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One of Australia's biggest coal states is rapidly becoming a leader in big solar – but much more wind power and storage needs to come.

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New report reveals 2022 as highest year for new renewable construction commitments on record. And while there a fewer of them, big batteries are upsizing.

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A Canada-based non-profit has received $60 million from a funding initiative to scale up low-impact and circular clothing, paper, and packaging solutions that will eliminate the use of ancient and endangered forests from the supply chains of those industries, it announced Monday.

China has not yet introduced auctioning in its national carbon market, but regulators could easily formulate rules for paid allowance allocation based on the lessons learned in the pilot markets, researchers from a government-run think-tank have suggested.

UK progress on the rollout of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) is too slow despite fresh funding in the government's recent financial statement, according to experts at an event Monday, with overall ambition, regulatory clarity, and supply chain transparency cited as the main challenges ahead.

Conservationists blame changing weather patterns as low numbers of amphibians found across country

Frog and toad populations in England have been devastated by climate breakdown, conservationists fear, after the drought dried up their breeding ponds last year.

Usually at this time of year, ponds are full of jelly-like frog and toadspawn. But conservationists have found the habitats to be bare, with no amphibians or their young to be seen.

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A new report by an energy investment group has laid out what it describes as a credible pathway for Australia to decarbonise its electricity grid, while the Clean Energy Regulator has minted 240,000 new Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).

Indians warned to stay vigilant during spell of very hot weather. Elsewhere, sandstorms plague China

The heatwave that has been plaguing the states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Andhra Pradesh in north-west India is forecast to continue through the coming week. Daytime temperatures of 40C have been recorded for several consecutive days in these regions, about 5C above the seasonal average.

This excessive heat is linked to a north-westerly flow of air, which is also bringing much drier than usual conditions. The authorities have advised people to be vigilant about their health by staying hydrated, wearing breathable clothing and avoiding street food, which could easily go off in these conditions. They have also closed schools and universities for a week in response to schoolchildren complaining about headaches.

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Marubeni Corp. has signed a deal with one of Japan’s largest producers of rice husk biochar to increase its production capacities and create carbon credits, according to a press release published Monday.

Compostable packaging is popular for environmental reasons, but it can be treated with ‘forever chemicals’ linked to health problems

A group of toxic PFAS chemicals that industry has claimed is safe to use in food packaging are concerning and present a health threat because they can break off and end up in food and drinks, a new peer-reviewed study finds.

The subgroup of PFAS, called “fluorotelomers”, have been billed as a safe replacement for a first generation of PFAS compounds now largely phased out of production in the US, Canada and the EU because of their high toxicity.

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More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life

Most mornings in spring I listen for a sequence of birdsongs to know that my local area is in good heart, but also to reassure myself that the world is working largely as it should. The default soloist of my dawn in Buxton, Derbyshire, is a mistle thrush that delivers from the ash tree above our house.

As I listen to my soloist there is an added delight in knowing that, from Cape Wrath in northernmost Scotland to Kingsdown in Kent, his voice unites with tens of millions of other dawn birds. The blue and great tits of the inner cities, blackbirds and robins among the English villages, chaffinches and wrens through the remotest Scottish glens: it is a collective performance, free of charge, unfolding across all Britain to all people.

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G7 energy ministers pledged to accelerate efforts to phase out unabated fossil fuels to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and set specific solar and wind power targets, but in a compromise allowed for continued investment in gas to meet shorter term energy security priorities in a communique released by the group after its weekend summit concluded in Sapporo, Japan.

The United Arab Emirates has become the 26th country to agree to a bilateral carbon trading framework with Japan under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).

Krill are in danger and that means the oceans are in danger too

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One of Australia's oldest wind farms, a two-turbine project that has slashed diesel use on a remote Queensland island, is having a makeover.

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Recyclers call for national ban on throwing solar panels in landfill, with potentially millions of PV modules heading for waste each year.

The post Solar panels should be “new kind of mining”: Recycler backs landfill ban appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New video shows Vestas' massive 15MW offshore wind turbine prototype in action in Denmark after it achieved its nominal power rating earlier this month.

The post World’s biggest wind turbine – 15MW – delivers what it says on the label appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's biggest clean energy investors reveal 1.5°C plan for accelerated coal closures and massive spend in wind, solar, storage and transmission.

The post Investors release “credible” 1.5°C grid plan with rapid exit for coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Companies like it when your phone breaks and you have to buy another. But we’d all save a lot of money if we could actually repair the things we purchased. Leanne Wiseman, Professor of Law, Griffith University, Griffith University John Gertsakis, Adjunct Professor (Industry), University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.