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Would the NSW grid have fallen short if last week's record demand occurred after Eraring closure. New analysis says no, if current wind, solar and battery projects delivered on time.

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Sub-Saharan African (SSA) women remain “severely under-represented” in management at clean energy companies, but insights from women in the field can inform better outcomes, according to a joint report published Sunday by an NGO and a recruitment company.

A number of forestry conservation schemes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including a Verra-approved REDD+ avoided deforestation project that has sold some 1.3 million voluntary offsets to date, are in line for the chop after a senior government committee recommended that their concession contracts be cancelled for breaking the law.

California Carbon Allowance (CCAs) prices have reversed direction to return to their post-auction lows, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) took a hit after the state attempted to clarify the implications of a voter-led initiative that could upend the cap-and-trade scheme.

Warmer seas and greater reliance on technology are linked to hundreds of millions of farmed salmon deaths.

Massachusetts’ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) presented potential adjustments to its draft Clean Heat Standard (CHS), as the agency solicits a final round of comments in advance of a new proposal, staff outlined during a community webinar Thursday.

Particular concern raised for southern areas of the reef that have not been badly bleached since 2016 with ‘high risk’ of significant coral death

• Lord Howe island faces ‘major’ coral bleaching as ocean temperatures continue to break records

The Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of a mass coral bleaching event driven by global heating – the fifth in only eight years – the marine park’s government authority has confirmed.

The authority, together with scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, have completed aerial surveys across 300 reefs over two thirds of the reef, with more to come.

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A Montreal-based carbon removal project developer will evaluate direct ocean capture conducted at its facility through a partnership with a US ocean monitoring firm, the firms announced Thursday.

This marine ecosystem is so important it’s one of the main reasons the federal government has greatly reduced the area available for offshore wind farms in the region. Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

US study says highest risk for battery fires comes from manufacturing defects, but the most risk is at the installation stage.

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The power hungry synchrotron operated by ANSTO is hosting a massive rooftop solar system to cut energy costs.

The post Australia nuclear facility installs massive rooftop solar system to save $2 million appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions. Brittany Finucci, Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Cassandra Rigby, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices swung violently for a second day on Thursday as continued short covering sustained the market after a weak auction, pushing it above key technical resistance levels, before longer term shorts reasserted themselves in the afternoon and unwound the day's gains.

The autonomous region of Galicia in Spain opened legislation to structure a local voluntary carbon market (VCM) for public consultation on Wednesday, following a similar regional initiative announced by Catalonia in December and in time with Murcia’s proposal on Tuesday.

France has the capacity to diversify its carbon sinks and achieve climate neutrality, or even become net negative, before 2050, according to a new study published on Thursday.

Some large investors in the US and Europe have supportive voting policy stances for nature and biodiversity, although not all of them, a report by data company Morningstar has found.

Avoiding over-regulation, increasing public support, strengthening international climate policy, and ensuring the bloc’s industry is competitive should be prioritised by the next European Commission, a report said Thursday.

Exclusive: firm points to risk of asbestos contamination from other sources as it seeks to have prevention order thrown out

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The landscaping materials company at the centre of the New South Wales asbestos crisis will point to the risks of contamination outside its facilities and the “unjustified impact” on its business when it argues to have an order preventing it making mulch products quashed.

Greenlife and the NSW Environment Protection Authority are expected to appear before the state’s land and environment court for a directions hearing on Friday.

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Demand for nature-based solutions in Europe is increasing "exponentially" for some organisations, with companies calling for support to bridge the skills gap and ramp up supply, a study has shown.

The Council of EU member states on Thursday backed a compromise proposal by the Belgian EU Presidency laying out a procedure for the bloc to quit the 1990s Energy Charter Treaty, which has attracted criticism from EU governments for hampering attempts to phase out fossil fuels.