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Oil major BP is planning to build a new, large-scale green hydrogen facility in the Teesside area of England’s north-east, with capacity that could reach 500 MW by 2030, the company announced on Monday.

Australian carbon offsets continue to rise to unprecedented levels but on small volumes, while the minting of new units the past week returned to regular levels after a brief dip.

Conservative commentators have discovered there is one thing worse than a prime minister championing climate action - an Australian cricket captain doing the same.

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Origin Energy has announced the appointment of ex-AGL New Energy executive James McGill to head up a newly created business unit called Origin Zero.

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A move to cancel out controversial government funding for gas exploration in the Beetaloo fails, after most of Labor abstains from vote.

The post Keith Pitt’s $50m gas subsidy survives abolition attempt, as most Labor senators abstain appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Junior emissions reduction minister calls a proposed expert climate panel "treason", as the Morrison government vetos state's climate pledges.

The post “Subversion and Treason:” Tim Wilson’s bizarre attack on independent climate commission appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WestWind Energy will push ahead with one of Australia’s largest wind farms in Victoria’s south-west, after project amendments were given state approval.

The post Biggest wind farm in Victoria gets final all-clear from planning authorities appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL "breaks ground" on Torrens Island battery that will be the biggest battery so far in South Australia.

The post AGL breaks ground on Torrens big battery, biggest in South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Monash University researchers unlock technique for green ammonia production using electricity, eliminating the need for fossil gas as a feedstock.

The post Australian scientists say discovery could render ammonia from fossil fuels obsolete appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Australia’s bushfire response relies on foreign satellites, which are not designed to assess our highly flammable eucalypt-clad landscapes. Marta Yebra, Associate professor, Australian National University James Gilbert, Lead Engineer, Australian National University Nicolas Younes, Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University Rob Sharp, Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Efforts to create "green jobs" need to intensify if the government is to meet its target, a report says.

Nestlé Australia accelerates switch to 100 per cent renewable with 10-year deal with CWP wind farms.

The post Nestlé Australia switches to 100 pct renewables with CWP wind farm deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Portfolio selection rules on evaluating risk used to pick 50 reefs as ‘arks’ best able to survive climate crisis and revive coral elsewhere

A Nobel prize-winning economic theory used by investors is showing early signs of helping save threatened coral reefs, scientists say.

Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland used modern portfolio theory (MPT), a mathematical framework developed by the economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s to help risk-averse investors maximise returns, to identify the 50 reefs or coral sanctuaries around the world that are most likely to survive the climate crisis and be able to repopulate other reefs, if other threats are absent.

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Brash piles provide safety from predators and place to breed for animal now hailed as ‘ecosystem engineer’

Symbol of Easter and scourge of Mr McGregor, the rabbit may be the cute hero of children’s books but its rapid reproduction has traditionally made it a pest for farmers and gardeners.

Now, however, with British rabbit populations are being decimated by disease, the humble bunny is being hailed as an “ecosystem engineer” and landowners encouraged to create innovative “rabbit hotels” to revive its numbers.

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In a taste of things to come, a secret Office of National Assessment report worried the ‘carbon dioxide problem’ would hurt the nation’s coal industry

The report was stamped CONFIDENTIAL twice on each page, with the customary warning it should “not be released to any other government except Britain, Canada, NZ and US”.

About 40 years ago this week, the spooks at Australia’s intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments (ONA), delivered the 17-page report to prime minister Malcolm Fraser.

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When Cousin Greg was disinherited by his grandfather in favour of the environmental group, inquiries about such legacies soared

In one bewildering and painful scene in the hit TV drama Succession, Cousin Greg sees his future of ease and wealth turn to dust. His grandfather, Ewan, announces he is giving away his entire fortune to Greenpeace, depriving Greg of his inheritance.

Now Greenpeace is hoping to benefit in real life as well as in the fictional world of the media conglomerate Waystar Royco. Thousands of people have looked into leaving money to the environmental group since the darkly comic storyline about Cousin Greg losing his inheritance and then threatening to sue the organisation was broadcast. More than 22,000 people have accessed online advice about making donations in their wills to Greenpeace. The group’s legacy webpage has also seen a tenfold surge in traffic since the episode was first broadcast earlier this month.

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Wind and solar smash records again in South Australia, reaching 135 per cent of local demand and more than 108 per cent average over past 48 hours.

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The European Parliament's cross-party trade committee is seeking changes to the EU's proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that could substantially lower costs faced by US emitters, according to a draft report published this week.