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Bob Brown's march on Adani's coal mine coincides with yet another report underlying fact that renewables are cheaper than coal, and that the clean energy transition can and should happen quickly.

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Each year billions end up in landfill, but the world's largest nappy production company is now backing a scheme to recover the plastic and other materials inside them.

US study shows battery storage can compete with gas. But in Australia there is no federal policy to help that happen.

The post Battery storage metrics highlight Australia’s lack of de-carbonisation policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

In 2007, over a friendly drink, the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott, came up with a radical plan to address the effects of the financial crisis and climate change. He called it the Green New Deal. Plus: the Guardian’s education correspondent on why schools are going to test four-year-olds

In 2007, Larry Elliott met a friend to discuss the financial crisis. Over the course of the evening, and several drinks, they cooked up the Green New Deal – a plan to deal with the effects of the economic crisis and the threat of climate change. They formed the Green New Deal Group and, though Gordon Brown and Barack Obama briefly flirted with the idea, it did not progress much further.

But in 2018, the youngest US congresswoman in history, the Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, picked it up and the idea has been gaining traction ever since. Ocasio-Cortez’s plan mixes old and new. She wants a living-wage job for anyone who wants one; universal healthcare; and basic income programmes as part of a “detailed national, industrial, economic mobilisation plan” that would ensure the US is powered by 100% renewable electricity, and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, agriculture and other industries.

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There’s about $3.5 trillion of revenue each year from the “mine mouth” value of global coal, gas and oil sales. All of that has to go away, and about half of it needs to be gone in the next 12 years.

The post Know your NEM: How to replace a $3.5 trillion industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Under an Early Contractor Involvement arrangement, Genex and UGL will work together to finalise the EPC and Operation and Maintenance contracts and complete the remaining development works required to reach financial close in June 2019 and commence construction in July 2019.

The post Genex appoints UGL as preferred EPC contractor finalising project delivery team for the 50MW Jemalong solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australians agree the nation ‘is facing a climate emergency’ requiring emergency action and that, in response, governments should “mobilise all of society” like they did during the world wars.

The post Support for action surges, as majority say we face climate emergency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

First production delivered from Murra Warra wind farm near Horsham in Victoria, that will deliver cheap electricity to Telstra and other corporate buyers.

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A closer look at Extinction Rebellion's demands and how the government might try to achieve them.

Supporters say they can make it easier for people in rural areas to get around.

The Norwegian Government backed company Equinor wants to drill in the Great Australian Bight but one global oil and gas expert is questioning the proposal.

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is looking for a Green Growth and Natural Capital Research Consultant to provide substantive and programmatic support to the GGKP research programme and, particularly, the Natural Capital Expert Working Group. 

The Manager of the Climate Finance Tracking workstream is responsible for the development and management of new and existing initiatives, projects, products and analytical approaches related to climate finance tracking and measuring progress toward a zero carbon and climate resilient transition.

Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is seeking an experienced candidate to manage CRS state policy outreach and contribute to our international policy and technical assistance team. This position will play a key role in supporting the organization’s goals of advancing the growth of renewable energy in the U.S. and internationally.

Victoria has some of the most carbon rich native forests in the world. And we're cutting them down for short-lived wood products. Chris Taylor, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmental group The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will acquire a southeast US forestry project that has already generated several million California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) through the WCI cap-and-trade programme, with the organisation accumulating a majority of those credits in the process.

Swedish activist says world faces ‘existential crisis’ and must achieve goals of Paris deal

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist, has given her support for a general strike for the climate, saying the student movement she inspired needs more support from older generations to ensure politicians keep their promises under the Paris agreement.

Speaking at a public event in London as Extinction Rebellion protests continued in the capital, the initiator of the school strike for climate movement was typically frank about the scale of the problem the world faces and the impact her campaign has made. “People are slowly becoming more aware, but emissions continue to rise. We can’t focus on small things. Basically, nothing has changed,” she said.

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The US news media devotes startlingly little time to climate change – how can newsrooms cover it in ways that will finally resonate with their audiences?

This article is excerpted from an piece published by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation. The Guardian is partnering with CJR and The Nation on a 30 April conference aimed at reframing the way journalists cover climate change. More information about the conference, including a link to RSVP, is here.

Last summer, during the deadliest wildfire season in California’s history, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes got into a revealing Twitter discussion about why US television doesn’t much cover climate change. Elon Green, an editor at Longform, had tweeted, “Sure would be nice if our news networks – the only outlets that can force change in this country – would cover it with commensurate urgency.” Hayes (who is an editor at large for The Nation) replied that his program had tried. Which was true: in 2016, All In With Chris Hayes spent an entire week highlighting the impact of climate change in the US as part of a look at the issues that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were ignoring. The problem, Hayes tweeted, was that “every single time we’ve covered [climate change] it’s been a palpable ratings killer. So the incentives are not great”.

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UK sees longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal as temperatures soar.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) awarded zero emissions certificates (ZECs) last week to three nuclear plant reactors, bolstering the renewable energy source ahead of the state’s entry into the northeast US RGGI carbon market in 2020.