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After one La Niña, the Pacific sometimes retains cool water which enables a second La Niña to form. Andréa S. Taschetto, Associate Professor, UNSW Agus Santoso, Senior Research Associate, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Booming rooftop solar is not only helping break variable renewable records, it also it means resilience to thermal plant breakdowns in the middle of the day.

The post Know your NEM: Solar steps up to support unreliable summer coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Continuing to deny the impending end of coal-fired generation is simply not in the interest of coal workers and their communities.

The post The end of coal is coming, fast. Governments must urgently support a “just transition’ appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The potential to trigger Article 29a of the EU ETS, which provides for a cost containment mechanism, has now become real, with some analysts claiming that the conditions have already been fulfilled or are very close to being fulfilled. As such, it's becoming imperative for the good functioning of the ETS, given the current trend in prices but also as a matter of principle, that current vagueness in 29a's wording should be spelled out as part of the bloc's “Fit for 55” package.

Neoen has doubled the size of its proposed Capital big battery, and started construction, after eyeing emerging market opportunities.

The post Neoen doubles size of Capital big battery, begins construction in ACT appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian Conservation Foundation report found that climate change was not mentioned for 178 out of 334 critically endangered species and habitats

Conservation documents for more than half of Australia’s critically endangered species and habitats fail to mention climate change according to new analysis that argues there is a significant “climate gap” in the management of Australia’s threatened wildlife.

The report was commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and prepared by the Australian National University’s GreenLaw project, which is led by students in the ANU’s law faculty.

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Free EUA allocation and provision for EU exporters are expected to be key sticking points as EU lawmakers grapple with the bloc's proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), experts said on Monday.

North American carbon credit developer Bluesource and precious metals and green royalty and streaming investment company Star Royalties on Monday revealed an agreement to generate hundreds of thousands of voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) annually from a regenerative agriculture programme.

Canada intends on increasing the stringency of industry production benchmarks under the ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) after next year, while it may also initiate linkage discussions with provinces and territories with subnational programmes, the federal environment ministry said Friday.

Europe's 35 biggest meat and dairy companies were responsible for 7% of the bloc’s emissions in 2018, but only three of these companies have committed to reduce their overall emissions from livestock, and many are using “dubious” offsets for greenwashing purposes, according to research published Monday.

Voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices slipped in most standardised categories this week amid some year-end profit-taking and as sellers were seen as unwilling to accept a drop in value in the voluntary carbon market.

The World Bank is exploring an approach that would provide more clarity on the current state of global carbon prices compared to levels needed to drive emissions to net zero, highlighting the significant gap and providing a benchmark for climate ambition, a virtual session heard Monday.

Are tornadoes becoming more frequent, dangerous or unpredictable - and is the changing climate to blame?

The old ways of keeping giant clam species healthy won’t work with climate change. We need new techniques - and fast. Sue-Ann Watson, Senior Research Fellow and Senior Curator (Queensland Museum), James Cook University Mei Lin Neo, Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Poland's calls for EU ETS intervention are unlikely to gain traction at this week's EU leaders' summit, even as a Czechia minister said Prague may support the move, according to EU and observer sources on Monday.

My husband loves them, but I am ideologically opposed. Luckily for us both, a diplomatic taxi driver settled our row

I like to think of myself as a generous person with pockets of tightness, rather than a tight person with a blind spot in pubs. One of these pockets is around grocery delivery services. You know: you need a green pepper, a gale is blowing outside, so you get some poor kid on a bike to go to the supermarket for you and, by some miracle of modern capitalism, your pepper is only 30p more expensive than it would be normally, as long as you also order ice-cream.

It’s not the money that bugs me, just the underlying Marxist truism – that if some of us refuse to do any of our own menial tasks, others will end up doing all menial tasks for everyone. Plus, we live next door to a supermarket and I’m not even exaggerating, except by a small amount.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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Compliance entities saw their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) short position soar to an all-time high last week, while funds and other speculators modestly padded their long position, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Heading into the election, all focus should be on the carbon budget and how much we emit before net zero. Everything else is just noise

The election next year will be redolent with spin and obfuscation. Unfortunately, this will be most evident in relation to climate change policy. So let us prepare by outlining the reality of where we are at, and what the future holds.

First the good news: 2021 is on target to be the coolest year since 2014. The latest Nasa figures to October has 2021 on track to be around 1.1C above the late 19th century average.

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The 18-month process affirms original finding that Jam Land’s clearing had a significant impact on critically endangered native habitat

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Jam Land, the company part-owned by the energy minister Angus Taylor and his brother Richard, illegally poisoned critically endangered grasslands and should restore native habitat, a ministerial review of the original investigation has concluded.

The decision, published late Friday, follows an 18-month review of the original determination which ordered Jam Land to restore 103 hectares of grasslands on a property in the New South Wales Monaro region.

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Climate think tank says emissions targets of both the Coalition and Labor fall well short of the ambition needed for Australia to remain competitive.

The post “So much at stake:” Australia urged to set 75 pct emissions target for 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.