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Australia ranks 14 after New Zealand, with Scandinavian countries in top three spots

Australia’s commitment to global development has improved over the past year, driven by strong trade, education and finance outreach to the developing world, but it has been criticised for its poor action on the environment and climate change.

The Centre for Global Development annually ranks 27 wealthy countries on their commitment to development across the policy areas of aid, finance, technology, environment, trade, security and migration.

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The first private passenger to fly around the Moon with SpaceX will be a Japanese billionaire.

Lord Mayor Clover Moore announced Sydney has joined forces with more than 100 City leaders from around the world committing to strong action on climate change as part of the Global Climate Action Summit.

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The Clean Energy Council has opened applications for the fourth annual Women in Renewables Scholarship, a program which aims to strengthen gender diversity at the leadership level across the industry. 

The post Clean energy industry scholarship to help build next generation of board directors appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Green Bond Pledge is an international declaration that all bonds financing long-term infrastructure and capital projects need to address environmental impacts and climate risk

The post Local Government Super is the sole Australian signatory on the Green Bond Pledge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Simec Atlantis- the Australian ocean energy company now part of Sanjeev Gupta's business empire - says new tidal power turbine will be largest of its type in the world.

The post Simec Atlantis reveals world’s largest tidal turbine appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UK engineers finish building a satellite that will carry cameras closer to the Sun than ever before.

Two big coal and hydro plants did not cope well with the events caused by lightning strikes last month, but market operator pleased with South Australia emergency control plan that includes the Tesla big battery.

The post Coal and hydro generators struggle after lightning strikes twice on network appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Solar becomes biggest contributor to South Australia grid in middle of the day, signalling the next phase of the state's transition to 100 per cent renewables.

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The scale and speed of change needed on sustainability means many and perhaps most of today’s major old companies simply won’t get there. So, are we wasting our time?

The post Incumbents fail – so are we wasting our time on sustainability? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SolarReserve sings MOU with local outfit Heliostat SA, to manufacture and assemble the heliostat components for the world-leading 150MW solar tower and molten salt storage facility proposed for Port Augusta.

The post SolarReserve signs manufacturing MOU for solar tower project, but financing delayed appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nuon to provide fast food chain McDonald’s with EV charging stations at all of the franchise’s McDrive locations.

The post In Netherlands, every McDonalds Drive-In will have EV charging stations appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BMW chooses the fuselage of a cargo plane in New York to unveil latest vision of the future of cars: an intelligent, autonomous, electric SUV.

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Three years after the Dieselgate scandal erupted, number of highly polluting diesel vehicles on Europe’s roads has risen to 43 million

The number of dirty diesel vehicles pumping out toxic emissions on Europe’s streets is still rising three years after the Dieselgate scandal began, according to a new report. More than 7m such cars and vans remain on UK roads alone.

There were 29m diesel vehicles whose emissions on the road were significantly higher than official laboratory-based EU limits when the diesel scandal erupted in September 2015. But that has now risen by to 43m, according to analysis by the group Transport & Environment (T&E). France has the most dirty diesels on the road, with 8.7m, followed by Germany’s 8.2m and the UK’s 7.3m.

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EU carbon prices climbed almost 5% on Monday, rising by almost a euro following a strong auction in another choppy session in the wake of last week’s massive swing of almost €8.

You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and impactful running of ShareAction’s projects in support of (1) scrutinising / challenging corporate lobbying activities, and (2) encouraging the oil & gas and power generation industries to align their business models with the goals of the Paris agreement.

WWF is forming a ground-breaking partnership with a UK retailer to deliver sustainable, healthy and affordable food for all. It will work together to lead long-term action to tackle climate change, both via the impact of our food system, and by cutting emissions from the retailer’s own operations and its supply chain.

You will contribute to and have a leading role in project delivery and business development in the rapidly developing areas of International Climate Action Planning – particularly at sub-national level, and International Climate Action Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

Bloomberg NEF (BNEF) is seeking a talented, highly motivated individual to join our London-based analyst team covering low-carbon heat. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing research coverage on the decarbonization of heat in buildings and industry, including building datasets and authoring research reports.