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Queensland smashes demand record in heatwave, as energy minister hails the role of solar - even as it ate into the coal industry's lunch-bag.

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EnergyAustralia plans massive four-hour battery in wind and solar dominated South Australia, to be built next to an existing gas fired power station.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values saw a brief dip below $60 in recent days as the market awaits an update to programme rulemaking, while Washington Clean Fuel Standard (WCFS) credit values saw a much more dramatic decline.

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Vestas says it will now offer a wind turbine tower made from low-emission steel, “significantly” reducing the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions during production.

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Solar farms can play a significant role in restoring insect habitats that could mitigate ongoing conflicts over farming land use change.

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Creative ideas are needed if big transmission is delayed or not built. That includes demand management, efficiency, and mobile batteries, including those mounted on trucks and trains.

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RGGI allowances (RGAs) bounced back over the week, notching an all-time record settlement and high volumes late in the week, with market participants telling Carbon Pulse that a general sense of bullishness persisted in light of the ongoing Third Program Review and other structural factors of the scheme.

Democratic legislators in Virginia introduced budget language to return the state to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) after its departure from the carbon market beginning this year.

A US-based carbon ratings agency has said that several ACR and Verra-certified projects have been over-credited, with one of the two ACR improved forest management (IFM) initiatives registered under the California regulator ARB protocol scoring the lowest possible rating due to severe boundary manipulation.

The US state’s market-based GHG reduction programme is no longer in effect and will pursue new rulemaking following a December opinion decision by the Oregon Court of Appeals, government officials confirmed Monday.

Former Cop26 president criticises the government’s push to ‘max out’ the North Sea

Alok Sharma has said the government’s oil and gas bill going through the Commons will not cut household energy costs or create jobs and instead will break the UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels.

During a debate on the offshore petroleum licensing bill, which would place the North Sea Transition Authority under a duty to run annual applications for new offshore oil and gas licences, the former Cop26 president criticised the government’s push to “max out” the North Sea. MPs vote on the bill’s second reading on Monday night.

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Without urgent action, Earth is heading for climate catastrophe. Yet there are reasons for hope in 2024 – including a possible peak in global greenhouse gas emissions. Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Floodwaters pulsing into the sea normally clear within six days. But the 2022 floods in eastern Australia were different. Neil Malan, Research associate, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Moninya Roughan, Professor in Oceanography, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As they get bigger, the environmental harm caused by motor vehicles also grows. Setting some limits is the way forward

Bigger cars take up more room, and in cities where space is at a premium this is recognised as a problem. Polling last year showed 40% of people in the UK had a negative view of 4x4-type vehicles, while just 21% had a positive one. Negative views are even more pronounced in London, while the Midlands – historic heart of the UK motor industry – has a more positive attitude to big vehicles than anywhere else. Since 2001, new cars in the UK and Europe have grown 1cm wider every two years. Last year the average width passed 180cm, too big to fit comfortably in some parking spaces. Campaigners warn that unless regulators step in, cars could keep growing to match trucks and buses.

Taking space away from other road users is not the only problem with these supersized vehicles. Because they are bigger, heavier and higher off the ground, SUVs pose greater risks than other cars to anyone unlucky enough to collide with them. One study found that children are eight times more likely to die after being struck by one.

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A Colombia-based carbon standard expects to soon be granted approval from Singapore to issue Article 6-aligned credits that would help emitters in the country to meet their obligations under the national carbon tax.

Some aspects of the EU ETS are responsible for the scarce success of steel production that uses low-carbon technologies, according to a report published on Monday.

New recommendations on how to enhance cooperation between biodiversity-related conventions are expected at the Bern III Conference, which will take place over Jan. 23-25, in a bid to boost the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

Retirement of carbon credits continued at a healthy pace last week to underline ongoing demand, although a large chunk of the units were pre-2016 vintage, and some were from before 2010.

H2 Green Steel has raised €4.75 billion in new funding to build the world’s first large-scale green steel project in the northern Swedish town of Boden, the company announced on Monday.