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Victorian distribution company seeks licence to connect bigger renewable energy projects and upgrade its grid to accommodate big customer loads.

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Water-based sports across the UK are uniting to call on the government to take urgent action to address pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

A recently formed carbon offsets standard and registry based in Singapore has partnered with a larger international partner to enhance the credibility and transparency of its platform.

China is undergoing a monumental power shift that is positioning it to end new coal power before 2030. This has massive implications for global and Australian decarbonisation.

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Analysts have kept their UKA price forecasts at well below £50 for the next two years, citing weak fundamentals and ongoing policy uncertainty that will keep the market trading at a substantial discount to the EU ETS for most of the decade.

Australia needs 1,200 square kilometres for wind and solar. The area devoted to agriculture is about 3,500 times larger.

The post No threat to farm land: Claims that Australia does not have room for solar and wind are not true appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victorian government appoints a beacon of renewable energy policy and investment to chair its reboot of the State Electricity Commission, announces four new board members.

The post Architect of ACT’s transition to 100 pct net renewables to head Victoria’s State Electricity Commission appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A lengthy delay to the Eraring closure would be a bonus to Origin shareholders, but will have deep implications for the clean energy transition, and the political debate that surrounds it.

The post NSW leans to lengthy extension to Australia’s largest coal generator in blow to renewable transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The federal government is consulting on legislative amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) scheme to make emissions reporting more robust, releasing a discussion paper on proposed changes on Monday.

At least a dozen bills pertaining to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) are in the pipeline to become law in Louisiana, as lawmakers surmise the regulatory future of CCS in the state prior to the close of the legislative session.

Sarah White and Shane Parker have towed their caravan with both a Tesla Model 3 (around Australia), and their BYD Atto 3. They even shared the news with Scotty from Marketing.

The post The Driven Podcast: EVs will tow your caravan, or your boat, all around Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Some 40 aviation industry stakeholders and biofuels producers on Monday announced the launch of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition to advance investments and drive policies within the sector.

Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species. Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney Damian Lettoof, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The federal agency likely to be responsible for oversight of Brazilian carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) should adopt an experimental regulatory approach based on pilot projects, according to a report published earlier this month.

China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.

Saylor Class had complained of "monsters in the wall" of her room at their farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Michael Sanchez took photos of a bird at Hug Point that may be first official images in North America of the rare blue rock-thrush

Michael Sanchez was setting up his new camera to capture a waterfall at Oregon’s Hug Point at sunrise when he spotted a little bird hopping around. He snapped a few photos, and didn’t think much more of it.

A week later, those snapshots have made him the star – and the envy – of the local birding community. Sanchez, who is from Vancouver, Washington, may have inadvertently captured the first images of an extremely rare blue rock-thrush in North America.

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The EU should allow its member states to amplify state aid as a response to the impacts of climate change on farmers' businesses, according to most of the bloc's agriculture ministers.

A spate of strong compliance demand pushed RGGI allowance (RGA) prices to new record levels last week, traders said, as the market notched its highest weekly volumes of 2024.

Year in, year out, there's a good chance someone in politics has suggested nuclear power as an answer to Australia's energy problems. Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains why. Modern-day nuclear energy is climate friendly compared with coal and gas. But going nuclear isn't practical for Australia – and it's an idea that's more than likely coming directly from the Coalition's 'delaying action on climate change' handbook

• Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust

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