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Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause

Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a leading cause, the UN has warned.

Hunger afflicted 821 million people last year, the third annual rise since 2015, with most regions of Africa and much of South America showing worsening signs of food shortages and malnutrition. More than half a billion of the world’s hungry live in Asia.

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Governments are failing to tackle the crisis that causes 1,000 early deaths a day, says damning EU report

Air pollution is now “the biggest environmental risk” to public health in Europe but governments are failing to adequately deal with the crisis, the EU Court of Auditors has found.

Europe’s air pollution limits are “much weaker” than WHO guidelines – and most EU countries do not comply with them anyway, according to the damning new report.

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WA government says federal nature conservation funding fell from $8m in 2009 to $1m in 2016

The premier of Western Australia has expressed concerns about the lack of federal funding for threatened species protection and government inaction on recovery planning. And the Northern Territory government has said it may have just one threatened species with an adequate monitoring program.

In a letter to a Senate inquiry into Australia’s high rate of fauna extinctions, the WA premier, Mark McGowan, writes that conservation work by the state, including control of predators, had enabled the WA government to downgrade the threatened status of some species, but protecting the country’s endemic wildlife was becoming more challenging because of reduced federal spending.

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The South Korean government has ordered Samsung Electronics to withdraw a CDM project that originally aimed at generating nearly 770,000 carbon credits per year over a decade.

Oregon lawmakers are likely to approve legislation in 2019 that would enable the US state to create a cap-and-trade market to eventually link with the WCI programme, several regulatory sources said.

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Nissan, Delta and CSIRO get grant to pursue off-grid and renewables-based electric vehicle charging systems.

The post Off-grid and solar-based EV charging trial wins Victorian government grant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Swedish luxury carmaker is billing its new 360c concept, not as an electric car, but as a mobile living and workplace.

The post Volvo 360c concept car is electric, autonomous – and you can sleep in it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan talks about his visit to Angus Taylor, and the South Australia subsidies for battery storage. And we take a look at Victoria’s renewable auction results and the discovery of a new power source in Canberra.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

DNV sees "momentous" changes in energy system, with huge investments in the power grid to replace those in oil and gas.

The post DNV signals massive shift of investment from oil and gas into power grids appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Macquarie to finance 16MW solar PV project which will be combined with 35MWh of energy storage in Korea.

The post Macquarie Capital to finance Korea solar-plus-storage project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

India doesn't eat much meat per capita, but that might be changing: it's the fastest-growing poultry market in the world. Tani Khara, PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the first indigenous-led conservation effort to be financed through the sale of carbon offsets, the Suruí Forest Carbon Project (PCFS in Portuguese) dramatically slowed deforestation and incubated sustainable livelihood programs in Brazil’s Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory (TISS), but a dramatic surge in illegal mining activities throughout the region in which TISS is located has forced the Paiter-Suruí indigenous people and their partners to suspend the program indefinitely.

Policymakers and industry have been caught off-guard by the rapid surge in EU carbon prices, and according to experts, the prospects to intervene may be limited and the idea generally unwelcome by many due to the painstakingly-constructed market reforms that triggered the year-long rally.

Acciona to add battery storage to the Mortlake South wind farm that wins Victoria renewables auction, as developers say auction structure was "very smart".

The post Acciona to add battery storage to South Mortlake wind farm after VRET win appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Exclusive: Conservation staff say 955 species face extinction across the state

The entire state of Queensland has no overarching conservation strategy to save its native species, according to a leaked internal review that criticises a lack of funding, planning and management of threatened wildlife.

The damning report obtained by Guardian Australia is an evaluation by staff in the conservation and sustainability services division of the Queensland Department of Environment and Science, the lead agency responsible for protecting native wildlife in the state.

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Shifting to a healthier diet can reduce a person's water footprint by as much as 55%, according to a study.

Victorian Labor government offers subsidies of up to $5,000 to help 10,000 households install battery storage in their homes, adding to a suite of household incentives for rooftop solar and solar hot water systems.

The post Victoria government offers $5,000 grants for household batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

On August 13, JinkoSolar reported second quarter 2018 results. Its solar module shipments and revenues increased 38.7% sequentially to 2,794MW, mainly driven by continuous demand and new product launches.

The post JinkoSolar supplies 275.4 MWdc of solar modules to green light contractors in South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The National Trust conservation project aims to boost wildlife on the Holnicote Estate in Exmoor.