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Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises

Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.

A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation, even as overall demand for electricity continues to rise.

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Albanese announce landmark $566 million 10-year funding for mapping project to identify areas of critical mineral and rare earth deposits for clean energy transition.

The post Huge mineral mapping project to help turn Australia into ‘renewable superpower’ appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK car industry is on course to miss its legal net zero target after sales of electric vehicles to private buyers tumbled, warns the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the UK car manufacturing association.

Uniper's fossil-based power generation covered by the EU carbon market fell 12% in Q1, year-on-year, the utility reported Tuesday in quarterly results.

Underestimating soil health when tracking the progress of nature restoration projects could lead to unreliable or incomplete assessments, a biodiversity expert with infrastructure consultants AECOM has said.

BZE report says Australia could reap $215 billion if it moved into supply chains and manufacturing for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps and commercial EVs.

The post From solar to EVs: Five green tech supply chains that could deliver $215 billion boost to Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Puro.earth is set to revise its methodology for crediting voluntary carbon removals from biochar projects and is inviting feedback on the current text before opening a three-week long public consultation in July.

A clean cooking summit due to be held in Paris next week, organised by the International Energy Agency, will place a significant focus on voluntary carbon markets as governments and private sector stakeholders seek to address current gaps in climate finance flows to Africa.

European carbon prices dropped steeply on Tuesday morning amid robust selling as traders took profit after EUAs failed to breach the psychologically important €75.00 level for a third time, while energy markets also drifted as forecasts called for higher temperatures later this week.

An Ecosystem Condition (EC) Protocol for standardising the measurement of ecosystem conditions across corporate reporting and biodiversity markets, with a similar format to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, aims to launch a draft version this year.

Collective grid capacity across 25 EU member states needs to more than double by 2035 in order to meet the Paris Agreement goal to keep global warming below 1.5C, according to research published on Tuesday.

Charity asks people to charm worms to the surface and count their numbers to contribute to worm map of UK

Dancing for worms may seem an odd pursuit, but an environment charity is calling for people across the UK to charm the creatures from the depths in order to count them.

The Soil Association is trying to get a nationwide picture of worm abundance, to track their decline and see where they need the most help.

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Nature restoration practices across Latin America lack effective tools to quantify their outcomes due to prohibitive monitoring costs, which hamper the long-term success of the projects, a study has revealed.

G20 countries are advancing their efforts to scale 'bioeconomy' as a means to promote sustainable models that foster biodiversity conservation, though actions must be taken to enhance convergence and comparability between different national approaches, a study has said.

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and human rights expert.

David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024, told the Guardian that states failing to take meaningful climate action and regulating polluting industries could soon face a slew of lawsuits.

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Kazakhstan has become the latest country to join the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge (GCPC) – an initiative aiming to cover 60% of the world’s emissions with carbon pricing by 2030 – the Central Asian nation announced Tuesday.

Government agencies in South Korea will start a discussion around a carbon finance product that allows companies to repay loans with carbon credits, according to local media reports.

ICAO, the UN agency that operates CORSIA, has confirmed the eight voluntary carbon standards that submitted material updates to crediting programmes as they seek eligibility for the current phase of the UN's international aviation offsetting scheme.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has joined the chorus of voices calling for reforms to New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme alongside addressing emissions in the agriculture sector, it said in an annual survey.

Most policy changes needed to unlock the full potential of consumer energy can be done with the sweep of a pen – and at minimal cost to the budget bottom line.

The post To drive rooftop solar, home battery and EV uptake, the policy pen can be mightier than big budget spends appeared first on RenewEconomy.