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EU policymakers are struggling to reconcile an international climate club and a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), with both seen as flagship new climate policies respectively endorsed by European heavyweights Germany and France.

EUA prices declined in volatile Tuesday morning trading after the day's spot auction was cancelled for technical reasons and as energy markets declined amid continued mild temperature forecasts and a sharp uptick in natural gas supplies to Europe.

Woodside Burrup and energy firm LGI received the largest shares of credits in the Clean Energy Regulator’s latest issuance round, while airline Qantas has withdrawn a project after going more than six years without generating any offsets.

The Net Zero Scrutiny Group is blaming the cost-of-living crisis on green policies. Its potential influence shouldn’t be ignored

In the final days of Theresa May’s premiership, the UK’s net-zero target, like the landmark 2008 Climate Change Act before it, entered the statute book with hardly any resistance.

Well-founded complaints were made that it did not match the pace and scale required to address climate breakdown, but, as in 2008, across parliament there appeared to be an underlying consensus that “something had to be done”. Outright climate-change denial was kept to a faint background hum.

Eleanor Salter writes about climate, culture and politics

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In the shadow of New York City, one of the world’s richest cities, the people of Mount Vernon, New York face an unpleasant problem inside their homes: sewage. The city’s under-resourced sanitation crew struggles to keep up with complications stemming from its crumbling, 100-year old sewer system — a system strained even further by the extreme rain brought on by climate change. Meanwhile, residents must shoulder the financial, emotional and health burdens when sewage backs up into their basements and homes

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Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

Crows are being recruited to pick up discarded cigarette butts from the streets and squares of a Swedish city as part of a cost-cutting drive.

The wild birds carry out the task as they receive a little food for every butt that they deposit in a bespoke machine designed by a startup in Södertälje, near Stockholm.

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A car drove into a power pole in Queensland on Tuesday, but the federal Coalition decided to blame green energy for the loss of power that followed.

The post Car drives into electricity pole, Coalition blames green energy for ensuing outage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Japan on Tuesday began recruiting participants for its voluntary carbon market, which will launch in pilot form later this year and begin its full-scale operation in Apr. 2023.

Researchers at the Australian National University have set a new world record conversion efficiency for next generation perovskite solar cells.

The post Australian researchers beat their own record for next-gen solar cell efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As people gather to celebrate the lunar year of the tiger, a report by WWF highlights areas where progress has been made in tiger conservation during the past 12 years and examines the threats that remain for the largest of big cats

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Queensland's current power supply and price woes are a symptom of going too slow and not facing up to the facts of the energy transition.

The post Queensland’s sky-high power prices show its energy policies don’t cut it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor makes about-turn on Kurri Kurri gas plant, if it can be fuelled with hydrogen, but experts say the plant is not needed and makes no sense.

The post Labor backflips on Kurri Kurri gas plant, but experts say it still doesn’t stack up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance data shows a record amount of renewable energy was contracted by big businesses around the world in 2021, but not Down Under.

The post Corporate renewable PPAs hit record high in 2021, but not in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genex reveals more details of revenue deal with Tesla, a move that could provide a blueprint for developing and financing battery projects in Australia.

The post Tesla big battery deal could provide blueprint for financing storage projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists find way to produce thin, flexible, low-cost batteries using the billions of single-use face masks otherwise headed for landfill.

The post Scientists find way to turn used face masks into low-cost batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UPDATED: Potential supply crunch looms in Queensland and NSW as a heatwave drives near record demand amid numerous thermal generator outages.

The post Coal states brace for power crunch as heatwave collides with generator outages appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Saving the Great Barrier Reef is not about throwing money at it – what matters is how the dollars are spent. Jon C. Day, PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Scott F. Heron, Associate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

More than $1.15 million in fossil fuel donations flowed to Labor and Coalition in 2020-21, including gas industry and the Beetaloo Basin proponents.

The post Labor and Coalition enjoyed more than $1.15 million of fossil fuel donations last year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genex reports strong revenue from its two solar farms, even as La Nina weather patterns crimped output, and lifts size of planned wind farm.

The post Solar farms cash in on high prices, despite clouds sent in by La Nina appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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