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World’s first hybrid subsea interconnector inaugurated, joining two German and Danish offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea and allowing cross-border energy trading.

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Australia's largest buyer of gas and coal, Japan, set to announce a commitment to zero emissions by 2050.

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Spain-based solar developer X-Elio lands its first renewable power purchase agreement in Australia, for the output of the 200MW Blue Grass solar farm.

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The first images are released of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft trying to grab rock from asteroid Bennu.

Tesla says shortage of battery cells impacting supply of battery storage, and the roll out of new vehicles like the Tesla Semi.

The post “We just need more cells”: Musk laments lack of battery capacity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian oil and gas company Santos has injected 100 tonnes of CO2 underground at its Moomba CCS project as a trial, but the scheme’s future will depend on the government finalising a method that will allow carbon capture and storage projects to earn carbon credits, the company said Thursday.

This year marks ten years of continuous flows to the Coorong since the Millennium Drought broke in 2010. Keeping the Murray flowing all the way to the Coorong has been made possible thanks to water for the environment.

The Met Office is launching a tool to help planners prepare for further weather extremes.

Climate change: More pollution expected from stay-home workers

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California fuel consumption inched up slightly in August even as the year-on-year trend widened for the first time since April, according to federal data released this week.

The Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI) would not halt its plan for a regional cap-and-trade system if Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected president next month, while New Hampshire’s opposition to the proposed sectoral carbon market could thwart a linkage with RGGI, a workshop panelist said Wednesday.

EU carbon prices have maintained their close correlation to German power in recent weeks, while weakening the somewhat tight relationship to crude oil and US stocks observed earlier this year.

How a tiny insect with super-tough body armour can survive being stamped on or run over by a car.

The US will need complementary policies to drive long term deep decarbonisation because a federal carbon tax over the next decade would concentrate near-term emissions cuts within the electricity sector, according to a report published Tuesday.

Analysis by UBS suggests shift away from fossil fuel vehicles may be imminent

Electric cars will cost the same to make as conventional cars, with internal combustion engines, by 2024 and an acceleration in the shift away from fossil fuel vehicles may be imminent, according to new research.

The extra cost of manufacturing battery electric cars versus their fossil fuel equivalents will diminish to just $1,900 (£1,470) per car by 2022, and disappear completely by 2024, according to research by the investment bank UBS. The research is based on detailed analysis of batteries from the seven largest manufacturers.

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The oil firm’s tumbling share price shows investors need more than a loose assertion of confidence

Here’s a sight that hasn’t been seen since 1994: shares in BP priced at less than 200p. The stock, 480p at the start of this year before the Covid recession hammered the oil price, closed on Wednesday at 199.96p.

Even as recently as August, a sub-£2 moment seemed unlikely. That was when the new-ish chief executive, Bernard Looney, pitched to investors his plan to make BP a net zero carbon company by 2050. The rejig seemed to go down well. Despite the inevitable cut in the dividend, BP’s shares were briefly steady at 300p. There was talk about the company acting just in time to save itself from oblivion.

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Researchers have developed a white paint that reflects sunlight and helps cool buildings.

HSBC and the Queensland Government become the first buyers of 'reef credits', under a new scheme to limit pollution flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.

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