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The shift to renewables will not be cheap, the Intergenerational Report confirms, but it won’t cost nearly as much as it did to set up Australia’s fossil gas industry.

The post Shift to renewables will be cheaper than cost of setting up gas industry, says Chalmers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW Greens call for climate act that sets a net zero target for 2035, as the Labor government ponders extending the life of the country's biggest coal fired generator.

The post Greens push for 2035 net zero target in NSW as Labor sweats over Eraring closure appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Work on Cockshut chalk stream will restore its natural flow, improving biodiversity and reducing flood risk

A chalk stream in Lewes, East Sussex, has been “rewiggled” to restore its natural flow and create a public wetland.

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Chandrayaan-3's rover Pragyaan exits Vikram lander and takes first steps near the little-explored south pole.

Indonesia has released regulations for its carbon exchange ahead of next month's emissions trading launch.

The private sector has a key role to play in developing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and achieving the $200-billion funding target for nature, according to Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, director and executive coordinator of environmental finance at UNDP.

Water containing radioactive tritium being pumped into ocean via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from China, South Korea and fishing communities

Japan has begun discharging more than 1m tonnes of tainted water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, news agency Kyodo has reported, a move that has sparked protests and import bans from China and Hong Kong, and anger in nearby fishing communities.

The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), pumped a small quantity of water from the plant on Thursday, two days after the plan was approved by Japan’s government.

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Australia is expected to yield a A$435 billion ($282 bln) economic dividend if it can reach net zero emissions as well as replace existing fossil fuel-based exports with commodities and products vital for the energy transition, a new report says.

Equinor officially opens the largest floating wind farm in the world, with plans to bring this technology to Australia - hopefully not to power oil and gas rigs.

The post World’s largest floating wind farm has opened – but it’s powering oil and gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We talk to early adopter and self confessed “energy nerd” Andrew Wilson about the key lessons he has learned from four years with home solar and storage.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Confessions of a solar and battery nerd appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UN ‘30 by 30’ biodiversity strategy aims to set aside 30% of land as protected areas. New research shows these areas do support biodiversity, but big parks also increase it outside their borders. Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Jedediah Brodie, Research Fellow, Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak; Associate Professor and John Craighead Endowed Chair of Conservation, University of Montana Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on Wednesday proposed amendments to its market-based Climate Protection Program (CPP) that would overhaul the methodology used to distribute compliance instruments to fuel suppliers, as well as calculate holding limit reductions.

The number of California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) distributed this week fell compared to earlier this month, but still remained well above year-ago levels through the first two-thirds of 2023, according to state data published Wednesday.

The energy transition is a race and what’s needed are policies that will drag large-scale renewable power into the system faster

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This week should be a wake-up call on the future of the electricity grid, but we seem in danger of collectively drawing the wrong conclusions about which way to go.

The main problem is straightforward – investment in large-scale solar and windfarms has dried up to next-to-nothing just as it is supposed to be moving into overdrive.

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A commodity trading firm and carbon solutions provider on Wednesday announced an agreement to help develop and finance a developer’s nature-based offset projects that could yield more than 100 million credits.

One of the oldest project developers and traders in the carbon market is pivoting towards consultancy services and seeking project partners after a drastic drop in carbon credit revenue, Carbon Pulse has learned.

New York is considering policy options to reduce emissions in environmental justice (EJ) communities, including the prohibition of allowance trading for plants situated in Disadvantaged Communities (DACs), government officials told a webinar on Wednesday.

It’s not just ocean temperatures that determine whether we have El Niño or La Niña. Air circulation also plays a role, and it’s changing in unexpected ways. Georgina Falster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The August California-Quebec current vintage carbon auction settled at its highest point of all time while slightly surpassing secondary market levels, as the advance sale clearing price also achieved a new peak, according to government data published Wednesday.