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Solar research agency Solliance have taken a critical step forward for the highly efficient solar technology as it moves towards commercial delivery and application.

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A new study has shown that the global solar PV, battery storage, and wind power sectors will serve as the major job creating technologies by 2050.

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India’s renewable energy capacity increased to 86GW in 2019, according to new figures from JMK Research & Analytics.

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How can a bushfire be described as "under control" if it's still burning? Here's an explanation of what the terms mean. Thomas Duff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Campaigners welcome common-sense move but say companies need to be bolder

• Tesco to stop sale of plastic-wrapped multipacks in stores

Tesco is to remove 67m pieces of plastic from its shelves from March by doing away with the plastic wraps commonplace on multibuy packs of tins. It sounds like a huge amount, but is still only a small proportion of the 1bn pieces of plastic that the chain has pledged to remove this year.

Campaigners hailed the move as “simple logic” and “common sense”, asking why retailers had not done this sooner. Part of the answer is that they were not sure consumers would continue to respond to multibuy offers if the tins were not physically bound together, but trials appear to have produced positive results.

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The Policy Analyst, under the supervision of the ‘Head of LDC Support Team’ and the CAEP project leads is to assist the ongoing work in Nepal under the CAEP project to help in the revision of Nepal’s NDC.

Australia's bushfire crisis underscores urgent need to decentralise Australia's electricity grid. Building up networks of solar batteries is the quickest, easiest, cheapest answer.

The post Bushfire crisis: The answer to future energy security lies on our rooftops appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California regulator ARB could decide by the end of January whether to invalidate offset reporting periods under review for regulatory compliance violations, three WCI market sources told Carbon Pulse.

As temperatures drop in Florida more and more iguanas are plummeting to the ground.

He has called it all of these things: "mythical", "a hoax", not a hoax, and "a very serious subject".

The UK should consider imposing a levy on airlines and fossil fuel companies to help spur a woodland carbon trading scheme, the country’s official climate advisors said on Wednesday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices continued dropping on the secondary market this week as participants looked to unload volume ahead of the February WCI auction, while RGGI prices stagnated on low liquidity.

Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak. Vanessa Cavanagh, Associate Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

When a bushfire burns is one country, smoke drift means it can become the world's problem. But the law lacks the teeth to hold those responsible to account. Eric Kerr, Lecturer, National University of Singapore Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) made revisions to its deforestation reduction programme methodology on Wednesday in response to comments from an UN aviation expert panel with an aim of becoming eligible for the international flight offset programme CORSIA.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits surged to new all-time records on Thursday, pressing up against the clean fuels programme’s pending ceiling price.

Spain's new government plans to ratchet down its 2030 emissions goal by a further two percentage points, in a move likely to get firm approval by Brussels this month.

• Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands
• Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump

The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.

Clean water protections strengthened under the Obama administration have long been targeted by Donald Trump, who has called it a “very destructive and horrible rule”.

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Experts use 3D printing and speech technology to replicate the voice of Egyptian priest Nesyamun.