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A large-scale green hydrogen production facility at bp’s former Kwinana oil refinery in WA has made key new progress, backed by $70m from federal Labor.

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Australian researchers develop a new way to make, reproduce and test new perovskite solar cells within a matter of weeks, bypassing years of human labour and error.

The post Australian perovskite breakthrough takes the “alchemy” out of solar cell production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Thursday hosted a Q&A session to discuss the potential request for legislation required to facilitate linkage between the state’s cap-and-invest scheme and the joint California-Quebec cap-and-trade programme.

A joint California-Quebec workshop Thursday regarding potential changes to the cap-and-trade programme heard clarifications about modelled CO2 permit prices, as staff responsible for regulation of the joint market also presented their rationale regarding considerations for changes in market mechanisms.

A list of 46 countries and their provisional baseline validity periods for Avoiding Unplanned Deforestation (AUD) projects was published by standards body Verra accompanying a Request for Proposals (RFP), and the organisation wants REDD developers to review the new timeframes.

FREE READ - Dubai will grow in population by the equivalent of a small city as a record number of delegates descend upon the desert metropolis later this month for this year’s COP28 climate summit.

A number of modifications to three of Oregon state’s climate programmes proposed by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) successfully passed, but heard particular concern from the Environmental Quality Commission regarding state regulation of biomethane on Thursday.

Wild swans are stopping off further north as winters become milder, experts say.

The best chance of catching a glimpse is in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday.

There is an unprecedented global swing towards solar and wind power under way

If you’re searching for some hope on the climate crisis before the Cop28 UN meeting in Dubai this month, try this: China may be changing direction on pollution earlier than expected.

Lauri Myllyvirta, a longtime China analyst now with the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, calculated that CO2 emissions from the world’s biggest national polluter are likely to fall next year and could then go into “structural decline”.

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Ariel Liebman was a great networker, bringing people together to work on what he called the BHAGs – the big hairy audacious goals relating to climate change.

The post Vale Ariel Liebman: Tackling big hairy audacious climate goals won’t be the same without him appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) and Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) both saw rising prices even as volumes traded fell over the week, with market participants largely agreeing that CCAs would remain at a premium after the ARB cap-and-trade informal rulemaking public workshop slidedeck was posted on Wednesday, but were split on the fate of WCAs.

The US federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday a string of grants to environmental justice (EJ) initiatives across several states in the Southern US.

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Waqas Uzair, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Labour leader aims to set up ‘British jobs bonus fund’ to challenge oil firms to accelerate shift to clean energy

Keir Starmer has challenged the oil industry to dramatically speed up its shift to clean energy by offering up to £2.5bn to subsidise new jobs in renewables for North Sea workers.

The Labour leader has told executives from firms including Shell and BP that the UK is in a global race to move away from oil and gas, with competitor countries such as the US investing billions in climate-friendly technologies.

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The European Commission has published projected EUA auction volumes for 2024, including allowances that will be sold to generate funds for the REPowerEU initiative.

The Egyptian Senate has wrapped up several days of deliberations on whether to establish carbon pricing in the country, with the government approaching handover of its year-long presidency of the UN climate negotiations with little sign of progress on its pledges for the topic.

BBC correspondent flies over the Reykjanes Peninsula, where volcanic activity has been concentrated.

Australia could support up to five giga-factories, just for domestic energy storage and commercial electric vehicles.

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