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Europeans are emitting too much carbon and using too much food and timber, a report says.

Greta Thunberg says Dublin decision to follow British MPs’ lead is ‘great news’

Ireland’s parliament has become the second after Britain’s to declare a climate emergency, a decision hailed by the Swedish teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg as “great news”.

An amendment to a parliamentary report declaring a climate emergency and calling on the parliament “to examine how [the Irish government] can improve its response to the issue of biodiversity loss” was accepted without a vote late on Thursday.

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Australia’s opposition Labor party on Friday released its budget plan should it win the May 18 election, with numbers showing that the planned July auction for the Emissions Reduction Fund likely would be cancelled, but with funds set aside to develop new methodologies.

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Australia's spot carbon price is lower than overseas markets, but future prices will depend on the level of ambition in emission reduction policies.

The post Australia already has carbon spot price, and it’s cheaper than overseas markets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia’s coal-fired electricity industry will close its final chapter with the sale of the Port Augusta power station site. A big solar farm may be built there.

The post Port Augusta power station sale to mark final closure of South Australia’s coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Climate change is having an impact on British wildlife, say scientists mapping a deadly frog disease.

Researchers plans for new centre to explore refreezing the poles, sucking out CO2 and ocean greening.

Exclusive: industry tried to thwart policy that would increase use of recycled plastic

The trade body for the plastics industry has held last-minute meetings with government officials as part of a lobbying effort to water down a tax on single-use plastics, internal documents have revealed.

Members of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) met Treasury staff this week, the documents state, in their fight to persuade the government to row back on a key aspect of the policy to tackle plastic pollution.

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Coalition of social service organisations calls on political leaders to take the strong climate action needed to protect those worst affected.

The post Welfare lobby calls for zero net emissions target to protect vulnerable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ivan Higuearas, the international head of Gransolar, discusses why Australia is a global solar hot-spot, if we get the rules and policies right, and some interesting ideas about battery storage.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia’s place in the global solar market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

sonnenBatteries announced that sonnenBatteries produced in the former Holden factory in South Australia will be shipped to New Zealand from today.

The post Former Holden Factory Produces Solar Batteries for New Zealand appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland mayors join outcry against state government solar farm rule change, warning it threatens a major source of employment for rural communities.

The post Queensland councils say solar rule change will kill regional jobs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Federal government anti-dumping ruling expected to boost price of installing solar in Australia – another small, but unwanted, blow amid stop-start state policies.

The post Coalition anti dumping decision to cause rooftop solar costs to rise appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor reveals it will scrap Coalition's "Climate Solutions Fund" and redirect funds to clean energy initiatives.

The post Labor to remove Coalition’s “climate fig leaf”, push funds to clean energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Korea on Friday announced it has chosen two government-owned policy banks to play the role as market makers in the nation’s emissions trading scheme in a bid to boost market liquidity.

ESCO Pacific plans to build a 100MW solar and battery power station near West Wyalong have won approval from the state government.

The post NSW green-lights 100MW solar farm plus battery for Riverina region appeared first on RenewEconomy.

W.A. government to install 4MW of solar across six remote indigenous communities as part of an $11.6m budget plan to slash use of heavy-polluting – heavily subsidised – diesel fuel.

The post W.A. to fund solar farms in six remote indigenous communities appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Third stage of Crookwell wind farm, in heart of energy minister Angus Taylor's electorate, rejected by NSW Planning after opposition from local Landscape Guardian groups.

The post NSW Planning blocks Crookwell 3 wind farm, in heart of Taylor’s electorate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.