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Australia’s position as a green building world-leader looks set to continue with a raft of leading companies signing up to the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC) Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment being announced in San Francisco this week.

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Tag is pleased to advise that its wholly-owned subsidiary, MPower, has been awarded an Early Works Agreement for a 5MW solar farm being developed by Renew Power Group.

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Morrison promises no action on climate as emissions soar to record highs, putting Australia at risk of missing Paris climate target by a billion tonnes. But what to expect from a man surrounded in his office, his party room, his ministers, and in church, by climate deniers and fossil fuel hawks.

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Country’s commissioner makes impassioned case against a business that no longer has a ‘social licence’

There is no longer a “social licence” for countries to kill whales for profit, Australia has told the International Whaling Commission in Brazil.

In an impassioned intervention, Australia’s IWC commissioner, Dr Nick Gales, told the key meeting that Japan’s proposal to lift a 30-year ban on commercial whaling was a “business proposition” that Australians reject.

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Deloitte report says the case for renewables has never been stronger, and smashes a few myths along the way.

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Tesla snaps its army of investors, social media followers and haters to attention with a photographic reminder of the 70MW solar roof it is building on its Nevada Gigafactory.

The post Tesla shows off gigafactory solar roof – says it will be “world’s largest” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction is underway at AGL's Coopers Gap wind farm in south-east Queensland, and that means delivery of "the largest wind turbine blades ever transported in Australia."

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Offset advocates are working to create pilot cases for wetland and grassland conservation offset protocols that could show California's Air Resources Board their potential in the state's cap-and-trade market.

It's a scream: Riding on some types of roller-coaster is an effective way of removing kidney stones.

RGGI carbon prices continued to increase after last week’s auction cleared above market participants’ expectations, while a months-long bull run in the WCI market appeared to peter out.

The recent spike in EU carbon prices has been tied to a massive loss booked by a major Nordic power market trader that has likely bankrupted him and cost energy exchange Nasdaq over €100 million.

Mercedes Benz unveils "vision urbanetic" electric chassis with inter-changeable bodies.

The post Mercedes unveils an autonomous electric vehicle with “swappable” bodies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California and EU officials will increase collaboration to improve their existing carbon markets, while also examining potential avenues for aligning policies between the programmes, the parties announced at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco on Thursday.

Researchers in Quebec discovered the narwhal, over 100km outside its typical range, was playing with the whales

Whale researchers in Quebec’s St Lawrence River are celebrating a remarkable discovery: a juvenile narwhal far from its arctic home, that appears to have been adopted by a band of beluga whales.

The narwhal, more than 1,000km outside its typical range, was filmed by a drone swimming and playing with dozens of belugas that were treating it as one of their own.

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With Ottawa’s deadline for Canada’s provinces and territories to submit their carbon pricing plans having now passed, the federal government has a tough task ahead in reviewing and coordinating the programmes and addressing the obstinate gaps in what has emerged as a national patchwork of schemes.

California should examine ways to streamline its own suite of climate policies while taking on more ambitious emission reductions programmes, legislative and industry officials said Wednesday.

I have had a long and happy life, writes 90-year-old Anthea Hardy, but what am I leaving my great-grandchildren?

At last, protest marches against global warming, the most relevant issue of our time (Report, 8 September). I am over 90 years old and cannot join one but wish I could. All other questions fade into second place: Brexit, the gap between rich and poor, even the wars of the Middle East. We are not even reaching the 2% per annum target and even 0.2% would be too high. We are faced with escalating catastophies: rising sea levels, floods, forest fires. I have had a long and happy life but what am I leaving my great-grandchildren? I feel impotent. No one seems to question the effects of jet aircraft, of rockets to outer space or the ever-escalating increase in traffic. As I carefully recycle my rubbish and take pride in my excellent compost heap, I realise how paltry my efforts are.
Anthea Hardy
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Poland's energy minister on Thursday urged Brussels to step in to cool EU ETS prices, which this week spiked to a 10-year high near €26, Polish newswire PAP reported.

New study: Ingesting even a single piece of plastic exposes sea turtles to a 20% chance of death.