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Reports reveal VNI West will not increase Snowy 2.0’s transmission capacity to Victoria at all – and that the usage of Snowy 2.0 will plummet after 2050.

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New wind, solar and batteries have faced long delays in getting connected, increasing costs and slowing the shift to renewables. We propose changes to fix these problems.

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An industry conference this week is talking up gas expansion as a key to solving the climate crisis, but the reality is gas power is undeniably in decline

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You don’t see many government ministers turning up at coal conferences these days. The industry will continue for a while – thermal coal power still provides about 60% of electricity on the east coast, and exports this year top $60bn – but it is broadly agreed it’s on the way out.

The same cannot be said for gas, the other fossil fuel that Australia excels at digging up and selling overseas.

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Farmers and vets traumatised by mass culls do not get enough mental health support, a report finds.

New report forecasts two-in-three chance of passing 1.5℃ threshold sometime in the next five years. Does this mean the Paris Agreement has already failed?

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Yes, we need better flood warnings. But most of us don’t or can’t evacuate from floods. Safety means focusing on community resilience as well as warnings Mel Taylor, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Fiona Miller, Associate professor, Macquarie University Kat Haynes, Hononary Fellow, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU is exporting more than 10,000 tonnes of “bee killing” pesticides a year to developing countries, despite having banned the use of these chemicals in its own fields, according to a report published Wednesday. 

The firms aiming to help eradicate invasive species by making commercial use of them.

The tale involves a long legal battle and a unique bond between a man and Smooshi the walrus.

Under-fire bosses announce ‘unprecedented plan’ to reduce last year’s 300,000 incidents of sewage pollution

Water companies have apologised for repeated sewage spills and pledged to invest £10bn this decade in an attempt to quell public anger over pollution in seas and rivers.

The companies will triple their existing investment plans to plough funds into the biggest modernisation of sewers “since the Victorian era” to reduce spills of overflowing sewage into England’s waterways.

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The UK is to back the US President Joe Biden’s programme to remove and store global carbon emissions, the government said in a release Thursday, stating that the London wants to forge closer links with the Washington on energy security.

Global conglomerate Unilever will need to address its Scope 3 emissions in order to align itself with an emissions reduction trajectory consistent with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a report has argued, with the financial cost of inaction due to carbon pricing alone to hit nearly $3 bln by 2030 and over $7 bln by mid-century.

Analysts from a major US bank remain bullish over the medium term for California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices as balances turn the corner from surplus to deficit, but expect the near-term environment to remain challenged for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits and voluntary carbon offset (VCO) prices which await policy-driven upside catalysts, in a report published Monday.

Zimbabwe's decision to void all existing carbon credit agreements and cream off future revenues from credit sales is an opportunistic move that could render offset projects in the country and elsewhere unattractive or unviable, while also potentially spurring other nations demand similar concessions, stakeholders told Carbon Pulse.

The Alaska legislature on Tuesday passed a bill to establish a statewide voluntary carbon offset programme for its forestlands, leaving only Governor Mike Dunleavy's (R) upcoming signature standing in the way of the bill becoming law.

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A climate veteran has taken on a new role as CEO at an asset management company dedicated to natural capital, and already serving tech giant Apple's nature-based carbon removal fund.

Kenya is going to ensure a healthy share of carbon revenue stays in the east African country in the future under new legislation proposed to meet its updated climate targets for 2030.

Switzerland has become the first country to submit an initial report to the UN detailing accounting and reporting information under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement for its international mitigation activities with three other countries, which are estimated to collectively reduce emissions by nearly 2 Mt by 2030.