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Australia must treat China as a partner in its $22.7 billion manufacturing push towards net-zero emissions, ex-ACCC chair says.

The post China should be seen as partner, not a threat, to Australia’s green manufacturing plans, says Sims appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The loss of the ecosystems, which are vast stores of carbon, would ‘be disastrous for nature and people across the globe’, says IUCN

Half of all the world’s mangrove forests are at risk of collapse, according to the first-ever expert assessment of these crucial ecosystems and carbon stores.

Human behaviour is the primary cause of their decline, according to the analysis by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with mangroves in southern India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives most at risk.

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"If we mine it here, we should make it here." Federal Labor unveils National Battery Strategy, to make Australia a globally competitive part of the supply chain by 2035.

The post “We want to make more things here:” Albanese outlines plan to grab share of battery supply chain appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Chinese forestry and paper company has teamed up with a local partner in Gabon to explore carbon project opportunities in a rare instance of a China-based firm looking outside its own borders for emissions reduction ventures.

The New South Wales state government has struck a deal with Origin Energy to push the closure date of the Eraring coal-fired power station back by two years due to grid reliability and security concerns.

Peter Dutton unveils an unusual housing policy

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Regulators say electricity price cuts being delivered by cheap renewables – mostly consumer owned rooftop solar – are being diminished by network and other costs.

The post Households lock in small discount on electricity as network costs eat into solar savings appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW deal with Origin will reward Australia's biggest utility to have its coal generators trundle through the night, but is there any guarantee they will operating when really needed?

The post Eraring clunker deal may do little to keep the lights on, but it might bail out the state government appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Is the Eraring coal extension a good deal? Plus: Kane Thornton from the Clean Energy Council discusses GenCost, AEMO, CIS, Made in Australia and what the US is up to.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Eraring coal extension and nuclear fantasies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California regulator ARB issued compliance-grade offsets tagged with direct environmental benefits (DEBs) to the state after a two-period hiatus, but the overall distribution fell from the highs reached two weeks earlier.

NSW secures deal to extend life of Australia's biggest coal generator by two years.

The post Eraring coal closure delayed two years, possibly four, “to keep the lights on” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CEFC commits $490 million to the "large and complex investment task" of equipping the grid in NSW's first REZ to connect 4.5GW of solar, wind and storage.

The post CEFC makes biggest investment yet to help “close looming gaps” in NSW grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The phrase ‘net zero’ has a long history. Ruth Morgan, Associate Professor of History, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Governments are classifying voluntary carbon credits (VCCs) in diverse ways, often disagreeing on whether they are financial products, fragmenting voluntary carbon market (VCM) regulation.

The spacecraft will give earlier warnings of conditions that produced the recent auroral lights.

The spacecraft will give earlier warnings of conditions that produced the recent auroral lights.

Four of the world's largest technology companies have joined forced under a new coalition to contract up to 20 million tonnes of nature-based voluntary carbon credits, they announced Wednesday.

Scientists from Cambridge University find an ingenious way to decarbonise one of the world's most polluting materials.

Projections of the size and scale of a future CCS industry should come with heavy doses of scepticism

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As far as bonanzas go, a claim this week that Australia could pull in almost $600bn by storing carbon dioxide from other countries is one that puts even the Aukus nuclear submarine deal in the shade.

The oil and gas industry lobby group Australian Energy Producers made the claim, reported in the Australian, pointing to a study carried out by global energy analysts Wood Mackenzie.

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Microsoft has signed an agreement to buy 36,000 tonnes of biochar from a Canadian producer, the firms announced on Wednesday, while the tech giant also increased by 1 million tonnes the purchase volume of an existing deal for Danish bioenergy removals.