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A breakdown of the Murdoch media’s ham-fisted attempt to demonise rooftop solar incentives, and Nigel Morris catches out some solar cowboys.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Murdoch media’s attack on solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bank Australia is an environmentally responsible bank

JinkoSolar topped the table with 11.6 gigawatts (GW) of PV modules compared to the second ranked JA Solar’s 8.8 GW. Majority of the companies featured in the table are from Asia-Pacific.

The post China’s JinkoSolar leads global solar PV module shipment ranking in 2018, reveals GlobalData appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The baby boomers gave us Trump and Brexit. Can my generation age more gracefully?

Generational politics is bullshit, but a Gen X guy would say that. I sometimes wonder, though, whether whatever is distinctive in my generation’s experience (and haunting our minds) might have something to offer the future.

After a brief flurry of interest in the 1990s, think pieces on my demographic quickly waned. There were never that many of us; the meat in the sandwich was and is meagre.

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Government advisers suggest homes are heated using low-carbon energy instead

Gas hobs or boilers should be banned from being installed in new homes within the next six years, government advisers have recommended.

A report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says that from 2025 at the latest, no new homes should be connected to the gas grid – with super-efficient houses and flats heated using low-carbon energy instead.

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Denis Savic talks to Nigel Morris about his vision for building electric motorcycles in Australia.

The post The Driven Podcast: Revealed – Australian electric motorbike maker breaks cover appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The European Office in Brussels represents the interests of VDMA member companies vis-á-vis the European Union. With a dedicated, international team, we are the voice of the mechanical engineering industry in Europe.

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is seeking applicants for the position of Director of the Office of Climate Change (OCC). Governor Cuomo has established New York as a leader in the fight against climate change.

Environmental campaigners say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’

A Mexican environmental activist has been murdered before a referendum on a controversial thermal-electric plant and pipeline that he opposed.

Samir Flores Soberanes, an indigenous Náhuatl, was killed in his home during the early hours of Wednesday in the town of Amilcingo in Morelos state, 80 miles south of Mexico City. He was a human rights activist, producer for a community radio station and long-time opponent of the Proyecto Integral Morelos (the integral project for Morelos) – which includes the plant and pipeline.

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Seeing butterflies on a warm February day gave a disturbing preview of future winters

In a world where climate change makes every season unpredictable, we have perhaps got used to unseasonal warm spells. But if I cast my mind back to the middle of February 1998, I can still recall my surprise at the unusually mild weather.

I was filming at a west London gravel pit with Bill Oddie, and during the course of the day we saw four different species of butterfly on the wing. They were the quartet that habitually overwinter as adults – comma, peacock, small tortoiseshell and brimstone – each emerging on a mild spring day to feed on nectar.

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European carbon closed 1.3% higher after shilly-shallying through most of an auction-free session on Wednesday, holding in the narrowest range in a month as EU member states kick off the annual free allocation process.

The California-Quebec cap-and-trade programme is expected to be long almost 13 Mt in 2019, while offset usage is expected to increase in the WCI market’s third compliance period, analysts said Wednesday.

William Happer, a physicist who has suggested higher levels of carbon dioxide are beneficial, would be on committee

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The White House is planning to assess how climate change impacts national security and will involve a prominent doubter of the scientific consensus that manmade warming is putting the US at risk.

Related: US coastal businesses hit by everyday impact of climate change, study shows

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Spain-based utility Iberdrola reported a 5% drop in its ETS-regulated thermal output over 2018 as hydropower output rebounded after 2017’s prolonged drought, the company said in its full-year results on Wednesday.

European Parliament members have this week laid groundwork to pressure EU leaders to frame a more ambitious 2050 bloc-wide climate strategy.

In the run-up to the Carbon Pricing for Canadian Industry conference - April 25-26 at the Hilton Toronto - Canadian Clean Energy conferences is running a series of articles on key topics for industries complying with provincial and federal carbon regulations.

Environmental groups will not oppose New Jersey’s proposed 2020 RGGI cap after further consideration, but they urged the state to adopt a larger Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) in the northeast US carbon market to account for the possibility of a low emissions outcome.

Swedish student responds to NSW education minister’s threat to punish students who participate in school climate strike

The Swedish teenager whose lone protest against climate change spurred a global youth movement has told an Australian state education minister his words “belong in a museum” after he warned students against attending an upcoming protest.

The New South Wales education minister, Rob Stokes, appeared on Sky News earlier this week, warning students and teachers against attending rallies planned across Australia for Friday 15 March, as part of the school climate strike movement.

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Researchers are perplexed why a fish in Scotland hadn’t laid eggs as normal but was instead found to be carrying 54 stickleback embryos. Could it be immaculate conception?

Name: Mary the virgin stickleback.

Age: Between one and two years old.

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