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has today announced $1.28 million in funding to establish the Australian Hydrogen Centre which will investigate blending hydrogen into natural gas pipelines in South Australia and Victoria.

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ARENA has today announced $995,000 in funding to Yara Pilbara Fertilisers Pty Ltd (Yara) to support a feasibility study for the production of renewable hydrogen and ammonia.

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Infigen says its new big battery at Lake Bonney performing better than expected, but warns federal government and regulators are making new investment difficult.

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Some people might think it's a ridiculous conversation, but for the sake of the planet we need to talk about ending capitalism. Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The 149MW solar farm planned for Glenrowan West in Victoria appears set to break ground, after the appointment of EPC contractors Signal Energy Australia.

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Nic Bonne, who uses 3D-printed models to study galaxies, wants more people to stargaze.

The call for technology before action is a specious distraction designed to paper over the plan to take no action

If you’re committed to the Paris agreement – to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below two degrees above pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees – then at a minimum, logically, scientifically, you’re committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

So far, at least 77 countries have committed to the target, as has every state and territory in Australia. The fact that prime minister Scott Morrison is pushing back hard against the calls for such a target sends yet another strong signal that his government still denies the need to tackle climate change.

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Thinktank says 70,000 new builds in high risk areas are not covered by government-backed scheme

Tens of thousands of families who bought new homes in flood-risk areas are facing “crippling” financial costs, as they are ineligible for cover under a government-backed insurance scheme, a study has found.

Research by the liberal conservative thinktank Bright Blue found that 70,000 homes had been built on land at the highest risk of flooding in England since 2009, including 20,000 that were not protected by flood defences.

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The debate around whether Australia will meet its Paris emissions targets means little attention has been given to the target Australia should set, based on climate science and ethics.

The post What is a fair carbon budget for Australia? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices this week exceeded the 2021 Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger price for the second time this year, while California Carbon Allowances (CCA) also increased ahead of the first quarterly sale of 2020.

Education minister launches UNSW research hub to accelerate energy storage technologies, saying smelters need to be powered 100% by renewables.

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Oregon Republicans are once again formalising plans to flee the state this week to scuttle the passage of the state’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade bill, sources and local media reported.

The world’s largest wind turbine about to enter serial production is the 12MW GE Haliade-X turbine, but manufacturers hope to deliver 20MW turbines by the end of the decade.

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Gigastack project will use electricity generated from the world’s largest offshore wind farm to produce renewable hydrogen.

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In the blue corner is the extremely venomous Black Mamba – top snake of Africa – and in the red corner is the muscular Inland Taipan – Australia's alpha snake. Timothy N. W. Jackson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Millions of people rely on the 1,450-mile waterway as increasing periods of drought and rising temperatures reduce flow of river

The flow of the Colorado River is dwindling due to the impacts of global heating, risking “severe water shortages” for the millions of people who rely upon one of America’s most storied waterways, researchers have found.

Increasing periods of drought and rising temperatures have been shrinking the flow of the Colorado in recent years and scientists have now developed a model to better understand how the climate crisis is fundamentally changing the 1,450-mile waterway.

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) outlined a goal of cutting the environmental footprint of the nation's agriculture sector in half by 2050 on Thursday, with enhanced carbon storage from soil and forests seen as possible avenues to achieve that target.

Climate scientist who pioneered the global work of the IPCC as its chair and tackled the ‘climategate’ hacking scandal

To stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis – already being felt in the form of extreme weather, fires and floods – we have only about a decade to cause greenhouse gas emissions to peak and then fall rapidly. That we know this is largely thanks to one global organisation, a loose collection of hundreds of academics around the world that has amassed our knowledge of the climate for more than 30 years.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, convened in 1988 by the UN and the World Meteorological Organization, is made up of the world’s leading experts on climate science, who draw on thousands of academic papers to prepare comprehensive assessment reports about every five to seven years. Those reports are the gold standard, representing the summation of our knowledge of how the climate system works, and how we are affecting it.

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Academic and electronic musician Bertolt Meyer has hacked into his prosthetic arm and connected it to his synth.

Brazil’s JBS says it can’t trace the origins of all stock, as concern grows over deforestation linked to beef industry

The world’s biggest meat company has frequently been accused of links to deforestation. Now JBS is facing growing pressure from Brazilian politicians and environmentalists to address the information gaps and transparency failings in its supply chain.

Critics say these deficiencies mean JBS is unable to ensure it does not buy cattle from farms involved in illegal deforestation over a decade after promising to do so.

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