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China stats for first three months of 2025 show it installed 9 GW of new thermal generation capacity, compared to 59.7 GW of new solar and 14.6 GW of new wind.

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The ANU's Jorrit Gosens on China's thirst for green steel and the opportunities for Australia. Plus: News of the week and stranded wind and solar projects.

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Plans for a solar farm and big battery sail through federal environmental approval process in less than two months, but could face rougher seas at the state level.

The post Solar and battery proposal sails through EPBC and into a storm of objections – some of them wild appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chinese company says its robot solar mounting machine can install solar panels at three and five times faster than a team of humans, and slash construction times.

The post Chinese robot does job of three to four humans installing thousands of panels at Australian solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Colombia is not curating a positive list of project types that will be automatically eligible for Article 6 agreements, and will instead issue broader criteria with case-by-case evaluation, according to an official and an external consultant speaking at the Colombia Carbon Forum conference in Bogota on Wednesday.

California regulator ARB’s 2025 offset issuance rose more than 8% over the most recent two-week period, state data published Wednesday showed, even as headline risks plagued US compliance markets, collapsing offset prices.

The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.

Colombia’s long-awaited emissions trading system (ETS) is still slated to launch in a pilot phase this year despite political upheaval, an official told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of the Colombia Carbon Forum in Bogota Wednesday.

Canada's leading political parties are positioning energy expansion and fossil fuel decarbonisation as competing primary ideologies ahead of the country's impending federal election. 

Government is ‘setting up conversations’ as companies arrive in London for clean energy summit

The UK is to woo global green investors, including those scared away from the US by the actions of Donald Trump, by offering cash and infrastructure improvements to encourage companies to set up manufacturing plants and supply chains.

The government will bring forward £300m for offshore windfarms, an area in which the UK retains a lead, and has invited banks and major international companies to a 60-country summit in London this week.

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The International Energy Agency’s London summit this week marks an opportunity for Europe to reframe the transition away from fossil fuels as key to achieving energy security and independence, despite US pressure to up its gas imports, according to energy and climate experts.

The Coalition's own energy policy modelling shows the notional savings of going nuclear are dwarfed by the gutting of Australian industrial capacity.

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Nine days from the election, Peter Dutton still hasn't decided what sort of campaign he is running: The result: constant backflips on energy and climate.

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The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that ultimately aims to overturn an EPA waiver to California that allows the state to create its own vehicle emissions standards, but first the court must decide if the plaintiffs – liquid fuels producers – have standing in the case.

A Berlin-based carbon credit marketplace has has announced its acquisition of a specialist investor in early-stage climate project financing.

Colombia’s tax authority expects 2025 carbon revenues to surpass last year’s after a substantial bump in Q1, according to updated figures revealed at the Colombia Carbon Forum on Wednesday.

The EU will submit its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) “in good time”, anchored by a new target for emissions reductions, a European Commission official promised lawmakers in Brussels on Wednesday, amid calls from some for a more relaxed approach.

The second administration of US President Donald Trump is showing a stronger shift away from international climate action in its diplomatic efforts, a former Biden-era official said at a Wednesday press briefing.

Experts say the discovery provides the first physical evidence of gladiatorial combat with animals.

Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves

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Despite their immense size, species of prehistoric giant kangaroos from a site in Queensland were probably homebodies with a surprisingly small range compared to other kangaroos, according to new Australian research.

Protemnodon, which roamed the Australian continent between 5m and 40,000 years ago and is now extinct, was significantly larger than its modern relatives. Some species weighed up to 170kg, making them more than twice as heavy as the largest red kangaroo.

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