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After a particularly harsh summer of extremes, climate change is emerging as a key battleground in the upcoming election. But our PM doesn't want to talk about it.

The post Morrison refuses to discuss climate change as Tasmania burns, Townsville floods appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia has the resource, our Asian neighbours and trading partners need it. The opportunity to store and ship renewable energy in bulk, liquid, transportable form exists now.

The post Will Australia seize opportunity to lead region’s renewable hydrogen market? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK’s CO2 emissions peaked in the year 1973 and have declined faster than any other major developed country. Here's how.

The post Analysis: Why the UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 1990 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

TransGrid today announced the appointment of Jason Conroy to its Executive team as Chief Financial Officer, effective on 4 March 2019.

The post TransGrid appoints Jason Conroy as Chief Financial Officer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Elliott Green Power formally opens Susan River solar farm, the 20th large scale renewable energy project to come on line in Queensland in the last two years.

The post Elliott Green Power opens Susan River solar farm, two more being built appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hundreds of residents in Townsville have been evacuated and two men are missing as the area is hit with a year’s worth of rainfall in nine days

• Townsville flooding: two missing as questions mount over dam release

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Germany posts record energy exports in January as France looks for more power to heat homes in absence of eight nuclear plants.

The post France relies on German coal to heat homes in cold winter appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UNSW Sydney's $3m deal with Providence Asset Group will accelerate research into reliable energy networks and fund a new centre supporting global development of renewables markets. 

The post $3m deal charges UNSW drive for an integrated renewables future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ICE has asked the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to approve several new carbon market products, including California Carbon Offsets (CCOs).

The UN has awarded two contracts to buy a total 140,800 Gold Standard CERs to offset the organisation’s annual emissions.

Carnegie Clean Energy illustrates the benefits of using single axis tracking in large-scale solar projects.

The post Changing shape of solar power: How tracking technology killed the solar bell curve appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Massachusetts gave out almost 570,000 additional carbon allowances last year to power plants capped by the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) market, and emissions data suggests those allocations likely flipped the programme’s overall position from short to long. 

Connecticut is aiming to finalise its regulations to adhere to the post-2020 RGGI Model Rule by this spring, a state official told Carbon Pulse.

EUAs rallied by almost €2 after hitting a 2019 low early on Monday, as shorts were squeezed and buyers picked up cheap units ahead of an industry conference this week.

Moths with very expensive tastes are getting -36C "chill" time at Newhailes House.

Despite bans around the world, there's no empirical evidence sunscreens cause coral bleaching. Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Virginia on Monday published in the government registry its revised proposal for a cap-and-trade system to link with the northeast US RGGI market in 2020, regulations that are not expected to be impacted by the recent controversy involving Governor Ralph Northam (D).

Rising temperatures pose a growing danger to the glaciers found in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains.

Scott Morrison is trying to scare people about franking credits but seems blithely unaware people are already scared – about climate change

As I write this, fire is 500 metres from the largest King Billy pine forest in the world on Mt Bobs, an ancient forest that dates back to the last Ice Age and has trees over 1,000 years old. Fire has broached the boundaries of Mt Field national park with its glorious alpine vegetation, unlike anything on the planet. Fire laps at the edges of Federation Peak, Australia’s grandest mountain, and around the base of Mt Anne with its exquisite rainforest and alpine gardens. Fire laps at the border of the Walls of Jerusalem national park with its labyrinthine landscapes of tarns and iconic stands of ancient pencil pine and its beautiful alpine landscape, ecosystems described by their most eminent scholar, the ecologist Prof Jamie Kirkpatrick, as “like the vision of a Japanese garden made more complex, and developed in paradise, in amongst this gothic scenery”.

“You have plants that look like rocks – green rocks – and these plants have different colours in complicated mosaics: red-green, blue-green, yellow-green, all together. It’s an overwhelming sensual experience really.”

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