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It is unreasonable to expect people to cope with all disasters – but it is reasonable to expect people to manage a certain level of risk. Celeste Young, Collaborative Research Fellow, Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University Roger Jones, Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian Greens offer a generous guaranteed floor price for ACCUs as part of a plan to get Australia to net negative emissions.

The post Greens aim for negative emissions with generous floor price for carbon offsets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Emma Champion and Stefan Ulrich from BNEF discuss what Europe needs to do to move on from Russian gas.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Can Europe survive without Russia’s gas? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Danish wind giant takes "precautionary measure" after a rotor and three blades fall into sea from offshore turbine.

The post Offshore wind giant calls for “no sail zones” after turbine parts tumble into sea appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Australian Greens party on Thursday announced they would call for a A$50 ($37.40) minimum price for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), should they win the balance of power in the upcoming federal election.

Germany proposes to lift the rollout of wind and solar power “to a completely new level” in a massive overhaul of key energy legislation.

The post Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new Victoria-New South Wales transmission link to be fast-tracked, with a $75 million funding boost from the federal government.

The post New transmission link between NSW and Victoria gets $75m funding boost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The winners and losers of AEMO's latest assessment of network constraints have been revealed.

The post Network losses: Good news for some wind and solar farms, bad news for others appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Morrison government touts their climate credentials but analysts say following Australia’s path would see 3C or more of global heating

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If the rest of the world followed Australia’s “leadership” on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and reaching net zero, what would that mean? This was the question we were left to ponder after the assistant energy minister, Tim Wilson, defended the Morrison government’s record this week after the latest UN climate assessment was released.

“We need global emissions to come down, which means we need other countries to follow our leadership in making sure they take decisions and back them in,” Wilson told the ABC, while criticising the UK and China for “backsliding” and a lack of commitment on targets.

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Angus Taylor moves to delay the exit of coal fired power stations, seeking new rules that mandate five years notice before plant closures.

The post Taylor tries to delay coal closures, demands five years notice before shut downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It seems the fossil fuel industry has more influence on government decisions that affect children than our public health research does

Why are Australia’s doctors and health researchers pushing so hard for climate change action as we move towards a federal election?

Global warming is an unprecedented practical and ethical challenge to the health sector in Australia and around the world which demands urgent action.

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Australia is not behaving as if climate action is urgent – and by far its biggest shortcoming is the failure to plan for the transition from fossil fuels.

The post Why Australia has to quit stalling and wean itself off fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

With the world on track to blow the carbon budget for 1.5℃ before the end of this decade, we must use offsetting carefully. It can no longer be a substitute for deep emissions cuts. David Hall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Voluntary carbon offset provider Climate Impact Partners has hired two experts - a forestry professional and an ESG investment specialist - to bolster its offering.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s pathways to maintaining a liveable planet rely on carbon removals, but the experts' caution on how these technical and nature-based methods should be deployed suggest that governments are unlikely to give untrammelled backing.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on Wednesday announced a forest carbon project on state-owned lands that will generate hundreds of thousands of voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) over the next decade.

Analysis: betting big on nuclear, hydrogen, oil and gas while passing over energy saving measures, Johnson’s plan is a huge missed opportunity

Government industrial strategies are often derided as attempts to pick winners. The UK’s Conservative government has taken a different approach with its new energy strategy. In terms of dealing with the energy bill and climate crises, it’s picking losers.

It is crystal clear that transforming the energy efficiency of the nation’s draughty homes should be the No 1 priority. After all, the cheapest, cleanest energy is the energy you no longer use and nothing can be installed faster than insulation.

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Plan will not please environmental campaigners, who say it fails to meet government’s net-zero targets

Boris Johnson is to put nuclear energy at the heart of the UK’s new energy strategy, but ministers have refused to set targets for onshore wind and vowed to continue the exploitation of North Sea oil and gas.

Amid deep divisions among senior Conservatives, the strategy will enrage environmentalists, who say the government’s plans are in defiance of its own net-zero targets and neglect alternative measures that experts say would provide much quicker relief from high energy bills.

Increasing nuclear capacity from 7 gigawatts to 24GW

Offshore wind target raised from 40GW to 50GW (from 11GW today)

Solar could grow five times from 14GW to 70GW by 2035

An “impartial” review into whether fracking is safe

Up to 10GW of hydrogen power by 2030

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Carbon offset projects that avoid emissions could lose buyers’ interest in the next few years as companies shift towards removal-based purchases, an analyst said Wednesday.