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Construction starts at SolarShare's 1MW Majura solar farm, set to be one of Australia's largest community owned solar projects.

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Speculators’ California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions rose by the largest amount since the COVID-19 pandemic began, as compliance entities held positions firm following the Q3 auction results, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Most functionality in the EU ETS registry system has been restored after last week's outage, the European Commission announced late Friday, though transactions in Kyoto Protocol credits remains impacted.

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Coalition accused of ‘breach of faith’ as it seeks to introduce almost exact replica of failed Abbott government legislation

Conservation groups will launch an advertising campaign aimed at building support for stronger national environment laws in response to what they say is a “breach of faith” by the Morrison government.

Groups including Birdlife Australia, WWF and the Australian Conservation Foundation will begin a “Before it’s gone” campaign on Sunday with radio, print, TV and billboard advertisements featuring high-profile species including the koala and greater glider.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices are holding steady over the second half of August, with credit values failing to decrease much further after several oil majors revealed plans to explore converting their facilities to biofuels production.

California Carbon Offset (CCO) prices are declining on the secondary market as fewer compliance buyers participate and sellers look to unload volume before post-2020 alterations to the state's cap-and-trade programme take effect, sources told Carbon Pulse.

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Want to make a quick buck – or should we say a quick euro?  When the Financial Times runs its next piece on EU carbon allowances, trade them immediately.

As the EU seeks to adopt a tougher 2030 GHG target by year-end, a carbon market for sectors not yet covered by the EU ETS would give a much-needed price signal to reduce emissions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

EUAs climbed as much as 5.5% on Friday, hitting a fresh six-week high within a few cents of €30 as French nuclear outages lifted the energy complex.

Allowance auctions in Shanghai and Tianjin on Friday both cleared at their price floors near secondary market prices, with the Shanghai sale reversing failures in previous years to go over-subscribed.

Prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

New Zealand allowances crept up 5 cents on Friday to end the week at their highest since late July and just shy of the market’s all-time record, but activity is stymied with both supply and demand dented.

XR plans protests next week as activists call on MPs to back a climate emergency bill

Extinction Rebellion plann to block streets in London, Manchester and Cardiff next week as they call on MPs to back a climate emergency bill and hold a national citizens’ assembly on the crisis.

On Tuesday, five XR groups will block roads leading to parliament as they descend on Westminster to demand MPs back what they call the climate and ecological emergency bill, which they say would speed up the UK’s progress on reducing its carbon emissions.

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Solar industry warns of "chaos and confusion" as regulators struggle to finalise new standards and rules for new inverters and large scale "shedding" of rooftop PV.

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University of South Australia team says its own R&D – and that of many others – on renewable heat-to-power technology will slash industrial gas use by up to 80%.

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