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Diplomats are losing patience with players like Saudi Arabia blocking progress at international climate talks, instead looking to other forums for action.

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Australia's responsibility for global emissions is set to soar as government policies push more coal and gas into a diminishing market for fossil fuels.

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Australia has experienced a four-fold jump in large scale solar farms in the last year, but it has still been overtaken by a stunning surge in Vietnam.

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Australia reaches another key milestone in rooftop solar installations, with 9GW across the country and the 10GW mark likely to be reached by year end.

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Singapore’s national water agency will work with Norwegian technical consultancy DNV GL to develop what they are calling “Southeast Asia’s largest public tender for floating PV”.

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MIT team led by an Australian researcher discovers way to extract more energy out of solar cells – with potential to take efficiencies as high as 35%.

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Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a new study.

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Australia's large-scale solar market shaping up to have as big a year as the record-smashing 2018, according to the latest data from solar consultants SunWiz.

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Atlas Professionals and Star of the South will jointly conduct a market study on the availability of the required labour and vessel resources for the Australian Star of the South Project, the Southern Hemisphere first proposed offshore wind farm.

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NSW Nationals further position themselves as a party that fails to recognise the threat climate change poses to farmers, passing motions at its state conference calling for the abolition of climate funding and for the protection of coal companies from legal challenges.

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Goldwind has entered an agreement with Energy Developments Pty Ltd (EDL) to deliver the wind farm project at the Gold Fields Agnew Gold Mine hybrid renewable energy project in the northern goldfields region of Western Australia.

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VW creates all-new electric Type 20 Kombi concept with cutting edge bells and whistles based on original Type 2 microbus.

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A massive plastic recycling plant being built in Victoria will be powered by locally generated wind energy, in a deal with Goldwind Australia's 321MW Moorabool wind farm.

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Swedish EV maker opens website to applications for its first run of “Founders Series” Uniti One electric cars, before they go on sale to the general public.

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Victorian households waiting to install half-price solar might have to wait another few weeks, after the July quota of the state government’s rooftop rebate was filled within days.

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AEMC is proposing a series of complicated rule changes to solve what most see as a simple problem – and it risks an unknown impact on the electricity market.

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Plans to build a 500MW solar farm with 250MW/1000MWh of battery storage north-east of Adelaide have won development approval from the S.A. government.

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Mammoth 1.17 GW Noor Abu Dhabi solar park, claimed as the world’s largest single solar project – and one of the cheapest – has entered commercial operation.

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Tesla has achieved its goal to beat its previous quarterly delivery record, reporting 95,200 electric vehicles delivered by end of June – 72,531 of which were Model 3s.

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An Australia-first housing development trial offering drastically reduced daytime power costs through a residential solar PPA has seen 90% uptake from new home buyers.

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