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Australia: Lib-Nat government defies IPCC climate warning to back coal
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Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government has rejected the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report’s call to phase out coal power by 2050, claiming renewable energy cannot replace base-load coal power.
Read more: http://econews.com.au/58886/lib-nat-government-defies-ipcc-climate-warning-to-back-coal/Philippine resort city chooses 'morally correct' low-carbon path
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PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines, Oct 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Theresa Walgraeve and her husband set up their 15-room resort in Puerto Princesa, a city on the Philippine island of Palawan, they worried about mosquitoes and monsoon damp - and the high cost of electricity.
Read more: http://news.trust.org/item/20181008005955-ze77x/Global - Report: bioenergy leads growth in renewable energy consumption to 2023
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According to the International Energy Agency (
Labor: Australia can remain energy ‘superpower’, if climate wars end
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The Labor opposition’s shadow assistant minister for climate change and energy has said Australia is in a position to replace thermal coal exports with the export of renewable energy technologies if the parliament can settle an energy policy and end a decade of policy chaos.
Read more: http://econews.com.au/58864/labor-australia-can-remain-energy-superpower-if-climate-wars-end/Global: IEA says rising use of plastics to drive oil demand to 2050
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned plastics and other petrochemical products will drive global oil demand to 2050, offsetting slower consumption of automotive fuel.
Read more: http://econews.com.au/58873/iea-says-rising-use-of-plastics-to-drive-oil-demand-to-2050/Solar power in-a-box launches in Malaysia
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A solar solution that can be installed in a day has launched in Malaysia, a country that aims to produce 20