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For over 40 years, a coal mine on the outskirts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area dumped poorly treated wastewater into the Wollangambe River. Finally, it’s on the road to recovery. Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Jason Reynolds, Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University Leo Robba, Lecturer, Visual Communications / Social Design, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Using ‘tipping points’ can unlock the changes needed on energy, food and plastics, analysis shows

Tipping points could be identified and triggered to deliver fast action to tackle the climate crisis, according to an analysis led by an academic at Exeter University.

Early subsidies and mass production rapidly crushed costs to leave solar and wind energy as the cheapest power in much of the world and electric cars are now accelerating towards mass adoption, while Greta Thunberg’s solo protest sparked an influential global campaign.

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Chevron copped a $40 million offset bill due to failures of the Gorgon CCS to meet emissions storage targets in its first year of operation.

The post Australia’s only large-scale CCS project operated at half-capacity in first full year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Instead of waiting for market failures, government agencies should be shaping markets, and creating an environmental objective for the NEM is top of the list.

The post What the NEM could learn from an economics professor and a moon landing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project won't be quite as nation building as promised, with key steel contracts going to overseas suppliers.

The post Snowy 2.0: The “nation building” project that won’t be using all Australian steel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Environment Protection Authority examining fish kill events at Haslams Creek, which flows into Homebush Bay, and at Rydalmere

The deaths of thousands of fish in the Parramatta River triggered by low oxygen levels in the water is being investigated by the New South Wales environmental regulator.

The Environment Protection Authority said it was examining two fish kill events, one last week at Haslams Creek, which flows into Homebush Bay, and the other at Rydalmere on Sunday.

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EnergyAustralia CEO Mark Collette discusses the future of coal, gas, green hydrogen, wind, solar, battery storage and pumped hydro, and how this will fit into his company’s business model.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: EnergyAustralia and the end of coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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An investor-led group unveiled on Wednesday the methodology behind its set of benchmarks widely used by financiers to assess whether corporate climate pledges align with Paris Agreement goals.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices fell off this week after two utilities announced credit solicitations and traders continued to digest the impact of bearish programme data from the third quarter of 2021.

It’s only fair to expect results from vast sums of public money spent on koala conservation. But continued land clearing badly undermines the investment. Lachlan G. Howell, Research Fellow | Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University Ryan R. Witt, Postdoctoral Researcher and Honorary Lecturer | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Shelby A. Ryan, PhD Candidate | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Amid fears about the cost of living crisis, those opposed to government’s climate agenda appear to have sensed an opportunity

• Tories fighting net zero plans are dragging climate into new culture war, experts say

In the run-up to Christmas, as the UK government was frantically attempting to manage the latest wave of Covid infections, the Conservative MP and long-time agitator Steve Baker was apparently touring the tea rooms of parliament trying to persuade colleagues to sign up to his latest cause.

The self-described Brexit hardman, who as the then head of the European Research Group had relentlessly harried Theresa May’s government over Brexit and then become a thorn in Boris Johnson’s side with his anti-lockdown Covid Recovery Group, had a new – and he believed potentially explosive – target: the government’s climate agenda.

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Do you want to help catapult construction, buildings and their materials into the 21st-century? No more emissions, no more noise? Bellona Europa is looking to recruit a Policy Manager who will be our embodied carbon, buildings and lead markets expert.

US-headquartered bourse CME Group on Tuesday announced it will inaugurate a futures contract for CBL’s Core Global Emissions Offset (C-GEO) next month, adding the standardised renewables and tech-based offering to its growing suite of carbon credit products.

Giant sponges survive on the remains of extinct animals in cold, deep waters near the North Pole.

European carbon prices reached their third record high in the last five sessions on Tuesday as the broad energy complex reacted sharply to news that French utility EDF had downgraded its 2022 nuclear generation estimates, putting more pressure on fossil generation to pick up the shortfall.

British utility SSE reported 14% year-on-year drop in ETS-covered gas-fired power generation for the final nine months of 2021, it said in quarterly results on Tuesday, while renewables output fell by almost a fifth as unfavourable market conditions and low summer winds hampered production.

As One Ocean event in Brest aims to deliver action in areas from pollution to overfishing, activists warn against ‘bluewashing’

Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean.

One Ocean summit, which opens on Wednesday in the French port of Brest, aims to mobilise “unprecedented international political engagement” for a wide range of pressing maritime issues, said its chief organiser, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor.

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Oil major BP has upgraded its climate targets for 2030 and 2050 and pledged a larger slice of capex for its "transition growth" businesses as the company announced on Tuesday bumper profits of $12.8 billion for 2021, its highest level in eight years due to the surge in oil and gas prices.