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Multiple Australian companies have joined Qantas’ Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition, opting to contribute to the cost of SAF rather than relying on carbon offsets, the airline said Tuesday.

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

Electric and plug-in hybrid car sales will jump to a new global record in 2024 despite slowing growth in some markets, according to forecasts from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Paris-based forecaster said that 17m battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be sold in 2024, up more than 20% compared with 2023.

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Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts with government, as the push against renewables and for nuclear gains traction in polls.

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The 125MW solar farm underpinned by a power purchase agreement with online retail giant Amazon has completed commissioning.

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More than 4GW of rooftop solar will be rolled out across nearly 1 million low-income and disadvantaged households as part of a $US7 billion Biden administration program.

The post “Solar for all:” Biden tips $US7 billion into rooftop PV for low-income households appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Sicona takes University of Wollongong technology global, with a factory in the US to produce ingredients it says will make EV batteries charge faster and last longer.

The post Australian battery materials upstart sets up shop in US, promises longer range electric cars appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The rapid growth in big batteries is changing the dynamics of Australia's main grid, and will help usher out fossil fuels.

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Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US.

The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia.

A Senate bill eyeing more stringent oversight over the purchase and sale of carbon offsets received no public testimony during its third Senate committee hearing on Monday, and now awaits a vote by committee members on whether it will advance to the Senate floor.

California diesel sales in January rose to their highest volumes for that month since 2008, while gasoline sales and emissions decreased year-on-year from 2023, according to state data released Monday.

Representatives of CO2 pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) testified before the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday as the company once again attempts to secure a permit for pipeline construction in the state.

Compliance entities continue to support RGGI allowance prices even as transaction volumes in the secondary market declined through the week, with participants reporting lower snow levels likely impacting imported hydro power.

Federal Labor's $1 billion Solar Sunshot program could be put to work as early as August with a tender for PV module manufacturing projects.

The post Solar Sunshot: First bids for making PV modules in Australia due in August appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday the allocation of $11 million to four CO2 transport projects across multiple states, as the agency continues to enable large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives.

California regulator ARB will discuss potential changes to market rules surrounding corporate disclosures and holding limits in their public rulemaking cap-and-trade workshop scheduled Tuesday, according to a slidedeck posted Monday, which resulted in futures prices in the secondary market selling off.

We compiled maps of bushfires and prescribed burns in southern Australia from 1980 to 2021 to see how fire activity is changing habitat for 129 threatened species such as mountain pygmy possums. William Geary, Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation, The University of Melbourne Dale Nimmo, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Julianna Santos, Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation Science, The University of Melbourne Kristina J Macdonald, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Pollution on land inevitably ends up in the sea. Policy makers must stop working in silos and instead consider the indirect consequences human impacts on land have for marine environments. Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher, Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Conrad Pilditch, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Waikato Simon Francis Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term.

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