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Berkeley Earth’s Robert Rohde discusses the latest climate science and whether even 2°C is achievable. Plus: All the renewable and storage news from the first few weeks of 2024.

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Rio Tinto has signed a power purchase agreement to supply 1 GW of renewable electricity to power its smelters and refineries in Gladstone, Queensland, as issuance of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) falls.

NSW's draft energy framework will add time, cost and another layer of bureaucracy in a state that needs to remove all three, big investors say.

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Fortescue secures grant and tax incentives to set up manufacturing facility at the site of the first Ford factory in Detroit to build batteries, EV fast chargers, and electrolysers.

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Oliver Yates to chair new venture planning to spend $2 billion on battery storage projects, with three big batteries ready to go and another four in the pipeline.

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Renewables continue to reshape Australian grid, and bring down prices - but the most coal dependent states have the dirtiest and costliest power, while battling rising temperatures and demand.

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Scientists track down what are probably the last unidentified Antarctic emperor penguin colonies.

Floating solar plants emerge as a game-changer for Southeast Asia, by maximizing its solar resources and overcoming limited land availability.

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Joint venture signed to develop a 150MW solar farm in New Zealand, which would be the biggest in the country.

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A Tulsa-based technology startup announced Tuesday an agreement to join efforts with a Texas-based carbon, capture, and storage (CCS) firm to develop a direct air capture (DAC) plant on the outskirts of a CO2 storage hub in Oklahoma.

The Environment and Climate Change Canada's (ECCC) Low Carbon Fuels Division has announced the Emission Reduction Funding Program (ERFP) and Credit Clearance Mechanism (CCM) prices for the 2023 compliance period.

The EU needs to mainstream climate action across its policy landscape post-2030 in order to reach net zero emissions by 2050, with strengthened efforts to electrify industry, support low-income and rural households, and raise public funding, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Rio Tinto signs contract to buy all the output for what will be the biggest solar project on Australia's main grid, and will help power its smelters and refineries.

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An industrial multinational announced Tuesday a partnership with a European firm specialising in carbon capture technology to tap opportunities in the North American market.

Researchers from a US academic institution have detailed recommendations for developers and buyers of such projects to help ensure quality in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) following their publication Tuesday morning a paper finding over-crediting in cookstove offset projects to be prevalent at a much higher level than previously thought.

The UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders is right to warn that a pillar of democracy is under threat in Britain

In the last few years, environmental protesters in Britain have pulled off some striking – and strikingly irritating – acts of civil disobedience. These have caused indignation and aggravation, especially by disrupting people’s lives. But their actions grabbed our attention. The purpose is to denounce an injustice by intentionally breaking the law in a non-violent way. The justification is a climate emergency that threatens humanity’s future.

There is nothing new in this: the suffragettes smashed windows and set buildings alight. Today we honour their cause and courage. Yet the government appears intent on criminalising protest, a move rightly criticised by Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders. He warns that a pillar of democracy – the right to protest – is under threat in Britain. The demonisation of environmental activists and the erosion of civil rights without adequate scrutiny from lawmakers, or protection by the courts, are undermining the UK’s guarantees of freedom and the rule of law. It had been almost unheard of since the 1930s for demonstrators to be imprisoned for peaceful protest in the UK. Last month, he said, a climate protester got six months behind bars for slow-walking on a road.

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The partners behind a US forest carbon crediting programme highlighted their project's use of dynamic baselines in an academic article and interview with Carbon Pulse on Tuesday, hoping to boost environmental integrity in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), with first issuance expected soon.

The removal of the federal goods and services tax (GST) typically applied to Canadian carbon pricing would reduce federal revenues by C$1.0 billion ($741 million) in 2030-31, Canada’s government budget watchdog reported on Tuesday.