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A map of existing generation plants in South Australia, including wind, solar, gas and battery storage. But no coal or hydro.

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The chancellor will announce £2bn of grants to fund energy-saving projects for homeowners in England.

Traders in India are being denied the "right to shade" under trees, threatening food security.

His wealth is now estimated to be $171bn (£137bn), having made billions during the pandemic.

Solar developers look to downsize their projects to avoid complex connection rules that have delayed and added costs to many large scale projects.

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WCI regulated parties bolstered their net long California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings at the end of the second quarter, while speculators’ long positions largely remained unchanged, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released Monday.

WCI regulated entities pared back on shifting allowances into compliance accounts ahead of the cap-and-trade programme's November partial compliance deadline, while total permit holdings incrementally rose due to May's undersubscribed auction, according to California-Quebec data released Monday.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Monday opened the door to the EU's €40 billion Just Transition Fund (JTF) being able to fund natural gas projects, setting up a potential clash with member states.

EUAs rose more than 6% on Monday, extending last week's year-highs despite a weak auction as market participants grew more frustrated with the growing, speculator-fuelled disconnection between soaring prices and dimming fundamentals.

Reporting to the Value Chain Certification Manager, the Value Chain Certification Officer will serve as in-house technical expertise for the auditing of pilot activities conducted in the context of value chain sustainability reporting, with a particular focus on land-use related activities including soil carbon enhancement.

Koalas are notoriously difficult to detect. Traditional methods are costly and labour intensive. So we found a more efficient way to locate koalas in eastern NSW, using drones. Ryan R. Witt, Conjoint Lecturer | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Adam Roff, Conjoint Lecturer | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Chad T. Beranek, PhD candidate, University of Newcastle Lachlan G. Howell, PhD Candidate | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That's always puzzled scientists, but now they think they know what happened. Chris Turney, Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, Director of the Changing Earth Research Centre and the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility at UNSW, and Node Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Chris Fogwill, Professor of Glaciology and Palaeoclimatology, Head of School Geography, Geology and the Environment and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, Keele University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A report says a rise in animal-to-human diseases will continue without urgent action.

EU co-legislators must quickly reach an agreement on the bloc's upgraded 2030 target as a subsequent ETS review "cannot afford any delays", an advisor to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.

Four EU nations could ramp up their renewables deployment through 2030 at a lower cost than current plans, while almost halving their power emissions, analysts said in a report published on Monday.

Prince Edward Island (PEI) should implement a more effective carbon pricing system to hit its GHG reduction target than the Canadian province’s current approach, a legislative committee said.

Six of China’s biggest utilities have stopped submitting daily coal data to one of the country’s leading energy and economic indicators, creating expectations that coal prices might rise and add to the pushback against putting in place an effective carbon price.

Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a reports of a suspected case.

Japan looks to shut down or mothball 100 ageing and inefficient coal generators over the next decade.

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