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Angus Taylor re-issues ARENA regulations in new attempt to open up the renewable energy agency to the government's preferred technologies.

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Australia's fleet of more than 80 wind farms blow away monthly production record, even with a day and a half left in month of July.

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*PREMIUM LISTING – This full-time position will be responsible for working on regular standard updates to align with Gold Standard's strategy and new market developments. The role also includes the review of new carbon accounting methodologies and managing the auditor approval process for renewable energy, community-based energy efficiency and waste management projects. 

*PREMIUM LISTING – This full-time position will be responsible for working on regular standard updates to align with Gold Standard's strategy and new market developments. The role also includes the review of new carbon accounting methodologies and managing the auditor approval process for Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R) and Agriculture (AGR) projects.  

The Originator will work within the Environmental Products Trading team. This role is expected to identify, develop and deliver deals that enrich the funnel of opportunities in Environmental markets and generate material and sustainable contributions to the global trade book.

Origin Energy takes massive hit on value of its coal and gas assets, and on its long term renewable energy contracts.

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This new record, based on monocrystalline cells developed at LONGi’s Cell R&D Centre, was confirmed in testing carried out at the German Institut für Solarenergieforschung (ISFH), and raises the conversion efficiency of cells based on CZ wafers to a new level. 

The post Longi sets 25.19% record for P-Type TOPCon cell efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Environment group launches legal challenge to Beetaloo gas grants, arguing resources minister Keith Pitt failed to consider risks of climate change.

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Bacteria, fungus and enzymes can all digest plastic, but can they work at a useful commercial scale?

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices dropped further this week as traders began to turn their attention to next month’s quarterly WCI sale, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) values climbed closer to the $9 level on heightened speculative interest.

Two privately-owned Bulgarian coal-fired plants may have saved around €30 mln in EU ETS obligations by under-declaring verified emissions covered by the EU ETS, according to a media investigation.

In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads

Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky. They time their trip so that there is just too little light to make out anything more than a silhouette – which is just enough light so that you can see, very clearly, the outlines of their legs and feet knocking together – an entrechat – as they flap their wings.

I’m not sure that I will ever stop having the exact same thought about this: “Oh my God, you can see their feet knocking together. Oh my God.”

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Melbourne-based Renewable Energy Hub is launching a new OTC-based trading platform for carbon and clean energy products, it announced Friday, offering a range of compliance and voluntary instruments primarily targeting the Asia-Pacific region.

Without urgent action, Australia will continue to lose billions of dollars every year on invasive species. Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Andrew Hoskins, Research scientist CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Climate change models predict tuna will leave the waters of Pacific Island nations, meaning they will lose a crucial revenue source. Katherine Seto, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Johann Bell, Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong Quentin Hanich, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong Simon Nicol, Adjunct professor, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK utility Drax notched a 56% year-on-year cut in its ETS-covered generation for H1, after the company had largely drawn down its coal stockpiles.

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Italian utility Enel followed other major European generators in posting an uptick in EU ETS-covered thermal generation for H1 on Thursday, in line with an EU-wide rebound following last year's pandemic restrictions.

Foundation has received $400,000 in total pandemic support despite being awarded $443m government grant three years ago

Labor has asked the Morrison government to explain why a Great Barrier Reef-focused charity received jobkeeper despite still having hundreds of millions of dollars remaining from a nearly $500m grant it received three years ago.

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which expanded from six to 38 full-time staff after accepting a $443m grant that it did not request from the Turnbull government in 2018, confirmed it received about $351,000 in jobkeeper payments in the 2019-20 financial year.

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