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Chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his love of electric vehicles, his charging needs, his views on autonomous driving and the prospects of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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A NAIF loan of $150m will help add more than 50MW of solar PV and one battery storage system to airports in the Northern Territory.

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The Melbourne Cricket Ground is carbon neutral for the month of September.

Climate policy is clearly a threat to the job security of Australian prime ministers, but it could upend our international diplomacy as well, with a string of key summits looming in coming months. Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Energy company SSE claims thousands of new points are in bureaucratic limbo

Britain has thousands fewer electric car charging points than required because councils are frustrating their rollout, according to one of the country’s biggest energy companies.

Big six energy firm SSE said that when it started work three years ago, it had hoped to install 6,000 charging points in London by now, but had fitted just 762 because of delays by local authorities.

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Governments are planning to agree only core elements of global guidance for international emissions trade this year, stripping down Article 6 text to the bare essentials as work mounts up on the wider Paris Agreement rulebook.

Behavioural insights unit proposes new colour for registration plates to help ‘normalise the idea of clean vehicles’

Electric and other ultra-low emission cars, vans and taxis could be given special green number plates to boost awareness and increase the use of environmentally “clean” driving.

Green plates are already used in Norway, Canada and China on green vehicles including electric and hydrogen cars, making them both distinct and visible to other road others.

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A day after SA government announces scheme to subsidise home battery storage, Germany's sonnen confirms plans to manufacture 10,000 batteries a year at old Holden site.

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Europeans have been living in Australia for over 200 years, and it has taken us that long to realise that drought isn't an aberration, but rather a recurring part of life on this continent. So why did it take us so long to understand the Australian landscape and its weather patterns?

Protests will be spearheaded by march in San Francisco on Saturday ahead of a climate change summit in the city next week

Tens of thousands of people are set to take part in marches and other events across the US on Saturday, to call for a swift transition to renewable energy in order to stave off the various perils of climate change.

The Rise for Climate protests will be spearheaded by a march in San Francisco, ahead of a climate change summit in the city next week that will gather mayors and business leaders from around the world.

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Ambitious project will involve a massive floating barrier that aims to collect up to five tonnes of plastics every month

A team of scientists and engineers will on Saturday begin an ambitious cleanup of plastics in the Pacific Ocean targeting a stretch of water three times the size of France known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

A 600m-long floating barrier will be launched off the coast of San Francisco and, powered by currents, waves and wind, will aim to collect five tonnes of plastic debris each month.

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South Australia government to offer $6,000 subsidy per household for battery storage, with CEFC adding another $100 million to offer cheap loans to assist with purchase of rooftop solar and storage.

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Australia to send a junior minister for only a brief visit to key meeting of International Whaling Commission

Australia’s commitment to ocean conservation is being questioned after the government chose to send a junior minister for only a brief visit to a key meeting of the International Whaling Commission, where Japan will attempt to lift a 30-year ban on commercial whaling.

Senator Anne Ruston, the assistant minister for international development and the Pacific, is due to arrive in Florianópolis, Brazil, on 8 September but will leave on 10 September, four days before the conclusion of the meeting.

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It's come close to cancellation several times, but could the successor to the Hubble telescope make the greatest ever discovery?

The ambitious project aims to tackle a collection of waste known as the Great Garbage Patch.

EU carbon allowances are surging to new 10-year highs almost daily, lifting power and gas prices across Europe to dizzying heights in the process, but experts say lawmakers are unlikely to intervene anytime soon by triggering a little-known emergency mechanism.

France and Germany will develop carbon pricing policies for all sectors over the next six months, their respective environment ministries agreed this week, extending the already extensive coverage to more areas of their respective economies.

This week's Q3 RGGI auction cleared at $4.50/short ton - a 7-cent premium to the secondary market - as compliance entities upped their buying following the previous speculator-driven sale.

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BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’

Hundreds of thousands expected to join global climate marches this weekend

Most of countryside now devoid of hedgehogs, study finds

Global soft drink firms back plan to eliminate packaging waste

World’s largest offshore windfarm opens off Cumbrian coast

Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

London fashion week vows to be fur-free

Groundbreaking 'spinning' wind turbine wins UK Dyson award

Japan killed 50 whales in Antarctic protected area, data shows

Botswana poaching spree sees 90 elephants killed in two months

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