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The ACT Government continues to be recognised internationally for its leadership on zero emissions transport, committing to the Driving Change Together – Katowice Partnership for Electro-mobility declaration, which was launched at the COP24 United Nations climate change summit in Poland last week.

The post ACT joins global partnership to drive change for e-mobility appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There are some simple, cheap and equitable solutions to some of the concerns raised about cross-subsidies to and from rooftop solar.

The post Cross about subsidies: The equity implications of rooftop solar in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The performance of the Tesla big battery helped redefine the debate around the clean energy transition in Australia last year. But it wasn't the only big thing that happened.

The post Six developments that changed the world of energy in 2018 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia on Friday released its annual emissions forecast to 2030, adjusting downwards expected GHG output over the next decade but still expecting to miss its Paris target by up to 760 million tonnes of CO2e over the 2020s.

Plants have been on the planet for hundreds of millions of years – but we’re still discovering new ones.

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Tesla activated its "storm watch" mode for household batteries ahead of last week's cyclone in north Queensland - the first time it has done so outside the US.

The post Tesla activates Tesla Powerwall “storm watch” in Queensland – first time outside US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

What sort of policy do we need to take Australia's electricity grid into 2019 and beyond? Some of the nation's leading energy innovators tell us what's on their list.

The post All we want for Christmas: Four “disruptors” share their 2019 energy policy wishes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

British Columbia is not ruling out a tradable component or the use of offsets in its carbon intensity benchmark programme for heavy industry, the province’s environment minister told Carbon Pulse.

If Labor's one million battery target is achieved, what would that look like for the grid, and for consumers?

The post One million batteries may not work the way you think they will appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We talk to Electric Vehicle Council boss Behyad Jafari about the year just gone and what to expect in 2019.

The post The Driven Podcast: Why 2019 be the year that EV market finally takes off appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The emissions projections provide detail on emissions trends, including sector specific analysis of factors driving emissions. The projections also track progress against Australia’s emissions reduction targets.

Carbon prices on both North American coasts rose this week as New Jersey released its proposed cap for its re-entry into the RGGI market, while California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) nudged toward next year’s floor price.

Scrubbing up the skies is hard – however many filter towers and houseplants are on the job

Among the high-rise apartment blocks of Xi’an, China, there is a 100-metre cylindrical tower. It looks like a chimney, but it has a very different purpose. It is trying to filter the city’s air. Smaller examples of outdoor air filters have been erected in the Netherlands and Poland, and filters have been installed next to roads in Delhi and on buses in Southampton. Other ideas include plants and surfaces that react with the pollution, but cleaning outdoor air is difficult since the pollution is already diluted. It’s like trying to take the milk out of your tea.

Related: What would a smog-free city look like?

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The Canadian government will further relax the stringency of industry production benchmarks for certain sectors under its output-based pricing system (OBPS), the government announced Thursday, as it also revealed more information on the national clean fuel standard (CFS) beginning next decade.

What a year 2018 has been for solar PV in Australia! Here are nine reasons to celebrate solar as we head into what may well be another record-braking year for photovoltaics.

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Japan looks set to make a bid to resume openly commercial whaling for the first time since the 1980's.

Scientists warn policymakers not to ignore links, and stress that ‘every action counts’

Policymakers have severely underestimated the risks of ecological tipping points, according to a study that shows 45% of all potential environmental collapses are interrelated and could amplify one another.

The authors said their paper, published in the journal Science, highlights how overstressed and overlapping natural systems are combining to throw up a growing number of unwelcome surprises.

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Findings expose ‘big lie’ behind European marine conservation, scientists say

Destructive trawling is more intense inside official marine sanctuaries, while endangered fish are more common outside them, a startling analysis of Europe’s seas has revealed.

It shows that far from conserving sealife, legal marine protection areas (MPAs) are in fact the places most damaged by industrial fishing. The work has exposed “the big lie” behind European marine conservation, experts say, with most MPAs completely open to trawling.

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Fifty years ago people saw our planet from the outside for the first time. Dr Simon Torok, Honorary Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne Colleen Boyle, Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching, RMIT University Jenny Gray, Chief Executive Officer - Zoos Victoria, University of Melbourne Julie Arblaster, Associate Professor, Monash University Lynette Bettio, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Rachel Webster, Professor of Physics, University of Melbourne Ruth Morgan, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.