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The body representing UK vets says pet food diets based on insects are a 'fantastic opportunity'.

China passed legislation this week allowing local governments to impose taxes on the mining and production of a wide range of natural resources, including fossil fuels.

Engineers in Stevenage, UK, finish building a robot that will search for life on the Red Planet.

Former fishermen in the Philippines are lifting their families out of poverty through whale shark tourism. Judi Lowe, PhD Candidate, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Melbourne Girls’ College principal says she wants parents to buy items with less packaging

A Melbourne selective girls’ school is removing its rubbish bins and will force students to pack reusable lunch containers or take their rubbish home from next week.

Melbourne Girls’ College principal Karen Money hopes the move will encourage families to think more sustainably about school lunches and buy items with less packaging.

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The ACT government is finalising its shift to 100 per cent renewables and is now focused on decarbonising transport with a shift to electric vehicles.

The post ACT completes shift to 100% renewables, eyes EV transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hawaiian Electric Companies group launches one of America's largest renewable energy procurement bids, as it works toward state goal of 100% renewables by 2045.

The post Hawaiian Electric launches tender for 900MW of renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria government approves three PV projects for development in Goulburn Valley, controversially dodging state's own updated guildelines to solar farm development.

The post Three “controversial” solar farms approved for Victoria’s Goulburn Valley appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fires are raging across the world’s largest tropical rainforest as farmers, land-grabbers and loggers torch trees and clear land for crops or grazing. According to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, the number of fires detected by satellite in the Amazon region this month is the highest since 2010. Bowing to international pressure and a global outcry over the destruction of a vital resource in the fight against climate change, president Jair Bolsonaro authorised the deployment of Brazil’s armed forces to help combat blazes, with warplane dumping water on burning tracts of Amazon. Critics say the large number of fires this year has been stoked by Bolsonaro’s encouragement of farmers, loggers and ranchers to speed up efforts to strip away forest

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Labor climate spokesman says hyperbole and rhetoric of hard right in media and government will put the brakes on coherent electric vehicle policy in Australia.

The post Butler says hard right makes it long road back for electric vehicle policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Revised development plans for a 630MW wind farm on S.A. Yorke Peninsula, linked to Adelaide via an undersea cable, have won state government approval.

The post Massive South Australia wind farm, undersea cable project wins new approval appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Aurecon has been appointed by Spark Infrastructure as the owner’s engineer for the Bomen 120 MWdc bi-facial solar photovoltaic (PV) project currently under construction near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.

The post Aurecon advises Spark Infrastructure on the build of its first renewable energy generation project in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A record July for wind energy generation has also the combined output of "new renewables" – that is wind and solar – to reach a new peak for the month.

The post Wind and solar set new generation records across Australia grid in July appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia hailed as an example to the world of how grids can move beyond "baseload" and transition to low emissions grid dominated by renewables.

The post South Australia “an example to the world” of how to move beyond baseload appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The 2019-20 round of the Australian Heritage Grants program is now open. Through the Program, the Government will invest $5.3 million per year to strengthen the recognition, management, conservation and public engagement on Australia’s National...

The 2019-20 round of the Australian Heritage Grants program is now open. Through the Program, the Government will invest $5.3 million per year to strengthen the recognition, management, conservation and public engagement on Australia’s National...

Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator (Emergent) is a new not-for-profit 501(c)(4) working to accelerate financial flows to support and promote tropical forest protection, restoration, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. The Analyst/Associate will be responsible for managing the team’s administrative requirements, producing drafts of critical materials (grant writing and reporting, marketing materials, investor presentations, financial models), and supporting the organization’s partnerships with public, private, and philanthropic stakeholders. 

The Environmental Commodity Trader negotiates sales and purchases of environmental commodities such as renewable energy credits (RECs), greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances, and clean fuel program (CFP) credits, and manages positions for the company’s GHG allowance, REC and low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) credit portfolios.

The design of California’s mine methane capture (MMC) offset protocol may incentivise non-additional emission reductions and allow coal operations to run longer by improving profitability, researchers said in a new study.

Acidic oceans are disrupting a major part of the carbon cycle, slowing how seas absorb carbon from the atmosphere. This could massively speed up the effects of climate change.v Katherina Petrou, Senior Lecturer in Phytoplankton Ecophysiology, University of Technology Sydney Daniel Nielsen, Casual Academic, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.