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Developers of 35MW solar farm in Queensland - backed by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes - taking Palaszczuk government to court over its new rules governing large-scale solar installations.

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As campaigners and political parties digest elections results, the Adani mine has been labelled as a proxy war, and a failed campaign to engage rural Queensland voters about the future.

The post Why Adani is a proxy war and campaigners need to focus on transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

JinkoSolar won the Intersolar Award 2019 in the Photovoltaics category for its Swan bifacial module with transparent backsheet from DuPont.

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Adani's flagship solar project in Australia effectively mothballed because of issues meeting generation performance standards.

The post Adani’s flagship solar project in Australia stalled over connection issues appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Is Australia’s clean energy transition about to come to a crashing halt, or just hit a pause as the Coalition turns focus to coal? Clean Energy Council’s Kane Thornton discusses Morrison’s big win.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: What’s the future for renewables in Australia? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Colombian farmers are piloting a way of raising cows that's better for the environment.

Spanish renewables group Acciona adds organic solar PV panels to towers of wind turbines and may add batteries too.

The post Acciona trials organic solar PV on wind turbines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers say global sea levels may rise by 2m by the end of this century, double the current predictions.

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The American Carbon Registry’s (ACR) policy director has left his role at the US-based offset registry to take a position at an international carbon consultancy and brokerage firm.

In the first article of this series on Hawaii, we described some of the projects that have been built. This article looks at the three key drivers of renewable energy in the state; policy, economics and the need for resilience. Policy As mentioned in that article, the state has a goal of 100% renewables by 2045. ...

The post Policy, economics and resilience: Why Hawaii is dumping fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's Redflow tapped to supply 100kWh of its ZBM2 zinc bromine flow batteries for a solar and electric vehicle smart grid project in China.

The post Redflow cracks China battery market, with deal on EV charging station appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Removing human-related methane from the atmosphere could reduce global warming by 15%. Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Rob Jackson, Chair, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, globalcarbonproject.org, Stanford University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Marine biologist and diver David Ainsley is concerned about the effect fish farms have on marine life.

EU carbon prices nudged higher above €25 on Monday as bulls drew encouragement from a stronger auction and a bullish outlook from observers.

There are already environmental solutions that reduce emissions and regenerate ecosystems – we just have to act on them

When my daughter was two years old, I found myself struggling to finish any article relating to the dire state of our environment. I would get halfway through the piece, then disengage and move on to something else. I assumed I wasn’t the only parent to feel this way.

Curious to understand why I seemed incapable of persisting, I reached out to the environmental psychologist Renee Lertzman. She explained that when we receive information charged with fear, dread or anxiety, the limbic system in our brain can be activated, which can override the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with creative thinking and problem solving. These days our news feeds are filled with images and stories of a bleak future. This is what we bombard our consciousness with, the images we expose our children to and they may also be why many of us feel paralysed when it comes to taking action on solutions to save our planet.

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A Utah lawsuit challenging both California’s cap-and-trade programme and a bill that sets emission performance standards (EPS) on baseload generation is beginning to take shape after state officials awarded a contract to a law firm late last month, the case's lawyer told Carbon Pulse.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are crafting a bill that would require the state to create an electricity sector carbon market that could link to the northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme, while a Keystone State agency is expected to take additional time to study a green group's economy-wide ETS petition.

We need new agricultural policies to encourage biodiversity, says Jean McKendree, while Morris Bradley congratulates the Guardian for changing how it talks about the climate

Saving bees and other insects is indeed a vital goal for the world (Journal, 18 May). Farming practices do need to change and there are many innovative farmers in the UK who are working hard to improve biodiversity as they provide food for the nation.

We need to ensure that new policies encourage good practice and support farmers. Regenerative farming using diverse crop rotations, no-till planting, use of indigenous seeds and management of livestock grazing to reproduce natural landscape management can reduce or eliminate the need for pesticides and artificial fertilisers while restoring healthy soil. But the transition can take years before the farmers reap the benefits.

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As part of this year’s Vivid Sydney festival, Taronga Zoo will feature an array of dazzling animal projections, illuminated trails and giant multimedia light sculptures telling a story about wildlife conservation

Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo runs from 24 May-15 June

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