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Chris Bowen says Coalition's antipathy to renewables is based on prejudice rather than ideology, and raises concerns about solar tax.

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California grid operator hails milestone of 95 per cent renewables in the state's grid as an "incredible accomplishment".

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The Victorian government has signed up to a certification scheme that prevents fossil fuel hydrogen from be able to claim it is a zero carbon energy.

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The real success of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency will be not only in what it does, but in how it carries out its work, in the relationships it forges, and in the trust it gains. Mark Duckworth, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The role is as an Originator for Carbon Markets within the Global Environmental Products Trading Business (EPTB). Reporting into the RTL for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and working closely with the Carbon Markets Trading team you will support the identification, delivery and ongoing management of deals across the European Emissions market (EU-ETS), as well as the wider European energy complex (Coal, Power & Gas) and other Environmental Product markets as they mature.

The vaquita marina in Mexico is threatened by a clash of interests between fishing and conservation.

At 170m long, "Florence" is the largest ever tunnelling machine to be used on a UK rail project.

The UK government has lowered the trigger price for the mechanism to control spiking allowance prices in the country’s new carbon market.

Macquarie's London-based head of environmental products has gone to Goldman Sachs, Carbon Pulse has learned, while his counterpart at Morgan Stanley's is taking his place at the Australian investment bank.

The report says the impact of climate change is being felt by Americans "with increasing regularity".

California regulator ARB’s offset issuances hit a two-month high this week as it minted nearly 500,000 new credits, but the year-to-date volume slipped beneath last year’s level, according to data published Wednesday.

Two fraudsters were convicted by a British court on Wednesday for scamming vulnerable victims out of £36 million in a ‘boiler room’ fraud operation based on the voluntary carbon market.

Many threatened plant species aren't being targeted for conservation. Identifying which are closest to being lost forever is the first step to protect them. Jennifer Silcock, Post-doctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Roderick John Fensham, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Teghan Collingwood, Research Technician, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Kiwi are often moved between fragmented populations to limit inbreeding, but without sufficient genetic screening, this risks doing more harm than good. Isabel Castro, Associate Professor in Ecology and Zoology, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Approval of 800MW Vineyard Wind is first step in Biden Administration's goal of 30GW of installed capacity of offshore wind power by 2030.

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Morrison government will spend $5.4m creating parks in an area more than twice the size of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Australia is adding an area of the Indian Ocean bigger than France to its network of marine parks in an attempt to keep out international fishing boats and promote scientific discovery in two biodiversity hotspots.

The Morrison government announced $5.4m would be spent to create two marine parks around Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands covering 740,000 sq km – a huge expanse of ocean almost as large as the state of New South Wales.

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Power and industry will face the highest increase in ambition under Germany’s amended Climate Change Act adopted on Wednesday, though analysts believe the impact on EU carbon allowance demand can only be determined once the bloc’s carbon market reforms are undertaken.

Spanish utility Iberdrola reported a 25.5% drop in its remaining EU ETS-covered generation in Q1 on Wednesday, continuing its rapid decarbonisation and diminishing need for carbon allowances.

Almost 380 million more carbon allowances will be withdrawn from the EU ETS through next summer and inserted into the MSR, the European Commission announced late Wednesday in its annual 'TNAC' update, with the market's oversupply increasing by 14% last year largely due to the pandemic.

Exclusive: Thinning indicates profound impact of humans and could affect satellites and GPS

Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a new study has revealed.

The thickness of the atmospheric layer has contracted by 400 metres since the 1980s, the researchers found, and will thin by about another kilometre by 2080 without major cuts in emissions. The changes have the potential to affect satellite operations, the GPS navigation system and radio communications.

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