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Singapore now host to one of the world's biggest floating solar farms.

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Contact Energy hires consultants Roaring40s to help develop a pipeline of large-scale wind farms in New Zealand over the next six years.

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More oil and gas wells are to be drilled in the North Sea, the UK government announces.

Genex turns to its shareholders to raise $110m needed to build its flagship Kidston pumped hydro project, while ARENA chips in with a new $47m grant.

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Climate change is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons drier. Australia must do its part to lower carbon emissions

A year ago I lived through the Black Summer. I had arrived in Sydney in mid-December 2019 to collaborate with Australian researchers studying the impacts of climate change on extreme weather events. Instead of studying those events, however, I ended up experiencing them.

Even in the confines of my apartment in Coogee, looking out over the Pacific, I could smell the smoke from the massive bushfires blazing across New South Wales. As I flew to Canberra to participate in a special “bushfires” episode of the ABC show Q+A, I witnessed mountains ablaze with fire. One man I met during my stay lost most of his 180-year-old family farm in the fires that ravaged south-east NSW near Milton.

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AGL gives green light to 250MW Torrens big battery in South AUstralia, although storage will initially be for one hour rather than the four hours originally flagged.

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Fast growth of plant-based alternatives means consumption of conventional meat will start to fall

The fast growth of plant-based alternatives to animal products could mean Europe and North America will reach “peak meat” by 2025, at which point consumption of conventional meat starts to fall, according to a report.

The study also forecasts that plant-based meats will match regular meat on price by 2023 and that nine out of 10 of the world’s favourite dishes – from pepperoni pizza to sushi – will have realistic alternatives by 2035.

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A global stocktake of net zero targets finds many lack substance and short term ambition, leading to greenwashing and marketing deception.

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The EU cannot neglect the projected growth in emissions from least-developed countries (LDCs) when designing its carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), an IPCC senior advisor said on Tuesday.

The NSW floods are a textbook example of the theoretical impacts we can expect on Australian rainfall as climate change continues. Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California regulator ARB spent months evaluating whether to open offset investigations after discovering potential regulatory violations at two livestock projects, according to documents obtained by Carbon Pulse.

A Washington State Senate committee moved a WCI-aligned cap-and-trade bill closer to a full floor vote on Monday, though lawmakers inserted a provision that will tether the programme’s implementation to the enactment of a transportation funding package.

EUAs fell 3.3% on Tuesday, giving back the previous session's gains as wider markets weakened on fears about how renewed coronavirus restrictions will hit consumer demand and impede an economic recovery.

Analysts have raised their short-term outlook for EU Allowances as new investors continue to stream into the market amid the start of a “carbon supercycle”.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values surged on Tuesday on strong bean oil prices and the reopening of a gasoline arbitrage, erasing much of the losses sustained under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) last week.

Skye Neville’s campaign against throwaway toys spurs Waitrose into action

Some campaigns take years, even decades to achieve change. Not for Skye Neville, a 10-year-old from a Welsh seaside town who in November became outraged at the cheap plastic toys that came attached to her favourite magazines.

Four months on, her campaign against throwaway toys has won plaudits from politicians, environmental activists and children’s champions – and has now prompted action from Waitrose, which has vowed to stop selling children’s magazines containing “disposable” toys, crediting Skye with the inspiration.

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China needs rapidly rising prices in its emissions trading scheme and a modest carbon tax for non-covered sectors in order to stand a chance of meeting its climate ambitions, but even then it will have to rely on technological progress, one of the country’s top investment banks said Tuesday.

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To prevent catastrophe, governments must transform our resilience to climate breakdown, AI and engineered pandemics

It is profoundly difficult to grapple with risks whose stakes may include the global collapse of civilisation, or even the extinction of humanity. The pandemic has shattered our illusions of safety and reminded us that despite all the progress made in science and technology, we remain vulnerable to catastrophes that can overturn our entire way of life. These are live possibilities, not mere hypotheses, and our governments will have to confront them.

As Britain emerges from Covid-19, it could find itself at the forefront of the response to future disasters. The government’s recent integrated review, Britain’s taking of the G7 presidency and the Cop26 climate conference, which will be hosted in Glasgow later this year, are all occasions to address global crises. But in order to ensure that the UK really is prepared, we need to first identify the biggest risks that we face in the coming decades.

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