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It turns out the the most enthusiastic buyers of rooftop solar PV are middle to lower socio-economic households, and not the well off.

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Coalition gives green light and another $1.4 billion of taxpayer money to Snowy 2.0, but it will take a dramatic shift in renewables to make the project work.

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The Federal Government is giving the green light to the massive Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme today, after satisfying itself that the renewable power scheme is financially viable and will deliver reliable and affordable electricity.

New Alaskan Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) formally disbanded his predecessor’s climate change committee on Friday, scuttling its recommendations for the implementation of a CO2 tax and sector-specific GHG reduction targets in the remote northern US state.

Representatives from 16 councils are gathering in the western town of Bourke, along with state and federal agencies, to discuss the ongoing drought and water supply crisis engulfing New South Wales.

Governments this month risk adopting CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme rules that have no climate benefit unless they impose both vintage and vulnerability limits on the carbon credits, researchers said on Monday.

European carbon allowances pared their losses on Monday after re-testing last week’s 2.5-month low in early trade, as talk of last-minute compliance buying and optimism around Brexit supported prices.

Scott Morrison's pledge to spend billions on a Climate Solutions Fund is a thinly veiled rehash of the widely criticised Emissions Reduction Fund, which had much of its work undone by fine print. Ian A. MacKenzie, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Reducing emissions doesn't have to conflict with a growing economy, as these 18 developed nations show. Pep Canadell, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Corinne Le Quéré, Professor, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Robbie Andrew, Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian wheat growers need to boost yields to stay competitive in the face of climate change. They could do this by sowing earlier, but need new varieties of wheat to help them do it. James Hunt, Associate Professor, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

By now, you’ve probably seen the news about US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). On Friday, she unveiled a sweeping draft resolution to set US climate change policy for decades to come, and major media outlets competently contrasted her resolution with the more ambitious but less detailed “Green New Deal” proposal. Oh, wait… sorry. Wrong universe.

California legislators, regulators, and academics will explore whether further actions should be taken to deal with the growing allowance surplus in the WCI cap-and-trade programme during the upcoming year, sources told Carbon Pulse.

Exclusive: mining giant received payments and carbon credits for shutting down oil generator before switching to diesel plant

Australians have paid about $2m from the Morrison government’s emissions reduction fund, now rebadged as a “climate solutions” policy, to mining giant Rio Tinto for a diesel-fired power station at a mine in Arnhem Land.

The multinational company qualified for climate funding to help pay for the fossil fuel plant at its Gove Peninsula bauxite mine despite the generator being commissioned before the fund opened.

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Incidents of snow turning green and black are causing increasing alarm. So just how worried should we be about the world’s increasingly colourful snow?

Don’t eat yellow snow has always been good advice. To that we can now add warnings against green, pink, orange and black snow, as new evidence of our trashing of the planet is now being etched out on the most pristine of environments – our dwindling snow caps.

A spate of incidents in Russia has grabbed internet attention. Residents of Siberian towns watched with dismay as the snow around them turned green and black, with toxic emissions forcing some to wear masks. These seem to be connected to local factories, with a chrome plant in particular behind the green snow, and, as protests gather pace, the Putin government has come under pressure.

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Scotsman Dave Mackay piloted Virgin Galactic's rocket plane to 90km above California's Mojave Desert.

The Green Climate Fund on Monday unveiled its new executive director and a global facilitator for its replenishment process, as the fund enters into crucial negotiations with donor countries over topping up its budget.

A new image from Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reveals a dark splodge where it touched down on the surface of an asteroid last week.

The Green Climate Fund is looking for a project management specialist who will be responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership for the on-going supervision and management of the Fund’s Projects/Programmes.

MPs also shown polling that claims stopping the controversial coalmine will not necessarily cost Queensland seats

Federal Labor MPs have been given new legal advice arguing there is a valid pathway to revoke the environmental approvals for the controversial Adani coal project, and a summary of polling showing stopping the project would not necessarily cost seats in central Queensland.

Guardian Australia has seen a brief for Labor MPs prepared by the Stop Adani campaign, which quotes legal advice from Neil Williams SC, a specialist in environmental and planning law, arguing “there is evidence to support revocation of Adani’s approval under section 145 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, including significant impacts on water resources that were not assessed when the mine was approved”.

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The Federal President of the Liberal Party and the ALP National President discuss the PM's new climate policy, asylum seekers and Newspoll.