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WA looks to boost zero emissions production of critical minerals, funding a feasibility study into a green magnesium smelter in the heart of coal country.

The post Renewable magnesium smelter considered for Western Australia coal hub appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW smashes its grid scale solar output as another big solar project finishes testing and starts the commissioning process.

The post NSW smashes solar output record as another grid scale project begins commissioning appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans for gas storage for Snowy Hydro's Kurri Kurri generator quietly expanded, after project criticised for being a 'generator on gas rations'.

The post Snowy faces higher costs for Kurri Kurri after quietly signing up for more gas storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Battery industry says AEMC decisions will put them at a disadvantage to coal and gas plants, and impede the flexibility that makes them such a valuable asset.

The post Battery storage projects could be hamstrung by new rules and network charges appeared first on RenewEconomy.

IEA warns supply chain headwinds could delay 100GW of renewables development and erase years of price drops. But solar and wind still trump fossil fuels.

The post Price shocks risk “erasing” years of solar and wind cost reductions, and could delay projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The empty brown fields of winter countryside could be transformed under new land subsidy rules for England.

Batteries in South Australia have been paid to charge throughout September and October 2021 due to a record number of negative price intervals.

The post SA batteries paid to charge over two months as solar sends prices below zero appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A key claim in a column by the Danish thinktank head frustrates scientists who modelled reducing emissions

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What will it cost to get greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by mid-century, and are people around the world prepared to pay it?

This was a question posed by the Danish thinktank head Bjørn Lomborg for a column in the Australian on Saturday.

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A massive ramp up of renewable energy production is key to cutting the costs of decarbonised products, like green steel, aluminium and hydrogen.

The post Could Australia produce 3,000 per cent renewables? Experts says it might be necessary appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It’s 650 metres below the surface, across 6,000 square kilometres – and has been overlooked for far too long. Graeme Beardsmore, Senior Fellow in Crustal Heat Flow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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*PREMIUM LISTING - The Portfolio Manager is an important role within ART providing support to the ART Managing Director, and other ART staff on all aspects of implementation of this program. This will include significant technical support to jurisdictions and stakeholders, technical inputs and analyses, development of outreach materials, document review, report writing and registry management.

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Verra’s Innovations Team is looking for a Senior Program Officer to support our nature-based innovations work, focusing on blue carbon and our engagement with the Seascape Carbon Initiative.

A landmark study has found one in six Australian birds are now threatened. Here are some of the species most likely to be headed to a museum, unless more is done

There seems to be a perversity to human nature, in that we don’t really care about wild creatures until there are so few left that we can put a name to them. Think Martha, the last passenger pigeon, or the haunting images of Benjamin the last thylacine, pacing around its cage at Hobart zoo in 1936.

The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 (released this week by CSIRO Publishing) bandies a lot of names of birds you may never have heard of, which are now classified as on the path to extinction – 214 to be exact, around one in six of Australia’s bird species and subspecies. It can all be too much to take in. So here is a guide to six birds of which there are so few left in the wild that we could easily remember them all if they had individual names.

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Emitters in California’s carbon market used offsets to cover nearly 7% of their emissions during the 2018-20 compliance period, government data released Wednesday showed, while Quebec’s usage rate came in slightly higher.

But scientists say ‘moral imperative’ remains to prepare vulnerable populations for increasingly extreme weather

Poverty and a heavy reliance on annual rains are the key factors behind the devastating food crisis in southern Madagascar not climate breakdown, a new study finds.

A million people in the region are struggling for food following the worst drought in 30 years. But the scientific analysis did not show a convincing link to global heating, despite the World Food Programme describing it as the “world’s first climate-induced famine”.

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How can we improve the management of Queensland’s heritage sites? Can farming and the conservation of Aboriginal heritage co-exist? Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Joshua Gorringe, General Manager Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge Kelsey M. Lowe, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Richard Martin, Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland Ross Mitchell, Common Law holder and director of Kooma Aboriginal Corporation Native Title PBC, Indigenous Knowledge Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

British utility Drax is aiming to generate some 12 Mt of carbon removals a year by 2030, with 8 Mt within the UK and 4 Mt abroad, it said as part of its capital markets day on Wednesday.