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Origin Energy will broaden demand management offering after SA trials deliver "significant savings" on both electricity costs and emissions for C&I customers.

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Corporate contracts are now one of the major drivers for large scale wind and solar projects, with Victoria and manufacturing emerging as the hot-spots.

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An overwhelming majority of Australian business and industry think the government should strengthen its climate ambitions and develop a suite of market-based policies to meet them, a survey has found.

Reserves cover more than five times area of US, says report, but enforcement is often poor

A record surge in the creation of marine protected areas has taken the international community close to its goal of creating nature refuges on 17% of the world’s land and 10% of seas by 2020, according to a new UN report.

Protected regions now cover more than five times the territory of the US, but the authors said this good news was often undermined by poor enforcement. Some reserves are little more than “paper parks” with little value to nature conservation. At least one has been turned into an industrial zone.

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European carbon prices recovered from an early fall and a weak auction on Monday to close near €19 for a third straight session.

America's next robot rover will be sent to a 50km-wide depression that once had water running through it.

George Monbiot and Keith Kahn-Harris are thought-provoking, says Penelope Maclachlan, while Peter Wheeler believes natural climate solutions are the way forward

George Monbiot’s observations (The Earth is in a death spiral. The only hope is radical action, 14 November) are well worth reading and thought-provoking. At one point he writes: “Academics, afraid to upset their funders, have bitten their lips.”

There are exceptions. Keith Kahn-Harris’s book Denial: The Unspeakable Truth ought be compulsory reading for every university student of English, history and moral philosophy. He seems an academic who has definitely not bitten his lip, but sought to penetrate a fog of lies perpetuated by denialists: those who shout down and treat with contempt the historians and scientists who have sought the truth and presented us with their findings.

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Energy company says importing LNG will firm up renewable energy projects but critics say gas is already more expensive than clean alternatives

Controversial plans to import liquefied natural gas into Australia to fill a shortfall as domestic gas is exported to Asia would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions, AGL has conceded.

Energy companies have proposed four LNG import terminals for the east coast to ensure gas supply and ease high prices. The imported natural gas would effectively replace the two-thirds of gas sold overseas from export plants in Queensland.

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Norwegian company to fuel liners with biogas made from leftovers of fish processing

Waste fish parts will be used to power ships in a new initiative to use green energy for polluting cruise liners.

The leftovers of fish processed for food and mixed with other organic waste will be used to generate biogas, which will then be liquefied and used in place of fossil fuels by the expedition cruise line Hurtigruten.

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Scientists discover how the marsupials are the only known species producing cube-shaped faeces.

The CPA 1 will work within the Office of Climate Change to support delivery of mitigation and adaptation programs critical to fulfilling the state’s climate agenda.

Cutting emissions from heavy industry would generate savings and boost economic growth, commission argues.

The Dynasties crew took a rare decision to intervene when a group of stranded emperor penguins faced death.

Canada's Eguana Technologies become third major battery storage company to announce manufacturing facilities in South Australia.

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Sainsbury's is the first UK supermarket to stock edible insects - but just how tasty are they?

British industry will build new spacecraft for telecoms operator Eutelsat's flagship TV distribution network.

Energy firm plans to build 2,000 homes powered by solar panels on the Staffordshire site

An old coal power station is set to be transformed into a “sustainable village” of 2,000 homes powered by solar panels, in the biggest redevelopment yet of a former UK power plant.

French firm Engie said it had decided against selling off the Rugeley site in Staffordshire and would instead build super efficient houses on the 139-hectare site as part of its bid to “move beyond energy”.

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Australia’s biggest oil and gas exploration company has initiated the environmental approval process for a new LNG project that would emit up to 7 MtCO2e per year, enough to erase around a third of the carbon output saved through the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).

Tesla unveils its

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Gruesome haul of fresh pelts and rotting remains marks the end of a five-year probe into an international crime ring, that authorities fear points to a wider problem in Europe

The first thing that hit the inspectors was the smell. It was a sweltering midsummer day in Prague, and they had just opened an unplugged freezer filled with the rotting remains of tigers, lions and cougars. Pavla Rihova, the lead environmental inspector on the scene, said she had never seen anything like it.

“I have been working for the inspectorate 25 years … but the situation there was really horrible. If you can imagine: an old freezer, without electricity, full of meat and dead bodies, in the garden for two years. Absolutely incredible.”

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