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Australia is facing climate hazards on all fronts this spring and summer. Climate scientist Andrew King walks us through the Bureau of Meteorology’s new national outlook. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A major Japanese trading house has secured a preliminary agreement to buy a stake in a large low-carbon ammonia project in the US, it announced Friday.

Discussions surrounding California’s cap-and-trade programme took a backseat as a joint meeting Thursday between regulator ARB and the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC) focused largely on shortfalls in proposed changes to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

The newspaper owned by billionaire Kerry Stokes has not been shy about attacking environmental reforms – but are readers getting the full picture?

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Kerry Stokes’ West Australian has not been shy about its support of mining and resources industries.

Last year an opinion piece by the Woodside chief executive, Meg O’Neill, spruiking the fossil fuel company’s interests was stretched into a front-page splash, a separate news story and an editorial without the tabloid troubling itself to include an alternative view on what she had to say.

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Activities such as mining, dredging and bottom trawling in most MPAs mean conservation targets will be missed, say researchers

Most of Europe’s marine protected areas, set up to safeguard species and habitats, will not meet conservation targets as they provide only “marginal” protection against industrial activities such as dredging, mining and bottom trawling, a study has revealed.

Low levels of protection in 86% of marine protected areas (MPAs) have left the EU far from reaching its 2030 biodiversity targets, which are designed to reduce the risk of species’ extinction, researchers said in a paper published in the One Earth journal. The EU aims to protect 30% of its seas by 2030, with 10% “strictly” protected from damaging activities.

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In announcing the strategy, climate minister Chris Bowen also took a swipe at the ‘climate inactivism’ of critics of the nascent industry

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The Albanese government has set annual targets of at least 15m tonnes of “renewable hydrogen” by 2050 and dismissed critics who had “gloated” about setbacks to the nascent industry.

The energy minister, Chris Bowen, said on Friday that Australia’s green hydrogen pipeline of projects was “alive and healthy” as he released the government’s new hydrogen production strategy, which updates the 2019 plan he inherited from the Coalition.

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California’s power sector emissions rose above 2023 levels in June and July with a rise in natural gas power generation and a concurrent decline in the share of renewables as the state sweltered under record temperatures. 

Victoria's biggest electricity network has published its draft five-year plan for the 2026-31 regulatory period. And there's a lot going on.

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Legal challenges against the project were submitted by environmental campaigners.

Tesla seeks buyer for South Australia virtual power plant, one of the first of its types in the world that has helped plot future of renewable grids.

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A solar and battery project proposed for a site surrounded by huge coal mines in the Hunter Valley seeks planning approval.

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A hydrogen investment pact with Germany will support new commercial supply and access to the European market for the emerging industry.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices lacked direction as volatility eased through the week with markets awaiting programme updates from ARB, while Washington’s third quarterly auction cleared in the middle of market expectations.

Federal Labor has set out a new plan for Australia to produce at least 15 millions tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year by 2050.

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Australia and Germany have signed a A$660 million (€400 mln) agreement to deepen their cooperation on green hydrogen supply chains and guarantee European buyers for Australian hydrogen producers, the two countries announced Friday.

Two Italian men were arrested at a Sri Lankan wildlife park after they were found with hundreds of protected insects.

Australia’s new National Hydrogen Strategy, released on Friday, signals Australia’s bold ambitions to the world - but much remains unclear. Alison Reeve, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

British Columbia Premier David Eby on Thursday announced that his government would end the province’s carbon tax if the Canadian federal government removes its legal requirement for provinces and territories to maintain one.

New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change Simon Watts said it wouldn’t be “realistic” for his country to simply pay for the overseas carbon credits it will need to meet its 2030 international climate target.

August 2024 becomes the first time fossil fuels (98.5% gas and 1.5% coal) fell to third place in the British electricity mix over an entire month.

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