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The Kurri Kurri gas generator makes no sense: It has only six hours storage and can't compete against faster, cheaper, cleaner batteries.

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If Australia joins others in committing to net zero emissions by 2050, it will need to have a zero carbon grid by around 2035 to get there.

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Carbon emissions from making building materials - or embodied carbon - had led to calls to end demolitions.

Australia's second biggest aluminium smelter now has a brighter future after Rio Tinto flags it could be powered by wind and solar.

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The spot price for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) leaped another 13% to a new record high and just short of $30/tonne.

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The Murdoch press is proselytising, the business lobby is modelling a clean energy future while the PM is trying to tether colleagues to something approaching reality

As the planet prepares to flunk its latest performance review in Glasgow, Australian politics is threatening to reach peak bullshit with its cynically curated “towards net zero” kabuki dance.

After spewing toxic climate emissions into our civic ecosystem for over a decade, the Murdoch press is proselytising the need to act, the business lobby is modelling a clean energy future while the prime minister resolves to tether his nuttier outliers to something approaching reality.

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Australian battery storage company completes "significantly oversubscribed" pre-IPO funding round ahead of a planned ASX listing in 2022.

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Morrison still hasn't landed a 2050 target as the Nationals state their demands – but there's at least one sign Morrison will head to Glasgow.

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Senior black scientists tell the BBC they believe UK science to be "institutionally racist".

Chevron on Monday said it will aspire to achieve net zero emissions from its equity upstream operations by 2050, though the US oil major declined to include GHG output from the fuel it sells in this endeavour.

Prince of Wales warns of ‘catastrophic’ impact to planet if more ambitious action not taken in Glasgow

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Prince Charles has urged the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to attend this month’s critical Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, saying it could be the world’s last chance to take action.

In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, the Prince of Wales was asked about Australia and Morrison as he discussed the climate crisis and the 2021 UN climate change conference, which begins at the end of the month.

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Standardised, CORSIA-grade voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices trended lower over the past week, though the losses in the exchange-traded products accelerated on Monday as traders pondered reasons for the sell-off.

Investors rejoiced as compliance-grade carbon funds had a stellar month in September, with allowance prices in several markets soaring to new all-time highs.

Journalist Maria Ressa was the only woman to win a Nobel Prize this year, and just the 58th in history.

A handful of countries submitted revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement on Monday, just ahead of the cut-off for the UN to include the pledges in its final report ahead of the COP26 Glasgow summit.

Extreme weather is behind much of the crisis, but it will make the transition to new energy sources more complicated. Lurion De Mello, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Some 24 new countries on Monday joined the ranks of an EU-US-led initiative aimed at accelerating methane emission cuts, providing a boost to the fast-approaching COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow.

A WWF-Australia report reveals more than 1,500 of the country’s unique ecosystems are lacking protection

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More than 1,500 of Australia’s unique ecosystems, both land and sea, are not represented in any of the nation’s protected areas, according to new research.

The study, by WWF-Australia, comes as countries are meeting this week for the first stage of the United Nations biodiversity conference, hosted by China in Kunming. The talks aim to set new targets for protecting and restoring nature.

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Arguments about switching from one mode of transport to another miss the point – we ought to be travelling less

All domestic plane journeys in Britain should be banned and passengers told to take a train. So says the Campaign for Better Transport in its contribution to the climate emergency debate. Planes emit six times more CO2 per passenger mile than trains. The trouble is that plane tickets tend to be half the price of train ones. So tax planes, and subsidise trains.

So far, so simple. Planes are bad, trains are good. But trains will always be more expensive to run than planes over long distances. Surface rail in Britain supplies a tiny minority of journeys – just 2% of “trips” and 9% of miles travelled. In 2018-19, 58% of public transport journeys were by bus. The car remains prime, accounting for 61% of trips in 2019. Rail subsidies chiefly benefit better-off travellers. Poorer people use cars, coaches and buses for both work and leisure. And while a car with one person is carbon-inefficient, it is estimated that with four it is nearly as efficient as a train.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

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