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A joint project between US electric vehicle (EV) stakeholders, an advisory firm, and an offset registry has yielded a new offset methodology to produce voluntary carbon credits from EV charging and help foster the growth of the sector.

After spending decades exploring the deep sea, Phil Nuytten plans to build a colony there.

Pandas have to be within 20 metres of each other to identify each other's calls in their bamboo forest home.

EU carbon has retreated from its 10-year high touched last week, prompting one of the market’s top technical analysts to pontificate on where prices could head next.

Trading volumes in South Korea’s emissions trading scheme doubled in each of the programme’s first three years, with its overall value hitting 1.72 trillion won ($1.54 billion) despite the market being long 0.96% over the period, the government said.

Barriers could halt slide of undersea glaciers and hold back sea level rises predicted to result from global warming

Building walls on the seafloor may become the next frontier of climate science, as engineers seek novel ways to hold back the sea level rises predicted to result from global warming.

By erecting barriers of rock and sand, researchers believe they could halt the slide of undersea glaciers as they disintegrate into the deep. It would be a drastic endeavour but could buy some time if climate change takes hold, according to a new paper published on Thursday in the Cryosphere journal, from the European Geosciences Union.

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Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots.

EU carbon prices jumped above €22 early on Thursday to continue this week’s highly volatile activity amid surging energy prices.

Australia will hold the next auction under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) on Dec. 11-12, with spending again likely to be below the A$100-million mark, the Clean Energy Regulator said Thursday.

Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock

Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.

But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.

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Suzlon signs 252 MW service contract with AGL To service 120 wind turbines located in North Brown, The Buff and Oakland Hill Wind farms.

The post Suzlon signs 252 MW service contract with AGL appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Automotive industry risks blowing its carbon budget within 10 years without drastic change, analysis shows

New petrol and diesel car sales in Europe must be phased out before 2030 if the auto sector is to play its part in holding global warming to the Paris agreement’s 1.5C goal, a new analysis has found.

Forecourt plug-in hybrids will also have to disappear by 2035 at the latest, according to analysis by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

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Yoko Ikeda and Toshio Shibata both photograph nature – but from very different viewpoints. Their striking, breathtaking landscapes collide in the new exhibition Treescapes

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Pumping very salty water into the ocean has surprisingly little impact on marine life. Graeme Clark, Senior Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Emma Johnston, Professor and Dean of Science, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ASIC says it will closely monitor the climate reporting standards of ASX-listed companies, after a review found them seriously lacking – particularly on risk disclosure.

The post Australian financial watchdog hones in on climate risk, warns companies to lift game appeared first on RenewEconomy.

While the German government is supposed to set a coal phase-out date, energy utility RWE is putting the breaks on the Energiewende.

The post Hambach Forest: the front line of Germany’s Energiewende appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Walkers and KP Snacks are among those failing to address consumer concerns over recyclability, say green campaigners

Major UK crisp brands are failing to address consumer concerns about their unrecyclable plastic packets, new research claims, with many relying on pledges that won’t come into effect for years.

The latest findings from campaign group 38 Degrees come after more than 310,000 signed its petition demanding that brand leader, Walkers, take the initiative and ditch plastic packaging in favour of amore sustainable alternative. Recent polling has found that plastic waste will soon leapfrog price as shoppers’ top concern.

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Alinta Energy says it has had a huge response to its call for wind and solar projects, receiving proposals and details for around  100 wind and solar projects, including some with battery and pumped hydro storage.

The post Alinta swamped with more than 100 wind, solar and storage proposals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia's second big battery has not quite completed its commissioning, but it is already showing some interesting innovations.

The post South Australia’s second big battery takes peninsula off grid, as tests continue appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL loses another key executive who saw the future of energy was in renewables.

The post AGL chief economist Tim Nelson leaves to join market rule-maker appeared first on RenewEconomy.