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Eight governments on Monday pledged a total $163 million in new funding for the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF), taking the total amount committed to the fund to just below $400 mln, less than 2% of what developed nations have promised to contribute by the end of next year.

Australia’s first commercial concentrated solar thermal heat plant will be built at the Mars Petcare facility in Wodonga, joining the recently installed "thermal battery."

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Australian silicon anode technology that promises to reduce battery storage costs and enable longer EV driving ranges awarded Arena funding.

The post Arena backs homegrown battery tech that promises to cut storage costs, boost EV range appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian gravity storage company wants to use mine shafts in one of the country's biggest mining regions to deploy its technology as vast new wind and solar resources are opened up.

The post Gravity storage technology mooted for Mount Isa mine shafts to back up vast wind and solar projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rooftop PV pushed grid demand and coal output to new record lows, as NSW prepares to join other states in introducing a household solar switch off mechanism.

The post Rooftop PV pushes grid demand and coal output to new lows as NSW gets ready for solar switch-off appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rising global temperatures are likely to increase inequalities between wealthy and low-income nations by exacerbating disruptions in the carbon and nitrogen cycles of the world’s forests, placing critical ecosystem services and economic assets in jeopardy, a new study has warned.

RGGI states released feedback on proposed programme review changes, with compliance entities questioning modelling inputs, leakage considerations, and consumer impacts of higher ambition, while investors and environment justice groups pushed back against cost containment plans and delayed implementation.

RGGI allowance (RGA) dipped downwards over the last week as activity remained muted, with the market continuing to await clarity on proposed programme review updates.

California regulator ARB’s second 15-day notice for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) amendments remains contentious ahead of the upcoming vote in November, as it falls short of addressing concerns laid out in prior drafts, commenters said, with opposition further fuelled by residents’ fears that the programme would raise retail gas prices.

It seems reasonable to call the Coalition’s policy what it primarily is: a proposal to expand fossil fuels

Some news you may not have clocked last week while the focus was on important things like a royal tour: 44 of the world’s top climate scientists, including four decorated Australian professors, released an open letter warning that ocean circulation in the Atlantic is at serious risk of collapse sooner than was previously understood.

They said a string of studies suggested the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body backed by nearly 200 countries, had greatly underestimated the possibility that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – or Amoc, a system of ocean currents that brings heat into the northern Atlantic west of Britain and Ireland – could in the next few decades reach a point at which its breakdown was inevitable. The cause? Rising greenhouse gas emissions.

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Windrose, a newly emerging maker of electric heavy trucks, has just completed a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney and has its eyes on the Australian market. Advisor Jason Roycht explains why it might not just be Chinese EVs on our roads.

The post The Driven Podcast: The Chinese electric trucks are coming appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia's biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid.

The post First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project switched on, well ahead of schedule appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Devrim Celal from green energy retailer Octopus explains why the energy transition will not succeed unless the proper incentives are given to use electricity at the right times.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Why the energy transition needs consumers to love electricity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

A biogas technology provider serving the agricultural sector has acquired a digital MRV firm.

Canada’s C$15 billion ($10.9 bln) public investment fund has made an offer to finance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for the fossil fuel industry, media reported Monday.

Carbon credit projects that centre biodiversity in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can attract broader investment and meet both climate and biodiversity targets, said a report authored by voluntary carbon market (VCM) proponents on Monday.

An October study attempts to shed light on how research and innovation funding for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) should be prioritised for CO2 removal (CDR) projects.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new global maps tracking above-ground forest biomass, calling it “a stable and open data source” for monitoring carbon stocks.

A new platform to add transparency to carbon credit purchases in Australia was launched Tuesday at the Climate Market Institute’s (CMI) Australasian Emissions Reduction Summit in Melbourne.