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Energy Minister Simeon Brown wants to explore importing gas to prop up electricity generation – but subsidising the expansion of rooftop solar would be quicker, cheaper and more popular. Stephen Poletti, Associate Professor Energy Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Bruce Mountain, Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Geoff Bertram, Visiting Scholar, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

John Boland and Chris Bryant use their garden to shade their house from Australia’s hot summers – and it helps feed them as well

As soon as John Boland moved into his house in inner-city Adelaide he got rid of the concrete and sheds and planted fruit trees. In the thirty years since, those trees have provided him with a third of his food and cooled his home so well that he doesn’t need air conditioning.

Deciduous trees on the western side of the house bathe the house in shade in the hot South Australian summer while letting in afternoon sun during winter. They also block hot breezes in summer and cold winds in winter.

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A "smart" hot water heat pump can create cheap, flexible demand and deliver big consumer savings. It's time for governments to act.

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Carbon removal (CDR) standard Isometric has released a digital monitoring, reporting and verification (dMRV) platform to speed up the verification and issuance of voluntary credits, it announced Tuesday.

Raising the wind speed at which turbines start spinning could prevent tens of thousands of bat deaths each year, researchers find

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Australian windfarm operators are being urged to embrace a simple measure used overseas that scientists say could dramatically reduce the number of bats killed by turbines.

Curtailment – lifting the wind speed at which turbines start spinning – is used in some European countries and parts of the US and Canada, but rarely in Australia. A global study published in the journal BioScience found it was an effective way to limit bat deaths.

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Brussels is under pressure to defend its climate policy after approving state aid of €40 million to build Germany’s multi-purpose LNG import terminal in Brunsbuttel.

Zambia has moved closer to issuing letters of autorisation (LoAs) and approval for 10 carbon projects, its government has said, which would enable developers to sell credits internationally in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

Corporate Australia needs to not only get on top of their climate policies but also start educating their employees about what it covers.

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Establishing 30 new Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has the potential to ensure native wildlife in the region does not decline due to human activities, a paper has said.

The chamber of commerce in Australia’s largest gas-exporting state has argued the current Labor federal government is not doing enough to support carbon capture and storage (CCS) and should provide the same support it gives to green hydrogen development if the country is serious about meeting its climate goals.

Two oil majors have teamed up with a UK-headquartered firm on the construction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in Malaysia, the companies announced Tuesday.

Guyana President Irfaan Ali announced this week at a national assembly on Indigenous affairs that the government would increase the percentage of carbon proceeds for Amerindian communities, counterbalancing lower earnings in 2024, according to local sources.

Nearly half of the German population disapprove of the current domestic approach to CO2 taxation in transportation and heating, according to a new survey.

European carbon prices rose to their highest in 12 weeks amid an increase in buying interest as coal-fired power continued to make inroads into gas' share of the market, while a pause in the auction schedule on Wednesday added to the bullish sentiment and appeared to trigger some short-covering.

A provincial government body in Sarawak state in Malaysia has entered into several partnerships for the exploration and development of carbon offset projects based on nature-based solutions (NbS), renewable energy, and biodiversity conservation.

US-based environmental credit platform Regen Network Development is trialling a feature to enable the publishing of project data, connected to blockchain, in a bid to improve the storytelling around their environmental credits.

An advanced market commitment for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has released a standardised offtake agreement template for deals in the nascent technology sector.

Voluntary carbon standard Verra has updated its Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework in order to align with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (ICVCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label, the standard announced Tuesday.

Japan has selected around a dozen climate and environment projects across Southeast Asia that will receive government funding, including programmes promoting the development of biochar, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and methane emissions reductions from rice production.

The coalition government’s decision to follow the Climate Change Commission’s advice on emissions trading scheme price settings and auction volumes has been broadly welcomed, participants told a conference Tuesday, but key issues relating to the scheme have yet to be resolved.