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Over just two summers, both the amount of energy lost since Hazelwood's closure, and the capacity it provided during peak demand, have been replaced largely by wind and solar.

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The Royal Mail is introducing e-trikes but what are other delivery companies doing to cut their emissions?

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A fungus that kills amphibians is responsible for the biggest loss of nature from a single disease.

What would change if we decided that the natural world we are part of had rights of its own – the right to exist, to habitat, to be free from pollution?

The post BHP has rights; why shouldn’t the Great Barrier Reef? New paper explores “Rebalancing Rights” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The gas industry needs a new social licence strategy. It's come up with "blue hydrogen".

The post Hydrogen blues: Is this the gas industry version of “clean coal”? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BloombergNEF data shows increasing advantage for wind, solar and storage costs over traditional fossil fuel generators.

The post Australia’s plunging wind, solar, storage costs stun fossil fuel industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The analysis could provide information on the animals genetics and the diseases that affect them.

America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a new graph of record-efficiency solar modules. And guess who tops the chart?

The post UNSW tops lists of global champions of solar module efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The project is billed as “a key milestone in New Zealand’s renewable energy development” as it looks to achieve 100% renewable energy generation by 2035.

The post New wind farm to be New Zealand’s first large-scale generation since 2014 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

First all-electric vehicle assembled entirely in Australia to be launched next week in Sydney, bringing Australia a step closer to a home-grown EV industry

The post Australian made electric cargo vehicle set to be unveiled in Sydney appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The project will bring Deakin’s best and brightest students and academics together with ACCIONA’s personnel and resources to design and build a solar vehicle capable of competing at the highest levels.

The post ACCIONA and Deakin University team up for world solar challenge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Making sure Victoria’s network can cope with residential demand for batteries and solar is a complicated business – but we’re not sitting on our hands.

The post AusNet: We’ve been swamped by the solar boom, and we’ve made some mistakes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Valery Bykovsky, who holds the record for the longest solo spaceflight in history, dies aged 84.

European carbon prices posted a fourth straight day of gains Thursday, ending above €22 for the first time in a fortnight on what traders said looked like short-covering combined with technical buying.

Most Australians would be familiar with the mass spawning of corals that occurs in spring every year on the Great Barrier Reef. But along the tropical West Australian coastline, the mass spawning occurs in the autumn. In fact, it began just last night.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) pushed through market expectations for the 2020 floor price this week, while RGGI allowances (RGGI) languished on the secondary market after their most recent post-auction rise.

Study debunks idea that parents find children’s concern about climate change irritating

In 2007, an article in the Wall Street Journal appeared with the headline “Inconvenient youth”. A pun on Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, it described parents being badgered by their children to drive less or install low energy lighting to help climate change. It even included tips and strategies for fed-up parents to deflect these suggestions. A new study challenges this narrative.

In 2015, a poster competition for Utah schools was launched to encourage teens to consider the air pollution implications of their driving privilege and to learn strategies to preserve air quality. Although the competition was directed at the teenagers, it soon became clear that they were talking to their parents and encouraging them to change behaviour too.

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Forest protection deals inked between African nations and a World Bank fund could reignite international emissions trade under the Paris Agreement and ICAO’s CORSIA offsetting scheme for aviation.