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APA says Pilbara wind, solar and battery plans depend on customers, but its main focus is on gas and predictions that falls in demand will be negligible in coming decades.

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Norway and Indonesia’s governments have extended their memorandum of understanding (MoU) on climate and forestry cooperation to 2030, they announced.

A US-based ag-tech company has secured $4.5 million in funding to expand its biochar production and introduce carbon credit sales, aiming to enhance soil health and carbon sequestration.

Oliver Hill, from Race to 2030, on the new roadmap for turning electric cars into mobile batteries, and who is doing what on V2G.

The post The Driven Podcast: Where are we at with V2G? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction begins on a big battery project next to the largest solar farm in Australia.

The post Construction starts on large battery project next to Australia’s biggest solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists have developed a low-cost, scalable method to significantly enhance CO2 removal (CDR) from the atmosphere through enhanced weathering (EW), offering a more viable alternative to existing direct air capture (DAC) technologies.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has generated nearly 230 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent since the war began on Feb. 24, 2022 – equivalent to the annual emissions of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia combined – according to a report published Monday.

A more pragmatic, market-led approach to climate action is expected in Germany - and the EU - after Friedrich Merz and the centre-right CDU/CSU appeared to win the federal election on Sunday.

Warm, deeper water can shut down the ocean’s natural ‘air conditioner’, putting corals at even greater risk. Kelly Boden-Hawes, PhD Candidate in oceanography, The University of Western Australia Nicole L. Jones, Professor of Physical Oceanography, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hospitals, schools and prisons to be set target of sourcing half of all food from farms with high welfare standards, which should benefit British growers

Hospitals, schools and prisons are to be urged to buy more British food, as part of a government push to heal a rift with farmers over changes to inheritance tax, the Guardian understands.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will tell the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) annual conference on Tuesday that the public sector is to be set a target of sourcing at least half of all food from farms with the highest welfare standards, which should benefit British growers and food producers.

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Startling evidence of the dangers to birds and rivers from over-the-counter drugs should be a wake-up call for owners to press for alternatives

When I was 10, I succeeded in my campaign for a family dog. Part of her care, and our joy as owners, was the monthly application of spot-on worm and flea treatment. With veterinary medicine on my mind as a career, I relished the theatre of vets-at-home. We bought doses over the counter, scheduling the dog’s treatment on the calendar like a five-a-side.

We applied these drugs to our dog because every other owner did. Because it was encouraged, because it was easy, because it felt right.

Sophie Pavelle is a writer and science communicator

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Clarifying goals for disbursing California’s cap-and-trade auction funds, mitigating impacts of higher allowance prices, and addressing affordability concerns were strategies to secure legislative reauthorisation and programme extension post 2030 rather than focusing on an emissions cap, panellists discussed on a webinar Thursday.

Numbers of animals once hunted as vermin are rising across the continent. But scientists worry about how we are going to get along with these predators

Europe’s carnivores have had a remarkable change in fortune. After tens of thousands of years of persecution that wiped out sabretooth tigers, hyenas and cave lions, there has been a recent rebound in the continent’s surviving predators.

Across mainland Europe, bear, wolf, lynx and wolverine numbers have risen dramatically as conservation measures introduced several decades ago have begun to make an impact. There are now about 20,500 brown bears in Europe, a rise of 17% since 2016, while there are 9,400 Eurasian lynx, a 12% increase.

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The Dutch-based renewable energy investor Photon Energy says it has made a loss on the sale of its Australian based solar portfolio, which includes a small solar-battery hybrid project development. Photon last year announced the sale to CleanPeak Energy of a portfolio of 15 MW of operating solar farms around Leeton and Fivebough and a […]

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What is omitted from the Coalition's nuclear policy costings is far more informative about the party's energy and climate leanings than anything contained in its modelling.

The post Peter Dutton’s nuclear accounting trick #4: Assume climate change has no cost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A California legislator has formalised intent to reauthorise the state’s cap-and-trade programme ahead of the Friday deadline for 2025 bill introductions.

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

Germany's climate policy objectives would not change radically under a centre-right government led by CDU frontrunner Friedrich Merz, although he is still noncommittal on the country's coal exit, according to German MEP Peter Liese, a veteran centre-right lawmaker in the European Parliament.

Research group says discovery could lead to new type of environmentally friendly farming

A biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. The breakthrough – by researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk – opens the door to the creation of crops requiring reduced amounts of nitrate and phosphate fertilisers, they say.

“We can now think of developing a new type of environmentally friendly farming with crops that require less artificial fertiliser,” said Dr Myriam Charpentier, whose group carried out the research.

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The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal

If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.

But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations. If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Austria.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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