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The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us

Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold.

The rules defending wildlife and habitats from unscrupulous developers are weak enough already, which is partly why, as Labour reminded us in its manifesto, Britain is “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”. But this bill will make it much, much worse.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Ending Labor’s EV tax break would make it much harder to cut surging emissions in Australia’s transport sector. Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Polestar says Dutton’s move shows ‘a complete lack of understanding of the significant cost-of-living, climate and health benefits of EVs’

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Electric vehicles would cost more under a Coalition government, after Peter Dutton confirmed he would scrap a popular tax break for EV drivers in an apparent backflip that has caused confusion and anger among clean car advocates.

The initiative, which was introduced by the Albanese government in 2022, has meant if a person buys an EV priced under $91,387 through a novated lease program via their employer (when a lease is paid off through pre-taxed salary deductions) they do not have to pay fringe benefits tax (FBT) – even if the car is only for personal use.

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) set a new record for climate finance commitments in 2024, as it hones in on a goal for 50% of all capital commitments to be for climate action by 2030.

Environmental platform EcoRegistry on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Argentine province on launching a subnational carbon credit standard focused on reducing methane emissions.

A direct air capture (DAC) project developer has signed a deal to sell 13,400 carbon removal credits to a large shipping company.

A wrong call on wind output has left some of Australia's best wind projects stranded without a grid connection. Many say the error was avoidable, but is it reversible?

The post Major blooper on wind output has stranded some of Australia’s best projects with no grid access appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China stats for first three months of 2025 show it installed 9 GW of new thermal generation capacity, compared to 59.7 GW of new solar and 14.6 GW of new wind.

The post Meanwhile, in China, 60 GW of new solar capacity added in first quarter of 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The ANU's Jorrit Gosens on China's thirst for green steel and the opportunities for Australia. Plus: News of the week and stranded wind and solar projects.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: China and green steel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans for a solar farm and big battery sail through federal environmental approval process in less than two months, but could face rougher seas at the state level.

The post Solar and battery proposal sails through EPBC and into a storm of objections – some of them wild appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chinese company says its robot solar mounting machine can install solar panels at three and five times faster than a team of humans, and slash construction times.

The post Chinese robot does job of three to four humans installing thousands of panels at Australian solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Colombia is not curating a positive list of project types that will be automatically eligible for Article 6 agreements, and will instead issue broader criteria with case-by-case evaluation, according to an official and an external consultant speaking at the Colombia Carbon Forum conference in Bogota on Wednesday.

California regulator ARB’s 2025 offset issuance rose more than 8% over the most recent two-week period, state data published Wednesday showed, even as headline risks plagued US compliance markets, collapsing offset prices.

The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.

Colombia’s long-awaited emissions trading system (ETS) is still slated to launch in a pilot phase this year despite political upheaval, an official told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of the Colombia Carbon Forum in Bogota Wednesday.

Canada's leading political parties are positioning energy expansion and fossil fuel decarbonisation as competing primary ideologies ahead of the country's impending federal election. 

Government is ‘setting up conversations’ as companies arrive in London for clean energy summit

The UK is to woo global green investors, including those scared away from the US by the actions of Donald Trump, by offering cash and infrastructure improvements to encourage companies to set up manufacturing plants and supply chains.

The government will bring forward £300m for offshore windfarms, an area in which the UK retains a lead, and has invited banks and major international companies to a 60-country summit in London this week.

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The International Energy Agency’s London summit this week marks an opportunity for Europe to reframe the transition away from fossil fuels as key to achieving energy security and independence, despite US pressure to up its gas imports, according to energy and climate experts.

The Coalition's own energy policy modelling shows the notional savings of going nuclear are dwarfed by the gutting of Australian industrial capacity.

The post Coalition’s nuclear gambit will cost Australia trillions – and permanently gut its industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nine days from the election, Peter Dutton still hasn't decided what sort of campaign he is running: The result: constant backflips on energy and climate.

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