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A Shorten Labor Government will commit $10 million to boost the capabilities of the CSIRO Climate Science Centre, better coordinate Australian climate science and develop an Australian climate science capability plan. 
 

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Labor is right – there is a huge opportunity to transform the NT economy through energy development. But it's renewables that hold the most opportunity, not gas.

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Federal Labor’s pledge to spend up to $1.5bn unlocking gas supply in Queensland and NT angers green groups, blurs lines between the party's apparently climate-forward policies and those of the climate-denying Coalition.

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Mexico will re-release draft rules for its pilot carbon market in mid-May, a government official said Thursday, which will kick off a consultation process that will help the government finalise them ahead of the scheduled Jan. 2020 launch of the scheme.

The state-led drive towards 100% renewable energy in US continues at breakneck speed as Washington State pass bill requiring 100% carbon-free power by 2045 and coal phase-out by 2025.

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Great Britain set a new record for electricity generation without coal-fired power plants over the Easter weekend.

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Power production from renewables in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday, delivering 77% of net public electricity supply, and more than demand at certain times.

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Australia’s suite of stop-start solar policies is driving some parts of the industry crazy with frustration, as the phone stops ringing in Victoria and strict new workplace rules are imposed in Queensland.

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WA mine approved on 10 April despite native species risk and not announced until 24 April

The Morrison government is under fire for quietly approving a giant uranium mine in outback Western Australia the day before the federal election was called, despite warnings it could lead to the extinction of native species.

Canadian company Cameco’s Yeelirrie uranium mine, 500 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie, was approved by the environment minister, Melissa Price, on 10 April. There was no public notification on the decision until 24 April, when documents were posted on the environment department website.

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EU industry’s free allocation of carbon allowances must be phased out urgently as part of a wide-ranging industry climate policy framework to ensure the sector decarbonises following years of flatlining emissions, campaigners Carbon Market Watch said on Thursday.

The Canadian government is still planning to impose its ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) on Ontario emitters despite the province having said it will create its own regulation for large installations in place of the national mechanism, a federal official confirmed Thursday.

A committee of the US wholesale electricity market operator PJM on Thursday voted to assess methods of integrating a carbon price in the 14-jurisdiction market, a policy that could alleviate concerns about emissions leakage in the northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme.

EUAs lost more ground on Thursday but kept within sight of their 11-year highs near €28 in choppy, technically-bound trade amid bullish energy signals.

Teenager Greta Thunberg said the UK's carbon emissions reduction relied on "creative accounting".

California officials on Thursday offered a strong rebuke to an academic report that claims California’s forestry protocol under its carbon market inflates the amount of emission reductions that have occurred, arguing the study did not fully understand the protocol or leakage risk.

California legislators may take action on the WCI cap-and-trade programme's growing allowance oversupply if state regulator ARB refuses to do so, a state senator told Carbon Pulse.

Elon Musk recounts "insane” first quarter for the EV maker, with half of Tesla's global deliveries carried out in the final 10 days of the reporting period.

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China's coal generation costs are similar to Australia - and they are not cheap.

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With Easter and ANZAC Day now over, the federal election will shift up a gear next week as the campaign fast approaches the half-way mark.