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It’s time to change the climate disaster script. People need hope that things can change
Nicky Hawkins
The climate story must balance talk of urgency with inspiring and creative ideas if we are to inspire positive change.
Today’s Celebration
Independence Day – Djibouti
Magtymguly Poetry Day – Turkmenistan
Mixed Race Day – Brazil
Our Lady Perpetual Saviour – Haiti
Helen Keller Day – USA
Seven Sleepers Day – Germany
Multiculturalism Day – Canada
National Unity Day in Tajikistan
Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime – Czech Republic
Industrial Workers Of The World Day
Climate Change
Super funds and investors with $34tn urge leaders to speed up climate action
Fund managers call on world leaders to bring in carbon pricing and phase out coal power ahead of G20
Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop
New report finds that impacts of ozone-driven climate change span the ecosystem
Climate change and ‘bad governance’ trigger water crisis in Chennai, India
In Chennai, India’s sixth-largest city, the reservoirs are literally drying up. How are its citizens — and the government — responding?
Climate change threatens peace efforts: SIPRI
The largest peacekeeping missions in the world are in countries most exposed to climate change, according to a Sweden-based research institute.
Kids suing governments about climate is a global trend
From Colombia to Pakistan to the Netherlands, kids are claiming a right to a clean environment – and sometimes winning.
It’s time to change the climate disaster script. People need hope that things can change
Nicky Hawkins
The climate story must balance talk of urgency with inspiring and creative ideas if we are to inspire positive change.
National
Angus Taylor says meeting attended by land-clearing investigator had nothing to do with case
Exclusive: Officer from unit examining alleged illegal land-clearing by company Taylor part-owns was an ‘observer’, department says
Angus Taylor ignores investors when he passes the buck on climate policy failures
As a coalition of 400+ global investors calls on government to price carbon and phase out coal, Taylor blames states for a lack of investor certainty.
CEFC teams up with Ironstone to super charge clean energy investment
CEFC to tip $100m into joint venture with Ironstone Capital to encourage institutional investors, such as superannuation funds, into the clean energy market.
Demand response battle pits old power against new, with consumers in the middle
A power struggle is brewing over what will be one of the most important components of Australia’s future grid – wholesale demand response – as industry incumbents shape up against specialist newcomers in the fight for this precious consumer resource.
Modernising electricity sectors: a guide to long-run investment decisions
Industry Super Australia
This discussion paper highlights some of the challenges facing Australia’s energy network and makes the case for industry super fund intervention.
Andrew Dowse and Mike Johnstone
US and Russian tension over power grid cyber attacks is a concern for global stability, but it also highlights our own critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Victoria
Kangaroos causing havoc on city’s train network
Kangaroos packed into Melbourne’s outer north are eating front lawns, getting hit by cars and running wildlife rescuers off their feet. Now, a fresh problem has emerged in the city’s “endless” roo crisis, and it involves the public transport network.
New South Wales
Solar carpark coming to Mullumbimby
Work is about to start on the construction of a $380,000 solar ‘roof’ in the Council-owned carpark in Station Street, Mullumbimby with photo-voltaic solar panels to be installed over approximately 40 parking spaces.
Australian cities are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, but does that actually mean anything?
The City of Sydney has become the latest local government to declare a climate emergency. So does that carry any legal clout? And if not, what’s the point?
ACT
New ACT health and transport ministers announced [$]
Chris Steel will be the new Transport Minister while Rachel Stephen-Smith will take on the health portfolio, following Labor frontbencher Meegan Fitzharris’ shock resignation.
Queensland
Whistleblower says CSG royalties trumping toxic contamination risk
Whistleblowers who helped prosecute Linc Energy in Queensland’s worst contamination scandal say the State Government is putting royalties and a growing CSG industry ahead of dealing with an ongoing contamination problem.
Campaign kicks off to make Great Barrier Reef an Australian citizen
A campaign backed by plenty of Australian celebrities has kicked off with the aim of making the Great Barrier Reef an Australian Citizen – granting it protections that would save it from harm.
‘Remarkable’ coral recovery on southern Great Barrier Reef island
However, researchers warn it isn’t a sign of an overall improvement.
Brisbane Metro project pushed back again
The $944 million Brisbane Metro project will be delayed again, lord mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced, after the state government required a planned underground station at the Cultural Centre to be moved.
Twice defeated, Queensland government “finally” calls for solar industry roundtable
After second legal defeat in one month, Queensland government calls for “urgent industry roundtable” on solar safety – a meeting industry has been seeking for months.
