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China's new energy policy decisions will affect the whole world. Climate activists should really be marching on Beijing if the news flow this year is any guide.

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Sales of Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles in Australia likely to smash records, and mark a turning point for the local car market.

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Central Queensland’s Stanwell Power Station is in top notch order for summer after a multi-million dollar “grease and oil change” that has pumped $11 million into the local economy.

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EDL is in the running for the Award for Excellence – Power, in competition with power producers, as well as utilities, system operators and regional market entities from across the globe, including the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, United States of America and India.

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NSW storage proposals include 14 different big battery projects, a handful of virtual power plants, and a coal mine which wants to install pumped hydro.

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MRI PSO Pty Ltd (MRI PSO), a co-regulatory arrangement under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme, was given an improvement notice on 30 September 2019, after the Department of the Environment and Energy found that MRI PSO did not meet their recycling target or the reasonable access requirement in the 2016–17 financial year. MRI PSO also did not meet their recycling target for 2017–18.

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Women inventors account for just under 13% of patent applications globally, according to a study.

Drones can be used to work out the body mass of the largest animals on the planet, helping in their conservation.

This tiny Himalayan village has shunned single-use plastics – the impact is too serious for them.

A huge earthquake off Alaska in the 1960s caused tsunamis that scientists say washed a tropical fungus ashore.

California regulator ARB will hold a meeting on Nov. 21 to consider amendments to install a price cap and a borrowed credits mechanism in the state’s low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) in response to concerns about cost containment.

There are 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon on Earth, nearly all of it held beneath the surface.

Carbon prices should start high and decline over time to combat the environmental and economic cost of long-term inaction, a change in approach from conventional approaches, according to research published Tuesday.

EU lawmakers are prepared to examine with fresh eyes whether to deploy the carbon border measures they once rejected, as the bloc’s higher carbon prices and the ongoing global trade conflict raise the stakes.

The Mexican environment ministry (SEMARNAT) published a largely unchanged final regulation for its pilot cap-and-trade programme on Tuesday, with the agency yet to determine the market’s annual CO2 caps and free allowance totals for the Jan. 2020 start date.

Carbon emissions from international air travel show no sign of abating. In the absence of a tax on jet fuel, are sail boats the best way to travel the world sustainably? Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Individual actions to reduce emissions are important in two ways. First, they have an immediate impact, and secondly, adopting low-carbon life choices sends a clear message to political leaders. Nick Golledge, Associate Professor of Glaciology, Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

German emitters maintained solid interest in the country's EUA auctions in August, buying up three quarters of the supply on offer, a government report shows.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is aiming for member jurisdictions to commit by spring 2020 to develop a regional cap-and-invest programme for the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, while planning to auction off nearly all carbon allowances in the future ETS.