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Australia's largest wind and solar hybrid facility begins production in South Australia, near the home of the state's last coal generator.

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Japan will consider steps to reform its Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) to increase the involvement of private companies in a bid to ensure it reaches the target of generating 100 million offsets from the scheme by 2030, the government said Thursday.

An Australian agtech firm that closed a A$8.5-mln ($6.3 mln) IPO to list on the ASX on Thursday hopes its proprietary plant nutrition technology can help generate millions of carbon credits.

Australia's influential Electrical Trades Union weighs in on renewables again, this time the claiming NSW transition is not delivering the local jobs it promised.

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National security experts call on Australians to use looming federal election to back candidates backing action on climate change.

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Elon Musk says supply of lithium is holding back the green energy transition, with prices now 10 times the cost of production.

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Current rules cause energy storage projects to report emissions that exceed their actuals.

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The Morrison government has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for new gas projects, while Labor moves in lockstep with them on coal

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Support for fossil fuels is a theme in this election campaign, but you sometimes have to look closely to find the details.

Ten days in, the Coalition has announced or confirmed more than $800m in funding for fossil fuel developments. The biggest commitment was tied up in an “energy and emissions reduction agreement” between the federal Coalition and the Northern Territory Labor government, signed shortly before the government went into caretaker mode and revealed after the campaign began.

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Lightsource bp signs up a New Zealand partner to its global giga-scale solar plans, inking a deal to collaborate on a series of grid-scale PV projects across Aotearoa.

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Trio of 'climate independents' will push for vehicle efficiency standards and higher EV targets, to slash emissions and boost fuel security.

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Vast Solar says solar thermal plants can double up as synchronous condensers, offering grid services during the day when PV dominates.

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Danger looms for larger species such as bumblebees, which have lower heat tolerance, leading to ‘cascading effects’ on ecosystems

The climate crisis could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research warning of potential “cascading” effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.

Scientists in the US trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how different types reacted to changing climatic conditions.

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Spawning event goes wrong near colossal coral bommie dubbed Ayers Rock

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On Western Australia’s stunning Ningaloo coast, a coral bommie that began life 1,000 years ago sits ghostly white in the green waters of Bill’s Bay.

Experts aren’t 100% sure but they strongly suspect the death of the colossal coral community dubbed Ayers Rock.

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California fuel consumption rose year-on-year in January but stayed far below pre-pandemic levels, coinciding with the state grappling with peak infections from the Omicron COVID variant, according to state data published Tuesday.

Oil major Shell nudged up its use of carbon credits last year and still expects a 20-fold increase in its retirement of the units by the end of the decade, it said in a progress report on Wednesday.

The rise and rise of energy market optimisation technologies in Australia continues with the launch of UK-founded GridBeyond.

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California will stick to its existing current carbon neutrality target in its forthcoming Scoping Plan update, rejecting other emissions pathways that could have sped up this abatement by a decade, state regulator ARB proposed Wednesday.