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Food safety officials deny claims that diseased or contaminated meat is being eaten by consumers

Consumers are being exposed to an “avoidable risk” of disease after a reduction of official controls in food inspections of pig and poultry carcasses across the EU, European meat inspectors have said.

Diseased meat is being eaten by consumers in the UK and EU, including pus from abscesses and tuberculosis lesions from pigs’ heads, said the European Working Community for Food Inspection and Consumer Protection (EFWFC) this week. The EWFC represents EU meat inspectors.

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South Korea’s environment ministry on Monday announced draft plans to increase the CO2 allowances in its ETS over the 2021-25 period after previously saying the amount would be reduced, while coal-fired power plants seem to remain in the scheme following ministerial wrangling.

Creatures of the Amazon, one of the earth’s most biodiverse habitats, face an ever-growing threat as loggers and farms advance further and further into the rainforest. Photojournalist Ueslei Marcelino has been in Rhondonia and Amazonas states in Brazil has been following the destruction and the mission to save the region’s animals

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All that koala habitat that burned during the bushfires - should we let it grow back? Hell no!

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Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders

Institutional investors that collectively manage more than US$47tn in assets have demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters back strategies to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and promised to hold them to public account.

The Climate Action 100+ group, representing 518 major investor organisations across the globe, has written to 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies to set 30 climate measures and targets against which they will be analysed in a report to be released early next year.

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Queensland's Anthony Lynham says all state energy ministers - Liberal, Labor and Greens - agree that the future is renewable. The only hold out is Angus Taylor.

The post “I don’t know why they don’t get it.” Lynham laments Taylor blindspot on renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

At least one humpback whale remains in the Australian river after getting lost.

Queensland energy minister Anthony Lynham says the future of Australia is in renewable energy. All the states understand this, the only party that doesn’t is the federal government.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Lynham – Our future is renewable energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia Liberal government to develop plan to use electric vehicles as "batteries on wheels" and use charging as a "solar sponge" during the day.

The post South Australia wants to use EVs as mobile batteries and “solar sponge” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A bright spot in a dark year: Australia's main grid reaches 25 per cent share of renewable energy over the last 12 months.

The post Milestone: Australia’s main grid reaches 25 pct renewables over last year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Wind and solar have upped their share of the market over the past month. And there's another 7GW to be added.

The post Know Your NEM: Wind and solar take 22 pct market share in early Spring clean appeared first on RenewEconomy.

After the Black Summer bushfires, heavy rains extinguished many fires but turned high quality water in our rivers to sludge. This is how we better prepare for next time. Paul McInerney, Research scientist, CSIRO Anu Kumar, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Gavin Rees, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Klaus Joehnk, Principal research scientist, CSIRO Tapas Kumar Biswas, Senior scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New report finds transitioning Western Australia to 90% renewables by 2030 would create an average of 5,000 jobs a year – even during an economic slump.

The post A shift to 90 per cent renewables in the West would create 5,000 jobs a year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The department is looking to fill climate policy-making roles in the Climate Change Division and the International Climate and Technology Division.

The Clean Energy Regulator is looking for an analyst/modeller to contribute to analysis and provide insights into key trends in the renewable energy and carbon markets.

Australian Energy Market Commission delays decision on rule change request seeking to establish a framework for a minimum technical standard for rooftop solar.

The post AEMC delays decision on technical standards for rooftop solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.

Polestar 2 leaps into third place in Norway's new car sales in first month of deliveries, just behind the Audi E-tron and the electric Mercedes.

The post Audi, Mercedes and Polestar lead sales in world’s most successful EV market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Garden Island micro-grid plagued by teething issues and panel failures, and has now been disconnected because of major work at the naval base.

The post Garden Island micro-grid suffers panel problems, and now it’s unplugged appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We should paint more wind turbines black but mainly to find out how birds respond to them.

The post Painting wind turbines black could help protect birds – if it doesn’t disrupt their migration appeared first on RenewEconomy.