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"A giant of climate science:" Tributes flow for ANU Emeritus Professor Will Steffen, who died in Canberra on Monday.

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The solar arm of the global oil giant is advancing plans to build a 550MW solar farm with a 260MW/520MWh big battery – and sheep – in NSW.

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Ministers set out plans for restoring nature amid growing criticism over pollution and wildlife decline.

Projects aimed at lowering carbon emissions are boosting growth in poorer parts of the country.

Solar farm revenues have fallen by half from the giddy heights of last year's market prices, but are still ahead of year earlier returns.

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Logging and road building will be once again banned in much of Alaska's Tongass Forest.

An increase in beached whales across the US coastline has baffled researchers and environmentalists.

Major environmental plan includes tackling sewage spills and restoring wildlife habitats but critics question lack of funding

• Farmers will be key to plan to restore England’s green spaces and wildlife

Every household will be within a 15-minute walk of a green space or water, under a major environmental improvement plan for England set out by the government on Tuesday.

The long-awaited measures will include commitments to restore at least 500,000 hectares (1.2m acres) of wildlife habitat, and 400 miles of river. This will include 25 new or expanded national nature reserves and 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of new woodland along England’s rivers. A new species survival fund will target some of the most threatened wildlife, including hedgehogs and red squirrels.

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EU power sector emissions rose 4% year-on-year in 2022 as weak winter demand and surging renewable output dampened the impact of much higher coal burn, according to data collated by an environmental think tank.

Joyce attacks new wind project in NSW, one of the biggest in the state, and suggests a nuclear reactor would be a better idea.

The post “A packet of poo tickets:” Barnaby’s beef with wind power goes nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A federal court on Friday reversed the US EPA’s decision last year to deny compliance obligation exemptions to a pair of small refiners under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), sending biofuel credit (RIN) prices lower even as judges have yet to rule on the merits of the case.

GHG output under the Nova Scotia cap-and-trade programme exceeded the scheme’s allowance budget in 2021, as an increase in fuel emissions offset abatement in the power sector, according to government data published Monday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values rose slightly last week, halting a slide in prices, on expectations that the upcoming release of Q4 emissions data and the March auction will revive trading in an otherwise stagnant market.

Bloomberg New energy Finance says investment in low carbon energy has hit a new high – and for the first time reached parity with capital invested in fossil fuels.

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Swedish wind power company SeaTwirl has won the right to proceed with testing its floating vertical-axis wind turbine in a fjord off the coast of Norway.

The post Vertical-axis floating offshore wind developer clears legal hurdle for turbine testing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Sydney-based renewables outfit completes acquisition of its newest small solar farm, the 5MW Faraday Renewable Energy Project in central Victoria.

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Spanish energy giant to build four small "agri-solar" farm projects that prioritise benefits to crops and and livestock over solar production.

The post Solar farms that put cow comfort and crop yield ahead of harvesting electrons appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers found that exceeding the 2C increase has a 50% chance of happening by mid-century

The world is on the brink of breaching a critical climate threshold, according to a new study published on Monday, signifying time is running exceedingly short to spare the world the most catastrophic effects of global heating.

Using artificial intelligence to predict warming timelines, researchers at Stanford University and Colorado State University found that 1.5C of warming over industrial levels will probably be crossed in the next decade. The study also shows the Earth is on track to exceed 2C warming,which international scientists identified as a tipping point, with a 50% chance the grave benchmark would be met by mid-century.

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