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AEMO says country's ageing coal plants are getting less reliable, with the rate of unplanned outage rates likely to remain high as they battle with extreme weather.

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Forest fires are getting worse, burning almost twice the tree cover in the last 20 years compared to the previous two decades, according to new analysis.

Rising seas are pushing coastal ecosystems to the limit of endurance. Now international research reveals a “tipping point” will be reached if we allow more than 2 degrees of global warming. Neil Saintilan, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Gabon has become the latest African country to be shaken by unrest after senior military officers staged a coup on Wednesday, days before Kenya and the African Union Commission host a summit that intends to drive carbon investment into the continent.

A bipartisan pair of US Congresspersons have introduced a bill to provide up to $150 billion to help family and small-scale forest owners overcome barriers to developing carbon projects.

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The leader of highly-forested Guyana has touted huge aspirations for carbon markets at a recent meeting with a former UK prime minister and separately rebuffed questions on carbon credit integrity.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced plans on Tuesday to partner with a developer of carbon removal facilities to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the east of the US state.

Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs

Plans to rip up pollution rules for housebuilders are a “regression” which will degrade England’s rivers, the government’s environment watchdog has said.

An amendment tabled by the government to the levelling up bill orders local authorities to ignore nutrient pollution from new developments in ecologically sensitive areas in England, including the Norfolk Broads and the Lake District. These nutrients, when untreated, cause algal blooms that choke the life from rivers.

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A US-based startup is partnering with Italy’s second largest cement company to trial a technology that converts electricity to stored heat, which could significantly lower CO2 emissions for hard-to-abate sectors. 

World’s largest offshore wind company may have to write down its US portfolio by £1.8bn

Shares in the world’s largest offshore wind company tumbled by nearly a quarter on Wednesday, after it said it may have to write down the value of its US portfolio by nearly £2bn.

Ørsted said it had been hit by a flurry of setbacks in its American business, triggering a rapid sell-off in its shares, listed in Copenhagen.

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The quarterly emissions data reinforces how much of a joke our 2030 emissions target is

Every three months two all-encompassing surveys are released that track how Australia is going. One we know exactly when it will be released (next Wednesday at 11.30am), the other we know vaguely when but often it comes out on a Friday afternoon with little fanfare and no warning. One – on GDP – gets reported widely, the other – on greenhouse gas emissions – is mostly ignored.

Coming after the intergenerational report announced last week that rising temperatures driven by greenhouse gas emissions would likely cost the economy between $135bn and $423bn in today’s dollars, you might hope that the quarterly emissions data might get as much attention as GDP.

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Greens leader says Albanese government is ‘hellbent on opening more coal and gas mines’ and people must ‘fight back’

The Australian Greens leader, Adam Bandt, has called on people to join disruptive climate protests to pressure the Albanese government to stop opening new fossil fuel mines, saying he plans to help blockade the country’s largest coal port.

He has also written to the leaders of 16 Pacific Island nations suggesting they should make any support for an Australia bid to host a UN climate summit conditional on the government “taking stronger climate action”.

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One of the endangered marsupials was found dead close to the controversial operation in Tallaganda state forest near Canberra

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The state-owned New South Wales forestry agency has been ordered to immediately stop logging in parts of a state forest after the Environment Protection Authority found a dead greater glider – an endangered species – nearby.

Conservation groups had written to the state government and EPA to investigate Forestry Corporation logging in the Tallaganda state forest, east of Canberra, as it was one of the last known strongholds of the southern greater glider.

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Rapidly scaling decarbonisation action must be our mission, as we confront an ever more terrifying climate crisis. But instead we risk slowing the pace of decarbonisation to an untenable level, warns John Connor of Australia's Carbon Market Institute.

The practice of biodiversity offsetting by mining companies is not a long-term sustainable solution to compensating for environmental impacts, academics have said.

The European Commission on Wednesday set out rules for participation in its inaugural auction, funded through ETS revenue, to subsidise green hydrogen across the 27-nation bloc.