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Australia's first climate risk assessment is grim reading and outlines the threats people could face if the nation fails to prepare well for what's ahead.

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Vestas claims record setting shipment as its longest wind turbine blades are transported across the US via railway.

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International team led by CSIRO has achieved record-breaking efficiency for roll-to-roll printed flexible solar cells.

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A Direct Air Capture (DAC) project developer is partnering with New Zealand’s Future Energy Centre (Ara Ake) to help develop the first pilot project of its kind in the country, it announced Monday.

Viva Energy signs its biggest renewable energy contract yet with an wind farm in operation near its Geelong refinery.

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Coral bleaching is not a conspiracy!

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A South Korean non-profit dedicated to sustainable development has established a special council led by a climate policy veteran to facilitate the engagement of domestic companies in the voluntary carbon market.

Federal opposition leader says the Coalition is preparing to reveal "potential host sites" for six nuclear power plants around the country.

The post Gas, rooftop solar, nukes: Dutton to take “most expensive” nuclear power plan to next election appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Mount Donna Buang wingless stonefly could disappear after critical habitat determination rejected, conservationists say

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A critically endangered stonefly, which can outlive most other insects, may become extinct after the Victorian government made an “incredibly disappointing” decision.

That’s the claim from the Victorian National Parks Association, which was frustrated on Monday after the government rejected an application for the Mount Donna Buang wingless stonefly to be granted a critical habitat determination.

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A warming climate and fast-spreading diseases threaten supplies and push up prices, a top banana industry expert warns.

Peter Dutton wants to pick your pockets to build nuclear reactors in Australia, and says they can be delivered in a decade. Based on the experience of the UK and US, that's not true.

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The Biden administration’s $7.4 billion 2025 budget plan requests an increase of $26.9 bln for climate programmes across US agencies, as well as funding for international climate finance, according to documents released Monday.

Two new studies identify major potholes for storage along the road towards a 100 per cent renewable energy grid.

The post Not enough droughts and hefty network charges: The big barriers to grid storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Critics say a commitment to build new gas-fired power stations would threaten climate pledges.

The volume of NZUs available at auction must be dramatically reduced to cut a surplus in New Zealand’s ETS that threatens to undermine its effectiveness, the country’s Climate Change Commission (CCC) said Tuesday.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Protection (DEQ) on Monday announced a new rulemaking schedule to reinstate its market-based GHG reduction programme that a state court dismissed in December.

Market participants coalesced around expectations for the first RGGI allowance auction of 2024 to clear around the Cost Containment Reserve (CCR) trigger, with secondary market prices converging towards that level over the last month.

Renewables accounted for a record 51.8 pct share of electricity consumption in Germany in 2023, as wind output overtook coal for first time.

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Buildings can be engineered to resist bushfires, but we can’t engineer the many aspects of human behaviour and decision-making that will still put lives at risk. Alan March, Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Indigenous fire management shaped Australian tropical savannas over millennia, until the arrival of Europeans pushed the landscape back into a dangerous, unmanaged state. Cassandra Rowe, Research Fellow, James Cook University Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Michael Bird, JCU Distinguished Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.