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Regulator approves final costs for contested Humelink project, but trims the allowed budget by around $300 million.

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Andy McCarthy on setting up a solar business in the heart of coal country more than a decade ago, when a 1 kW system cost $8,000. And what the industry can learn from that as it struggles for social licence.

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What was once Australia's biggest wind farm is back on line after a transformer was repaired, but its overall performance has been poor.

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Total capacity of wind and solar in China has overtaken coal for the first time, and solar alone is predicted to overtake coal within two years.

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The New Zealand government on Friday announced a 3.2% increase for 2024 of the Electricity Allocation Factor (EAF), a key figure to determine the amount of CO2 permits that will be handed out to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITEs) industries in the ETS.

A US-based startup has raised a $6 million seed round to scale its direct air capture-to-sustainable aviation fuel (DAC-to-SAF) technology, it announced Thursday.

Emissions under the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic power sector cap-and-trade scheme increased more than 7% year-on-year (YoY) during Q2, programme data showed Thursday, as regional power demand continued its 2024 growth.

Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in New Zealand’s energy strategy. But the government and industry need to focus on its best uses for decarbonisation. Ian Mason, Adjunct Senior Fellow in Renewable Energy Systems Engineering, University of Canterbury Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Many Indigenous people want to help protect their traditional lands. That requires deciding which species and habitat matter most to them. Teagan Goolmeer, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations. Lynette Cheah, Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As mums, it’s been frustrating to see so many of our kids’ sport matches cancelled due to waterlogged grounds. Research shows how we can tackle this through smarter design and green infrastructure. Jua Cilliers, Head of School of Built Environment, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Technology Sydney Mehrafarin Takin, PhD student in the School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Brazil’s upper and lower legislative chambers have reached an agreement with the executive branch to send final hydrogen legislation to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for approval and partial veto, sparking a do-over of select clauses, according to local media sources on Wednesday.

Net credit generation under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) trailed behind last quarter’s historic highs on lower renewable diesel (RD) and ethanol contribution to the total, according to state data published Wednesday.

An industry-led greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting protocol for financial institutions (FIs), used by public sector and civil society decarbonisation standards, has reached 500 signatories, the organisation announced on Thursday.

The Italian government's plan to build nuclear up to a large share of its energy mix after 2030 goes against current public opinion - in a country that has voted twice to ban the energy source, and never succeeded in building a plant - and fails to address how it will meet the EU's emissions reduction target for this decade.

A survey on durable carbon removal (CDR) technologies released this week has warned that several hurdles exist that could block the necessary pace of expansion needed to meet critical climate goals.

A number of high-profile green hydrogen investment announcements by Saudi and Emirati sovereign funds in recent months could be a win-win, rather than a driver of interregional competition, a European green industrial transformation and geopolitics advisor told Carbon Pulse.

A programme that aims to halt the net loss of biodiversity by 2030 in Mexico, while developing nature markets including biodiversity credits with regional governments, has been announced in an alliance between French and Mexican companies.

An accounting standards organisation is seeking views on eight illustrative examples of how companies should report climate risks.

The carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) industry will require an investment of close to $160 billion by 2030, with 20% for power generation use, according to a global commodities research firm.