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Ross Garnaut on his split with Gupta, his Sunshot plan for renewables, and how Australia can still become a clean energy superpower.

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As things stand, and without big change, AGL will remain a sad old play on electricity prices with ageing assets that no one wants.

The post When is AGL Energy going to grow up? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new big battery, home battery incentives, and a battery-based VPP – all put on fast-track for Alice Springs with $2.1m funding boost from ARENA this week.

The post Batteries, batteries, and more batteries: Alice Springs future grid plan gets ARENA boost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BHP reverses support for Australia's use of Kyoto surplus credits, issues new set of standards on climate advocacy that puts lobby groups on notice.

The post BHP backtracks on dodgy Kyoto accounting trick, puts fossil fuel lobby groups on notice appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Technology provider for world-leading Broken Hill micro-grid has yet to get finance for South Australia pilot project, and has also laid off its sole Australian employee.

The post Storage proponent for huge Broken Hill micro-grid fails to land finance for pilot plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL announced planning application for a big battery of up to 500MW at Liddell coal generator, and another big battery at the ageing Torrens gas generator near Adelaide.

The post AGL seeks approval for 500MW big battery at site of Liddell coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

I want my kids to enjoy the freedom of being on traditional land, as we have been doing for thousands of years. Our island home is at risk

I’d like to tell you about my home, Masig Island. Masig is a coral cay in the Torres Strait Islands, about halfway between the tip of Cape York and the mainland of Papua New Guinea. I wake and sleep to the sound of the ocean breathing its waves on to the beach.

My genealogy, my ancestors, my family tree lies here. This island is my library, my school and my storyteller. It’s love, it’s life, and it’s ancient. There is a mythical, spiritual aura around this place. We are not migrants to this sacred land, we have lived here for generations.

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Oil slicks can lead to major environmental disasters but industry experts say regulations are now much tighter.

Firms are building robots that can survey the seabed and underwater structures without human help.

Economists say falling cost of clean energy and growing climate risks strengthen case for cutting CO2 emissions

Withdrawing from the Paris agreement does not make economic sense for the US, a group of economists has argued, as the cost of clean energy has fallen since the agreement was signed in 2015, while the risks of climate catastrophe have increased.

Economists from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at the London School of Economics examined the economic case for the US withdrawal, which President Donald Trump signalled in June 2017, and which will take effect on 4 November, the day after this year’s presidential election.

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Income from the sale of Brazilian biofuel credits under the country’s RenovaBio programme will face a much lower tax rate after lawmakers on Wednesday quashed a veto by President Jair Bolsonaro.

RGGI allowance (RGA) prices rose on additional secondary market compliance buying this week, as California Carbon Allowance (CCA) values nudged higher ahead of the Aug. 18 WCI auction.

Carbon emissions across Pennsylvania and the eastern half of the US would decline if the Keystone State were to join the RGGI ETS in 2022 under its proposed cap level, according to a study published Thursday.

The president of Kiribati plans to raise its low-lying islands to fight, not flee, sea level rise. Here's why it's an expression of human dignity. Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Roselyn Kumar, Adjunct Research Fellow in Geography and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Twenty of these freshwater fish species have a 50% or greater probability of extinction within the next 20 years. Mark Lintermans, Associate professor, University of Canberra Hayley Geyle, Research Assistant, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg, Science Communication Manager, The University of Queensland John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Stephen Beatty, Research Leader (Catchments to Coast), Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Biggest threat is non-native fish, but study was conducted before summer bushfires impacted Australia’s rivers

• Freshwater hell: scientists race to save endangered fish from bushfire ash

Some 22 native freshwater fish have a 50/50 chance or worse of becoming extinct within two decades unless targeted action is taken to save them, according to new research.

The most threatened fish is Victoria’s tiger-striped shaw galaxias which, experts concluded, had an 80% chance of being gone in 20 years time.

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EUAs lost 2% on Thursday amid technical weakness and fading oil and equities, as concerns mounted about carbon's lack of resilience ahead of full-sized sales resuming in earnest over the autumn.

Temperature and CO2 changes reduce the numbers of some species and promote the growth of algae, University of Adelaide study finds

Heating of the world’s oceans could radically reorganise marine food webs across the globe causing the numbers of some species to collapse while promoting the growth of algae, new research has warned.

Healthy marine food webs that look like a pyramid, with smaller numbers of larger predatory species at the top and more abundant smaller organisms at the bottom, could become “bottom heavy”.

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The Spanish government approved on Thursday the closure of three coal-fired power plants through 2022, slashing further the country’s coal capacity that has been in steady decline over recent months.