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Minister says plan to coordinate climate response in absence of government policy interferes with democracy

Big business has entered discussions about a self-regulated suite of measures to help Australia meet its Paris commitments, weeks after the Morrison government abandoned the national energy guarantee.

The resources minister, Matt Canavan, accused Australia’s biggest energy companies of interfering in the democratic process, as climate experts and environmental groups lashed the government over the development on Thursday.

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Risen Energy buys the 100MW (AC) Merredin solar farm, promising to begin construction of what will be Western Australia's largest solar farm by year end.

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Big energy professes to be focused on the consumer. But its eagerness to slow down the uptake of rooftop solar shows it still has only one thing on its mind: profits.

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AEMO's Zibelman says exiting coal fired generation does not mean the lights going out.

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The latest report from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) says the world must completely phase out coal-generated electricity by 2050 if we are to avert a climate catastrophe. Is that goal economically possible? And if not what should we do?

Flow Power adds third wind project – in third state – to business retail energy portfolio, with contract with Sapphire wind farm in northern NSW.

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Two new wind farm developments supported by the Andrews Labor Government’s Victorian Renewable Energy Targets (VRET) reverse auction are delivering new industries and jobs for Geelong.

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Ten wind farms will open their gates to the public when the Clean Energy Council celebrates Wind Farm Open Day with the Australian Wind Alliance on Sunday 21 October.

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The frightening impact of global warming is seen in drawings by schoolchildren in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

Eating more plant-based foods, ending waste and improving farming are vital for the future, say scientists

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Project developer and advisory firm Bluesource has hired a carbon market and renewable energy expert to drive its voluntary offset business.

China’s top generators risk losing nearly $400 billion in stranded assets by 2040 if they don’t step up the retirement rate of coal-fired power plants, a report said Wednesday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) average monthly prices retreated in September from all-time highs in August, while the total volume transacted trended in the opposite direction to notch a yearly high.

Observers remained sceptical of the long-term impacts of President Donald Trump's decision Tuesday to order the US EPA to promulgate a regulation mandating the currently banned year-round sales of 15% ethanol blends (E15)

Police in Kathmandu rescue two trafficked chimps after the BBC revealed the smugglers' methods.

EU carbon prices fell sharply for the second straight day on Wednesday, hitting a three-week low and closing below €20 for the first time this month.

On the outskirts of Bangalore, families must piece together drinking water from communal supplies, intermittently available tap water, and "water ATMs". Georgina Drew, Lecturer, University of Adelaide Amalendu Jyotishi, Deepika M G, Associate professor Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An Alaska project is set to be issued nearly 15 million credits on Wednesday by the California Air Resources Board (ARB), which would mark the largest offset project issued in the history of the state’s offset programme if approved by the regulator.