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Clean Energy Regulator estimates large-scale renewable generation will increase from 2018 levels of 22,000 gigawatt-hours to around 40,000GWh in 2020.

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UN Secretary General has calls on global leaders, including Scott Morrison, to come to the Climate Action Summit with concrete plans to lift climate action.

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GE Renewables unveils first components for its world-leading 12 MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbine.

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South Korea will develop a 2.1 GW floating solar power plant which, upon completion, will be 14-times larger than the world’s largest floating project.

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The California city on Tuesday voted to ban natural gas hook-ups in new buildings, in a historic move

Berkeley this week became the first city in the United States to ban natural, fossil gas hook-ups in new buildings.

The landmark ordinance was passed into law on Tuesday, after being approved unanimously by the city council the previous week amid resounding public support.

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The iron steamer SS Alert has been reported as looted by divers . Wrecked in 1893, and located within a protected zone declared under the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018. The site sits at a depth of 80 meters, well beyond the capacity of...

On 1 July 2019 Australia repealed the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and commenced the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018. The new Act broadens protection to aircraft and other underwater cultural heritage in Commonwealth waters, recognises human...

On 1 July 2019 Australia repealed the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and commenced the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018. The new Act broadens protection to aircraft and other underwater cultural heritage in Commonwealth waters, recognises human...

Kellogg’s Australia to become the latest corporate entity to commit to sourcing the equivalent of 100 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables.

The post Kellogg’s signs with solar farm to take NSW operations 100% renewable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BHP voices concerns about land use of renewables in establishing $US400m fund to reduce emissions across its entire value chain.

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Proposed rules for managing energy demand could potentially lower prices and reduce blackout risk, but there are reasons to be skeptical. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Girls in Ethiopia are being given solar lamps to help stop child marriage and keep them in school.

The appalling treatment of Congo's rubber workers led to the world's first photographic human rights campaign.

Climate crisis group members gluing themselves to doorways to block members of Congress from attending evening vote

Protesters from the climate crisis group Extinction Rebellion are causing disruption at the US Capitol in Washington, confronting politicians and glueing themselves to doorways in order to block them.

Six protesters blocked two doorways connecting the Cannon building to the US Capitol in an attempt to stop members of Congress from attending an evening vote.

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Queensland announces 10 wind, solar and battery storage projects that will compete for contracts with newly formed CleanCo.

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House Democrats unveiled plans to develop a market-related strategy that will achieve net-zero GHGs by 2050 in committee on Tuesday, but specific legislation and future compatibility with progressive lawmakers' Green New Deal has not yet been determined. 

Zali Steggall, the Winter Olympian turned Tony Abbott slayer, will deliver her maiden speech to Federal Parliament this morning.

The teen activist is ridiculed by some French MPs ahead of her speech to parliament.

The Ohio House of Representatives agreed to Senate amendments on Tuesday that will subsidise two nuclear plants while weakening and eventually ending the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), as critics lambasted the bill as a corporate bail-out and regression on promoting clean energy at the US subnational level.