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Italy-based utility Enel unveiled plans on Tuesday to cut its emissions by 30% over the next three years and to bring forward its coal phaseout date by three years to 2027.

The Victoria state government on Tuesday announced A$92 million ($68 mln) over 16 years for a land-based carbon sequestration programme, while new Clean Energy Regulator data shows developers continue to sell well over a million offsets per month to the federal government.

The Danish government has backed down on moves to increase its carbon tax, with the measure excluded from reform proposals presented late Monday following months of debate among ministers.

Administration seeks to transfer ownership of Arizona area to mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site

Since January, San Carlos Apache tribal member Wendsler Nosie Sr has been sleeping in a teepee at a campground in south-eastern Arizona’s Oak Flat, a sprawling high desert oasis filled with groves of ancient oaks and towering rock spires.

It is a protest in defense of “holy ground” where the Apache have prayed and performed ceremonies for centuries.

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Researchers warn land inequality is rising with farmland increasingly dominated by a few major companies

One per cent of the world’s farms operate 70% of crop fields, ranches and orchards, according to a report that highlights the impact of land inequality on the climate and nature crises.

Since the 1980s, researchers found control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.

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Cambridge University Library launches an appeal to find the scientist's missing notes and sketches.

News that Victoria will join SA in introducing electric vehicle tax is met with strong opposition with industry stakeholders saying it is "backwards" and "will kill off" the fledgling EV industry.

The post “Let’s not kill EVs”: Main car lobby slams Victoria’s electric vehicle tax appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria sets aside $540m in 2020/21 state budget to develop renewable energy hubs across the state in "unprecedented" public spend on greening the grid.

The post Victoria budgets $540m to develop six new Renewable Energy Zones appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SMA has closed a contract with Sterling and Wilson for the 162MW Columboola Solar Farm, the second largest solar farm in Queensland, Australia.

The post SMA signs agreement with Sterling and Wilson for the second largest solar farm in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull eviscerates Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor's stance on climate, saying Morrison over-channelled Trump.

The post “We will pay a heavy price for this”, Turnbull savages Morrison and Taylor over climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A 230m tall Vestas wind turbine tower has collapsed in northern Sweden, in latest of series of accidents and malfunctions involving the Danish giant's hardware.

The post Vestas wind turbine topples in Sweden at unfinished project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CWP Renewables and the Swiss-based money manager Partners Group to merge the bulk of their Australian assets and will target more than two gigawatts of new wind, solar and storage.

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Australia's coal and gas lobby has come out all guns blazing against the New South Wales government's renewable energy transition plan.

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Some scientists say attributing 'human-like' qualities to animals is misleading. Others say it's a great tool for conservation. Either way, the Netflix hit My Octopus Teacher has a positive message. Kathryn Williams, Professor in environmental psychology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne Christopher McCormack, Managing Director (Remember The Wild). PhD Student, University of Melbourne Debbie Gonzalez Canada, PhD Candidate researching digital citizen science, University of Melbourne Kate Lee, Research fellow, University of Melbourne Maddy Sbeghen, University of Melbourne Rose Macaulay, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne Stephanie Lavau, Senior Lecturer - Interdisciplinary Environmental Practice, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Renewable energy sources were the sole source of new capacity added to the US grid between June and September.

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Investors say the Morrison government's refusal to adopt a zero emissions target is holding back investment and the transition away from fossil fuels.

The post Investors head offshore as lack of zero emissions target delays Australian transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Australia's next big emissions projections are due soon. Renewables will do the heavy lifting, but how will the gap to Paris be filled?

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Transcript from the Energy Insiders podcast interview with NSW energy minister Matt Kean.

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The band, who will receive a human rights award this week, were formative in the political activation of so many people of my generation

On a road trip back from somewhere in mid-2016 the talk turned to personal origin stories, as is wont when the miles are long.

There were four of us in the car, all in leadership positions in Australian campaigning organisations. Turned out that our family, work and activism backgrounds were heterogeneous, but there was something in common: for each traveller in that fast-moving sedan the music of Midnight Oil had been a formative part of our political activation.

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