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China will soon publish a roadmap on how it intends to meet its carbon neutral target, with carbon trading and nature-based solutions to play important roles, according to the nation’s special climate envoy.

A native forest protection projection in Tasmania has secured the biggest share of the latest batch of newly issued Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), while the federal government on Monday invited public input on potential new project types for the offset market.

Owners of Stockyard Hill confirm the project has passed its first hold point, but gives no indication when full operation might be achieved.

The post Australia’s biggest wind farm gets to first base, but no word on full commissioning appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A dispute between one of Australia's major contractors and the owners of one of the biggest solar farms in NSW is at a standstill.

The post Damages dispute between contractor and owners of NSW solar farm at standstill appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges

For climate campaigners, 26 May seemed like the start of a long-awaited reckoning for oil and gas companies.

Over a single 24-hour period, a Dutch court ordered Shell to dramatically cut emissions, shareholders voted to force Chevron to reduce emissions from the products it sells, and a tiny activist investment firm secured three positions on ExxonMobil’s 12-member board for candidates committed to climate action.

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A new Guardian series explores companies’ accountability for the climate emergency and their efforts to tackle it

Every day the world fails to adequately address the climate emergency, the timeframe needed to drastically cut emissions shrinks and the likelihood of increasingly devastating climate impacts grows. No solution to this crisis will be possible without a wholesale change in the way corporations do business.

Related: Green, empty promises? The truth behind corporate climate pledges

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Transgrid CEO Paul Italiano announces sudden resignation from the transmission company.

The post Paul Italiano steps down as head of transmission group Transgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As countries prepare to return to international negotiations on climate, Australia will find itself lumped in the club of fossil fuelled rogues.

The post Xi Jinping, Bolsonaro, Putin and Morrison: The four leaders resisting global climate action appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New spinning machines about to join South Australia's grid will allow the maximum output of wind and solar farms to be dramatically lifted.

The post Old style tech to give major boost to Australia’s shift to wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China is looking isolated as the last enabler of global coal-fired power projects.

The post China is backing more than half of world’s remaining coal power pipelines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Form Energy, backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, unveils more details of long duration battery storage at a fraction of price of current technologies.

The post Iron air battery backed by Bezos and Gates promises storage at fraction of cost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A two-week virtual negotiation begins on the most critical climate change report since 2013.

The device avoids clogging by using friction instead of suction, similar to the way a parasitoid wasp lays its eggs.

Ministers understood to be exploring ways to exclude state-owned China General Nuclear from involvement in all future UK activity

China’s state-owned nuclear energy company could be blocked from all future power projects in the UK, with ministers understood to be investigating ways to prevent its involvement.

The move would exclude China General Nuclear (CGN) from the consortium planning to build the £20bn Sizewell C nuclear plant on the Suffolk coast, as well as one in Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex.

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Clean Energy Council launches new ad campaign to spur Australians to action, with the message that 'renewables are here now'.

The post “No more yeah, buts”: Renewable ad campaign to combat myths and misinformation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

PM Naftali Bennett says the decision will help the country gradually shift to a low-carbon economy.

The restoration of a Spanish ‘railway cathedral’ reminds us how seductive train travel can be

Earlier this month, a 12-metre-long model train carriage was deposited at Barcelona’s El Prat airport, which the Spanish airports authority controversially plans to expand. “More trains, less planes” was the accompanying message from Greenpeace activists, who intend to take their model on a European tour in the coming months.

As they do so, a celebratory stop-off at the French-Spanish border might be in order. In a village high in the Pyrenees, Europe’s most stunning railway station is to be restored to its former glory, and the line it majestically served reopened. Completed in 1928, Canfranc international station was conceived as a railway “cathedral” as grand as anything that the world’s greatest cities could offer. Overlooked by mountains, the vast edifice is 240 metres in length and has 365 windows and 156 doors, dwarfing London’s St Pancras; but mere numbers cannot convey the sense of grandeur evoked by its architecture and ravishing setting. Intended to combine in one building the French and Spanish border stations, Canfranc is a moving monument to the internationalist spirit and pride in architectural achievement that marked the golden age of rail.

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From New York to Germany and China, the uncanny reality of the climate crisis is impinging on more and more lives

In the depths of winter, at the pandemic’s height, an idea of this summer took hold. It would, we told ourselves, be the summer of outdoors, particularly for children, who had been shut inside on screens for too long. Travelling abroad might be out, but that was fine. If the past year had taught us anything, it was the value of small pleasures, closer to home. On freezing March days, I warmed myself with an image of July and August in Central Park. I would read and commune with nature while camp counsellors forced my kids to spend eight hours a day playing rounders.

As it turns out, this isn’t really happening. We’re almost halfway through the absurdly long school holidays – New York state schools let out in June and don’t go back until 13 September, a closure of almost 11 weeks – and for the first time, our summer schedule is being influenced less by cost, work or babysitting, than by something to which I’ve never given serious consideration: weather.

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The meteor is believed to have landed in a forest after flashes of light were seen across Norway.