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Fortescue Future Industries forges major new green hydrogen partnership, with ambitious cost reduction goals and plans for Australia and Latin America.

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The International Energy Agency has laid to rest the persistent myth that net zero policies are responsible for soaring energy prices

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For months conservative politicians and commentators in Australia and around the globe have been desperate to link the world’s energy crisis to policies to get greenhouse gas emissions to net zero.

By blaming the energy crisis on net zero policies, commentators have laid the fears and suffering of people around the world at the feet of climate advocates, the UN and any government with even the most moderate climate goals.

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With COP27 about to get under way, which nations have taken a lead and which have fallen behind since the last UN climate summit?

Marine Conservation Society reports sightings of species normally found in warmer waters

Britain’s seas are becoming populated with large groups of unusual jellyfish owing to climate breakdown, a survey by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has found.

In its first marine sightings report, which builds on 20 years of citizen science, the society has found an increased abundance of jellyfish types, including those normally found in warmer climes. Thousands of volunteers take part in the MCS report, telling the conservation group which species of jellyfish and turtles they have seen.

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Utility Dominion Energy and manufacturing companies are advocating Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) administration to rescind its RGGI-linked cap-and-trade regulation, arguing that the programme is ineffective at reducing regional emissions and imposes a steep cost burden, according to public comments.

Neoen signs landmark, and first of its kind, baseload contract with BHP to supply Olympic Dam mine with 24/7 power from wind and battery storage.

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US biofuel credit (RIN) prices this week jumped to levels not seen since spring 2021, as obligated parties under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) snapped up credits, according to traders.

A sustainable forest firm on Tuesday announced a $1.8 billion purchase of lands owned by a US timberland investment management organisation to develop into offset projects over the coming decades.

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Prospects of a Republican winning Oregon’s surprisingly tight governor’s race are raising alarms that the state’s ambitious climate programmes could be put on the chopping block, leaving Oregon’s GHG reduction commitments in jeopardy and its agenda in limbo.

Our planet is undeniably in crisis and desperately needs COP27 to succeed. Without concrete action, we are condemning today’s children to a harsher future. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Offsetting carbon emissions sounds great. In practice, it’s often used to maintain the high-emissions status quo. Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Switzerland on Wednesday ended its bid to host the UN climate summit in 2026 following a government-commission analysis, citing a rival joint bid from Australia and the Pacific islands, the overall cost of the summit, and its preference for establishing a partnership at the event instead.

Global mapping reveals hotspots for untracked vessels in west Africa, the coast of Argentina and the north-west Pacific

Up to 6% of global fishing activity is hidden because commercial vessels disable their tracking systems, a practice that can be used to hide illegal fishing, according to a new study.

Ships use automatic identification systems (AIS), tracking beacons that enable them to be located on global shipping maps. Researchers applied a machine learning algorithm to a dataset of fishing vessel activity compiled by the non-profit Global Fishing Watch, which included more than 3.7bn AIS messages from fishing vessels between 2017 and 2019.

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Two more cookstove-based carbon credit projects have been added to the “watch” list by a ratings agency in the week that ESG platform Xpansiv announced it was launching a new standardised spot contract for the household devises sector in December.

A group of over 600 investors, representing almost $42 trillion in assets under management, have submitted a letter to global governments ahead of the COP27 UN climate talks calling on them to strengthen policies to address the climate crisis.

The Congo Basin's massive 30 billion tonne peatland carbon sink could be at risk of leaking if the vast African region continues to face drought as a result of climate change, according to research published on Wednesday that identified a similar pattern thousands of years ago.

Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows

The Congo peatlands are a huge carbon “timebomb” that could be triggered by the climate crisis, research has shown.

The peatlands flipped from storing carbon to releasing it into the atmosphere when the climate became drier 5,000 years ago, the study showed, before returning to accumulating carbon 2,000 years ago.

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Banaba in the central Pacific is a microcosm of what has happened to this planet. It’s a place that cannot be brought back into balance without focused and collaborative care

• Before it is lost is series of essays from the Pacific islands

Some years ago, an Australian friend gave me a necklace with a beautiful and distinct pendant.

The pendant had been in Helen Pilkinton’s family for decades and there were two more from a set of three that were given to each of her sisters.

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