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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said the world narrowly avoided a 'radiation disaster' when the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily cut by shelling.

'The world must understand what a threat this is: if the diesel generators had not turned on, if the automation and our station staff had not reacted after the blackout, then we would have already been forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident,' Zelenskiy said. 'Russia has put Ukraine and all Europeans in a situation one step away from a radiation disaster.'

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Senegal has become the 18th nation to sign up to Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), with a view to begin generating carbon credits aligned with regulations under the Paris Agreement.

There have been some big bets placed on shipping green hydrogen and gravity storage. Energy expert Michael Barnard dissects the hype and the hope.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Gravity storage and shipping green hydrogen – hype or hope appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Germany makes global "railway history" with the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains.

The post Hydrogen trains begin regular operation in Germany, in world first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first study on 100 pct renewables was made nearly 50 years ago. There is now widespread expectation that the green shift can be done, and deliver lower costs.

The post It’s taken 50 years for 100 pct renewables to move from pipe dream to expectation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices tumbled this week after an unexpectedly low WCI Q3 auction settlement, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) inched higher after traders gained some clarity from legal developments in Pennsylvania’s court battles concerning its potential programme membership.

As Europe frets over energy, Russia is burning off millions of dollars in natural gas daily.

Conservationists welcome successful breeding season but say birds remain at risk of being illegally killed

Nearly 120 rare hen harrier chicks have fledged in England this year, the highest number for more than a century, England’s conservation agency has said.

Natural England and its partners recorded 119 hen harrier chicks successfully fledging from nests across uplands in County Durham, Cumbria, Lancashire, Northumberland and Yorkshire. A fledgling is a young bird that has grown enough to acquire its initial flight feathers and is preparing to leave the nest and care for itself.

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Just weeks after locking in its 43% by 2030 emissions reduction target, the Albanese government has opened up offshore oil and gas exploration in 10 new areas.

The post Weeks after securing climate target, Labor punts on new oil and gas and CCS appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A California Senate committee on Thursday sent on a bill to deepen the state’s 2030 GHG reduction target, as both support and opposition to the legislation grew ahead of next week’s end of session deadline.

California regulator ARB on Thursday finalised its plans to require all new light-duty autos sold in the state be zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) by 2035, in a move expected to curtail emissions under the state’s WCI-linked carbon market.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Wednesday pinpointed an October deadline for the state Supreme Court to temporarily lift an injunction of the state’s RGGI-linked cap-and-trade rulemaking, otherwise the state will miss the December auction.

The winning image in the South Australian Museum-Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition shows a humpback whale carcass and circling sharks, artistically depicting the circle of life with every living animal being food for another

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Wildlife Works is eyeing a six-fold increase in carbon credit issuances amid a string of new projects, CEO Mike Korchinsky told Carbon Pulse, revealing the firm has already locked in enough forward sales to cover more than three years of its current output to eclipse an issuance cull at its flagship scheme.

Co-benefits are slated to play a critical role in voluntary carbon markets, but only if they can evolve, writes David Chen, program development manager at ClimeCo.

New research also says southern parts of the country may experience deadly heatwaves annually by that time

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Tropical regions including northern Australia could experience dangerously high heat levels most days of the year by 2100, while southern regions of Australia may experience deadly heatwaves annually, new research suggests.

The study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, suggests that even if the world meets the Paris agreement of limiting global warming to 2C, exposure to dangerous heat will “likely increase by 50-100% across much of the tropics”.

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Italy will have to pay as much as €190 million plus interest to a British oil company for obstructing an offshore project back in 2015, a behind-closed-door trial based on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) ruled on Wednesday.

Germany’s current proposals to cut transport emissions to meet national climate targets lacking sufficient ambition, an expert group of government advisors said in a report published Thursday.

Extreme heatwaves will be more common by end of decade unless more is done to cut emissions, say experts

The record-breaking heatwaves seen across much of the world in recent months will become increasingly common by the end of the decade, according to research.

Experts say how hot they will be is “hugely” dependent on our ability to curb carbon emissions in the next few years.

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