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Modular solar innovator 5B buys Adelaide-based solar mounting specialist as it bulks up to deliver "ultra low cost" solar at a massive scale.

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Bluescope signs MoU with Shell to work on renewable hydrogen project that would help decarbonise the Port Kembla Steelworks.

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Japanese trading house Mitsui and global forestry investment manager New Forests have teamed up to develop a fund that will generate millions of carbon credits from forestry projects in Australia.

Alinta unveils plans to build 1,000MW offshore wind farm near Portland to help deliver 100 per cent renewable energy supply to local aluminium smelter.

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Voluntary emissions reduction (VER) values marched higher this week as voluntary carbon market (VCM) sources reported buyers were becoming less choosey about vintage and credit types amid the year-long surge in prices.

An agency of Pennsylvania's Republican legislature has denied Democratic Governor Tom Wolf’s administration the chance to immediately publish its RGGI-aligned cap-and-trade regulation, meaning the Keystone State is likely to see its possible entrance into the Northeast US market slip to Q2 2022 or later.

*PREMIUM LISTING - New Forests seeks a qualified candidate for the position of Forester – Carbon Projects. In this role you will be responsible for supporting New Forests’ forestland and forest carbon investment strategies in the United States, including the implementation of forestry carbon projects.

The average amount of meat a person ate each year worldwide increased from 29.5kg in 2000 to 34kg in 2019. But there are some surprising differences between nations, including Australia and NZ. Diana Bogueva, Team Manager/ Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney Clare Whitton, Curtin University Clive Phillips, Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University Dora Marinova, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Fires in arid Australia are extensive, largely unmanaged, often destructive and significantly under-reported. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Neil Burrows, Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The six men and four women could fly to the space station and on future missions to the Moon.

This role is a unique opportunity to investigate some of the most important questions around decarbonizing Canada’s economy. As our Research Director, you will lead our policy research on a variety of topics including overseeing energy-economy modelling of net-zero pathways, pursuing questions around the cost impacts of carbon pricing, and assessing specific global climate policies to determine their suitability for Canada. All the research you lead will contribute to our ambitious public policy agenda.

EU member states have handed out more than half the total number of free EUAs for 2021 to industrial installations, nine months later than the normal issuance timeframe, with just three weeks to go before the end of the year.

Reefs from Seychelles to South Africa may become functionally extinct due to global heating and overfishing, study finds

All coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean are at high risk of collapse in the next 50 years due to global heating and overfishing, according to a new assessment.

From Seychelles to the Delagoa region off the coast of Mozambique and South Africa, the reef systems are at risk of becoming functionally extinct by the 2070s, with a huge loss of biodiversity, and threatening the livelihoods and food sources for hundreds of thousands of people.

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Japan’s economy ministry has set up a study group to deliver recommendations on the use of offsets in the voluntary carbon market it is planning to launch next April.

EUAs straddled the €80 mark on Monday morning, recovering the previous session's losses and shrugging off weaker energy markets as the weight of call option positions acted as a magnet.

Support BOGA members in developing and implementing a strategy to expand and strengthen the alliance based on analysis of the future global landscape for oil and gas production in a Paris-aligned world. Another important task is the establishment of a community of practice, helping members to share experience, discuss thematic issues, and access technical advice.

Exclusive: Consortium of energy firms and universities says underground storage of hydrogen can also be investigated

Exhausted oil and gas wells would be turned into the UK’s first deep test sites for burying carbon dioxide next year, under plans from a consortium of universities and energy companies.

There are hundreds of active onshore oil and gas wells in the UK. But as they come to the end of their lives, some need to be redeployed for trials of pumping CO2 underground and monitoring it to ensure it does not escape, the group says. The test wells could also be used to assess how hydrogen can be stored underground.

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Oil majors’ climate targets are littered with loopholes but still fall short of Paris Agreement goals, according to assessors struggling to make sense of the piecemeal efforts of one of the most significant sectors for the low-carbon transition.

China plans to add production of electrolytric aluminium and cement to its national emissions trading scheme next year, according the chairman of the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, a move that will add nearly 2 billion tonnes of CO2 to the market.

A crypto venture will on Dec. 9 sell off 100 pieces of artwork as so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the first such event where buyers much pay with carbon credits.