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The NZU market has seen a ramp up in activity over the last week in anticipation of Wednesday’s ETS auction, as participants expect it to clear.  

The spending watchdog says the costs remain too high and public awareness of the technology remains low.

Norman Crowley, founder and chair of the emissions-busting CoolPlanet Group, is visiting Australia to recruit like-minded partners to his mission.

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The amount of detailed real-time data a smart grid needs to manage the push for electrification and renewables presents challenges – but there’s an affordable solution. Ali Pourmousavi Kani, Senior Lecturer of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide Rui Yuan, Industry PhD Candidate, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

What better way to test if Australians are up for nuclear energy than by asking them: Do you support removing the current ban? Would you support a reactor in your area?

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When the Coalition was paralysed by whether or not to legislate marriage equality, it turned to the wisdom of the people.

The plebiscite was divisive, an obstacle to marriage equality which could have been dealt with by a free parliamentary vote, and which many queer people felt was a referendum on their dignity.

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An expert says the latest flare-up on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is the most powerful so far.

Blockades at facilities in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, with protests in Scotland and action expected in Denmark

Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest.

Blockades have been taking place at oil and gas terminals, refineries and ports in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, in protest at the continued exploitation of North Sea fossil fuel deposits.

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Researchers found that the Victorians brought so many seeds and saplings to Britain that the trees now outnumber those in their US homeland

Three redwoods tower over Wakehurst’s Elizabethan mansion like skyscrapers. Yet at 40 metres (131ft) high, these are almost saplings – not even 150 years old and already almost twice as high as Cleopatra’s Needle.

“At the moment they’re some of the tallest trees in the UK and they are starting to poke above the forest canopy. But if they grow to their full potential, they’re going to be three times taller than most trees,” says Dr Phil Wilkes, part of the research team at Wakehurst, in West Sussex, an outpost of Kew Gardens. One or two of these California imports would be curiosities, such as the 100-metre high redwood that was stripped of its bark in 1854 and exhibited to Victorian crowds at the Crystal Palace in south-east London, until it was destroyed by fire in 1866.

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GPs with convictions over protests face tribunals to determine whether they can keep licence to practise

Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in 2019 inspired her and her husband to go further. “We thought: well, if we don’t do it then who else is going to?”

While working as a GP near Birmingham, Benn became increasingly involved in direct action over the next few years, and once glued her hand to the door of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in protest at the government’s inaction on the climate.

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The capacity of household batteries in Germany has reached 6 GW, about equal to the country's pumped hydro capacity.

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Stakeholders of California regulator ARB’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC) presented concerns surrounding biofuels during a meeting Friday, while ARB staff maintained that changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) will take effect by early 2025 at the latest.

Livestock grazing is a ‘double-edged sword’ when it comes to climate change, a new study has found, with intensity optimisation the key to determining whether pastures are carbon sources or sinks.

Could a daring experiment help our planet or is it a dangerous distraction?

A US federal court on Friday halted the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new climate disclosure rules amid mounting legal challenges.

Speculators continued to shed holdings across North American carbon markets, as producers once again increased California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) net length while dropping Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) permits, data published Friday by the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed.

Another Japanese bank has made a strategic investment in an Australian clean technology firm that specialises in CCUS.

Researchers have developed what they say is a promising strategy for enhancing food security and advancing carbon neutrality in global rice production.

California-Quebec will offer slightly more allowances at May's WCI auction compared to Q1, breaking the pattern of reduced volumes offered over the last two sales, a government notice published Friday showed.

Charging townspeople to use a beautiful park in the Cotswolds may ignite a wider right to roam movement

A small outcry over the imposition of entrance fees to Cirencester Park is an interesting moment, and it may prove more significant than it first appears. Sir Benjamin Bathurst, a wealthy slave trader, acquired the stunning estate in 1695 and it remains in the family’s hands. The park sits beside the town of Cirencester and, ever since its inception, people have been allowed through the gates for walking, playing and imbibing the scent of lime blossom from its magnificent avenue of mature trees.

The parkland, landscaped in the 18th century, has been the de facto town park: children have climbed trees there, and residents with tiny back yards have enjoyed the many scientifically proven physical and mental health benefits of exercising in a very large green back yard. There are similar arrangements at other estates, such as Blenheim, where the townsfolk of Woodstock – similarly adjacent to estate walls – can wander fairly freely into vast swathes of parkland on their doorstep.

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Bolivia supports creating a regional Amazonian mechanism for climate change mitigation and adaptation through sustainable forest management, but would avoid carbon markets, according to remarks by Bolivian Vice-President David Choquehuanca, as reported by local media.