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Chile and Quebec have held numerous discussions to share technical information on the Canadian province’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme and offset protocols with a view to potentially developing closer market ties over time, a government official for the South American country said Thursday.

Transgrid to build a Tesla Megapack big battery in western Sydney, offering grid services including inertia to help NSW prepare for the exit from coal.

The post Transgrid to build Australia’s first Tesla Megapack big battery in western Sydney appeared first on RenewEconomy.

European carbon rebounded on Thursday after plumbing a new four-month low near €23, with prices boosted by a solid auction result and gains in the wider energy complex.

Japan's plan is a terrible idea, but so is our government's plan to send nuclear waste to South Australia temporarily. Tilman Ruff, Associate Professor, Education and Learning Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Margaret Beavis, Tutor Principles of Clinical Practice Melbourne Medical School Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Germany’s current policies are putting it on course to miss its domestically-binding 2030 emissions reduction target, a report published on Thursday by its national environment agency UBA confirmed.

Switzerland has scheduled its first ever aviation carbon allowance auction, government data showed, after the country brought the sector into its emissions trading scheme this year.

The EU's environment ministers want to establish a firm process for setting a bloc-wide 2040 emissions target under the European Climate Law, aiming to bridge the 2030 and 2050 climate goals.

Norway pays for a monthly satellite dataset to track the state of the world's tropical forests.

A proposal for a European carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) should “mirror” the price dynamics of an EU ETS reinforced with a carbon price floor, the bloc's lead parliamentary lawmaker on the file proposed in a draft report ahead of a committee debate next week.

We look at the day when South Australia reached a world-first peak of 100 per cent solar power, plus the latest rooftop solar PV forecasts, and Victoria opens up for solar business again.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: The day South Australia became 100% solar fuelled appeared first on RenewEconomy.

This opportunity is to join the London team as the Technical and Policy Officer Manager/Director, reporting to the Managing Director to provide strategic guidance to the MNC platform and manage the emissions reductions project development element of our existing portfolio projects as well as lead on technical screening and due diligence of pipeline projects for new funds.

This year, several British brands announced they’d ban glitter from holiday products. US companies should follow suit

Glitter is notorious for getting everywhere – touch one sparkly Christmas card and you’ll be finding flecks of the stuff in your food, hair and carpet for months. It’s so obnoxious some people even slather a mixture of it and Vaseline on political yard signs to punish thieves. But the real issue with glitter isn’t that it’s annoying – it’s that it truly does get everywhere: not just in your home, but also into the furthest-flung corners of the Earth.

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Antarctica’s ocean is one of the most extreme environments on the planet, and home to its most productive life. A new series of images by Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen and John Weller shows why

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As much as $321bn could be saved with complete switch to clean energy sources, Rewiring America analysis finds

An aggressive push towards 100% renewable energy would save Americans as much as $321bn in energy costs, while also slashing planet-heating emissions, according to a new report.

Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has vowed to eliminate greenhouse gases from the US power grid within 15 years and essentially zero out emissions by 2050, a plan assailed by Donald Trump as costly and detrimental to the American economy.

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Thousands of photographers from 65 countries around the world submitted their best pictures taken with the aid of drones, helicopters and planes. The top award went to Sebastien Nagy of Belgium, but there were many other outstanding photographs, as this selection shows

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IPART recommends new standards to support use of microgrids and standalone power systems, when cheaper and more reliable than a connection to the main grid.

The post NSW networks encouraged to install microgrids, standalone power, in regions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

YouGov poll found positive views on LTNs are three times higher than negative ones

They are not purely, or even mainly, about cycling, but the row about low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), – where some residential streets are closed to through motor traffic – epitomises broader attitudes in the UK towards safer, more human-friendly streets.

And amid the daily froth of sometimes entirely false stories about LTNs closing roads, or slowing emergency service response times, one thing is often forgotten: these schemes tend to be very popular.

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New Zealand carbon allowances closed at their highest-ever level on Thursday as the election result has injected some positive momentum into the market.

The winners have been announced in the Luminar bug photography awards 2020 in association with Europe’s leading invertebrate charity, Buglife.

In their inaugural year, the Luminar bug photography awards have attracted an astonishing variety and quality of work from around the world. More than 800 photographers made submissions

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Sun Cable eye four sites on cattle stations in the Northern Territory for its massive 10GW solar farm and battery plant.

The post Sun Cable earmarks site for 10GW solar farm at cattle station south of Darwin appeared first on RenewEconomy.