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Low-cost Government loans for all Australian residences could help everyone electrify.

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California extends its run of reaching a peak of more than 100 per cent renewables to 17 out of the last 18 days.

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A New Zealand start-up focussing on decarbonising concrete has secured NZ$6.5 million ($4mln) in seed funding that will go towards scaling up its business, it announced.

Gina Rinehart-backed gas company wants Australian government to stop reducing demand for gas and to include it in capacity investment scheme.

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Australia's solar waste problem is arriving quicker than thought, with volumes of discarded panels expected to be equivalent to 1.2GW a year by 2030.

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Winemakers need to understand the full extent of climate change impacts on the industry, including how changes in temperature and humidity may affect the microbes that ferment grapes. Stephen On, Professor of Microbiology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Manpreet K Dhami, Senior Researcher, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ark Energy to seek approval for second stage of giant wind project in Hunter Valley, just weeks after first stage approved by IPC.

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RGGI allowance (RGA) prices continued to soar past last week's peaks amid heightened market strength, fuelled by the outcome of the first auction of the year and expectations surrounding the ongoing programme review.

The Canada Growth Fund (CGF), a federal investment vehicle, allocated C$50 million ($36.8 mln) towards a Montreal-based investment firm backing clean tech companies, the federal government announced Monday.

Expanding the EU ETS to new sectors of the economy will help the European Union reach its climate targets for 2040, according to some of the 27 national ministers who exchanged views at at a meeting of the EU Council in Brussels on Monday.

We could make our hot cities cooler with white roofs and light roads. But progress has been glacially slow. Sebastian Pfautsch, Research Theme Fellow - Environment and Sustainability, Western Sydney University Riccardo Paolini, Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday up to $6 billion in funding for industrial decarbonisation projects across multiple states, which the agency said collectively are expected to slash emissions by 14 million tonnes annually and facilitate wider adoption of carbon-cutting technologies.

5B to deploy its pre-fab solar modules at massive new gold mine that is claiming a world first production of "green gold."

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Plan follows slashing of £28bn green pledge, which Ed Miliband denies having considered resigning over

Labour’s plan for state-backed offshore windfarms will be a “gamechanger”, Keir Starmer has said, as the party seeks to regain the initiative on green policy after the slow-motion ditching of its £28bn investment pledge.

Speaking to broadcasters after a visit to Holyhead port in north Wales alongside Vaughan Gething, the country’s new first minister, Starmer insisted that a transition to sustainable power was still “one of my central missions”.

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The Council of EU member states gave the final go ahead Monday to measures aiming to reduce gas demand by at least 15% compared to 2017-2022.

Climate litigation cases look set to rise in coming years as new sustainability reporting requirements come into play, from the EU to the US, said lawyers during a conference on climate and ESG legal risk.

The recent ruling by a court in the Netherlands that KLM’s historical climate claims, including use of voluntary carbon credits, constituted greenwashing could change airlines' practice in the EU, said a lawyer who worked on the case.

Riding a bike is not a political act, yet cyclists have become the bete noire for the anti-woke, anti-green, anti-liberal crowd

Getting my bike nicked was like losing a pet. I didn’t want a new one; I wanted to go back in time and not lose my old one. But, in the end, an inanimate object is not infinitely grievable and I need wheels. This is how I fetched up with a Liv bike, my precious first born putting the seat up for me. I said how proud and heart-filled I was, watching him do a little job that I didn’t want to do myself for the first time, and he said: “I’ve been showing you how to use a remote control since I was six years old,” and I thought: OK, fair, but, more to the point, look at my lovely bike.

Freshly re-enamoured of the world of two wheels, I have plunged straight back into the cycling discourse, the perfect microcosm of the wokeness split in all its forms. Take the ex-footballer Joey Barton, who is being sued by Jeremy Vine for calling the broadcaster a “bike nonce”. Meanwhile, the socials are full of people furiously agreeing that aggressive cyclists pose more danger to them than articulated lorries. The fervent attacks on low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and low-emission zones such as Ulez in London are really just a full-throttle loathing of people on bikes, aggrandised by acronyms and libertarian bat signals.

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Trade in the voluntary carbon market stumbled last week under a cloud of uncertainty created by key organisations.

The UK government’s controversial proposal to expand offshore oil and gas developments is necessary to transition the country to net zero emission, lessen reliance on imports, and scale up its clean technologies industry, Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart said on Monday.