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Tasmania Liberal government says it will release a new Renewable Energy Action Plan in April, to chart the path to updated target of 200% renewables generation by 2040.

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Infrastructure giant John Laing to cease all new investment in wind and solar in Australia, citing impact of transmission losses and a market where the 'returns no longer reflected the risks.'

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Justin Rowlatt reports from Antarctica's Ross Sea, where rising temperatures could affect marine life.

Sarafina Nance had a new type of surgery to prevent breast cancer that meant she retained more feeling in her chest.

ACT's gas phase-out gains momentum as Evoenergy recognises it may not be viable to connect new homes to the gas network and looks to renewable alternatives.

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Trina Solar unveils new range of high-efficiency solar modules it says could cut the overall cost of installing solar by up to 4 per cent.

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Victoria has expanded its government rebate for battery storage to more than 250 postcodes, while NSW has finally launched the pilot for its interest-free solar battery loans.

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Projected LGC surplus soars from 2021 onward, and only a change of policy or an eye-watering increase in voluntary demand will prevent that outcome from playing out.

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A trio of New York-based power generators regulated by the Northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade system failed to surrender enough allowances to meet their interim 2019 obligations, including the Empire State’s last two coal-fired facilities that are in the process of shutting down, according to public data released Tuesday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices received a jolt on Monday as a company reportedly was short covering for the final quarter of 2019, halting a month-long regression in credit values.

EU carbon prices slipped further towards €23 on Tuesday, with a surprise US rate cut failing to lift financial markets for long as investors feared for further COVID-19 coronavirus impacts.

Each B&B is a green sanctuary for pollinators, containing pollinating plants and shelters like beehives and nesting boxes. Judith Friedlander, Post-graduate Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UN aviation body ICAO should initially restrict carbon credits eligible for its CORSIA international offset mechanism to those generated during a five-year window, an expert panel has recommended, according to two sources close to the process.

Australian scientists develop satellite technology to help predict where bushfires might start.

Onshore wind companies can now compete for clean energy contracts. Despite onerous planning barriers, this is a big step

On Monday, the government did something remarkable. In the windiest country in Europe, it finally ended a five-year block on new onshore wind turbines. It’s a victory for campaigners, and anyone who wants action on the climate crisis and cares about lower energy bills in future.

Related: UK government lifts block on new onshore windfarm subsidies

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Exclusive: Conservation groups call for emergency endangered species declaration as numbers drop by up to two-thirds in less than 20 years

About 5,000 koalas in New South Wales are likely to have died in the bushfires, and their numbers may have dropped by as much as two-thirds in less than 20 years, a new report has found.

Conservation groups want the state government to make an emergency endangered species declaration for the koalas.

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The Ghanaian and Swiss governments have signed a memorandum of understanding to further cooperation under the Paris Agreement’s market-based Article 6, building off a project the European nation’s carbon credit procurement agency selected last year.

The development and scheduled Jan. 2021 launch of a British emissions trading scheme remains on track, a senior UK official said Tuesday, though he would not comment on the government’s EU ETS linking intentions should a wider post-Brexit trade deal fail to materialise by early next year.

Investigation traces meat sold to JBS and rival Marfrig to farm owned by man implicated in Mato Grosso killings

A new investigation has linked the world’s biggest meat company JBS, and its rival Marfrig, to a farm whose owner is implicated in one of the most brutal Amazonian massacres in recent memory.

The report by Repórter Brasil comes as JBS faces growing pressure over transparency failings in its Amazon cattle supply chain.

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