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Australia rooftop solar systems are now bigger than ever, with the rush of business installations pushing average sizes to more than 8.7kW.

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AEMO has made it harder for battery-based VPPs and distributed energy resources to participate in the important frequency control markets.

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Transcript of Labor climate and energy spokesman Chris Bowen's interview on the Energy Insiders podcast.

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Bowen says Labor still not ready to talk climate and renewables targets, but the intent is clear: "We have to electrify everything we can".

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Labor climate and energy spokesman Chris Bowen on his solar stunt, and why Labor will take a policies, not targets pitch to electorate.

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Group of reef and climate scientists say world heritage warning merited and Australia has not ‘pulled its weight on emissions’

Five of the world’s leading reef and climate scientists have thanked Unesco for recommending the Great Barrier Reef be listed as world heritage “in danger”, saying it was the right decision in part because Australia had not “pulled its weight” in reducing emissions.

The group of scientists, including the Australian professors Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Terry Hughes, wrote to the UN body on Thursday saying the recommendation to downgrade the 2,300-km reef system’s world heritage status was “the right decision”.

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Mining returns to the UK as the green revolution drives the need for more minerals and metals.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices edged down on thinner demand ahead of the US holiday weekend, while RGGI prices rose slightly as traders reported regulated entities sought out volume on the secondary market.

A renewables grid needs long term storage, and compressed air might be a better solution than pumped hydro.

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A global carbon market policy specialist at IETA is set to leave the business association after seven years to join intergovernmental organisation ICAP.

New battery at Rio Tinto's Tom Price iron ore mine will be biggest of its type in the world, and help shine a light to a future of 100 per cent renewables.

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Researchers found 16% of coral species have not been seen for many years. This finding is alarming, because local extinctions suggest global extinctions may be looming. Zoe Richards, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The historic journey will see her become the oldest person to ever fly to space.

‘Occasionally a big male would wake the echoes of the mountains with his tremendous voice’

It is difficult to take yourself seriously in the presence of a baboon, but I have tried. The university I attended is at the foot of Cape Town’s Table Mountain and every now and then a chacma baboon or several would clamber down to our world.

There they were: on the avenue that bisected the campus, where a highly evolved professor parked his vintage sports car. Where film students arranged themselves on windowsills. There were people trying to take themselves seriously all over the place. It was like every university. Only here, we had baboons.

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Carbon Pulse has hired two new reporters to expand its coverage of the world’s two largest carbon markets.

Governments urged to ramp up efforts to tackle climate emergency as temperature records smashed

Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency.

The devastating “heat dome” has caused temperatures to rise to almost 50C in Canada and has been linked to hundreds of deaths, melted power lines, buckled roads and wildfires.

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The monarch was visiting the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute during her visit to Scotland.

A "last ice area" is crucial for the survival of polar bears but is suffering from climate change.

France must introduce new measures to combat climate change in the next nine months as the country is set to miss its emissions reduction targets, its top administrative court said on Thursday.