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The leader of the Australian Greens party has lashed the design of the government’s Safeguard Mechanism policy, arguing that fossil fuel producers can simply buy their way out of cutting emissions by purchasing carbon credits. 

Analysts have raised markedly their forecasts for EU carbon prices for the next two years, despite the impending injection of tens of millions of additional permits into the market and wider concerns over the bloc's economy.

Big batteries earned record high revenue on the National Electricity Market during 2022 – here's how.

The post Energy arbitrage sends big battery revenue to new record high in 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We crunch some numbers on Sun Cable's solar export plans and find that, despite the recent administration drama, it's economically doable.

The post Sun Cable: It’s much more viable than you think, at the right price appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The competition among battery storage projects for connection points in intense, with many proposing batteries right next door to rival projects.

The post Location, location: Battery storage projects jostle for position to back up wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New national survey hopes to get a measure on Australia's clean energy labour and skills shortages.

The post Skills survey seeks to bridge Australia’s clean energy jobs gap appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Levels of trace metals inside can be higher than the sources of contamination outside. It underscores the need for households to take care to prevent those contaminants being brought indoors. Mark Patrick Taylor, Victoria's Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Carlos Ibañez del Rivero, PhD candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Kara Fry, Adjunct Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ensuring a swimming site is safe is key to getting people using it. That means giving people timely information about water quality. Ian A Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Nicky Morrison, Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia and Germany funding will lay the groundwork for two gigawatt scale green hydrogen projects in Australia, and a ground-breaking electrolyser technology.

The post Australia and Germany fund first stages of two gigawatt scale green hydrogen projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

"World-first" solar methanol plant that will tap into Port Augusta solar thermal project one of four green fuel projects funded by Australia and Germany.

The post “World first” solar methanol plant to feed off Port Augusta solar thermal project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The more hard surfaces we build, the more stormwater we need to drain. Auckland must future-proof its urban design as climate change bites. Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Modibodi and Bonds say they avoid using PFAS chemicals, which break down slowly over time and have unclear health impacts

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Australian manufacturers of period underwear have denied using “forever chemicals” in their products following a class-action lawsuit in the US, while experts say more research is needed into the compounds and their potential health impacts.

Thinx, a US manufacturer of menstrual hygiene products, announced last week that it had reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit over allegations “regarding the presence of short chain per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (‘PFAS’)” in its underwear.

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Gorne Wood is a rare surviving fragment of an old forest and provides habitat for wildlife such as slow worms and endangered hedgehogs

Schools had cake sales and staged protests, supporters did sponsored bike rides and walks, musicians held fundraising concerts, and a theatre group wove the story into a performance piece. Children even sent in their pocket money.

And on Friday, they saw the results when the residents of Brockley, south-east London, proudly announced they had won a race against time to raise the £100,000 to buy Gorne Wood, the closest surviving patch of ancient woodland to the City of London, from developers.

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Residents of New Zealand's largest city assess the damage on Saturday as emergency workers go house to house to carry out welfare checks. Auckland was deluged on Friday, with three people confirmed dead and a fourth missing. More heavy weather is expected on Sunday, forecasters have said.

• New Zealand flooding: three dead and one missing as Auckland hit by record rainfall 

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The more the climate warms, the heavier the storm rainfalls will become. The Auckland emergency shows how urgently adaptive measures are now needed. James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As nations squabble at the UN’s maritime agency (IMO) over a headline global climate target for shipping, governments are doing better at making smaller-scale arrangements that cut across historic rich-poor divides and are widely seen as essential for decarbonising the sector.

Carbon credit developer and intermediary South Pole will not immediately sell recent-vintage offsets from a major African REDD+ project as the firm reassesses the initiative’s emissions baseline, the company said Friday after an investigative report argued the undertaking over-credited tens of millions of GHG reductions throughout the past decade.

Both financials and regulated entities pared back their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions this week, while they slightly boosted their holdings of RGGI Allowances (RGAs), according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Washington’s Department of Ecology (ECY) filed its response on Thursday denying allegations brought forward in a December lawsuit from an independent power producer, which requested equal protection under the law and asked for similar relief granted to local plants under the state’s recently launched cap-and-invest scheme, court documents showed.