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Leading rooftop critic now accepts it's good at getting rid of coal and benefits consumers. Plus: Are the cowboys back?

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Alinta unveils plans for 90MW solar farm in Port Hedland to meet its customer demands for low carbon energy.

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French renewable and battery storage developer Neoen signed what it describes as an Australian first "virtual battery" deal with AGL.

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California regulator ARB gave out more than 1 million compliance offsets for the second straight issuance period this past week, while a tech giant’s recent purchases may have boosted the number of credits retired for voluntary purposes, according to state data published Wednesday.

It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.

*PREMIUM LISTING – Having recently celebrated the significant milestone of $100m assets under management, Carbon Cap are expanding their investment team with the addition of a new Carbon Trader role. The Carbon Trader will focus on short-term, systematic trading strategies in EUA with the possibility to expand to other carbon markets where liquidity permits.

With rapid growth in carbon markets driving a new wave of innovative new approaches, Verra is seeking a Program Officer to coordinate and support the development of innovative and high-impact VCS methodologies.

The EU's rush to diversify its gas supply beyond Russia is giving fresh impetus to efforts to tackle methane emissions abroad, though some experts fear the bloc's hastily-agreed supply deals lack the means to ensure leaks of the potent warming gas are plugged.

Netherlands-based Rabobank has sold the first credits generated through its pilot carbon farming project on Dutch and American soils, the bank announced on Wednesday, noting that 90% of the proceeds will flow into the pockets of the farmers taking part.

An investigation into LNG-powered ships has uncovered significant amounts of methane being released into the atmosphere, calling into question the expected European pivot to ships powered by the fuel as part of climate action.

I wanted to sound the alarm about oil exploration and the climate crisis, but Good Morning Britain just didn’t want to hear

I hadn’t seen the 2021 satirical film Don’t Look Up when I went on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. I was there on behalf of Just Stop Oil – a group that has been engaging in direct action by blockading oil terminals. We’re demanding that the UK government ends all new oil licences, exploration and consent in the North Sea. It’s a simple message that’s in line with science.

But the simplicity of our demands seemed to annoy my interviewer, Richard Madeley. “But you’d accept, wouldn’t you, that it’s a very complicated discussion to be had, it’s a very complicated thing,” he said. “And this ‘Just Stop Oil’ slogan is very playground-ish isn’t it? It’s very Vicky Pollard, quite childish.” I then proceeded to talk about the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which confirmed that it is “now or never” to avoid climate catastrophe. But they didn’t seem to care.

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The Australian state of Queensland has come in first in a scorecard report by the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) ranking state and federal jurisdiction’s carbon policies and ambitions against one another.

If governments fully realise their net zero mitigation pledges the world could stabilise temperature rise at just below 2C but official UN pledges subject to international scrutiny are weaker and could see warming of as high as 3C, according to a paper published on Wednesday. 

"Staggering" findings from studying 16 mammals - including humans - sheds light on why we age.

But goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C will fail without immediate action, scientists warn

For the first time the world is in a position to limit global heating to under 2C, according to the first in-depth analysis of the net zero pledges made by nations at the UN Cop26 climate summit in December.

Before these pledges it was more than likely that at the peak of the climate crisis there would be a temperature rise above 2C, bringing more severe impacts for billions of people. Now it is more likely that the peak temperature rise will be about 1.9C.

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Scientists say their analysis is "encouraging" but keeping under 1.5C this century looks unlikely.

A new breed of ecosystem asset ratings agencies is needed to scale ecosystem markets. Their role is to fuse incentives in capital markets with conservation outcomes, and to generate huge opportunities for wealth creation, says Mani Gangadharan Venketachalam, President, BeZero Carbon.

AEMO says early Eraring coal closure won't cause reliability issues if Matt Kean's battery plan and other investments go ahead.

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The Greens want to decarbonise at least three of Australia's steelmaking hubs, promising to create a $500m 'green steel bank'.

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