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American, Japanese and Russian astronauts blast their way to orbit in a SpaceX rocket and capsule.

The nascent direct air capture (DAC) industry needs supply chains to develop and coordination with the ramp up in renewable energy for the technology to move past proof-of-concept and start to scale, a conference heard Wednesday.

At Greenpeace, we’ve found manifesto-busting pledges on everything from the climate to workers’ rights

Liz Truss’s flagship quest for so-called growth has seen her pledge to take the country down an extreme new track, one for which she has no mandate and very little public support. Much of the public will be looking at the chaos unleashed over the past few weeks and asking: who voted for this?

That’s the question we stood up and asked the prime minster directly as we interrupted her speech in Birmingham today. Because surely it’s not right that barely a month into her premiership, Truss is already shredding the promises that got her party elected.

Greenpeace UK analysis has identified at least seven areas across environmental protection, climate action, workers’ rights and tackling inequality where policies either confirmed or being considered by Truss and her ministers are at odds with the 2019 Conservative manifesto.

People expect to get the government programme they voted for – and one that truly meets the moment of the environmental and cost of living crises we are all facing. This certainly isn’t it. The Conservative manifesto in 2019 was clear when it promised the “most ambitious environmental programme of any country on Earth”. But how does that tally with the Truss government’s moves to potentially abolish hundreds of EU laws protecting wild places and regulating water quality, pollution and the use of pesticides?

We were told this government would reform farming subsidies so that landowners “farm in a way that protects and enhances our natural environment”. And yet ministers have signalled they may be about to ditch these vital reforms, which have been years in the making.

If you’re a voter in Yorkshire or Lancashire, you’ll be livid that the moratorium on fracking you assumed was a done deal after 2019 is back on the table.

Rebecca Newsom is head of politics and Ami McCarthy is a political campaigner at Greenpeace UK

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Alinta Energy's plan to plug a 1GW offshore wind farm into Victoria's Portland Aluminium Smelter win ARENA funding to kick off early development activities.

The post Offshore wind power plans for Portland Smelter get a federal boost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Their work on linking molecules like in living cells can be used in cancer treatment drugs.

With gas prices set to remain elevated for at least five years, there is now a clear price signal for green hydrogen switching supported by a carbon price, experts told an event on Wednesday, noting that a lack of infrastructure is now a more significant bottleneck to decarbonising heavy industry and transport in the EU.

Western Australia’s (WA) state Environmental Protection Authority has outlined measures for GHG abatement at Chevron’s Gorgon gas and LNG project that will require the project’s operator to commence a straight line GHG emissions reduction trajectory from 2025 to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050.

New Zealand’s climate change minister has suggested that large emitters would have to buy forestry NZUs from the government rather than from foresters in what would be a dramatic shakeup of the ETS, according to domestic media reports.

Japan’s hydrogen strategy is misguided in terms of what hydrogen can be best used for and how it can be best produced, and needs to be fundamentally revised if it is to contribute to the country’s decarbonisation goals, a Japanese green energy think tank has argued in a report.

Out of 44 charities, only 4% said they had a consistently implemented action plan to increase ethnic diversity

The environment sector has failed to act on its ambitions to become more inclusive, suggests new research that finds just one in 20 organisations are enacting plans to increase ethnic diversity.

According to a sector-wide survey, out of 44 environment charities, 84% had considered or were taking action over a lack of inclusion, but only 4% said they had a consistently implemented action plan.

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Yes, the new threatened species plan is better. But it’s nowhere near enough to actually prevent Australian species from dying out Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney Yung En Chee, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A telescope in Chile captures an image of a comet-like plume of debris behind the giant rock.

Australia Post pledges to source 100% renewable electricity by 2025 using mix of on-site solar generation, renewable electricity certificates and PPAs.

The post Australia Post targets 100 pct renewables by 2025 with mix of certificates and electrons appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Land-based carbon credit projects could be severely threatened by worsening climate change impacts, according to Australia National University, urging the government to reassess the risk-of-reversal buffer in its carbon accounting.  

Australia's atomic culture warriors are now focused on promoting ‘advanced’ nuclear power and small modular reactors. A new report debunks – yet again – the propaganda.

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A decentralised exchange (DEX) has launched an option that will allow its users to have all their transactions on the platform automatically offset.

The former boss of the now demolished Hazelwood coal plant in Victoria, Tony Concannon, has been appointed by Labor to the CEFC board.

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CEFC brings in Infradebt to underwrite Neoen Australia's 100MW/200MWh Capital Battery, known for its innovative “virtual battery” offtake deal with AGL Energy.

The post Neoen secures finance for its “virtual” big battery in Canberra appeared first on RenewEconomy.

FFI inks deal with Deutsche Bahn to develop modified diesel train engines that use a mix of green ammonia and hydrogen – an alternative to the "infinity train."

The post Forrest’s FFI inks deal to develop green ammonia and hydrogen train engine appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Could the solution to plastic pollution be found inside the mouths of tiny wax worms?