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While some major emitters have set near-term climate targets that could be considered ambitious using certain criteria, none feature goals for 2030 and 2035 that are sufficiently aligned with the Paris Agreement on closer inspection, the World Resources Institute said on Tuesday.

The rhetoric around coal and gas as indispensable economic backbones is misleading. Conversely, a fully electrified scenario represents profound economic and resilience gains. 

The post How electrification could more than halve Australia’s energy needs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans unveiled for what would be the biggest wind farm in South Australia, with two eight-hour big batteries, to help support Whyalla's green steel ambitions.

The post Biggest wind farm and two eight hour batteries slated for Australia’s most advanced renewable state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A lawsuit against one of Australia's largest energy companies threatens to deliver a mortal blow to the nation's carbon offset industry and the government's carbon neutral certification scheme.

The post Beginning of the end for carbon offsets? Parents take energy giant to court appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A wind farm developer is asking for permissions to increase the height of proposed turbines, which it says will help protect Carnaby black cockatoos.

The post Wind farm developer wants taller turbines to avoid collisions with black cockatoos appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.

Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lost

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On a stinking hot November day, seven years ago, Grace Vegesana and a handful of other young climate activists set up a small stage in a large square in Sydney’s CBD – and waited. Inspired by the first school striker for climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the high school students decided to organise their own rally.

Vegesana expected a hundred people to show up. Five thousand came. “It was like, oh my God, we’ve unleashed some kind of beast, people want more,” she recalls. In the months afterwards crowds doubled and then tripled.

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Clean energy tax credits are expected to deliver $238.4 million of benefits to Iowa’s economy annually out to 2032, according to a new study.

A North Dakota law on CO2 storage is being challenged in the state’s highest court after it was dismissed in a lower district court last year.

In the wake of potential federal action to terminate state-led cap-and-trade schemes, investors reduced net length across most US compliance carbon markets, with the exception of V26 California Carbon Allowances (CCA), latest figures from the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions (CFTC) showed Friday.

Colorado issued a proposed landfill methane regulation last week that would give the state stricter emissions rules than the current federal requirements.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.

The Coalition has failed to deliver any sort of coherent energy and climate policy, and Labor's plans are seriously insufficient.

The post The home stretch of the energy election: Coalition chooses to gaslight as Trump, Musk loom large appeared first on RenewEconomy.

RGGI allowance (RGA) benchmark futures gained over 15% week-on-week after a historic selloff but gave back some gains Monday amidst broader macro weakness and as the focus returns to fundamentals.

A US appeals court ruling last week means several non-profits still do not have access to their climate funds, even after a federal judge directed Citibank and the EPA to cease their “unlawful” suspension of funding.

Marine carbon removal (mCDR) projects could face major liability under US law, legal experts said last week.

The US has obstructed climate action for decades – largely due to damaging actions by the powerful fossil fuel industry. But Australia has a chance now to lead. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.