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"Broad coalition" of Danish political parties agrees to establish two energy hubs and associated offshore wind farms, starting with a 3GW artificial island in the North Sea.

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A hydro power station in southern NSW set to be joined by a 20MW/40MWh battery after planning approval granted for the project.

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Why is Australia so uniquely plagued by a deep-set fossil fuel industry? The answer lies in saturation - the boiling frog effect.

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Linking the UK’s new emissions trading scheme to the EU carbon market is the single most important issue facing Britain’s energy industry, sector representatives told lawmakers, warning that it presents the largest threat in terms of raising costs for consumers and preventing utilities from managing risk.

Five entities have opened RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) accounts over the past month as allowance prices skyrocketed to an all-time high in the carbon market before retracing much of those gains, data shows.

US biofuel credit prices (RINs) retraced this week from highs not seen since 2013 as a gasoline import arbitrage closed and soybean oil prices held firm.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices recovered on the secondary market this week as colder weather in the Northeast US prompted more carbon-intensive units to come online, while California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices remained roughly unchanged.

Environmental groups say they are mystified No 10 has not intervened to stop the mine going ahead.

The ambitious and costly artificial island will provide energy for three million households.

Morrison government's new vehicle strategy rehashes a collection of old anti-renewable tactics to slow the decline of fossil fuels in Australia. It's bad.

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Overwhelming evidence shows noise pollution from human activity is damaging the ocean, scientists say.

Perth's bushfires have destroyed 81 homes. It provides important lessons as we face a future of worsening climate. Joe Fontaine, Lecturer, Environmental and Conservation Science, Murdoch University Lewis Walden, Research associate, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Work on the Woodhouse Colliery due to begin this year pits climate protection against jobs

Plans for the country’s first deep coalmine in more than 30 years have led to local divisions in Cumbria, even as it becomes an international issue over the country’s climate change commitments.

James Hansen, one of the world’s foremost voices on climate, this week took the unusual step of sending Boris Johnson a strongly worded letter warning that if the mine was allowed to proceed it would lead to “ignominy and humiliation” for the UK.

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Major assessment concludes that ocean soundscape is being drowned out by human activity

A natural ocean soundscape is fundamental to healthy marine life but is being drowned out by an increasingly loud cacophony of noise from human activities, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the issue.

The damage caused by noise is as harmful as overfishing, pollution and the climate crisis, the scientists said, but is being dangerously overlooked. The good news, they said, is that noise can be stopped instantly and does not have lingering effects, as the other problems do.

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Utility RWE has filed an arbitration claim against the Netherlands, seeking more compensation for the forced closing of its coal-fire power plant under the country’s coal phaseout law.

Ministers’ refusal to stop a mine being dug in a marginal seat shows a tension between the environment and ‘levelling up’

Something is stirring deep beneath the earth. Or rather, someone. The veteran eco- warrior Daniel “Swampy” Hooper, alongside his teenage son, the daughter of a Scottish laird raised on an off-grid island and an undisclosed number of other protesters have spent weeks secretly excavating a honeycomb of underground tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens in north London. Now they’re refusing to leave their muddy burrows in protest at the building of the HS2 high-speed train route, due to terminate nearby.

To the protesters, the project is a monstrous scar on the landscape, destroying ancient woodlands and wildlife habitats in its path. But to northern Tories in particular, it’s a potent symbol of “levelling up” between north and south, bringing jobs to places and people neglected in the past. And this particular muddy standoff symbolises a rather bigger political conflict.

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Swedish utility Vattenfall’s EU ETS-covered power output dropped 28% year-on-year in 2020, outpacing an overall drop in generation as a major coal unit closed and hydro power flourished, the company said in its full-year results on Thursday.

Research showing severe flood threat caused by global heating could set legal precedent in climate litigation

Human-caused global heating is directly responsible for the threat of a devastating flood in Peru that is the subject of a lawsuit against the German energy company RWE, according to groundbreaking new research.

The study establishes links from human-made greenhouse gas emissions to the substantial risk of a dangerous outburst flood from Lake Palcacocha, high in the Peruvian Andes. The resulting flood would trigger a deadly landslide inundating the city of Huaraz, and threatening about 120,000 people in its path.

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Thanks to an inter-party agreement, the clean energy hub in the North Sea is set to be the largest construction project in Danish history

Denmark’s government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial “energy island”, which is to be built 50 miles (80km) offshore, in the middle of the North Sea.

The island to the west of the Jutland peninsula will initially have an area of 120,000 sq metres – the size of 18 football pitches – and in its first phase will be able to provide 3 million households with green energy.

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EUAs extended the previous session's all-time high above €38 early on Thursday, before a much weaker auction caused prices to tumble.