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ESB chair tells Clean Energy Summit state governments are leading the energy transition, as NSW threatens to go it alone if federal Coalition doesn't get its act together.

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BP’s head of technology David Eyton tells BNEF that BP wants to charge EVs to 100% within just five minutes.

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Solar boom that began in 2016 is having marked impact on wholesale prices, even in winter, and may rethink investment decisions.

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Thousands of tonnes of plastic have accumulated on the pristine beaches of Henderson Island in the Pacific's Pitcairn archipelago. Along one stretch of 2.5km, an estimated 18 tonnes has piled up over decades, at the rate of several thousand pieces of plastic per day. A team of scientists, conservationists and two journalists from New Zealand’s Stuff.co.nz spent two weeks collecting six tonnes of the rubbish to gain more insight into where it had come from, and how it could be prevented in future. 

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The Driven and RenewEconomy are delighted to announce the program for the inaugural Electric Vehicle Transition Conference, featuring many of the country’s leading policy and technology experts and analysts.

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The future of sand is ... recycled plastic?

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, an Australian, outlines her passion for the company's products and says Australia can lead in the transition to clean energy.

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Tesla says new "mega-pack" battery unit will allow deployment of "gigawatt" scale storage in a matter of months - cheaper, cleaner and quicker than gas generators.

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Rubbish has been washing up on its isolated beaches in the Pitcairn chain at a rate of several thousand bits of plastic a day

Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day’s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise.

Instead its beaches, which were awarded Unesco world heritage status in 1988, are a monument to humanity’s destructive, disposable culture.

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Nation replaces Brazil for first time in annual list of murders compiled by Global Witness

The Philippines has replaced Brazil as the most murderous country in the world for people defending their land and environment, according to research that puts a spotlight on the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

More than three defenders were killed across the world every week in 2018, according to the annual toll by the independent watchdog Global Witness, highlighting the continued dangers facing those who stand up to miners, loggers, farmers, poachers and other extractive industries.

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Th Australian Energy Market Operator says it is dealing with some 96 gigawatts of mostly wind and solar projects seeking to join the grid, but has made clear that its ability to accommodate much more new capacity will be limited if network constraints aren’t dealt with in a timely manner. Alex Wonhas, the former CSIRO...

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What can we do to address the water crisis facing regional centres?

Genome sequencing projects around the world are revealing promising new health insights.

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Small US fuel suppliers may be able to duck their compliance obligations under the Transportation and Climate Initiative's (TCI) proposed carbon market if its 10 member jurisdictions opt to use a federal designation in determining the programme's regulated entities, a regulatory source told Carbon Pulse.

A new REDD standard will look to incentivise national-scale emission reductions in high forest cover, low deforestation (HFLD) countries, and the resulting carbon credits will be designed for use in a variety of compliance and voluntary markets.

Malizia II, a high-speed yacht built to race around the world, will take the teen activist to the US.

The CEFC's latest annual report shows new investment shrank sharply last year, despite figures showing Australia now has the fastest rate of renewables deployment per person.

Clean Energy Finance Corp tipped record $1.3bn into renewable energy in FY19, says focus in 2019-20 will be on "important new frontier" of storage and grid stability.

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