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US biofuel credits (RINs) continued their recent torrid stretch on Thursday morning, closing in on record prices under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) not seen since 2013.

With wingspans of up to one-metre, protected grey-headed flying foxes are causing multiple blackouts a week

Australia’s largest bat is making life difficult for Adelaide households. A colony of more than 25,000 grey-headed flying foxes plunging households into darkness 40 times so far this year.

The protected species – a member of the megabat family – first moved into Botanic Park in the heart of the city in 2010.

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Trying to heavy owners won’t hold back the renewables tide. It’s time to plan, and the blueprint exists

If ever there is a case where the headline doesn’t tell the full story it is the news that Victoria’s Yallourn power generator – one of Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal plants – will shut earlier than planned.

The basic facts are clear: the owner, EnergyAustralia, had previously said the Latrobe Valley generator would close in 2032, and now it will be gone by 2028.

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When suppliers make green energy the default choice, consumers stick with it even if it's costly.

Kathleen Folbigg has been called Australia's worst female murderer - now scientists doubt her guilt.

ICE Futures Europe will delist its Phase 4 EU Allowance daily futures at the end of April as the current bifurcation seen in the European carbon market dissipates, with the bourse modifying its Phase 3 contract to offer trade in EUAs from either period.

Poland expects to reduce its EU ETS-covered emissions 10.3% by the end of the decade, according to an energy strategy published late Wednesday that would keep coal in use far longer than experts say is needed to curb global warming.

Joe Biden needs ‘visionary target’ of cutting US emissions by 60% over 2005 levels

The US should ensure almost all new cars and light vehicles sold are electric by the end of this decade, and stop using fossil fuels for power generation by 2035, to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement, a new analysis has found.

Joe Biden, the US president, should aim for a national target of cutting emissions by about 60% by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, for the world to have a good chance of holding global temperature rises within 1.5C of pre-industrial levels, according to Climate Action Tracker (CAT).

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Spot commodities exchange and market data firm Xpansiv launched a nature-based version of its Global Emissions Offset (GEO) on Thursday, building on the firm’s spot and futures offerings of its CORSIA-aligned carbon credits.

Preparations for the crucial climate conference aren’t going well: with its aid cuts, the UK is hardly setting an example

It ought to be simple, but it will be anything but. When almost 200 countries gather for the UN Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow in November, they will do so under the shadow of two crises: a global pandemic that emerged out of nowhere and a climate emergency that nearly everybody has been able to see coming.

Governments have spent trillions of pounds, dollars and euros in the battle against Covid-19. They have the incentive – as Boris Johnson puts it – to build back better, to channel that stimulus into the greening of the global economy. If ever there was a time to think big and be bold then this is it.

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Hawaii has declared an emergency after heavy rains brought floods, landslides and fear of dam failures in the US state.

Authorities ordered the evacuation of several thousand people from communities threatened by rising waters.

The move came after a dam overflowed on the island of Maui, forcing evacuations and destroying homes.

• Hawaii governor declares emergency

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The party risks a dead end with its ‘Little Britain’ thinking, in marked contrast to the bolder path taken by Joe Biden

What a difference power makes.

The past 18 months saw political defeats for the left on both sides of the Atlantic. Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party came to an end after a resounding Conservative victory. The Bernie Sanders campaign went down at the hands of the Democrat establishment. And yet the bitter irony of 2020 was that just as the political hopes of the left were dashed, the strategic analysis of the Green New Deal – the centrepiece of its policy vision – was spectacularly vindicated.

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Massive Goyder South wind, solar and battery storage project in South Australia gains planning approval, with first stage to begin construction later this year.

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Software originally used to diagnose genetic disorders can detect sewage spills, experts say.

New Zealand lawmakers have adopted a confidential reserve price mechanism for carbon permit auctions that observers say creates greater uncertainty and adds unnecessary risk of a failed sale.

The pandemic is taking a "severe toll" on conservation efforts, says a study published by the IUCN.

Leaked document reveals plan to harmonise regulations with European standards and encourage electric vehicle uptake

Plans are in the works for New South Wales to go it alone on vehicle emissions regulations after nearly two decades of inaction by the federal government.

The details were revealed after a draft copy of the New South Wales 2020-2030 Clean Air Strategy, outlining proposals for stricter regulations around noxious emissions and CO2 standards for vehicles sold within the state, was leaked to the media.

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The energy industry has decided that coal is out and wind, solar and big batteries are in. The biggest road block is the federal energy minister.

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The European Parliament has given a bold tick of approval to a proposal to start taxing imports from countries without a carbon price, like Australia.

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Big global pension funds have a huge and growing appetite for renewables, but they need policy stability, and Australia's policy chaos is scaring them away.

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