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More than 150 global companies with combined demand nearly as big as Australia’s main grid have committed to 100% renewable energy supply. But none from Australia – yet.

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CSIRO reveals plans to add further 1MW of rooftop solar at Canberra Black Mountain facility, and another 1.2MW across sites in Queensland and South Australia.

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Australia's "largest" solar and battery microgrid project wins government backing to cut the cost of electricity by 50% for 750 Latrobe Valley businesses.

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**This article is available to non-subscribers** – A Brazilian electric generation company has announced it will sell 492,647 Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) from a hydro project in the southern part of the country on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

A new US study says that several low-cost technologies can be deployed right now to limit global warming.

Kurtis Baute spent 15 hours in an airtight dome to raise awareness about climate change.

Caroline Lucas MP says that onshore wind energy is the cheapest. What are the figures behind her claim?

California should evaluate options for managing allowance supply in its cap-and-trade programme and provide additional data to market participants about the volume of banked credits, according to a report released this week by a panel of advisers.

Germany’s sonnen Group announced today that it has appointed Nathan Dunn as Managing Director for Australia and the Asia Pacific.

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Program that protects and restores environmentally sensitive land on private property stretched to breaking point, report warns

Queensland’s 4.4m hectare network of nature refuges is “stretched to breaking point” and badly under-resourced, a new report commissioned by an alliance of conservation groups warns.

The refuges are designed to protect and restore environmentally sensitive land on private property across Queensland. Landholders agree to dedicate part of their property as a private protected area, and in turn receive government support.

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The Inlandsis Fund has partnered with a US project developer to collaborate on a mine methane carbon offset initiative, marking the third such alliance announced by the Quebec-headquartered investment vehicle in the past month.

California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) this week issued another plenteous batch of offsets, with seven new projects accounting for the vast majority of the 4.72 million credits distributed.

Industry-leading effort to harness Australia’s booming behind-the-meter energy resource has begun in earnest this week, with GreenSync’s Decentralised Energy Exchange officially opening for business.

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They said the government's "contemptuous dismissal" of the findings of the latest UN climate change report showed a disregard for the "future well-being of Australia and our immediate neighbours".

EU carbon prices gained for the second straight day on Wednesday, rebounding after prices failed to fall below €19 in early trade.

The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.

Evidence is ‘compelling’ that organophosphates increase risk of reduced IQs, memory and attention deficits, and autism for prenatal children

Evidence that an entire class of pesticides threatens the health of children and pregnant women is now so arresting that the substances should be banned, an expert panel of toxicologists has said.

Exposure to organophosphates (OPs) increases the risk of reduced IQs, memory and attention deficits, and autism for prenatal children, according to the paper, published in Plos Medicine.

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Despite years of collaboration in developing their low-carbon fuel standards (LCFS), California and Oregon regulators are not planning to link their markets in the near future, officials said on Tuesday.

Proposal passes 571-53, with Labour MEPs demanding UK mirror EU action after Brexit

The European parliament has overwhelmingly backed a wide-ranging ban on single-use plastics in an effort to tackle pollution in seas, fields and waterways.

Under the proposed directive, items such as plastic straws, cotton swabs, disposable plastic plates and cutlery would be banned by 2021, and 90% of plastic bottle recycled by 2025.

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