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Hadean wins a grant for a UK project backed by French nuclear giant EDF, and follows a separate demo project at Port Kembla this year.

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Wind, solar and hydro provide 95 per cent of Portugal's power needs in April, hailed as "historic" by the grid operator.

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The next tender for long duration storage and the first auction of access rights to one of the state's biggest renewable energy zones will commence this month.

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Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.

In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as a result of carbon emissions to at most 2C above preindustrial levels, with an ideal limit of 1.5C to prevent the worst impacts of a drastically changed climate.

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Expensive filters imposed on wind, solar and battery projects weakened rather than strengthened the grid. Politicians want to make the same mistake with their obsession for "baseload".

The post Harmony on the grid: Wind, solar and battery projects made to pay for sins they could not commit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Islamic finance group has teamed up with a Saudi Arabian carbon specialist firm to explore the potential for reducing emissions and earn carbon credits from the vast seagrass meadows and mangrove forests in the Maldives.

A ruling that effectively charges wind and solar farms for twice actual transmission losses represents a large risk to developers of new generation assets, and consumers.

The post A rule change on transmission losses for wind and solar farms could save billions for consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Reintroducing locally extinct species is a challenging affair, but with the right partnerships everyone can help make it happen. Sean Buckley, Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University Luciano Beheregaray, Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK-based company secures planning approval for its third solar and battery project this year.

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Twenty-seven new sites have been designated for summer pollution monitoring.

Government subsidies to fossil fuel producers have risen sharply in the past year, triggering calls for the Commonwealth to scrap the concessions.

The post Australian fossil fuel producer subsidies jump 31 pct to $14.5 billion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Global food production is under threat from the spread of carbon projects that interfere with the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples worldwide, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, research released Monday has found.

States are once again turning to desalination to secure freshwater supplies. The problem is, they’re often choosing the wrong spot for ecosystems and fisheries Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The commonwealth had state electrical vehicle taxes struck down in court. Now reform is stuck in the slow lane

Tax reform is hard. It creates winners and losers.

But there are some taxes that seek to correct unfairness and share the load more evenly.

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Frantic efforts are being made to save the endangered mountain chicken frog, native to just two Caribbean islands.

Alok Shukla has spent years fighting to protect a key Indian forest from mining companies.

On her @brutalistplants Instagram page, Olivia Broome collects photographs that combine the angular shapes of raw concrete with the greenery of the natural world. “I really enjoy the aesthetic of eco-brutalism and tropical modernism,” she says. “I love mezzanines and ziggurats, and when you pair them with plants it softens them up. Brutalism can be this quite harsh, austere architecture style, but with nature involved, it balances it all out.” Now collected in a book, the images bring together buildings from across the globe, from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka, London to Mexico. “It’s a pleasant movement that people can get behind, especially in smaller spaces and modern cities – it’s nice to fill them with plants and nature.”

• Brutalist Plants (Hoxton Mini Press, £20) will be published on Thursday

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Allowances prices in Turkiye’s ETS are expected to eventually mirror those for EUAs in the EU carbon market, meaning they could climb to as high as €150/tonne by the mid-2030s, experts said this week.

Fears Climate Change Committee’s advice not to allow carryover from last carbon budget will be ignored

Ministers are considering plans to weaken the UK’s carbon-cutting plans by allowing the unused portion of the last carbon budget to be carried over to the next period.

This would go against the strong recommendation of the government’s statutory climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee.

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Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

• World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns
• Climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Global heating is likely to soar past internationally agreed limits, according to a Guardian survey of hundreds of leading climate experts, bringing catastrophic heatwaves, floods and storms.

Only 6% of the respondents thought the 1.5C limit could be achieved, and this would require extraordinarily fast, radical action to halt and reverse the world’s rising emissions from fossil fuel burning.

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