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Coal’s “very slow death” is well and truly underway, with 2024 data revealing the lowest amount of new coal-fired power capacity in two decades.

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Large wind project returns to the planning portal after a six year hiatus with fewer but bigger turbines, and a battery.

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Another huge BESS could be coming to NSW, with a standalone four-hour battery proposed for the heart of the state's dying coal industry.

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Federal Labor's Developer Rating Scheme is a step in the right direction, but doesn’t bridge the renewables information gap we’re seeing across rural and regional Australia. 

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NSW says it has finalised contracts for Australia's first renewable energy zone, but wind and solar industry is still waiting on news of who has access to the grid.

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The US DOE released a request for information (RFI) to inform use of federal land for AI infrastructure development, including the potential for on-site power generation with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The Trump administration's rollback of environmental impact assessment requirements attracted a flood of responses in a recent public comment period, in which industry groups endorsed the changes while individuals warned against the environmental destruction the rollback could cause.

A Sao Paulo-headquartered bank has claimed payment for its role supporting a R$2 billion ($356 million) unsecured debt issuance in an unconventional form of carbon credits from a renewable energy company.

California regulations to scale down vehicle emissions could be overturned if three measures pass Congress next week, effectively placing the GHG reduction efforts of over a dozen American states in jeopardy.

Election Watch: The Coalition has resorted to claiming that gas is solid, to appease a fuming fossil gas industry. It is not working.

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Chile’s carbon offsetting provision (SCE) within the national CO2 tax has blown past expectations in its second year of operation, rising to 4.4 million credits applied in 2024, the government revealed Thursday.

Cost of living is trumping climate at this election, but the issue won’t disappear. Here’s what major parties are offering – and what we actually need. Johanna Nalau, Senior Lecturer, Climate Adaptation, Griffith University Madeline Taylor, Associate Professor of Energy Law, Macquarie University Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU’s push to expand its Emissions Trading System (ETS) to transport and buildings faces a delicate balancing act, as policymakers grapple with the social impact of carbon pricing and the rollout of a Social Climate Fund (SCF) aimed at supporting vulnerable groups in the transition.

Carbon removal (CDR) buyers on a webinar Thursday called for proper recognition by standards bodies such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to help scale CDR and trigger buying from a wider cohort of companies.

The CEO of the new carbon project developer born out of the C-Quest Capital scandal has promised that the market has "grown up" and is entering a new generation for integrity.

The EU and UK are preparing to integrate carbon removals into their emissions trading systems (ETSs) as net zero targets draw closer — but exactly how they do that is still an open question with multiple options on the table, a conference in Lisbon heard on Thursday.

A tidal lagoon should be created in the Severn Estuary according to a new report.

The voluntary carbon market faces huge challenges amid the current geopolitical environment, experts told an industry conference on Thursday, but there is quiet momentum building behind the scenes with billions of additional dollars invested in the first quarter of the year.

Politicians across Europe will be tempted to pull the plug on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) if the bloc’s flagship climate policy instrument brings factory closures and job losses, industrialists said at IETA's European Climate Summit in Lisbon.

Delaying the EU’s Emissions Trading System for road transport and heating fuels (ETS2) won’t solve implementation issues faced by member states, a senior official has said, as European countries drag their feet in adopting legislation for the bloc's second carbon market.