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Flucrum3D seeks funds for international expansion of its Australian made technology that helps optimise large-scale wind and solar generation.

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The mechanism that allows rooftop solar to be switch off is a blunt, rushed and potentially costly regulation. We need to do better for consumer-owned assets.

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The US has officially begun the process of realising a fossil-free grid, with an 80% by 2030 clean power goal likely to be implemented by Biden.

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The scare campaign against EVs is not likely to be repeated, but the new fake steak scare campaign in US could be the next course in Australia's climate debate.

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The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until COB 28 May 2021.

Queensland based Luceo Energy to design new data platform to boost penetration of rooftop solar and storage by managing voltage issues.

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New Zealand recently became the first country to make climate-related financial disclosures mandatory, but it has some way to go to scale up investment in climate resilience. David Hall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The world’s largest food conglomerate Nestle has joined the growing number of companies mostly shunning offsets in their quest for net zero emissions, though the Swiss-headquartered firm said it will make exceptions for its brands that want “move faster” towards carbon neutrality.

Companies with net zero pledges set decades into the future should begin planning and implementing emissions removal strategies now, both to ensure long-term credit supplies for themselves and to generate demand signals for market benefit, a conference heard on Tuesday.

Efforts to bring more price transparency to the voluntary carbon market (VCM) have split some North American voluntary emissions reduction (VER) developers, though they agree higher prices are key to greatly enhancing supply and satisfying heightened corporate demand, a panel heard Tuesday.

Sustainable development has been dropped from a private-sector taskforce’s list of attributes designed to help standardise the voluntary carbon market, a group member said Tuesday in remarks that may heighten observer fears about the process skewing towards cheaper offsets.

One mammal, the long-tailed planigale, can weigh less than a 10-cent coin. But it's ferocious, bringing down far larger prey with persistent, savage biting to the head and neck Andrew Baker, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

There's still a very good chance of recovery for most of these species, but only with new targeted conservation effort. Michael F. Braby, Associate Professor, Australian National University Hayley Geyle, Research Assistant, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Phillip John Bell, University Associate, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania Richard V Glatz, Associate research scientist, University of Adelaide Roger Kitching, Emeritus Professor, Griffith University Tim R New, Retired: Emeritus Professor in Zoology, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US RGGI cap-and-trade programme should consider incorporating imported electricity into the scheme during its upcoming 2021 review, while also increasing overall stringency, panelists said at an industry event Tuesday.

The structure of voluntary carbon markets (VCM) is expected to change dramatically as financial institutions become ever-larger participants in the space and corporate purchasing decisions shift from marketing departments to finance, a conference heard on Tuesday.

Exclusive: an environmental consultant who profited from a $40m environmental offset deal with governments has benefitted from other lucrative taxpayer-funded deals

An environmental consultant who holds interests in a property that made more than $40m selling conservation offsets to governments is part of a consortium that has made tens of millions of dollars more, Guardian Australia can reveal.

Steven House is a former director of Eco Logical Australia, a firm that advised governments on major projects in western Sydney.

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Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to the second world war has long been suspected.

The 27,345 ‘barrel-like’ images were captured by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They mapped more than 36,000 acres of seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles coast in a region previously found to contain high levels of the toxic chemical in sediments and in the ecosystem.

The scientists have been investigating the barrels dumped on the sea floor for years

• Thousands of barrels of suspected toxic DDT found dumped in California ocean
  

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EU coal power could be largely eliminated this decade as the bloc’s carbon prices rise to triple digits to incentivise a cleaner energy, analysts said in a report on Tuesday, a shift in line with UN aims to limit global warming.

US biofuel credits set an all-time high in the decade-old history of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on Tuesday, coming as refiners appealed a lower court’s decision to the Supreme Court regarding the curtailment of compliance waivers under the programme.