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Japan Suiso energy boss says hydrogen project incorporating carbon capture and storage ‘truly a watershed moment’ in decarbonising

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Japan is putting $2.35bn into a project to turn coal from Victoria’s Latrobe valley into “clean hydrogen” using carbon capture and storage technology.

The investment marks the start of the “commercial demonstration phase” of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project which last year delivered a world-first cargo of liquefied hydrogen to Japan on a purpose-built ship.

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Australian company that is largest solar developer in US says Canberra should be focused on solar supply chain, not matching US on green hydrogen support.

The post “Fiscal lunacy:” Australia urged to clean up solar supply chain, rather than chase hydrogen “hopium” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The spate of heatwaves across Australia has coincided with some wind and solar output records. So how much storage will we really need?

The post Wind and solar output hits new records as heat waves sweep across country appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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UK emissions fell in 2022 due to strong renewables growth and high fossil fuel prices. The last time coal demand was this low was when George II was king.

The post UK emissions fall as coal use drops to lowest level since 1757 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A controversial project that uses brown coal and carbon capture to make "blue hydrogen" has won $A2.3 billion in Japanese government "green" funding.

The post Japan throws $2.3bn at project to make “clean” hydrogen from Latrobe Valley brown coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of pounds in flood damage costs.

A US-headquartered carbon offset trader and originator has secured a project pipeline that exceeds 1 billion tonnes, with the firm also aiming to transact over 50 million VERs this year separate from its own initiatives, company executives told Carbon Pulse.

Spain-based wind energy giant wants to invest billions in the development of gigawatts of new utility-scale solar and wind – including in Australia.

The post Spanish wind giant commits to 4GW of new renewables a year, including in Asia Pacific appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The ‘stickering’ of houses under section 124 of the Building Act, and decisions about when it’s safe to return, need to be informed by science. Affected communities should be involved at every stage. Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Businesses are discovering tweaks that can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of their websites.

The UK's largest landowner has launched the first round of formal engagement with industry stakeholders on Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technology, issuing a survey on the market requirements specifically for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development.

Queensland Labor says it will build the $5bn transmission link that promises to unlock gigawatts of new renewables and power major industrial and mineral growth.

The post Queensland buys $5bn Copperstring project to unlock 6GW of “bulk renewables” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices last week ended lower, continuing a month-long stretch of mostly losses and defying bullish drivers from an upcoming programme review as well as recent analyst projections for a steep Q1 auction settlement this week.

The British Columbia government has announced it will next year introduce an output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large stationary sources of GHG emissions, allowing industries an alternative to regulation by the Canadian province’s economy-wide carbon tax.

A Houston-based integrated environmental asset validation, blockchain registry, and exchange firm has announced securing conditional approval for the launch of an environmental credits digital platform operating out of the Bahamas, and has already listed millions of carbon offsets from avoided oil extraction.

Liquidity picked up in the voluntary carbon market as March started, but prices generally slipped lower amid the weight of surplus credits. 

Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change. Declan Kuch, Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Stephen Healy, Associate Professor, Human Geography and Urban Studies School of Social Sciences/ Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Sukhmani Khorana, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The government is failing to make good on Britain’s net zero pledges to the world

Last summer, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) delivered a 600-page assessment of the United Kingdom’s journey towards net zero targets. The scathing conclusions could be summed up in a single sentence: Westminster continues to talk the talk, but a lack of follow-through means the country is failing to walk the walk.

In too many areas, the CCC found, goals were being undermined by failures in delivery programmes. There was a “shocking gap”, it reported, in policymaking to drive better insulation of homes. Progress on reducing farming emissions had been “glacial”. The bald conclusion was that the “current strategy will not deliver net zero” by 2050, as legally required.

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Matthew Tulley, 44, Ben Taylor, 38, George Burrow, 68, and Anthony Hill, 72, were part of a blockade at Bishopsgate in 2021

Four climate activists who blockaded a street in London in a campaign to press the government to insulate homes have been found guilty of public nuisance.

A jury at Inner London crown court found the protesters, who are members of Insulate Britain, guilty on Monday after a four-day trial.

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