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NSW lands another $4.2 billion in wind, solar and storage projects, including big wins for Andrew Forrest and Neoen, and three ground-breaking long duration storage projects.

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Britain will formally consider introducing a supply adjustment mechanism to its carbon market to help balance future shifts in demand and mitigate the risk of sustained low prices, it announced on Monday, as prices rallied following the announcement of a consultation on the measure and the publication of associated documents.

Plan, which aims to support domestic producers, will also apply to iron, ceramics and cement

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Imported raw materials such as steel and cement will incur a new carbon tax from 2027 under UK plans designed to support domestic producers and reduce emissions, but the government is facing criticism for not moving fast enough.

The Treasury said the tax would help address the phenomenon of “carbon leakage”, in which UK manufacturers are undercut on price by foreign rivals whose governments do not impose levies on businesses that emit a lot of carbon.

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The next generation of wildlife photographers are showcased in the RSPCA Young Photographer awards 2023. Here’s a selection of the winning entries, capturing the natural world around them

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The market for nature-based solutions is growing in demand and scale, as larger institutional investment managers begin to enter, an academic paper has said.

Mitsubishi Corporation  will work with Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group on an initial study to decarbonise the Southeast Asian country’s large industrial sector.

Australia’s Climate Change Authority recommended in a paper Monday that non-biological ways of capturing carbon including direct air capture (DAC), carbon mineralisation, and biochar be eligible for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to drive uptake of these newer forms of carbon removal.

The UK government announced Monday that it will introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) by 2027 on big-emitting sectors, a deadline of a year later than the EU is due to introduce its own system.

Quitting flying as a travel writer was easier than I expected. Now for the hard part: convincing my family to do the same

As a travel writer, I’m used to receiving invitations to five-star resorts in far-flung destinations such as the Seychelles, all expenses paid. But now I ignore these emails. I quit flying three years ago. I’m not afraid to fly; I stopped because of the climate crisis. In addition to travel, I write about green issues, and I decided I could no longer in good conscience specialise in sustainability while continuing to fly.

I was a late convert to the cause, taking a plane to Israel in 2020 to write about a Palestinian cycle advocacy group. A trip like that would be off limits to me today, even if peace broke out any time soon. It’s all but impossible to reach Israel from Europe without flying. It’s almost as tough to reach the Antipodes from the UK without a long-haul flight, so bang goes a quick-ish trip to New Zealand or Australia.

Carlton Reid is a freelance transport journalist

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On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice’s movement and takes photos. Later, he creates a report that includes data from sensors and another camera installed near the Shisper glacier to update his village an hour’s hike downstream. His mission: to mobilise his community of 200 families in Hassanabad, in the Karakoram mountains, to fight for a future for their village and way of life, increasingly under threat from unstable lakes formed by melting glacier ice

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has released a report into the auditing process of human-induced regeneration projects (HIR), also known as “gateway checks”, however its conclusions came under immediate scrutiny from other experts.

Animals fight for survival in far north Queensland after ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper brings days of heavy rains, saturating parts of the region. The rain is forecast to continue over the next 24 hours, with some areas already hit with more than a metre and water levels expected to break 1977 records

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The energy transition faces many large challenges – buy there are plenty of fascinating smaller ones, too. Like, what happens when a summer thunderstorm hits Brisbane?

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Federal government urged to act "immediately" as major report finds Australia well behind international best practice on measurement and reporting of methane emissions.

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Heavy rain has continued to fall across far north Queensland in the aftermath of ex-tropical Cyclone Jasper.

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An Australian oil and gas company has plans to expand its onshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, eligible to earn Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), despite being months away from first injection.

Market operator Xpansiv on Monday announced its first trades of generic Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) via its CBL platform, ahead of a fully-fledged ACCU contract launch early next year.

The Climate Change Authority has called for urgent phase out and revisions of certain methodologies used to measure fugitive methane emissions from Australia's coal, oil, and gas facilities, as part of reviews into GHG emissions reporting legislation and the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme underpinning it. 

Once the immediate crisis in North Queensland has subsided, authorities will need to grapple with how to deal with the ‘new normal’ of extreme weather events. The big question is: are they prepared? Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.