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A New York-based investment manager is seeking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will achieve net zero emissions from its portfolio by purchasing North American carbon permits through a non-profit organisation.

A group of seven northern EU countries urged Brussels to raise the minimum obligation for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), according to a joint letter circulated on Monday, in what looks like an early sign of ambition as member states consider the mammoth “Fit for 55” climate legislative package.

State treasurer Matt Kean says $171m infrastructure spend over four years is essential because ‘EVs will play a critical role in halving our emissions by 2030’

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New South Wales is promising to build more than 1,000 charging stations for electric vehicles under a four-year plan that would create the most extensive EV network in the country.

Wednesday’s announcement comes after data was released showing sales of new EVs in Australia tripled in the past 12 months with more than 20,000 drivers in the country choosing the low emissions option in 2021.

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The birds are being recruited to pick up discarded butts from the streets of a city in Sweden as part of a cost-cutting drive. The wild birds receive a little food for every butt they deposit in a machine designed by a startup in Södertälje. The startup's founder says the crows' health is also being studied, and that the project could lead to savings of 75% of cleaning costs

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The EU's electricity sector is not currently on track to limit global warming to 1.5C with emissions falling by less than half the required annual rate since 2019, analysts said on Tuesday, judging that such a trend may persist this year without more intervention from lawmakers.

EU policymakers are struggling to reconcile an international climate club and a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), with both seen as flagship new climate policies respectively endorsed by European heavyweights Germany and France.

EUA prices declined in volatile Tuesday morning trading after the day's spot auction was cancelled for technical reasons and as energy markets declined amid continued mild temperature forecasts and a sharp uptick in natural gas supplies to Europe.

Woodside Burrup and energy firm LGI received the largest shares of credits in the Clean Energy Regulator’s latest issuance round, while airline Qantas has withdrawn a project after going more than six years without generating any offsets.

The Net Zero Scrutiny Group is blaming the cost-of-living crisis on green policies. Its potential influence shouldn’t be ignored

In the final days of Theresa May’s premiership, the UK’s net-zero target, like the landmark 2008 Climate Change Act before it, entered the statute book with hardly any resistance.

Well-founded complaints were made that it did not match the pace and scale required to address climate breakdown, but, as in 2008, across parliament there appeared to be an underlying consensus that “something had to be done”. Outright climate-change denial was kept to a faint background hum.

Eleanor Salter writes about climate, culture and politics

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In the shadow of New York City, one of the world’s richest cities, the people of Mount Vernon, New York face an unpleasant problem inside their homes: sewage. The city’s under-resourced sanitation crew struggles to keep up with complications stemming from its crumbling, 100-year old sewer system — a system strained even further by the extreme rain brought on by climate change. Meanwhile, residents must shoulder the financial, emotional and health burdens when sewage backs up into their basements and homes

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Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

Crows are being recruited to pick up discarded cigarette butts from the streets and squares of a Swedish city as part of a cost-cutting drive.

The wild birds carry out the task as they receive a little food for every butt that they deposit in a bespoke machine designed by a startup in Södertälje, near Stockholm.

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A car drove into a power pole in Queensland on Tuesday, but the federal Coalition decided to blame green energy for the loss of power that followed.

The post Car drives into electricity pole, Coalition blames green energy for ensuing outage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Japan on Tuesday began recruiting participants for its voluntary carbon market, which will launch in pilot form later this year and begin its full-scale operation in Apr. 2023.

Researchers at the Australian National University have set a new world record conversion efficiency for next generation perovskite solar cells.

The post Australian researchers beat their own record for next-gen solar cell efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As people gather to celebrate the lunar year of the tiger, a report by WWF highlights areas where progress has been made in tiger conservation during the past 12 years and examines the threats that remain for the largest of big cats

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Queensland's current power supply and price woes are a symptom of going too slow and not facing up to the facts of the energy transition.

The post Queensland’s sky-high power prices show its energy policies don’t cut it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor makes about-turn on Kurri Kurri gas plant, if it can be fuelled with hydrogen, but experts say the plant is not needed and makes no sense.

The post Labor backflips on Kurri Kurri gas plant, but experts say it still doesn’t stack up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance data shows a record amount of renewable energy was contracted by big businesses around the world in 2021, but not Down Under.

The post Corporate renewable PPAs hit record high in 2021, but not in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.