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For many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south of Kolkata and named the ‘sinking island’ by the media, has lost nearly half its area to soil erosion in the past two decades and could disappear if a solution is not found.

As voters across India cast their ballots on issues ranging from the cost of living to jobs and religion, politicians trying to win votes in Ghoramara need to put the climate crisis to the fore as the island’s dwindling population fight to save their homes from the sea amid rising water levels and increasingly fierce storms

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Australia's long-awaited integrated farm land management (IFLM) method  has been released for consultation amid plans to submit a draft version to the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) by the end of the year.

DNV's Peerapat Vithayasrichare discusses the Asean super grid idea. Plus: Is it time to rethink long term storage needs?

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Asean super grid, and a question over storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Meeting WHO guidelines would avoid many cases of diseases and save the NHS millions, research shows

A study has revealed that cleaning up the air in the West Midlands could prevent the early deaths of about 2,000 people a year.

If the region were to meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for air pollution, it could also avoid 2,000 new asthma cases, 770 new cases of heart disease, 170 new lung cancers and 650 strokes annually, the study found.

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Indonesia is set to end its current moratorium on post-2020 carbon credit issuances by the end of the year, according to a source close to the matter, with new supply expected to flow in the first quarter of 2025.

Australia's wind "drought" broken in spectacular style by a new record output. But modelling shows scaled up renewables would still have met most demand.

The post New wind output record breaks drought that posed most challenging week for renewable model appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China’s national carbon market saw allowance prices over the past week fall to a one-month low, as the lack of policy clarity on the current compliance cycle continues to drain available supply as well as demand.

A 20-year energy deal combining diversified renewables and demand response secures future for NZ smelter, and offers a template for what's possible in Australia.

The post Giant aluminium smelter seals future with groundbreaking “reverse battery” and renewables deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

5B has revealed its first US order and largest single contract yet is for a project in hurricane-prone Puerto Rico.

The post Australian solar innovator says its biggest order yet is headed for hurricane territory appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Latest assessment of SMR technology indicates they will take much longer to build than their advocates claim, and at much higher costs. 

The post Memo to Peter Dutton: New study shows SMRs too costly, too slow, too risky appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices gradually edged higher through a busy week of both Q2 WCI auction results and a cap-and-trade workshop, while Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices also increased with a pick up in weekly transacted volumes.

This extraordinary discovery was made by chance, during one man’s birthday stroll on the mountains of Colorado.

Nearly 10 years after network "gold plating" was pinpointed as a major contributor to bloated power prices in Australia, experts are warning that it will happen again unless urgent reforms are made.

The post History repeating itself: Urgent reform needed to prevent new round of grid gold plating appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs) offer little in the way of reducing emissions in developing countries, and even alongside carbon taxes won't be enough for those countries to reach net zero, according to a working paper published earlier this month.

The James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy.

A public spat has flared up over the Kariba REDD+ project in Zimbabwe, with standards body Verra warning that it will not let the developer, a "self-professed bad actor, ... to make a clean getaway, leaving others holding the bag".

The designer of the world's tallest building are looking at plans to build kilometre-high skyscrapers to provide energy storage, even in CBDs.

The post Designer of world’s tallest building wants to build kilometre-high skyscrapers for energy storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Biomethane with carbon capture, a kind of carbon removal, is poised to scale in Europe and will benefit from pro-CCS policies, but overlapping regulations at the EU and national level must coordinate to make these opportunities accessible, a German advisory firm told Carbon Pulse.

For more than three decades, Jane Goodall has inspired generations of conservationists through her youth-led action program Roots & Shoots. Now it’s time to take this approach into schools. Mahima Kalla, Digital Health Transformation Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.