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Exclusive: State oil firm, whose chief will preside over Cop28, also accused of ‘incoherent’ reduction targets

The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in December, has failed to report its emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane to the UN for almost a decade, the Guardian can reveal.

Its state oil company, Adnoc, whose chief executive, Sultan Al Jaber, controversially will preside over the climate summit, has also set itself a methane leak target far higher than the level it claims it has already reached. Al Jaber recently urged countries and companies to be “brutally honest” about the inadequacy of global action to fight the climate crisis.

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Cimic subsidiary Pacific Partnerships buys development rights for 300MW solar farm and possible two-hour battery in Queensland's Western Downs region.

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Terrain Solar's Marulan solar farm and 150MW/600MWh battery becomes the latest major PV project to win approval from the NSW Labor government.

The post Solar farm and four-hour big battery get green tick in rush of new project approvals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California start-up attracts more big name investors to its low cost "heat battery" technology, and targets Australia as prime market to replace gas in industrial processes.

The post Heat Battery: Rondo targets Australia after landing global giants in latest fund raising appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The 100MW, two-hour battery will be built alongside the Wagerup Power Station and Alcoa refinery to soak up solar and support and stabilise WA's south-west grid.

The post Alinta to build 200MWh big battery next to Alcoa aluminium plant to soak up solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EV Maritime's Michael Eaglen on why we may soon be catching electric ferries to work in our harbour cities.

The post The Driven Podcast: Electric ferries are about to dock appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WA - the world's biggest micro-grid - needs a lot of new battery capacity as it scrambles to meet surging green industry demand. it has delayed the closure of one coal unit.

The post World’s biggest micro-grid needs gigawatts of new battery capacity – and very soon appeared first on RenewEconomy.

If approved, the Winchester South coal mine would have a greater short-term climate impact than all of Australia’s annual transport emissions.

The post Whitehaven Coal’s expansion risks doubling its methane pollution over next decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin says no changes to its closure plans for its Eraring coal generator, which is now back in the black thanks to the government's coal price cap.

The post No change to Earring closure plans, as price cap puts biggest coal plant back in the black appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Just as Darwin’s finches evolved specialised beaks to target prey, 3D modelling of 61 museum specimens reveals albatross beaks vary in size and shape for different diets. They can also drink seawater. Jane Younger, Lecturer, Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, University of Tasmania David Hocking, Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University Josh Tyler, Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

More than 200 water voles are released in restored habitat in Cumbria, having previously been wiped out.

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A blaze is threatening to reach Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, by the weekend.

California regulator ARB on Wednesday gave further insight regarding the start of its formal rulemaking to amend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), with opportunities for public comment in advance of the release of the draft package. 

The first-ever Allowance Price Containment Reserve sale in Washington state’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade programme sold all permits in both tiers, according to results published Wednesday.

The climate emergency is accelerating with breathtaking speed. The Greens and the teals are breathing down Labor’s neck. At this federal Labor conference, Albanese must go further on climate policy. Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A new study shows we can maximise the benefits of green roofs and rooftop solar systems by putting them together on the one roof. Peter Irga, ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Air and Noise Pollution, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Fraser R Torpy, Director, Plants and Environmental Quality Research Group, University of Technology Sydney Jack Rojahn, PhD Candidate, Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra Robert Fleck, Research Scientist, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The expansion plans of an Australian coal company could create the equivalent of 100 MtCO2e of GHG emissions from proposed and existing mines, according to new analysis published Thursday.

A lack of national capacity and significant regulatory uncertainty makes for a patchwork of rules between Article 6 and the voluntary carbon market (VCM), industry experts said on Wednesday.

Mass bleaching events go largely unseen, but a quarter of marine species and half a billion humans depend upon reefs

When images of the climate emergency’s impact are so visceral and so widespread, it is easy to neglect what we cannot see. The shocking photographs and video footage of wildfires in Hawaii and Greece, and floods in China, along with the terrible loss of life and testimony from those who fled, are beginning to bring home the contribution of global heating to such disasters – even if people, and especially businesses and governments, may be slow to accept the truth and even slower to act on it.

Yet our eyes cannot fully capture the devastation in Hawaii, and it does not end where its shores meet the sea. Beneath the surface of the water, sediment runoff may smother coral polyps and block sunlight, affecting the growth of colonies, experts warn. This is only one element of a broader disaster now unfolding, which scientists fear may soon be global and yet which has generated relatively little attention or alarm. Corals in countries across Central America, North America and the Caribbean are suffering significant bleaching as they experience unprecedented levels of heat stress due to record ocean temperatures, and there are similar warnings about reefs off northern Vietnam and southern China. In Florida, some sites have reported total loss of all corals.

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