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Government officials tell senate estimates hearing the Morrison government can't publish its net zero modelling because it hasn't finished writing it.

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The 400MW wind farm that inspired its very own anti-wind acronym attracts deluge of submissions, prompting Engie to modify its plans.

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Pace of emissions reductions must be increased significantly to keep global heating to 1.5C

Every corner of society is failing to take the “transformational change” needed to avert the most disastrous consequences of the climate crisis, with trends either too slow or in some cases even regressing, according to a major new global analysis.

Across 40 different areas spanning the power sector, heavy industry, agriculture, transportation, finance and technology, not one is changing quickly enough to avoid 1.5C in global heating beyond pre-industrial times, a critical target of the Paris climate agreement, according to the new Systems Change Lab report.

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Out of the blue, Australia is targeting ultra low cost solar to underpin its green industrial transition.

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Who's going? What will they talk about? RenewEconomy's guide to COP26 in Glasgow.

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New data finds 74% Australian households willing to reduce energy use “as much as possible” to relieve stress on the grid – and most would do it for no reward.

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Two financial institutions on Thursday announced a new joint carbon fund targeting voluntary offset buyers in Asia and Australia, starting with a $500-million portfolio of nature-based credits.

The Morrison government released its net zero plan and Angus Taylor penned a scary piece about methane, but both lacked substance

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Will cutting emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane by a third really spark mass culls of Australian cattle, ruin the gas industry and “make life harder for everyday Australians”?

If you ask the the emissions reduction minister Angus Taylor, the answer is a resounding yes, smothered in extra scary sauce.

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Joe Biden’s exhortations for major economies to do more may not match what he is able to legislate

“The Australian Way” was the title of the Morrison government’s rollout of its “whole-of-economy Plan” for net zero emissions by 2050, the phrase used at least eight times in Tuesday’s press conference.

Repeatedly reminding us of the “Australian” character of the plan serves multiple purposes for a government preparing for re-election. It can’t help but signal defiance, designed to head off international criticism of Australia’s climate aspirations before the Glasgow summit. As Scott Morrison elaborated: “We won’t be lectured by others who do not understand Australia. The Australian way is all about how you do it, and not if you do it. It’s about getting it done.”

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Quinbrook company completes a 5MW solar farm that will help power the famous ski town of Aspen in Colorado.

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Human activity and wildfires have turned highly protected forests into net sources of carbon, a study suggests.

Ahead of COP26, a BBC World Service poll finds growing support for strong political leadership.

From planes and trains to insulation - this is how green the Budget looked ahead of COP26 starting on Sunday.

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As a major global climate summit approaches, is the Indian government on track to meet its own commitments?

Signatories include scientists from US, EU, India and African and South American countries

Chief scientists and presidents of the national science academies of more than 20 countries including Sir Patrick Vallance have written to world leaders ahead of the Cop26 climate summit, urging them to set out policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sharply, to limit global heating to 1.5C.

Governments must rapidly step up their policies to deploy low-carbon energy and other technologies and address emissions from the main high-carbon sectors of the economy, as well as bring forward innovative technologies, the signatories urged.

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World heritage sites in US, Australia and Russia among those that have emitted more carbon than they absorbed since 2001

Forests in at least 10 Unesco world heritage sites have become net sources of carbon since the turn of the millennium due to wildfires, deforestation and global heating, says a new report.

Protected areas such as Yosemite national park in the US, the Greater Blue Mountains area in Australia and the tropical rainforests of Sumatra in Indonesia are among the sites that have emitted more carbon than they absorbed since 2001 as a result of human activities, according to research by the World Resources Institute, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Unesco. The analysis found more sites were expected to switch from sinks to sources of carbon in the coming decades.

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California handed out the last batch of offsets this week prior to the third full compliance deadline for the WCI carbon market, while the number of credits with no invalidation risk swelled due to a large forestry project, according to data published by state regulator ARB on Wednesday.

Clean energy tax credits appear to be the last climate component of US President Joe Biden’s social spending bill that may survive Congressional cuts, but experts said Wednesday that these measures could still help meet the country's Paris Agreement targets.