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Covid is not the only reason that the heat has gone out of the rooftop solar PV market in Australia.

The post Rooftop solar slowdown: It’s not just the pandemic and lockdowns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The world's biggest battery installation has just been expanded, and could be increased four-fold as renewables expand.

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A drone luckily filmed what the kayaker, out on the water on her birthday, calls a "magical moment".

China will likely miss its target to restrict 2021 steel production to last year’s levels, and instead see an output increase that will add CO2 equivalent to the annual emissions of the Netherlands, a report released Friday said.

Climate activists call on South Korean government to end financial support of “Australia’s dirtiest offshore gas mine,” the Barossa project near Darwin.

The post “South Koreans don’t want Australia’s dirty gas:” Call for finance ban on Santos “CO2 factory” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK has updated its “carbon values” - the monetary values that society places on emissions that are used to evaluate government policy - with the new central figure set at an eye-watering £245 ($339) per tonne, or nearly six times the previous benchmark.

A new study connects the heating of the Arctic region to extreme winter weather in the US.

Australia's clean energy transition continues apace with new records being set for renewables and the lowest output for coal generators.

The post Australia sets new records for highest renewables share and lowest coal output appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) rose week-on-week after seeing significant volatility over the five-day period following the August quarterly sale, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) edged up slightly ahead of the Q3 auction next week.

The research, focused on the Jordan Springs estate in Western Sydney, found houses were built close together and made from materials which exacerbate hot weather. Victoria Haynes, Research Officer, University of Sydney Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Emma Calgaro, Research Associate, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Envoy John Kerry's 'it's more important than politics' appeal falls on deaf ears.

Chris Stark urges Treasury to speed up pace of decarbonisation strategy ahead of Cop26 summit

The UK’s top climate adviser has pushed back strongly against “defeatist” criticism that the country’s net zero target is expensive, and urged the Treasury to pick up the currently “incremental” pace of decarbonisation.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), urged the debate over net zero to be framed in a more positive light: “It can be done,” he said. “It is worth it … I hope we can move away from thinking about the cost and see it as a mission to modernise the economy.”

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Arctic change increased chances of tightly spinning winds above North Pole, authors say, boosting chances of extreme weather

The climate crisis has not only been leaving deadly heatwaves and more destructive hurricanes in its wake, but also probably creating extreme winter weather events, according to a new report released on Thursday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science.

Related: ‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds

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Environmental demonstrators disobey orders to stay away from London financial district

Dozens of Extinction Rebellion activists have carried out a mass act of non-violent civil disobedience by breaking bail conditions ordering them to stay away from the City of London financial district.

The activists joined with hundreds of supporters in a low-key rally outside the Bank of England on Thursday afternoon, listening to speeches from a mobile sound system.

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It shudders

The writer Jenny Diski is on her way to Antarctica. At Grytviken, an abandoned whaling station on South Georgia, she spots a “grey, jellied mountain”.

“Elephant seal is one of those euphemistic names humans give creatures who remind them of what they don’t want to be reminded of,” she writes. But her fellow travellers want to be reminded: they take pictures. Maybe the elephant seal will get a spot on someone’s wall. It will be the first time in history that a person has chosen to decorate using that face.

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The Pennsylvania House Environmental and Energy Committee voted Thursday to disapprove of the final RGGI-modelled cap-and-trade regulation, with the GOP-led effort coming in direct response to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission’s (IRRC) recent approval.

Deaths and damage spanned huge areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut and Maryland

At least 18 people have been killed in New York and the wider US north-east as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought unexpected levels of heavy rain and flooding.

The deaths and damage spanned huge areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland. Officials blamed many of the fatalities on basement apartments becoming filled with water.

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(Free read) - Carbon Pulse has significantly strengthened its best-in-class news reporting team by bringing aboard two more expert hires – one previously the lead energy analyst with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and the other a lead negotiator for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Two speculative trading firms opened new RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) accounts on Thursday, with data showing an uptick in financials registering in the Northeast US cap-and-trade system.