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China’s environment ministry on Monday released new rules designed to prevent false reporting of emissions under its national CO2 trading scheme, targeting dozens of state-owned enterprises that have tasked their own subsidiaries with verifying their CO2 output.

CEP reveals the second of four grid-scale energy storage projects, a 150MW big battery to be built on the outer Adelaide site of the former GMH manufacturing plant.

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CO2 Value is looking for a Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Manager who will play a key role in developing and implementing the policy and advocacy strategy of the association.

New Zealand could face steeply rising carbon prices and an illiquid secondary market for NZUs if the government implements the recommendations from the independent Climate Change Commission as is, fuel supplier Z Energy has warned.

Developers have delivered close to 1.5 million new credits to the Emissions Reduction fund (ERF) over the past month, according to Clean Energy Regulator data, while a private equity firm has taken a majority stake in Climate Friendly.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull picked to lead key NSW government clean energy advisory board.

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UN development chief says access to finance is vital if upcoming Cop26 climate talks are to be a success

Boris Johnson’s government must take the lead in giving poor countries access to the finance they need to tackle the climate crisis, to make vital climate talks a success, the UN’s development chief has said.

Ministers from around the world will meet virtually this week at a conference hosted by the UK to discuss the needs of developing nations struggling to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, as their economies have been left reeling by the Covid pandemic.

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More than 40 asset managers, including the world’s two biggest, have added their signatures to an initiative seeking to align global investment portfolios with a target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.

Rebecca Pow says government will have to report on efforts to reduce discharge from storm overflows

The environment minister, Rebecca Pow, has promised to bring in legislation to reduce discharge of raw sewage into rivers. Pow said that she would be placing a legal duty on government to come up with a plan to cut dumping by water companies by September 2022.

Pressure has been growing on water companies and ministers as evidence grows of the scale of the issue and amid increasing evidence of the poor state of rivers.

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Australia has the skills and infrastructure to support a national hydrogen economy, but first we must lead the world in finding the answer to hydrogen embrittlement.

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Queensland researchers demonstrate all-in-one chemical pathways to carbon storage, green hydrogen and construction materials in new research paper.

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The NSW state government in Australia has issued a tender for the supply of domestic carbon credits to a voluntary carbon offsetting scheme for light vehicles it is planning as part of its efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles blows in from drought-hit Mongolia

The second sandstorm to hit China in less than a fortnight has reversed the colours of the sky, turning the sun blue and the heavens yellow.

Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles.

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On this day in 1911, the single screw steamer SS Yongala was bound for Townsville.

AGL inks deal to roll out Ovo’s “customer experience” energy flexibility platform, built around smart meters, solar and batteries, and electric vehicle charging.

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Business model underpinning coal and gas is collapsing, and the good news is that batteries and renewable energy can step in and keep the grid secure.

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As soon as you’re sure you imagined them, on they go again

“Thou aeronautical boll weevil / Illuminate yon woods primeval,” the Mills Brothers sang in 1952, imploring glow-worms to “Light the path below, above / And lead us on to love”. John Keats, comparing the fairness of goddess Psyche with the bright white moon and the evening star (spoiler: she is fairer than both), refers to the star as an “amorous glow-worm of the sky”. Seamus Heaney poked a glow-worm with a blunt stick and “a tiny brightening den lit the eye” – turning the stick into a wand.

Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. I’m in Mozambique, it is dark, and there is a wedding tomorrow. I have just had my first – and I don’t know it yet, but only – drink in a coconut. I chose Fanta Grape. Outside at the restaurant, I see my first glow-worms. It is possible that they are fireflies, but they’re still: on the branches of what I hope are hibiscus trees, but then again, I would happily plant a hibiscus in every memory I have.

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Seven-year-old Elizabeth built her own rocket and launched it into the sky during lockdown.

New report shows record fall in coal generation in 2020 across the world, as wind and solar grow. But Australia highlights why the pace of change is still not quick enough.

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Coalition's gas-led recovery plans look increasingly tenuous after AEMO report shows gas use in grid may nearly disappear within 20 years.

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