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Indian steelmaker Tata will target net zero emissions by 2045, the company announced in the release of its latest financial results on Tuesday, though offered little detail on how it plans to achieve the goal.

EU member states have agreed to a 15% gas supply cut as part of emergency regulation to curb energy use over the winter in the face of rising uncertainty over Russian supply.

The French company is set to merge with the satellite firm pulled from bankruptcy by the UK government.

PM says if Australia didn’t export coal there would be ‘replacement coal from other countries that’s likely to produce higher emissions’

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Anthony Albanese says Labor will not support a moratorium on fossil fuel projects because doing so would have a “devastating impact on the Australian economy”.

Ahead of the introduction of legislation on Wednesday enshrining Labor’s 2030 and 2050 emissions reduction targets, the prime minister told ABC TV on Tuesday night a moratorium was “the policy of the Greens”.

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UK utility Drax maintained on Tuesday that it will close its remaining coal power units in March of next year, having been asked by the UK government to extend their lifetime by six months to ease security of supply issues this winter.

We can’t keep sitting in school, pretending everything is all right, and studying as if the planet wasn’t on fire

School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures.

Why occupy? Because we’ve marched. We’ve launched petitions. We’ve written open letters. We’ve had meetings with governments, boards and commissions. We’ve struck. We’ve filled squares, streets and avenues with thousands and, all together, millions of people in continents across this Earth. We’ve screamed with all our lungs. Some of us have even participated in blockades, sit-ins and die-ins. And just as it seemed the seed for deep and radical social transformation was taking root in the midst of the massive 2019 climate mobilizations, Covid-19 came, and our momentum drastically decreased. What didn’t decrease, however, was the greenhouse gas emissions, the exploitation of the global south and the unimaginable profits hoarded by the fossil fuel industry.

This open letter was written by youth activists involved in End Fossil: Occupy! and signed by organizers and groups around the world

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Group claims ministers have failed to check environmental impact of burning gas at site off Aberdeen

Greenpeace has confirmed it will take legal action against the UK government over claims it has failed to check the environmental impact of burning gas from the Jackdaw gasfield off the coast of Aberdeen.

The government gave its approval for Shell to develop the field for gas extraction on 2 June.

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UK is investing money to work out how to use space-based satellites to capture solar power and send it back to earth to boost its energy security.

The post UK pursues space-based solar satellites to boost its energy security appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Effective biosecurity involves more than just what happens at the airport. And it doesn’t come cheap. Susan Hester, Associate Professor, University of New England Aaron Dodd, Research Fellow - Biosecurity, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Since being gutted by the Coalition, the CCA is no longer a beacon of sound policy guidance. Which begs the question, what does Labor hope to hear from it?

The post Labor plans to seek advice from Climate Change Authority. But what is it worth? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ACT's Big Canberra Battery project will open to tenders in August, as the government works on how its promised energy storage "ecosystem" will take shape.

The post ACT seeks proposals for 250MW of battery capacity with at least two hours storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Forest Carbon Works (www.forestcarbonworks.org), a company which enables small forest landowners in the U.S. to access carbon offset markets, is seeking an Associate Forester to join our nationwide team. This position is based from your home office, but with regional responsibility in New England and New York. The ideal candidate will be located in Vermont.

Genex says its proposed wind farm of up to 200MW, and the new Bouldercombe battery leave it well placed in increasingly volatile markets.

The post Takeover target Genex touts new wind and storage as good bet in broken market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria to start banning embedded networks from the start of 2023, with the exception of buildings run on 100% renewables.

The post Victoria bans private, embedded power networks – unless they’re 100 pct renewable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fire chiefs in rural areas say lessons they learned in hot dry summers must be urgently applied in cities.

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Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has ruled in favour of reinstating the preliminary injunction on the state’s RGGI programme linkage, according to court documents filed Monday.

South Australia receives 60 different proposals for its Whyalla hydrogen hub which now appears to have taken a deeper shade of green.

The post South Australia receives 60 proposals for Whyalla green hydrogen plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A British specialty chemicals company has teamed up with a US-based offset project developer to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture solutions for heavy industry and to originate carbon credits in the process.

The landscape of carbon credit rating agencies continues to build pace, with new services springing up to help buyers navigate the complex world of voluntary carbon credits, including by determining which projects offer climate-champion attributes versus those that add reputational risk to corporate claims.