground
The Age
Sat 13 February, 2021
Forty years ago, wool grower John Ive bought a “moonscape” farm. It was denuded by overgrazing, with production capacity decimated by salinity. Ive says farmers in the district saw him as a “nutcase” for taking it on.
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Scientists use AI to help save coral reefs
Yahoo News
Sat 13 February, 2021
Australia's tropical marine research agency is turbocharging facial recognition technology to analyse coral reef survey photos in a bid to keep pace with the rapid change in the threatened environments.
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Tropical soda apple, described as the 'weed from hell', has sprouted following Black Summer
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
Farmers along the north coast of New South Wales are at war with a noxious weed that has sprung out of the ground following the 2019 bushfires.
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'Colder and deeper’: Scientists close in on spot to drill Antarctic ice core 1.5m years old
The Guardian
Sat 13 February, 2021
Antarctic scientists are close to finalising a drilling location deep in the frozen continent’s interior that could reveal a continuous record of the Earth’s climate going back 1.5 million years.
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Push for deeper cuts as Victorian emissions sink to lowest level in decades
The Age
Sat 13 February, 2021
Victorian emissions have dropped to their lowest level in more than 30 years, as the state more than met its pledge to reduce carbon pollution by up to 20 per cent by the end of 2020.
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Toxic chemicals above drinking standards detected near central Queensland power station
News.com.au
Sat 13 February, 2021
Toxic chemicals have been detected in ground and surface water near a Queensland power station, with some sites well above standard drinking levels.
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Harbour sludge to be dug up for new tunnel contains alarming levels of toxins
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sat 13 February, 2021
Sludge on the floor of Sydney Harbour to be dug up during construction of a new harbour tunnel contains alarming levels of toxins, including a “gender bending” chemical that caused female sea snails to grow male sex organs.
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Bespoke Sunshine Coast tailor gives new life to old memories
ABC News
Sat 13 February, 2021
Adam Johnson was just 13 when his father, a New South Wales police officer, died of cancer.
All Mr Johnson was left with was his war medals and a police hat, which he stored on a shelf, a shed and even a shoebox.
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Australia’s east coast braces for up to 100mm dumping over next week
News.com.au
Sat 13 February, 2021
Heavy rainfalls are forecast to batter the east Australian coast over the next week, with some regions expected to receive drenchings of up to 150mm.
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Wind farms face “significant change” to turbine noise rules in Victoria
Reneweconomy
Fri 12 February, 2021
Wind energy projects in Victoria could soon be required to apply for permits to produce turbine noise within set limits, as one of three options being proposed by the state government in addition to a tightening of environmental responsibilities for wind farm operators.
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How the WA Libs shook off climate denialism to trump Labor on clean energy
Reneweconomy
Fri 12 February, 2021
WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup has just committed to closing the Muja and Collie power stations by 2025 and installing 6000 MW of wind solar (more than 80% renewable electricity) by 2030!
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Despite what Michael McCormack would have you believe, agriculture should play a starring role in a net-zero-emissions Australia
Smart Company
Fri 12 February, 2021
Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack recently suggested that agriculture should be exempt from Australia’s proposed 2050 net-zero emissions target.
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Why green hydrogen needs giant egos like Twiggy Forrest
Reneweconomy
Fri 12 February, 2021
Late last year, as the world spiralled deeper and deeper into health crisis, Australian iron ore magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest wasn’t moping about at home waiting for a vaccine like the rest of us. He was dashing around the planet on a private jet, hunting for green electrons.
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How home solar and battery storage kept the lights on in South Australia
Reneweconomy
Fri 12 February, 2021
Home solar and battery storage systems have been credited with keeping the lights on during a period of record minimum demand in South Australia in October last year, in an Australian Energy Market Operator report on virtual power plants released this week.