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Global logistics giant Atco buys rights to pumped hydro storage project located in what will be the first renewable energy zone in NSW.

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 WePower formally handed over a version of its innovative retail electricity transaction marketplace – also known as Elemental – to Mojo Power. 

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Australia's Martin Green awarded prestigious Japan Prize for career of world-beating research into high-efficiency solar cells.

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The EPA is looking for a Registry Analyst to provide analysis, business and administrative support to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Register.

This role will oversee the gas and green trading team, responsible for managing the supply of gas, gas transport and gas storage while also managing the company’s exposure to the existing and future renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon markets.

Genesis is looking for a motivated and engaged leader to provide strong leadership across its Derivatives team, helping drive behavioural and cultural change and supporting traders in trading electricity derivatives and emission products to maximise trading gross margin.

See how much Iceland's Skaftafellsjokull glacier has retreated over the past 30 years.

AGL launches new mobile phone plans, as the energy giant continues its push into the telco market.

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The climate is changing and extreme weather disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. It's more important than ever to examine who is bearing the brunt of this change. Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As part of the overall sustainability strategy, we are looking for a Carbon Credit Manager. Reporting directly to the Climate Delivery Manager, you will be in charge of developing the global carbon offsetting strategy. Your main responsibility will be to serve brands with high quality offsets enabling the claiming of carbon neutrality.

Ministers consulting about changes, which could include payments for making homes better protected

Homeowners in flood-hit areas could be entitled to discounted insurance premiums if they install protections against the elements under government proposals.

Ministers on Monday launched a consultation into plans for insured householders to be able to claim money to cover the damage caused and receive funds to make their homes more resilient.

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The volume of energy from new wind and solar assets in Australia's main grid is lower than we might have expected a few years ago. In some cases, much lower.

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The transformation of the US government’s stance on the environment is hugely significant. Now the global green recovery must start

The year ahead is an absolutely crucial one in the struggle to keep global heating below 1.5C or 2C, above which the UN has warned of chaos. John Kerry, who is President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, told the BBC that the conference of the parties (Cop26) due to take place in Glasgow in November is the “last best chance the world has … to do what science is telling us we need to do”. Important as the talks are, the decisions taken between now and then are just as significant.

Last year saw an unprecedented drop of 7% in greenhouse gas emissions, due to Covid, but a rebound is expected. It is here that attention must now be focused. As governments around the world pump money into economies ravaged by the pandemic, a return to business as usual would be catastrophic. Research carried out after the 2008 financial crash showed that the recovery then was about 16% green, with the majority of stimulus spending directed at carbon-intensive infrastructure and activities. This time, green investment must be more than an add-on. Governments must proactively channel public funds towards renewable energy, green transport infrastructure, home insulation – and away from fossil fuels, especially coal.

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We’ve been looking for signs that the Morrison government is willing to implement change, but all we’ve seen is a cynical pattern of avoidance

Sometimes a warning comes along that is so unequivocal and so unimpeachable, from an objective and authoritative source, that it sets a test for a government where they can either act or they can own the consequences that occur when they fail to act. The report by Prof Graeme Samuel AC into Australia’s environmental laws (the cumbersomely named Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act or EPBC Act) is one of those warnings.

It’s not the first time an Australian government has received advice, information or recommendations that unless our laws and policies change, then our iconic species or our most special places are condemned. Every State of the Environment report, released every four years has shown that the health of our environment has worsened and the trajectory of decline is accelerating. And there’s not a day that passes where a new study or report is released on the fate of our marsupials or fish, forests or oceans, highlighting everything going in the wrong direction.

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More than a dozen new hydrogen industry clusters secure funding to encourage industry collaboration and grow the emerging industry in Australia.

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Sunday deadline for HSE to inform activists at Euston of steps being taken to ensure their safety

The environmental activists in the network of tunnels in front of Euston station in central London have launched an emergency legal action against safety regulators.

It has been confirmed that there are nine protesters in the tunnel constructed as a protest against the high speed rail link HS2, which is due to terminate at Euston when it is completed.

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The former transport minister has turned conservationist, but in a typically wrong-headed fashion

Quiz question: what did former cabinet minister Chris Grayling describe last week as “Britain’s favourite animal”? Answers on a postcard please. Obviously it’s a tough one for various reasons. So I’ll give you a clue: it’s an animal. And if you don’t think that’s much of a clue, you don’t know much about Chris Grayling.

He makes the question so tricky. It would be hard enough just trying to decide what actually is Britain’s favourite animal, because there are different ways of looking at it. Is it favourite in terms of the animals we most enjoy interacting with? So pets. In that case, dog and cat are the frontrunners, but which? And there are other sorts of favourite animal: the ones we most want to see at the zoo, the ones we approve of most in our national imagery, the ones our children read stories about, the wild ones in the countryside. Suddenly, elephants, lions, horses, rabbits, otters, foxes, eagles, kingfishers and owls are all in the frame.

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The Climate Change Commission releases New Zealand's first comprehensive plan to cut emissions, calling on the government to "pick up the pace". James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday said New Zealand would revise its Paris target after advice from the independent Climate Change Commission said the country needs to do much more to help meet the 1.5C target, a move that could bump its carbon credit needs over the next decade to 64-104 million.

Unless Labor decides to become an opposition, and promote science-based climate and energy policies, they are wasting everyone's time.

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