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Japanese coal and oil giants make first big solar investment in Australia with an eye to the renewable hydrogen and ammonia market.

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The Queensland government will ramp up its investments in clean energy and green manufacturing, through a $2 billion renewable and hydrogen fund.

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Largest solar tower with storage project in Latin America opened in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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The Sydney-based solar design startup Pylon has launched a new tool as part of its solar design suite that enables users to predict the solar energy output of any given address without a site visit.

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The most urgent challenge facing the National Electricity Market as it transitions to clean energy is not technological but regulatory.

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Long-time clean energy executive and POWAR chief Geoff Dutaillis to lead Clean Energy Investment Roundtable.

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Australian carbon credit units surge to new price highs on the back of interest from major corporate emitters in voluntary offsets.

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Snowy Hydro says taxpayer funds for Kurri Kurri not a subsidy, but Alinta says no private investor could build a similar plant without government support.

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The X-Press Pearl, off Sri Lanka, could be a threat to marine life and the fishing industry.

Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) traded at A$19 ($14.69) in the spot market for the first time on Thursday as future compliance risk is supporting demand for the domestic units despite access to much cheaper international options.

Sweden's NorthVolt raises another $3.6 billion to boost production of "world's greenest battery", as VW and Goldman Sachs chip in.

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Energy industry lining up against Angus Taylor's favoured "capacity markets" put forward as an option by Energy Security Board. Even Snowy Hydro is opposed.

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New Zealand's climate history and its climate targets are a mixed bag at best, but they are miles ahead of Australia's coal obsession.

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Glenrowan West solar farm in Victoria completed and declared fully operational, complete with "sizeable" flock of sheep.

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A large swathe of the Northern Hemisphere is about to enjoy a so-called annular solar eclipse.

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Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the brakes on dengue fever, trial finds.

Exclusive: excessive feeding as visitors flocked to London’s green spaces has led to overcrowding, disease and pollution

London’s royal parks are urging visitors to stop feeding bread to ducks because it is causing overcrowding and bullying among birds, the Guardian can reveal.

A campaign launching today highlights how excessive feeding upsets fragile ecosystems, leading to large groups of aggressive gulls and crows that steal the eggs and chicks of other birds. Leftover food also attracts rats, and soggy bread and waterfowl faeces contaminate the water.

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TC Energy halts project that faced longstanding opposition from climate campaigners

A $9bn oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate advocates and a flashpoint in US-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday.

Keystone XL, which was proposed in 2008 to bring oil from Canada’s western tar sands to US refiners, was halted by owner TC Energy after Joe Biden this year revoked a key permit needed for a US stretch of the 1,200-mile project.

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