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New Zealand carbon allowances remain near record highs, but continue to sit in a tight range while traders await news on the fate of the NZ$25 fixed price option.

National Political Editor at The Sunday Telegraph, Annika Smethurst, discusses the biggest news from the world of federal politics with RN Drive.

As many as 91% of more than 15,000 respondents to New Zealand’s zero carbon bill wanted the target it sets to cover all greenhouse gases, the government said Thursday.

Some towns receive more rain in 24 hours than in the whole year combined

Some parched New South Wales towns have received more rain in 24 hours than they have all year but it’s not enough to break the drought that’s gripped the state for months.

Western regions received significant falls on Wednesday night generated by a trough that was set to cross central NSW before moving into the Hunter Valley, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

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The Fund seeks to recruit a Forest and Climate Operations Analyst Consultant to join its team at its headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea. The assignment is for one year-period.

Germany’s GIZ is looking for a junior advisor to help promote carbon markets in Uganda and the East Africa region.

The Climate Change research group at IIED is looking for a highly skilled individual to contribute to IIED’s work in managing and taking forward the existing programme of work on devolved climate finance (DCF) and community-driven adaptation, while contributing to the wider portfolio of policy-oriented action-research on adaptation and climate finance work in Africa and possibly Asia.

National and conservation leaders say the annihilation of nature is a dangerous ‘blight on humanity’, ahead of major summit

Humanity is waging a war of terror on wildlife across the globe, according to the head of a world-leading research institute who was previously a counter-terrorism expert for the UK government.

Dominic Jermey, director general of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), also spent years in Afghanistan supporting the fight against terror, until leaving his post of UK ambassador in 2017. “Coming to ZSL, I am in a front row seat on a different kind of war, this time on wildlife,” he said in an article for the Guardian. “[It is] a war with catastrophic impacts on people and animals.”

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ACCC chairman Rod Sims says energy policy can still be made without political agreement on emissions

The chairman of Australia’s competition watchdog, Rod Sims, has warned it is foolish to wait for political agreement on emissions reduction before formulating an energy policy, because Australia’s political parties have now demonstrated they have irreconcilable differences.

In remarks referencing the tortuous debate over the national energy guarantee and the preceding decade, the ACCC chairman told a conference on Thursday the only way to get progress was to separate the objectives of emissions reduction, reliability and affordability.

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Regulator dramatically increases estimates of "firmly announced" large scale wind and solar projects, saying they now exceed 10GW - well above the needs for the RET.

The post Regulator says announced wind and solar projects now topping 10GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

I went to China to check out the trackless tram. I came back convinced it’s a transformative transit technology.

The post Why trackless trams are ready to replace light rail appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tasmania energy minister Guy Barnett speaks at All-Energy wearing a tie decorated with wind turbines. The contrast with federal counterpart Angus Taylor could not be greater.

The post It’s a tie! Tasmania defies federal Coalition on bipartisan approach to energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Wodonga installer has won the country’s most prestigious clean energy award, taking home the 2018 Solar Design and Installation Award from the Clean Energy Council.

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Sir David Attenborough on Love Island, Global Warming, population growth and meat eating.

Australia is likely to double its installed solar capacity to 18GW by the end of 2020, lifting its share of generation to around 10 per cent and reinforcing argument for battery storage.

The post Australia installed solar capacity to double to 18GW by 2020 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Three big solar new farms totalling more than 370MW join the grid and start to deliver output into the National Electricity Market.

The post Three biggest solar farms join the grid in Victoria, NSW, and South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System.

Zoos can help save animals not just cage them, says veteran wildlife photographer Joel Sartore.

The Clean Energy Council congratulates the winners of the 2018 Solar Design and Installation Awards, which were announced this evening at the All-Energy Australia Exhibition and Conference in Melbourne.

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