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A recent warning from a shipping industry group that lack of investment in green technologies presents the biggest hurdle to the industry’s decarbonisation targets has sharpened focus on the technical and financial challenges facing the sector, whose emissions are seen as hard to abate, if it is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Hawaiian Electric commits to adding nearly 50,000 new rooftop solar systems across the islands as part of an ambitious new emissions reduction target.

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A review of studies of Parramatta demonstrates an extensive deep-time archive of Indigenous activity extending over 14,000 years. Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Jo McDonald, Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New Zealanders are increasingly concerned about the state of the environment, but many don’t feel a strong enough connection to nature to become involved in conservation projects. Scott Burnett, Research assistant, Massey University Apisalome Movono, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University Regina Scheyvens, Professor of Development Studies, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the global corporate renewable energy purchasing market matures, three new trends are shaping its journey.

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Scott Morrison's electric vehicle strategy has completely missed the bus. Little wonder that it was launched at a hydrogen refuelling station.

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We asked climate experts from around the world what they want to see agreed at COP26 this week.

A photographer is using her art to inspire, hoping to keep the iconic animals at home on the range.

Climate crisis is driving up deadly combination of temperature and humidity, says study released at Cop26

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A billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress if the climate crisis raises the global temperature by just 2C, according to research released by the UK Met Office at the Cop26 climate summit. The scientists said that would be a 15-fold increase on the numbers exposed today.

The key goal of Cop26 is to keep the chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C alive but delegates said there is much work to do to achieve this in the summit’s final week.

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Firms often claim they are eco-friendly but how can you check they are as green as they make out?

The PM has sent the clear message there is no ‘us’ in Team Australia’s climate approach, only ‘me’

Australia’s Prime Marketer has returned from the international launch of this new The Australian Way brand and, much like his previous forays on to the world stage, it has been a polarising affair.

In a brazen reimagining of his “Cool Coal” range, the PM has raised the middle finger to a gathering meant to be about global cooperation by sending the clear message there is no “us” in Team Australia’s climate approach, only “me”.

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A former JP Morgan director’s London-based offset project developer and carbon advisory firm is being supported by a C$50 million capital raise.

It’s encouraging to see the Morrison government move past its claim electric vehicles would ‘end the weekend’. But the new plan is not the national electric vehicle strategy Australia deserves, and badly needs. Jake Whitehead, Tritum E-Mobility Fellow & Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Jessica Whitehead, Industry Fellow, The University of Queensland Kai Li Lim, St Baker E-Mobility Fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Experts were downbeat on the statement made by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) over the weekend that Congress is one vote away from a federal carbon price in the reconciliation bill, noting the significant roadblocks that remain for US climate policy.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit prices could move towards the programme’s price cap in the coming years as greater competition for biofuel feedstocks exerts bullish pressure, analysts at a major investment bank said Friday.

Twelve North and Latin American national and sub-national governments on Monday signed a new declaration promising to boost their carbon pricing integration, rebooting an existing framework with smaller jurisdictions keen to learn more.

EU targets Australia again on "brochure" and lack of action, Obama admits to feelings of dystopia, fossil fuel lobby out in force in Glasgow.

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Scott Morrison, who in 2019 suggested EVs would ‘end the weekend’, says he now expects them to make up only 30% of new sales by 2030

The Morrison government has ruled out subsidising the expansion of electric and hybrid vehicles, and expects only 30% of new sales to be EVs by 2030 – a date by which some countries plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.

The government’s “future fuels and vehicles strategy” instead includes $178m of new funding, mostly for new EV and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure and to help businesses set up charging stations for fleets.

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Increased demand for PPE has put pressure on an already out-of-control global problem, report finds

Plastic waste from the Covid-19 pandemic weighing 25,900 tonnes, equivalent to more than 2,000 double decker buses, has leaked into the ocean, research has revealed.

The mismanaged plastic waste, consisting of personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, vastly exceeded the capability of countries to process it properly, researchers said.

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