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Swaps and options transactions in the Australian carbon market are becoming more common place thanks to the variety of reasons entities were venturing into the market, traders told a conference this week, but scale will also be needed to meet the coming demand from the Safeguard Mechanism. 

The design of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) risks creating a counter-productive impact on EU electricity decarbonisation, a key policy official at Europe’s energy traders association told a conference on Wednesday.

CSIRO's latest demolition of nuclear power means we can focus on the urgent shift to firmed renewables. The climate clock is ticking.

The post With the Coalition’s nuclear fantasy demolished by CSIRO, Labor must get cracking on renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Critical minerals are well named. They’re critical to the green transition – and sought by the US and China. Who will Australia sell to? Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney David Gann, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Development and External Affairs, and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Mark Dodgson, Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School, and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Propping up Australia’s largest coal-fired power station could deter investments in renewable energy or batteries. And might other operators now coming begging?

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The New South Wales government has bought itself an insurance policy worth as much as $450m to keep open a power station it couldn’t afford to have exit the grid.

But operating the 2880-megawatt Eraring plant up to four years beyond its scheduled August 2025 closure date will cost more than just the price of corporate welfare – there’s also the environmental and economic impacts to quantify.

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After visiting SA solar companies 5B and Tindo, energy minister says Australia should be able to supply 20% of its own PV demand if the Sunshot policy goes to plan.

The post Bowen says Australia could make 20 per cent of its solar panel needs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.