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The Nature Conservancy is working on a coastal wetlands restoration project in South Australia that could be among the first in the country to earn offsets once the government finalises a method for blue carbon projects.

New Zealand carbon allowances carved out a new record high in Tuesday trade, as limited available supply and healthy demand look set to fuel a new push towards the NZ$50 cost containment reserve trigger.

China’s Sichuan province aims to increase its forest and grassland coverage to 2 million hectares by 2025 by generating carbon offsets for voluntary buyers at home and abroad, according to an action plan published this week.

Starliner is one of two vehicles designed to transport astronauts to and from the space station.

Offset developer Corporate Carbon has hired an Australian energy market veteran to drive the development of a pilot direct air capture (DAC) project.

PowAR chief executive Geoff Dutaillis talks about big wind projects, battery storage, the ESB’s new rules and connection problems.

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Victorian government greenlights three new network upgrades and synchronous condensers so it can host more wind and solar.

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Suntech Australia Official Statement.

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The Asian Development Bank aims to have the plan ready for the COP26 climate conference in November.

EnergyAustralia reports on a challenging six months that included forking out $65 million – and counting – to address its ongoing Yallourn coal mine problems in Victoria.

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The main architect of Paris Agreement says the summit will need to be a mix of virtual and in-person meetings.

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Over-reliance on tree-planting to offset carbon emissions could push food prices up 80% by 2050

Governments and businesses hoping to plant trees and restore forests in order to reach net-zero emissions must sharply limit such efforts to avoid driving up food prices in the developing world, the charity Oxfam has warned.

Planting trees has been mooted as one of the key ways of tackling the climate crisis, but the amount of land needed for such forests would be vast, and planting even a fraction of the area needed to offset global greenhouse gas emissions would encroach on the land needed for crops to feed a growing population, according to a report entitled Tightening the net: Net zero climate targets implications for land and food equity.

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MGA Thermal to scale up production of thermal energy storage blocks after securing $8 million in early investment.

The post Australian-invented thermal storage start-up completes $8m investment raise appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable energy sources in UK generated more electricity in 2020 than fossil fuels, a first for the country.

The post UK renewables beat fossil fuels over calendar year for first time in 2020 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

After $22,000 and four different electricians, Heather’s rooftop solar system is still not working. Her story illustrates the risks of having no support in the switch to clean energy at home. Hugo Temby, Doctoral Researcher, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

More than a dozen wind farms posted capacity factors above 50 per cent in a record month for wind output in July.

The post Blow hards: Australia’s best performing wind farms in record month appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BHP, boosted by its recent Tesla supply deal, says it is looking to install wind turbines to help power its nickel operations in Western Australia.

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Vestas to supply and install 16 turbines for the Crookwell 3 wind farm, putting the NSW project on track to start generating power in 2022.

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London-listed investment fund buys two Australian solar farms and plans one and two hour battery storage facilities at multiple sites.

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