South Australia
Flows into Murray drop to dismal rate [$]
The Murray River, Lower Lakes and Coorong are experiencing water scarcity because the basin is “very dry”, with half the usual flows to SA expected from July 1.
Nine councils raise rates over rubbish tax [$]
Nine metropolitan councils have now voted to increase their rates in response to a 40 per cent jump in a rubbish tax — with five more of the remaining eight expected to follow suit.
Tasmania
Hydro’s plan to get Tassie pumping [$]
Hydro Tasmania’s Chris Gwynne is bursting with energy about Battery of the Nation project.
Eagle count helps shape billion-dollar wind farm [$]
A wind farm developer poised to raise 200 turbines on a tiny island off the Tasmanian coast says it is investigating anti-collision technology to help prevent bird deaths.
Northern Territory
Historic NT fishing rights deal struck
Indigenous people and fishing groups have struck an historic deal to implement the High Court’s Blue Mud Bay native title ruling over access to NT waters.
Properties at risk as bushfire burns through 500ha [$]
Firefighters and volunteers from Bushfires NT have been working overtime to control a bushfire that has burned through 500 hectares of bush west of Eva Valley
Western Australia
Perth’s badly eroded beaches face more pounding with another storm
Workers rush to put up rock barriers at Perth beaches to protect buildings on the brink of collapse as another strong storm barrels into WA.
Sustainability
India reduces Australian coal imports
India has moved to reduce its dependence on Australian coal by increasing shipments of coking coal from the United States and Canada, with those countries’ share rising to a sixth of all Indian imports of the fuel.
India is projected to become the third largest automotive market by 2020. However, it currently has one of the lowest electric vehicle (EV) penetrations in the world; making it an obvious market for future EV growth.
Action on air pollution works but far more is needed, study shows
UK’s dirty air still ‘a public health emergency’ despite dramatic fall in death rates
G20 Nations still spending $63.9 billion – annually – on coal
G20 nations continue to double-down on coal, spending at least $US63.9 billion on the fossil fuel annually, according to a new report published this month.
Which climates are best for passive cooling technologies?
If you guessed locations with drier atmospheres and frequent clear skies, you’re right
Crop pests more widespread than previously known
Insects and diseases that damage crops are probably present in many places thought to be free of them, new research shows.
A parent’s guide to avoiding potentially toxic chemicals
Exposure to potentially toxic substances that are part of modern life only adds to the many anxieties of parenting. Here’s what action you can take.
Big plastic user Japan fights waste ahead of G-20 summit
Japan has a plastic problem. In a country where cleanliness and neat packaging have long been considered good service, almost everything, from single bananas to individual pieces of vegetables, pastries, pens and cosmetics is sold plastic-wrapped.
How your workplace can be energy-efficient
It has never been more important to get cracking on reducing emissions – wherever we work and whatever we do.
Want to reduce your carbon footprint? Buy clean energy
Opting into a renewable energy supplier is a small yet substantial way to show your support for a greener, cleaner energy market.
Why does the ABC fear facts on Chernobyl? [$]
Andrew Bolt
The inconvenient truth about the Chernobyl death toll sits uncomfortably with the green-obsessed ABC, with the national broadcaster now considering the correction of falsehoods a sin.
Chernobyl: Now frying brains daily [$]
Terry McCrann
Opinion Writer Nikki Gemmell mashed together Trump, Menindee fish deaths and any number of other conspiracies and disasters, on the basis of a mostly fictional miniseries, says
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Nature Conservation
‘Plasticrust’ sea pollution identified
Scientists working on a volcanic Portuguese island have found small patches of what looks like melted plastic encrusted on rocks along the shoreline.
New estimate for an oil leak: a thousand times worse than rig owner says
The leak, about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, has been releasing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, when a bundle of undersea pipes ruptured.
Climate change: Bees are disorientated by flowers’ changing scents
One way in which climate change could affect pollination activity is through smell – altering the scent of plants, and thus the capacity of bees to recognise them and orient themselves.
Huge wildfires in Florida’s Everglades caught on camera
A Florida Sheriff’s office has shared video of a fire in the Everglades National Park. Over 18,000 acres were burning after a reported lightning strike.
National trash: Reducing waste produced in US national parks
When you think of national parks, you might picture the vast plateaus of the Grand Canyon, the intricate wetlands of the Everglades, or the inspiring viewscapes of the Grand Tetons. You probably don’t envision 100 million pounds of mashed water bottles, barbecue-smudged paper plates, and crumpled coffee cups — but that is the staggering quantity of garbage that is generated in our National Parks each year.
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