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Comprehensive new report puts renewables at the centre of all plausible pathways to meet Australia's climate targets – including 10 years early. Nuclear, meanwhile, won't get us there by 2050.

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Australia has a time-critical opportunity to catalyse investment into this potential export behemoth at speed and scale. The clock is ticking.

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Experts urge Australia not to delay target too long as report by Climate Change Authority identifies six barriers to net zero

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The Australian government may delay the announcement of a 2035 climate target until after the February deadline and beyond the next election, in part due to uncertainty about the ramifications of the US presidential election.

Some big emitting countries are lagging in developing their 2035 emissions reduction targets, which under the Paris climate agreement are due before the UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil, in November next year.

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Spanish energy giant starts construction on its biggest solar project in Australia, to be paired with a big battery to help dodge negative prices.

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Conservative, socialist or nationalist, what’s best for biodiversity? The results may surprise you. We studied 165 nations, examining threatened species numbers and the extent of protected areas. Matt Hayward, Professor of Conservation Science, University of Newcastle Andrea S. Griffin, Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Jacob Jones, Ph.D. Candidate in Conservation Politics, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Research shows children living in the zone are now nearly four times more likely to be walking or cycling.

Australia's two biggest wind projects have injected their first power into the grid, as other wind and solar farms work quickly through the commissioning process, and others stumble.

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Australia’s Climate Change Authority (CCA) has published a sectoral pathway report on how the country can reach net zero emissions by 2050, recommending its Safeguard Mechanism and carbon crediting schemes be expanded to help better coordinate the transition.

The Climate Change Authority’s sector pathways review says a huge national effort is needed and the net zero goal should become front of mind for business, investors and governments

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A zero-carbon mindset must “become the new normal” in Australia, according to a much-anticipated report from the federal government’s independent climate advisory body.

The report, released today by the Climate Change Authority, describes how Australia can meet the crucial target of net zero emissions by 2050.

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A team of researchers presented different intervention strategies to potentially reduce up to 30% of GHG emissions from US beef production.

Australia has committed to reducing carbon emissions to net zero. The Climate Change Authority report is the most important analysis to date on how to get there.

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Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has approved a domestic standard’s carbon registry and allowed 12 projects from the registry for trading on the national voluntary carbon market (VCM) platform.

A CO2 removal company unveiled a partnership Wednesday to manufacture its direct air capture (DAC) units in the US and Europe.

Since April, wolf attacks have terrorised villages near the Nepalese border, killing nine children.

CEOs in England and Wales could face two years in prison under proposals to force firms to supply data quickly

Water bosses in England and Wales could be jailed for up to two years if they cover up sewage dumping, under legislation proposed by the Labour government.

At the moment, CEOs of water companies face fines for failing to comply with investigations by the Environment Agency (EA) and the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), but there have been just three such fines since privatisation three decades ago.

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New legislation gives regulators more powers to tackle water pollution in England and Wales.

We’re well on the road to net zero by 2050. Now a new report from Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority provides pathways for each sector of the economy. Let’s get on with it. Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Vague environmental claims are in breach of international best practice and Commerce Commission guidelines, which list the “dolphin friendly” label as a claim that should not be used. Kathryn Bradbury, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

There is ample evidence showing Indigenous Peoples and their territories are essential to the world’s biodiversity. We don’t need an unsupported statistic to prove it. Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Researcher in ethnobiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A California state-owned bank is offering $25 million for investments in forest restoration and wildfire mitigation projects, it announced on Sep. 3.