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Jobs of the future: South Africa has major gaps in skills needed to shape the green economy

Globally, there’s a shortage of people with the expertise and skills needed to drive the transition towards a green economy – known as green talent. The pool of green talent needs to be doubled by 2050 if the world is to move away from fossil fuels. In South Africa, despite…

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Sacred Cow: Coal-hungry India Eyes Bioenergy To Cut Carbon

Venerated as incarnations of Hindu deities, India's sacred cows are also being touted as agents of energy transition by a government determined to promote biogas production to cut its dependence on coal.

International Business Times

Rising Tide vows to proceed with ‘protestival’ blockade at Newcastle coal port despite losing legal fight

Protest plan involves activists paddling out on kayaks and rafts to stop fossil fuel exports

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'We will make our voices heard': court ruling doesn't deter climate protesters

Supreme Court justice says 30-hour coal port blockade is 'excessive'.

Newcastle Herald

Arrest threat for protesters who block major coal port

Plans by climate protesters to hold a floating blockade of a major coal port have been deemed unlawful by the NSW Supreme Court, but organisers vow to fight on.

AAP

Is Chinese Stimulus Igniting Coal Prices?

Climate change concerns have made coal the least popular fossil fuel. Meanwhile, coal prices have edged higher since mid-September 2024, with the Newcastle coal futures leading the way on the upside.

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'Some days I could hear them, but couldn't speak to them'

'I'm so grateful to be here. I still have a long road ahead.'

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Protesters scale back blockade of world’s biggest coal port but NSW police ready for mass ‘disruption’ at Newcastle

Lawyer for police argues business should be allowed to continue as Rising Tide threatens to halt exports for 30 hours

The Guardian - AU

Arrests 'not the only point' of Newcastle coal port blockade: Rising Tide

A judge has questioned why organisers are fighting an application to declare a planned coal port protest unlawful given a perceived intention to be arrested.

Newcastle Herald

Arrests 'not the only point' of coal port blockade

A judge has questioned why organisers are fighting an application to declare a planned coal port protest unlawful given a perceived intention to be arrested.

AAP

Anglo American to sell stake in Australian coal joint venture for £830m

Anglo American told shareholders on Monday it will sell its 33.3% stake in Jellinbah Group to Zashvin.

The Independent UK

‘No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate

Kean, a former Liberal energy minister turned Climate Change Authority chair, clashes with senators Gerard Rennick and Ross Cadell

The Guardian - AU

FTSE 100 Live 04 November: Index rises ahead of election and rate decisions, Ryanair profit falls

Investors are braced for volatility as they await the outcome of the US election and this week’s meetings of the Bank of England and Federal Reserve.

Evening Standard

Support for nuclear power will evaporate at next election, Chris Bowen predicts

Polling shows that Australians prefer renewables, climate change and energy minister says

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Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Added the Perfect Game to Play When You Need a Vacation

'Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town' is a thoughtful, slow-paced adventure set in two distinctly beautiful versions of Japan.

The Guardian - AU

Chris Bowen on Trump, science and coal: ‘We’re living climate change. What we’re trying to do is avoid the worst of it’

The climate change minister is ‘disturbed’ by rising temperatures and increasingly unnatural natural disasters – but that’s what gets him out of bed every day

The Guardian - AU

It’s been seven years since the ‘saviour of steel’ arrived in Whyalla. But hopes for a green transition are fading

The global race to upgrade coal operations is proving difficult. At South Australia’s struggling steelworks, taken over by Sanjeev Gupta’s firm, jobs have been lost and promises to invest remain unfulfilled

The Guardian - AU

NSW police take legal action to prevent climate activists blockading Port of Newcastle

Planned two-day protest that involves thousands of protesters poses a safety risk, police argue

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Newcastle Herald

Harbour anti-coal blockade could stop ships even if made illegal: court

Police are seeking to have the protest blocked.

AAP

Coal-port protest could stop ships even if made illegal

NSW Police have gone to court to stop a planned blockade of the world's largest coal port in a move campaigners have declared a waste of taxpayer money.

The Independent UK

World may be merely scratching the surface on the scope of climate-changing methane emissions

The amount of the powerful climate-changing gas methane spilling out of oil and gas equipment, coal mines and landfills globally is nowhere near fully documented and what is known is “only scratching the surface” according to the CEO of one the companies that tracks methane with its own satellites

Newcastle Herald

'It's been a saviour to me': two things that saved coal train driver's life

'They laid me off - see ya later. It was the best job ever.'

Newcastle Herald

Take away Lidia Thorpe's right to protest at your peril, armchair critics

Letters: 'Anyone would think she committed murder.'

AAP

Port climate protest opposed due to safety risks

Police are opposing a climate group's protest against coal exports at a NSW port due to safety and economic risks and concerns over civil disobedience.

Newcastle Herald

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