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A Japanese startup has launched a rating service for projects in the country's national offset programme in a bid to bring much-needed transparency to the domestic carbon market.

The New Zealand government is mulling whether to include the emissions from international flights and shipping to its emissions target, and is seeking public feedback and submissions in a first for the nation.

Japan has given the green light to the registration of 32 projects under the J-Credit scheme, which could generate nearly 1.7 million carbon credits over their lifetimes, as the country continues its efforts to boost domestic offset issuances.

A European developer of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) projects has inked a contract with a technology company worth 3.3 million tonnes, in the largest announced durable removals deal in terms of volume to date.

Japan and Brazil have pledged to work together to fight climate change, with plans covering the protection of the Amazon rainforest and the development of sustainable fuel.

One of Southeast Asia’s few planned mandatory carbon credit markets is ramping up its work after the prime minister signed a new directive at the end of last week.

Amory Lovins says energy efficiency is a continuous spectrum that keeps rapidly evolving, and better design is twice as efficient as the gains from just dropping fossil fuels.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: How to make energy efficiency great again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by the latest marine heatwave.

The post Reef in crisis: Scientists despair – and are reduced to tears – as corals perish appeared first on RenewEconomy.

More Australian superannuation funds are excluding so-called "climate wreckers" from their portfolios.

The post Super funds dump thermal coal mining companies, up to a point appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most complex parts of a tree and has many different jobs to do. Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The contested Humelink transmission line was originally designed to connect Snowy 2.0. But its bigger purpose may be to connect the huge south-west renewable zone.

The post Humelink needs two lines, not one, now that south west renewable zone is its raison d’être appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian hydrogen company has signed a binding agreement to build a commercial scale production facility in Canada, as the spread between spot generic and human-induced regeneration (HIR) credits returns.

The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.

The post Big batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There is little chance nuclear power plants will ever be built in Australia. But for climate obstructionists that is not the point.

The post Nuclear power makes no sense for Australia – but it’s a useful diversion from real climate action appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Two Nasa astronauts are due to set off to the International Space Station in a new spacecraft in the early hours of Tuesday morning UK time.

The rise of policies aimed at harnessing forests to absorb carbon is driving the commodification of forests, hindering the slow-down of deforestation, and ignoring their social benefits, scientists warned in a report published on Monday.  

New report finds rooftop solar can lower electricity network infrastructure costs, cut power prices, and support electric vehicle adoption, but rules need to change.. 

The post Power to the people: Rooftop solar seen as “secret weapon” to energy transition and EV uptake rooftop appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Changing work habits and shifting environmental priorities demand new models of urban redevelopment. Architectural ‘exaptation’ uses the past to reimagine the future. Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Senior Researcher in Architecture, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Insisting nuclear power is the only way for Australia to achieve net zero by 2050 is a classic move from the playbook of those who oppose urgent action on climate change. Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Audio collected with underwater microphones suggests numbers at least stable after centuries of industrial whaling left only a few hundred alive

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Centuries of industrial whaling left only a few hundred Antarctic blue whales alive, making it almost impossible to find them in the wild.

Now new research suggests the population may be recovering. Australian scientists and international colleagues spent two decades listening for their distinctive songs and calls, and found the whales – the largest animals ever to have lived – swimming across the Southern Ocean with growing regularity.

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