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End-of-life issues for solar panels set to be focus of research projects sharing in $15 million of ARENA grant funding.

Trials in South Australia and Victoria to test "dynamic exports", giving power to networks to manage rooftop solar exports and removing static export limits.

New research published this week highlights the “untapped potential” of combining floating solar PV projects and hydropower plants.

RWE to collaborate with German large-scale storage developer CMBlu Energy to investigate the use of salt caverns as large-scale flow batteries.

Installers blamed for rooftop PV failures when bushfires separated grids, but coal plants also did the opposite of what was required and even the Hornsdale battery missed its mark.

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Colorado should assess whether a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) could help meet the state’s emissions reduction goals, but the policy would not be incorporated into any near-term plans, a government report said Wednesday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices retraced over the past week from recent highs attained during the coronavirus pandemic, while RGGI Allowances (RGA) inched up as entities shifted positions further out on the curve.

The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University is searching for a part‐time lecturer to teach graduate-level UEP 221 Climate Change Policy Planning and Action in Spring 2021. Teaching may require in person, hybrid or remote assignments.

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EU carbon prices will remain around current levels below €30 over the next three-to-six months, but with volatility dialled up due to heightened uncertainty stemming from a myriad of factors, analysts said.

We counted the number of standard trees in Australia. It turns out that since 1990, we've actually been gaining trees faster than losing them. Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Pablo Rozas Larraondo, Research fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A group of EU parliamentarians are pushing to allow foreign offsets to be used to meet the bloc’s enhanced 2030 emissions reduction target, though the move is seen as having little chance of success.

As Covid-19 threatens conservation work, Whipsnade Zoo is hoping for rhino breeding success.

Miner also discussed environmental law reform with government officials on at least four occasions, documents show

Rio Tinto wrote to the Morrison government last year urging it to act quickly to transfer environmental approval powers to the Western Australia government, before a major review of national environment laws was complete.

The move came 10 months before the Coalition announced it planned to change the laws to set up “one-stop shops” at state level for environmental approvals, starting with Western Australia. The legislation was introduced in August when the review of the laws, by former competition watchdog Graeme Samuel, was still under way.

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• Satellites record 61% rise in hotspots over September 2019
• Scientist warns: ‘It could get worse if the drought continues’

Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of blazes in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe has shown.

Satellites in September recorded 32,017 hotspots in the world’s largest rainforest, a 61% rise from the same month in 2019.

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The UK government has once again fined oil and gas companies BP and Repsol Sinopec for regulation breaches relating to the EU ETS.

The university says it is responding to the "urgent existential threat" of climate change.

How precariously balanced rocks will inform the earthquake hazards faced by critical infrastructure.