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EU carbon prices extended their 10-year high for a second successive session on Tuesday, as more analysts revised their near-term forecasts upwards after underestimating the year’s stellar gains.

From John Howard’s promise to introduce an emissions trading system in October 2007 to Malcolm Turnbull’s dumping of the emissions reduction target from the national energy guarantee in August 2018, the past 11 years of Australian politics has been marked by a torturous series of backflips and U-turns on energy and climate change policy. The so-called ‘climate wars’ span the leadership of five Australian prime ministers – John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull – and show no sign of ending.

• Malcolm Turnbull survives Peter Dutton leadership challenge – for now

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GM Holden will hire 150 new engineers at its Port Melbourne plant, to fast-track the development of 20 new EVs by 2023, and an AV by 2019.

The post GM Holden seeks 150 engineers to accelerate electric, autonomous vehicles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thousands of reservation holders invited to inspect "mass market" Tesla Model 3 EV in Australia for first time. They will have to wait at least another year for delivery.

The post Australian Tesla customers get to see and touch, but not yet drive, a Model 3 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first wind turbine in what will be world’s first utility-scale, on-grid wind, solar and battery energy storage project has been installed.

The post First turbine installed at world first wind-solar-battery hub appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ratch Australia begins electrification of its 180MW Mount Emerald wind farm, says full operation expected to commence in November this year.

The post Queensland’s biggest wind farm powers up near Mareebra appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Berri Barmera Council issues tender to build and operate 10MW solar farm in South Australia Riverland region.

The post SA council launches tender to build 10MW solar farm in Riverland region appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Climate change denial is at the root of the half-baked policies and outright wrecking that have blighted the past decade

I needed to write this column really quickly, otherwise we might have had a new prime minister before I’d finished, and the climate policy we don’t have might have changed several times.

I gave myself 30 minutes because that reflects the fickle care and short-termism that has been afforded climate change in Australia in recent years.

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Darren Miller, the co-founder of electricity retailer Mojo Power has been named as the new chief executive of ARENA.

The post Mojo co-founder Darren Miller gets top job at ARENA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Whether cutting oil production or crediting corn ethanol under the LCFS would help achieve carbon cuts in the transport sector emerged as contentious issues as California regulator ARB on Monday sought advice on how to deal with rising emissions from the sector.

Malcolm Turnbull gets to continue as PM – at the cost of his credibility and at the behest of the party’s ring wing. Australia will now be looking for leadership. But they won’t expect it to come from the federal Coalition.

The post Turnbull survives as puppet of right wing, as Australia burns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Saudi Arabian fund that has had its eye on Tesla is now in talks with EV rival Lucid Motors

The post Tesla rival Lucid Motors may snatch Saudi Arabia EV funding appeared first on RenewEconomy.

So the NEG is dead – where to now? It’s time for politics to adopt the renewables model: a decentralised and distributed framework.

The post The NEG’s dead – let states and territories lead on energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EU carbon prices could average €35-40 over 2019-2023, accelerating coal-to-gas power switching and potentially questioning the rationale for keeping old coal and lignite power plants running beyond 2021, analysts said on Tuesday.

One woman's mission to turn the tide on India's polluted waterways by recycling leftover flowers.

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We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies. Shirin Malekpour, Research Leader in Strategic Planning and Futures Studies, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Enayat A. Moallemi, Research Associate, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The only sea creature known to attack blue whales is the orca, also known as a 'killer whale'. But humans present a much bigger threat to them. Wally Franklin, Researcher and co-director of the The Oceania Project, Southern Cross University Trish Franklin, Researcher and co-director of The Oceania Project , Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices advanced nearly 2% on Monday to extend further their 10-year high above €18.50 as observers continued to predict additional rises.

A new study on ants and robots has shown that having more workers is not necessarily better when working in confined spaces.