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Covid has virtually shut down solar installations in three states, as Autonomous fights for survival.

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We have an opportunity to reorient our lives back towards nature, reshaping our economy to benefit all Australians – human and non-human

Australian wildlife. Koalas, platypus, wallabies. We use them as our emblems, put them on our coins, name our sporting teams after them and companies use them as logos. Echidnas, dingoes, kangaroos. They are part of the fabric of our national identity. And so they should be. Most of them are found nowhere else on Earth. Wombats, numbats, bettongs. This continent is home to an amazing diversity of plants and animals, not to mention the unique landscapes they call home. They make Australia what it is and were here long before humans arrived. Antechinus, quolls, phascogales. But do we actually care about them? Of course we do! But can we honestly say that, if we judge ourselves by our actions? Thylacine, Bramble Cay melomys, Christmas Island pipistrelle.

Related: Legal threat stops work on mine project in Tasmania’s Tarkine

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The firm had said in May it would no longer accept the cryptocurrency over environmental concerns.

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Massive increase in deployment of wind, solar and battery storage needed over coming decade if world to meet net zero targets.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values lifted off recent lows this week, though market participants reported large offers were backing up in light of the uptick.

More than ten offshore wind farms are currently proposed for Australia. If built, their combined capacity would be greater than all coal-fired power plants in the nation. Sven Teske, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Chris Briggs, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Mark Hemer, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO Philip Marsh, Post doctoral researcher, University of Tasmania Rusty Langdon, Research Consultant, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

My new research shows Australia has spent more subsidising fossil fuel research indirectly via research and development tax credits than directly via grants. Will McDowall, Associate Professor, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

WA wants its share in global green hydrogen market to be on par with its share in LNG exports today. But there are shades of blue to the plans.

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Hunter and Latrobe valleys considered particularly suitable sites as union says industry could offer oil and gas workers a career transition

Australia has the potential to develop a substantial offshore wind energy industry from scratch, with abundant resources available near existing electricity substations across the continent, according to a new report.

The Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre said Australia was yet to capitalise on significant offshore wind capacity despite the International Energy Agency nominating it as one of the “big three” likely sources of renewable energy globally alongside solar and onshore wind.

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The 13m-long, 20-tonne Nauka laboratory is finally going into orbit after a delay of 14 years.

Natural England biodiversity metric will let valuable wildlife habitat be logged as ‘degraded’ land and penalise rewilding, warn ecologists

The government’s new metric for biodiversity will have to be urgently improved if it is going to be fit for purpose, academics and conservationists have warned.

The biodiversity net gain (BNG) metric, published by Natural England in July, outlines how new roads, houses and other building projects must achieve no net loss of biodiversity, or achieve a 10% net gain elsewhere if nature is damaged on site.

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A wildfire in Washington state has lit up portions of a forestry offset project that has generated the second most credits to date under California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme, according to data and sources.

Swedish utility Vattenfall’s EU ETS-covered power output fell nearly 2% year-on-year in H1, despite a near 3% increase in the company's overall generation, the company said in its quarterly results on Tuesday.

Australia’s Woodside and a quartet of Japanese companies are exploring the possibility of using Australian natural gas to produce ammonia for the Japanese market, with associated CO2 emissions to be offset from CCS or bio-sequestration projects.

Despite having some of the world's best offshore wind resources, Australia is letting an untapped abundance of clean energy go to waste, new research says.

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EUA prices edged up on Wednesday, giving back earlier gains amid moderately firmer energy and equities and following an improved auction result.

WA told its recent whole of system energy plan needs to be revised to focus on best opportunities for wind, solar and battery storage.

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Commodity trading house Glencore has set up an emissions desk in Singapore, with a former BP carbon trader heading up operations.

Oil and gas firm Sinopec on Wednesday bought 100,000 CO2 permits from industrial conglomerate China Resources Holdings in the first off-screen block trade since China's national emissions trading market launched last week.