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The first stage of what will be the biggest battery project in Australia has been energised little more than a year after it was first announced.

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An oil project in the Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP) in Uganda will have a devasting impact on biodiversity, with a number of grave consequences for wildlife and local communities already ongoing, a study has found.

US technology company HP has teamed up with a Switzerland-based nature tech startup on an initiative aimed at advancing coastal ecosystem restoration efforts in Indonesia.

The cornerstone of the new UK government's climate policy - to accelerate the country's target for 100% clean power to 2030 - has proven divisive, with those who believe it to be pricey and unachievable on one side, against others who say it will be hard, but is worth a shot.

China saw its domestic thermal power generation decline in June, while renewable energy production continued to grow at a fast pace that could signal a turning point in the country's emission trend.

Many actors in biodiversity see the largest opportunity for biodiversity markets in ‘insetting’, a way of directly supporting nature in their supply chains while potentially generating biodiversity credits, as an alternative to offsetting.

Singaporean Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan has taken a delegation of 22 companies with him to Ghana this week with the intention of cultivating a pipeline of Article 6 carbon credit projects.

A climate-focused investment fund has completed a $37 million Series A investment round in a leading provider of carbon mineralisation technology, aiming to accelerate the process of turning CO2 into solid rock for permanent sequestration.

South Korea's latest monthly CO2 permit auction was again oversubscribed, with analysts expecting permit prices to remain steady throughout the rest of the current compliance period.

Tess, a 40-year-old female at Houston zoo, has been given a trial mRNA vaccine to help combat the virus, a leading killer of calves in captivity

An Asian elephant at Houston zoo in the US has received the first mRNA vaccine against herpes, which is the leading killer of Asian elephants calves in captivity.

Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant, was injected with the trial vaccine at the Texas zoo in June, after a spate of deaths in juveniles in zoos around the world from the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV).

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Australia’s Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) has wrapped up its first expression of interest (EOI) period seeking new methods to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), with 43 proposals put forward by stakeholders.

Global online retail and cloud computing giant says it has achieved a "moment in time" milestone where all its electricity demand has been matched by renewables.

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Mining giant signs another solar deal with another Pilbara Indigenous group, as it slowly replaces fossil fuels with renewables.

The post Rio Tinto signs up to power Pilbara iron ore operations with 80MW solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Senior climate figures welcome move after Conservative government largely left the role to junior ministers

Ed Miliband is to take personal control of the UK’s negotiations at vital international climate talks, in stark contrast to his Tory predecessors.

The energy security and net zero secretary will attend Cop29, this year’s UN climate summit, in Azerbaijan this November to head the UK’s delegation and meet political leaders from around the world.

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Globally, the market for biofuels is not looking good as projects are dumped and at least one company is on the verge of going under.

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Prices are clearly rising in the latest tender for large scale renewables, but that's because of added storage - and consumers will likely be spared in any case, at least in the short term.

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Site in Pembrokeshire currently grazed by sheep will be planted with a range of species and reconnect to Celtic past

A lost piece of Celtic rainforest in the far south-west of Wales is to be restored to its ancient glory, weaving around standing stones and an abandoned, tumbling-down farmhouse with a waterwheel.

The 59-hectare (146-acre) site in Pembrokeshire will be planted with species such as oak, small-leaf lime and wild service (Sorbus torminalis) and should support an abundance of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns as well as providing a home for animals and other plant life.

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The originator of Australia's largest onshore wind farm has unveiled plans to go bigger again and build a 1.5GW wind farm in northern Queensland.

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Funding deal means Akaysha can start building huge four-hour battery, which will be one of the biggest in Australia.

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