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Angus Taylor to receive push back from energy ministers over contentious energy market reforms, as states and territories resist 'coalkeeper' plan.

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The Victorian EPA and three coal power generators taken to court over alleged failures to regulate emissions, in key test of Victorian climate laws.

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There are many options to manage the energy transition that don’t involve capacity payments.

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The 120MW Gangarri solar farm in Queensland overcomes a troubled construction history to produce its first signs of generation.

The post Shell’s Gangarri solar farm delivers “first glimmers” of output appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW energy minister Matt Kean on why he chose a Tesla Model 3, the state’s EV and renewables vision, and getting out of coal.

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Two directors have resigned from ICIS, Carbon Pulse has learned, with the commodity market intelligence firm also losing at least two senior carbon analysts in recent months.

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EU carbon allowances could fall in value by as much as 50% from current levels by next summer should sky-high gas prices retrace, an analyst has predicted, but this would present a "great buying opportunity".

The private sector-led Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM) aims to establish core carbon principles (CCPs) depending on project type throughout next year, a member of the initiative said Wednesday.

A new carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) group is in the final stages of drafting a carbon crediting framework for several types of reduction and removal technologies, a panel heard Wednesday.

The world is approaching a critical turning point, Boris Johnson will warn the UN's General Assembly.

It hasn’t taken long for governments to notice the EU ETS, spitting out revenue at the rate of half a billion euros a week, and get the idea that here is a mechanism ready-made to be exploited at a time of crisis. But a new Greek proposal marks a "forehead-smacking moment" that betrays a worrying lack of understanding about the market and how it works.

A federal bill introducing a US carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) may not pass WTO muster in the absence of a nationwide CO2 price, experts said Wednesday.

California offset issuances sunk to a three-month low as state regulator ARB distributed nearly 179,000 credits across 10 reporting periods, according to data published Wednesday.

The allowance volume on offer at Nova Scotia’s Nov. 23 cap-and-trade auction will increase for the third straight sale, according to a notice published by the province’s environment ministry on Wednesday.

The EU’s legislative bodies are planning to make key decisions on the bloc’s Fit for 55 climate proposals early next year, while the bloc's energy ministers on Tuesday discussed an idea to hold extra EUA auctions to help shield households from rising energy costs.

Birds, and perhaps other animals too, benefitted from a respite in human activity in North America, research suggests

The shutdown of traveling and socializing during the Covid-19 pandemic last year brought severe dislocation to many people, but if you were a bird during this time it was highly appealing, new research has found.

The distribution of 80% of studied bird species in North America changed during pandemic lockdowns last year, the study found, with most of these species increasing in abundance in and around urban areas that fell unusually quiet due to a sudden drop in traffic.

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It can terrorise you for five years – or 10, if you keep it as a pet

A garden snail is eating your roses. “Little snail / Dreaming you go / Weather and rose / Is all you know,” wrote Langston Hughes. It is night time, the snail’s time, after dew or rain – when the snail is happiest, because the conditions are optimal for slime-walkers.

The snail is blind. It knows the rose only by its smell and soft petals. You think you can hear the rasping of tiny teeth: scraping, scraping away at your roses. The snail is deaf: it does not hear your complaints. It could terrorise you for five years – or 10, if you chose to keep it as a pet.

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Predictions of debt, deficit and tax revenue out to 2060 rather nicely avoid the major issue that will confront the economy – climate change

The latest long-term report from the Parliamentary Budget Office provides the good news that the budget looks fine and debt levels even in the worst-case scenario are manageable. The bad news is that, as with all our long-term economic forecasts, there is little attention paid to climate change rendering much of these forecasts irrelevant.

The PBO’s latest “Beyond the budget” report charts where the Australian government’s finances are headed over the next 40 years.

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