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NSW government entities are proving keen on sharing land with renewables projects.

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AFR's choice of business heroes - mostly those who have fought quick action on net zero - underlines the tough road ahead for the green energy transition.

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AEMO’s head of system design Merryn York on the draft 2024 Integrated System Plan. Plus: The big NSW tender, and battery storage everywhere. And a few tips for 2024.

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NSW confirms the first renewable energy zone will be doubled in size to ensure enough wind, solar and storage can be delivered to replace coal.

The post NSW doubles size of Australia’s first renewable energy zone, appoints operator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian headquartered New Forests has closed its Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry Fund, after raising some A$450 million ($304 mln) from institutional investors, it announced Wednesday.

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows

Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said.

A study has found the flowers of field pansies growing near Paris are 10% smaller and produce 20% less nectar than flowers growing in the same fields 20 to 30 years ago. They are also less frequently visited by insects.

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This year, the American Forest Foundation attended its second Conference of Parties, COP28, held in Dubai. While many things came out of COP28, and perhaps even more hoped-for things did NOT come out of COP28, one incredibly important outcome concerned the voluntary carbon market’s role in the global struggle against climate change. 

The US Department of Energy (DOE) continued its streak of heavy investment in emissions cuts, announcing Tuesday $45.6 million in investments in carbon capture, transport, and storage, as well as semi-finalists for an award of $1 mln in direct air capture (DAC) development.

Massachusetts’ power sector Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) auctions for current and future vintages settled below the September sale on lower volumes, according to a report from Potomac Economics published by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).

Canadian auto manufacturers and importers must phase out the sale of new gasoline-fuelled cars via annual zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) regulated sales targets from the 2026 model year, while covered entities will have the ability to generate, bank, and sell credits to meet compliance goals, the federal environment ministry announced Tuesday.

Regulators approve rules to let agencies recycle wastewater into drinking water for homes, schools and businesses

When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: an ice-skating rink in Ontario, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the central valley.

And – coming soon – kitchen faucets.

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Washington state announced a proposal Monday to safeguard thousands of state forestland acres using millions earmarked from carbon market revenues, although local communities and environmental groups continue to contest the government’s auctions of mature state forests for timber harvest.

Wholesale electricity prices declined across the grid in 2023, and batteries are having a growing influence over the market as their numbers and length of storage grows.

The post Batteries are getting bigger and longer, and helping wind and solar push coal out the door appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A UAE-based carbon project developer has drawn global focus in signing over a dozen confirmed agreements to source carbon credits from African, Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian countries since the company’s launch a year ago, according to an assortment of sources that raised multiple concerns about overly vague or opaque dealmaking

A blockchain-based environmental trading platform has opened a public comment window for its newly developed credit class and methodology for watershed carbon, it announced Monday.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that it is proposing changes to forest management plans across all national parks and grasslands in an effort to conserve and steward old growth forests, a move hailed by environmental groups as an important first step.

Australia’s federal government has been hollowed out in recent decades. But states can – and still do – deliver. That’s why they are the main drivers of climate action. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The soon-to-be Belgian EU presidency aims to conclude work on the bloc's mammoth Fit for 55 climate policy package and set the stage for post-2030 emissions cuts in time for elections that will signal the start of the new five-year political term.

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A major global environmental consultancy has hired four voluntary carbon market specialists to bolster its growing team.