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Driving gas and coal out of the system will reduce prices. Driving them out more quickly - with the help of a storage target - will deliver additional public benefits.

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An Australian technology start-up firm has raised A$42.5 million ($29.8 mln) from a group of local and international backers to improve the performance of electrolysers and lower the cost of manufacturing renewable-based hydrogen, the company announced on Tuesday.

AEMO briefs investors on the first of many auctions designed to bring in wind, solar and storage to replace ageing coal plants in the country's biggest grid.

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Under the Greens’ proposal, future projects, such as a new mine or high emissions industrial plant, would be assessed on the climate harms they’d potentially cause. Brendan Sydes, Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law Masters, The University of Melbourne Anita Foerster, Associate professor, Monash University Laura Schuijers, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The South African government has proposed tweaking the trajectory of increases to the country’s carbon tax in order to offer stakeholders more predictability.

The stage one wind farm of Neoen's massive Goyder Renewables Zone has notched up its second power purchase deal, this time with Flow Power.

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To develop a hydrogen economy at the scale of Aotearoa’s climate ambitions would require about a quarter of the country’s current energy use and swallow enormous amounts of water. David Dempsey, Senior lecturer, University of Canterbury Andy Nicol, University of Canterbury Kēpa Morgan, Adjunct Nga Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Auckland Ludmila Adam, Senior lecturer, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The cost-of-living crisis has seen a rise in thefts of farm animals, vehicles and fuel, a report says.

A blade has fallen off a wind turbine at an Industrial Park in Massachusetts, US – the latest in a spate of incidents at wind farms.

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The Northern Territory is rolling out its first hydrogen energy storage system, with 8kWh of storage, in partnership with the Charles Darwin University.

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Hysata, an Australian start-up claiming the world's most efficient and lowest cost green hydrogen electrolyser, raises $42.5 million for its first pilot plant.

The post “Breakthrough:” Bluescope, Vestas back $42.5m raising for Australian hydrogen start-up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The largest holder of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits boosted its net position over the past six months for the first time since 2019, as the programme’s surplus bank exploded to an all-time high, according to data from state regulator ARB.

The interim commercial director of a major US-based agricultural carbon offset firm has left the company, marking at least the fourth senior employee to depart the firm in the past 10 months.

The lifetimes of German nuclear power plants are increasingly likely to be extended beyond the end of the year, but the downside potential for EUA prices of such a move would be mostly offset by higher coal burn, according to EU carbon analysts.

CO2 emissions under the power sector RGGI cap-and-trade programme increased year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, as gains in the Mid-Atlantic and upper New England offset steep reductions in Virginia, according to data updated Monday.

Only a fraction of voluntary carbon market (VCM) buyers chose to self-report their offset purchases in 2021, according to a new report published Monday that provided insight on entities' preferences for credit vintages, projects' geographical locations, and co-benefits.

From Barbados to Finland, we’ve seen women’s leadership on climate bring fair, innovative and ambitious policies. Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Annabelle Workman, Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Kathryn Bowen, Professor - Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne Rebekkah Markey-Towler, PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New research says it could be "fatally foolish" not to think the unthinkable on climate change.

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis.

They call such a catastrophe the “climate endgame”. Though it had a small chance of occurring, given the uncertainties in future emissions and the climate system, cataclysmic scenarios could not be ruled out, they said.

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Higher temperatures mean less snow snow and ice, more rockfalls and more fatalities on Europe’s overcrowded mountains. This cannot go on

The Victorian writer and mountaineer Leslie Stephen – the father of Virginia Woolf – called the Alps “the playground of Europe”. And so they have been, in winter and summer alike, for many generations. But with excessive warming now placing some of the Alps’ most iconic summits out of bounds, for how much longer can the freedom of Europe’s playground continue?

The basic problem is the warming of the Alps. Snowfall this past winter – especially in the southern Alps – was down by two-thirds from what was once considered normal. The loss of snowmelt is a direct cause of this summer’s brutal drought in the Po valley. Last month, Swiss scientists found that weather balloons were having to rise to 5,184 metres (over 17,000ft), well above the very highest peaks, before they finally reached freezing point.

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