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ASIC says it will closely monitor the climate reporting standards of ASX-listed companies, after a review found them seriously lacking – particularly on risk disclosure.

The post Australian financial watchdog hones in on climate risk, warns companies to lift game appeared first on RenewEconomy.

While the German government is supposed to set a coal phase-out date, energy utility RWE is putting the breaks on the Energiewende.

The post Hambach Forest: the front line of Germany’s Energiewende appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Walkers and KP Snacks are among those failing to address consumer concerns over recyclability, say green campaigners

Major UK crisp brands are failing to address consumer concerns about their unrecyclable plastic packets, new research claims, with many relying on pledges that won’t come into effect for years.

The latest findings from campaign group 38 Degrees come after more than 310,000 signed its petition demanding that brand leader, Walkers, take the initiative and ditch plastic packaging in favour of amore sustainable alternative. Recent polling has found that plastic waste will soon leapfrog price as shoppers’ top concern.

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Alinta Energy says it has had a huge response to its call for wind and solar projects, receiving proposals and details for around  100 wind and solar projects, including some with battery and pumped hydro storage.

The post Alinta swamped with more than 100 wind, solar and storage proposals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia's second big battery has not quite completed its commissioning, but it is already showing some interesting innovations.

The post South Australia’s second big battery takes peninsula off grid, as tests continue appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL loses another key executive who saw the future of energy was in renewables.

The post AGL chief economist Tim Nelson leaves to join market rule-maker appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It may help stop the animal's rapid and destructive march across Australia, researchers say.

Following CEC's Women in Renewables Leaders’ Pledge, we spoke with the women who’ve done a lot of work in hydro this year.

The post Women in hydro, and why more are needed: “Women and men don’t think the same way” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Doctor on nearby boat stopped bleeding before tourist airlifted to Mackay

A Tasmanian tourist bitten by a shark in the Whitsunday Islands of north Queensland has been saved by the actions of an emergency department doctor.

Dr John Hadok from Mackay base hospital was on a nearby boat when the 46-year-old woman was attacked while swimming at Cid Harbour off Whitsunday Island about 5pm on Wednesday.

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New genetic knowledge about cane toads could give us the knowledge we need to throw some more roadblocks in front of this persistent invader as it marches across Australia. Peter White, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Biology, UNSW Alice Russo, PhD candidate, UNSW Rick Shine, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices climbed 6% on Wednesday, shooting back above €21 after another UK auction failed as the market continued to experience high volatility.

The New York grid operator’s plan to implement a carbon charge on the state’s wholesale power market would have only a minimal impact on energy prices and customer costs, according to a study by consultancy The Brattle Group.

The US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Tuesday finalised a rule to roll back Obama-era standards on capturing methane emissions from drilling on public lands, the second time in as many weeks that the Trump administration has moved to ease regulations on the potent GHGs.

Mexico plans to roll out an emissions trading system (ETS) by 2022, one year later than the country's most recent thinking and after it will complete a three-year pilot programme starting next year, its environment ministry said in a statement.

EU trade association BusinessEurope said Wednesday it is wary about supporting an increase to the bloc’s overall 2030 emissions target, even though agreed policies put the bloc on track to outpace the current goal.

Tests at meat packing plants show no reduction in drugs, a year after new rules to clamp down on overuse

Antibiotics crucial to human medicine are still being used in “unacceptable” quantities on US livestock farms, despite rules brought in last year to curb their use and combat the spread of deadly superbugs.

Tests on thousands of meat samples by the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) show that powerful antibiotics classified as “critically important” to human health are still being used. The widespread use of such drugs on livestock is one of the key drivers of antibiotic resistance, a growing public health crisis.

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Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products.

One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of the death toll in a preemptive “first strike” on China and the Soviet Union: 300 million in those countries, and double that globally.

Ellsberg was troubled that such a plan existed; years later, he tried to leak the details of nuclear annihilation to the public. Although his attempt failed, Ellsberg would become famous instead for leaking what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers – the US government’s secret history of its military intervention in Vietnam.

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The UK’s spot EUA auction failed on Wednesday, marking the third time this year that an ICE-hosted sale has been cancelled due to weak demand.

Iconic VW Kombi made popular in the 70s by hippies and travelers is getting a makeover and being reborn as the all-electric I.D. Buzz.

The post Electric Kombi will create a buzz for VW fans, due in 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.