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A carbon removals developer has partnered with a digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (digital MRV) provider to implement the first project using a US-based standard's recently released biochar protocol.

Trade on Indonesia’s carbon exchange dropped in August over July with only 176 tonnes of CO2e traded compared to the prior month’s 4,801.

A study looking at the barriers and opportunities for coastal blue carbon projects in New Zealand has called on the government to create a national strategy for the sector, as well as foster an environment where voluntary carbon markets can operate.

An engineering company is looking to develop Vietnam’s first carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) project for the country's coal-fired power plants.

One of the largest securities firms in South Korea has decided to pursue international emissions reduction projects through a newly established partnership, it announced Wednesday.

Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen technologies have a critical role to play in achieving the EU’s decarbonisation targets, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors, said the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union in recommendations to the bloc's policymakers on how to accelerate deployment.

5B's chief strategy officer Nicole Kuepper-Russell on the company's journey from concept scribbled on a napkin, to a factory in Adelaide that is walking the talk on solar innovation made in Australia.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Rise of an Australian PV Maverick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The LNP won't support Queensland's legislated renewable energy targets and an omission may mean that they're also ditching wind.

The post Queensland LNP to ditch state renewable targets, may nix wind projects altogether appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Installation of the first of 444 Tesla Megapack battery systems is underway at one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia.

The post First of 444 Tesla megapacks installed at Melbourne’s giant battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Adding biochar to degraded soils boosts how much water soils can hold and help farmers survive droughts. Sirjana Adhikari, Associate Research Fellow in Mineral Processing, Deakin University Ellen Moon, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, Deakin University Wendy Timms, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Market participants maintained modest expectations for the upcoming Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) auction on Wednesday in light of the ongoing anxiety surrounding the fate of the state's cap-and-trade scheme.

South Australia has overtaken Tasmania as the country's most renewable state, and achieved this with wind and solar rather than hydro.

The post Wind and solar dominated South Australia overtakes Tasmania as Australia’s most renewable state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Traders favour the Q3 RGGI permit sale to clear at a discount to secondary market prices, with compliance demand a key factor determining the settlement.

Deal with South Korea utility will fund early works and studies on a potential $100 million project featuring 50 gigawatts of wind and solar.

The post South Korea deal advances works on world’s biggest renewable hydrogen hub in W.A. appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria may have better coffee, NSW a more iconic bridge, but Queensland is winning the race for solar energy in a report card from the Climate Council.

The post Sunshine state leads solar rankings with PV on half of all homes, but more work to do in “critical decade” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Washington’s draft Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) language includes updates to its third-party verification programme and changes to credit generation, according to information published by the Department of Ecology (ECY) on Friday.

The third New Zealand ETS auction for 2024 has failed to clear, with not a single bid being submitted, repeating the results of the last permit sale held in June.

Take renewable energy out of the equation and there isn’t much else expected to reduce fossil fuel use this side of 2030

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Australia has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions – a bigger problem than the political debate concedes.

Late last week, as Australians endured record August warmth and global heating-fuelled extreme rain, the federal government released data that suggest heat-trapping gases across most of the economy are currently headed in the wrong direction or yet to budge much from historic highs.

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Choosing speed above all else gets clean energy built. But it comes with risks. Which path should Australia take? Anne Kallies, Senior Lecturer in Energy Law, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Arithmetic over capacity does not add up, with supply chains a constraining factor

• Renewable energy auction secures enough power for 11m UK homes

It was a “record-setting auction” and “a significant step forward in our mission for clean power for 2030”, trumpeted the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, enjoying the contrast with last year’s auction flop under the Tories in which precisely zero bids were received to build offshore windfarms.

Miliband was claiming credit when it wasn’t entirely due, of course, because this year’s competition was designed well before the general election. Some version of success was guaranteed from the moment the last government said it was prepared to pay up to £73 a megawatt hour (in 2012 prices, confusingly) for offshore wind, a mighty leap from the £44 level that produced no takers in 2023. At the higher level of incentive, developers were bound to come out to play again.

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