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Vestas unveils world’s new largest offshore wind turbine, a 15MW behemoth with a massive swept area in excess of 43,000m2.

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Tesla may sell an electric "Model 2" hatchback on the global market this year, but first must face regulatory battles in China.

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AGL promises a rethink in strategy as demand for battery storage and EVs "takes off" and as the outlook for coal generation dims.

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Changing South Australian state legislation on lease periods for pastoral rangelands could help drive the generation of millions of carbon credits across the state every year, according to a report released Thursday.

Six million people aged over 65 in England are at high risk of lung damage, a new report says.

The West Australian Liberal climate plan has huge gap, but a surprising ambition to clean up the grid and reach 100 pct renewables by 2030. Is it just to save the furniture?

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Owners of Vales Point power station turn down $8.7 million grant, blaming the Morrison government for taking too long to approve funds for turbine upgrades.

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Illegally brought to Colombia by drug baron Pablo Escobar, the animals have become a major headache.

A new report from the IEA shows that solar is likely to be the star of India's future energy system, but plenty of tricky policy is needed.

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The US should adopt a lower discount rate for its social cost of carbon (SCC) schedule and reincorporate global climate change damages into the calculation, experts said on Wednesday.

Carbon removal project developers are striking deals to help channel their offset sales and build scale as demand rockets even with sky-high prices.

California doled out more than 930,000 compliance offsets across nine projects over the past two weeks, with the majority of the new issuances going to projects that do not provide direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), according to data published by state regulator ARB on Wednesday.

European carbon prices rebounded back towards €40 on Wednesday amid a stronger auction result and a mixed energy picture, with data showing investor interest surging to fresh record levels.

Over six months, 73,991 tourists visited the continent. The potential to spread coronavirus to penguins, whales and other wildlife is enormous. Michelle Power, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Meagan Dewar, Lecturer, Federation University Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Putting a price on emissions from vehicle transport and buildings at EU level will not weaken national policies to decarbonise these sectors, a senior European Commission official said on Wednesday, attempting to allay concerns that the move could replace domestic emissions targets.

A steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFCs in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say.

Smart, activist states could prove as effective at handling the biodiversity crisis as they have at tackling the pandemic

Let’s be honest: few government-commissioned reports make a real difference. Often ministers call on an expert to look into a contentious issue in the hope of kicking it into the long grass, and when a weighty tome duly arrives with uncomfortable recommendations, it is quietly ignored.

It is easy to see how the review into the economics of biodiversity by the Cambridge University academic Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta could be one of those that gathers dust in the Treasury, because it has a tough message. Put simply, Dasgupta says humanity – all 7.8 billion of us – is on a collision course with the planet. Our current economic system is unsustainable and endangers the prosperity of current and future generations.

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Politicians would have us believe we can achieve net zero by just doing the easy things – or that some sectors can be excused

Right now the government is utterly hamstrung on the issue of climate change. After more than a decade of obstruction and doing the least possible, the rest of the world is changing fast and the debate in Australia needs to get real.

As Katharine Murphy put it so well on Tuesday, the government has no real climate change policy to speak of, but they do have a hell of a lot of fighting over pretending that there is.

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A California Senate committee will hold a cap-and-trade oversight hearing next week to examine ways to improve the WCI-linked programme and its role in achieving the state’s long-term climate plan, a legislative source told Carbon Pulse.