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Australian greenhouse gas emissions have continued to flatline, as gains in the electricity sector are wiped out by rising transport emissions, according to government reporting.

A report into Australia’s human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects has argued that on-the ground, or 'in-situ', reporting measures are crucial to ensure abatement assurance, because national datasets are unreliable in the remote areas where projects are located.

Seeing solar around your neighbourhood is a surprisingly large reason you might choose to do the same. Kaveh Khalilpour, Associate Professor in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney Alexey Voinov, Professor in Sustainability Science, University of Twente Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Climate scientists have already predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year ever

Japan has recorded its hottest summer on record after a sweltering three months marked by thousands of instances of “extreme heat”, with meteorologists warning that unseasonably high temperatures will continue through the autumn.

The average temperature in June, July and August was 1.76C higher than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, the Japan meteorological agency said, according to Kyodo news agency.

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Friends of the Earth says pollution exceeds healthy levels for nature in 9,062 localities

More than a quarter of neighbourhoods in England have pollution levels that are highly harmful to wildlife, new data shows.

Friends of the Earth has named 27.5% of areas “nature pollution hotspots” in new research. These are defined as places where air, water, noise and light pollution all exceed levels that are damaging to nature.

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Danish energy giant marks new chapter in "green transformation" with closure of Esbjerg Power Station, in western Denmark.

The post “We’re making history:” Ørsted shuts last coal-fired heat and power plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

TotalEnergies will deploy a floating wind turbine to help power an offshore gas platform in the North Sea, in a “decarbonisation” effort that seems to have lost something in translation.

The post Big Oil pilots use of floating wind turbine to power gas platform appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Will its bark be worse than its bite?

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New star performer out west tops the wind rankings again, while the Sunshine state profits from another sunny winter month to clean up on the solar side.

The post Newest wind farm tops rankings again in August, as solar stars gather in the north appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Conservation groups are calling for action as populations of seabirds decline on UK cliffs.

Regenerative agriculture, including cover cropping and no-till farming, can significantly reduce carbon emissions when applied to large-scale farming operations across the US, but credit prices need to rise significantly to sustain such practices, according to a new study.

The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead of the country’s next national elections, both states now face difficult coalition negotiations, as mainstream parties have […]

The post “Bad news for the energy transition:” Far-right extremists score big in German state elections appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The discovery of the Manawatāwhi pāua, unique to the Three Kings Islands, highlights the need to build taxonomic expertise to speed up work to describe thousands of as-yet unnamed species. Kerry Walton, Curator Invertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Hamish G Spencer, Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor of Zoology, University of Otago Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia desperately needs skilled workers and materials to build transmission infrastructure and keep the energy transition on track. Chris Briggs, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Seabirds are in a precarious position as their breeding areas are threatened by climate breakdown and overfishing

Five seabirds have been added to the UK’s conservation red list, meaning they are at dire risk of local extinction.

The government has been urged to act as the arctic tern, Leach’s storm petrel, common gull, great skua and great black-backed gull join other seabird species such as the puffin on the list after severe population declines.

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A veteran carbon analyst has left LSEG after six years, around 18 months after several colleagues resigned to join a rebranded analytics firm also covering carbon markets.

A clean cooking project in Benin has opened a call for crowdfunding, looking to raise €1.5 million for a cookstoves carbon project in the west African country.

A global certifier of sustainable soy and corn production is consulting on an update to its standard that will allow companies to demonstrate that they align with the European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

A lack of clarity on how the CORSIA penalty system will work, and the fact only a handful of countries have started transposing the UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme into their national laws, raises doubts over how the mechanism will be enforced.

Blue hydrogen, made from natural gas where the CO2 emissions are captured and stored, will be an intermediary step on the path to a wider scale rollout of greener versions made using renewable electricity, said industry experts during a conference Monday.