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Negotiations on the first-ever global treaty aimed at tackling plastic pollution enter the final stretch next week amid calls for raising ambition levels, as observers have largely deemed the latest draft text of the agreement as lacking in crucial actions.

It is Day 11 at COP29 in Baku - Nature Day. New texts on climate finance and Article 6 dropped first thing this morning in Baku, with parties and negotiating blocs scrambling to pressers to share their views, as side events at country pavilions begin to wrap up. In our daily running blog, Carbon Pulse will report relevant or useful updates throughout the day. Timestamps are in local time (GMT+4).

Exclusive: Trail would help region with few areas where people can walk in countryside, report says

A new trail along the east coast of England should be created, a Tory thinktank has said, because farmland is preventing those who live there from having access to nature.

A report from Onward has found that in most rural areas, people enjoy extensive rights-of-way networks. But across the east of England, there are many areas where people have barely anywhere they are allowed to walk in the countryside. This, the report says, is because of large areas of high-grade farmland in that area, but also because Lincolnshire has the largest backlog for recognition of historical but unrecorded rights of way, with more than 450 outstanding applications.

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Transgrid signs contract with local big batteries to boost network capacity without the need for new poles and wires.

The post “Beyond poles and wires:” Transgrid signs contract with big batteries to boost capacity on constrained grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Vestas pauses construction on Australia's biggest wind farm and another major project as investigations continue into a fatal accident at Golden Plains.

The post Vestas suspends work on a gigawatt of projects as Golden Plains fatal accident investigated appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans to develop critical offshore wind port infrastructure in Victoria’s Western Port Bay are being pared back in a fresh bid to win a green tick from the federal government.

The post Victoria dials back plans for offshore wind port, in fresh bid for federal green tick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian oil and gas giant lands government money for CCUS projects, to the horror of analysts who say it would be cheaper, cleaner and smarter to phase out gas appliances.

The post Woodside handed government funds for carbon capture projects, but activists say we should use less gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

In this webinar brought to you by GridBeyond, we look at some of the hurdles and the solutions to ensuring electric fleets are all charged up and ready to go.

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Australia's sovereign wealth fund finally given instructions to invest in what it says on the box - the future - at least in regards to energy technologies. The Coalition says it is the wrong direction.

The post Labor issues new mandate to Future Fund to invest in the future, and the zero carbon economy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UNSW's Baran Yildiz on how Australia's millions of rooftop solar systems and other consumer energy assets are being integrated into the grid. Plus, a Tesla Powerwall to go with your Bunnings sausage? And other news of the week.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Four million and counting – the race to make the PV puzzle pieces fit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

HSBC has reportedly scrapped plans to establish a voluntary carbon trading desk, signalling a shift in strategy as the market grapples with slowing demand and concerns about integrity and transparency.

A Virginia county circuit court judge ruled the state’s withdrawal from the RGGI carbon market to be unlawful, siding with a trade group that challenged last year’s programme exit, sending RGGI Allowances (RGAs) in the secondary market rocketing higher by as much as 10.3% on the day.

Advanced nuclear companies are enjoying tailwinds pushing them toward technology deployment, according to new industry reports published on Wednesday.

Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.

Despite a diplomatic push from Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese, Turkey won’t back down on its bid to host Cop31

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Australia’s plan to host a major UN climate summit in 2026 has hit a Turkish roadblock. It is unclear how long it will last.

The Albanese government had expected that its bid to co-host the Cop31 summit in partnership with Pacific island nations – a Labor promise since before it won power in 2022 – would be agreed by now, as the UN climate talks in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku approach their final stages.

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California and Washington rank as top supporters of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) investments in the US, but overall growth looks grim absent improved policy frameworks and production pathway considerations, according to a think tank.

Australia’s plans to open new gas fields and recent approval for three massive coal mine expansions has seen it slip two places in this year’s global Climate Change Performance Index.

The post Australia’s climate rating slips because of plans to increase coal and gas production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin announces expansion of Eraring battery, ensuring that the site of the country's biggest coal generator will host the biggest battery.

The post Origin adds more storage to Eraring battery, making it biggest in Australia and one of world’s largest appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The real beneficiaries of climate finance for small island nations are private contractors brought in to build resilient infrastructure. There are now calls for a fairer money dispersal system. Steven Ratuva, Director, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The new Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen is set to begin its term on Dec. 1 after the three mainstream political groups in the European Parliament sealed an agreement on Wednesday evening to approve her team.