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Federal Labor urged to focus funding and reverse auction program to support state programs, and tap into pipeline that would see Australia beat 50% renewables target.

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Hawaii utility gives approval to six solar and battery storage projects that will provide firm power at a substantial discount to current generation.

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Florida utility plans to build the world’s largest solar and battery storage project to replace two ageing gas plants.

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Visitors to a glacier in Iceland scrambled to safety as a section broke, off creating a large wave.

“The sun was shining almost directly overhead onto the sand, and the glare on the water was unbearable.” Albert Camus L’Etranger, 1942 50% renewable target: Great slogan, but arguably as compromised as Brexit You can still make an argument that Queensland is on track to achieve 50% renewables by 2030. The renewable share of generation...

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State utility Idaho Power agrees to buy output from 120MW solar farm in the state’s south at a cost of just 2.175¢/kWh.

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Within moments of Labor's unveiling of its 50% electric vehicle target, commentators on Sky News immediately started competing to make the silliest and most ill-informed comment.

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The Adaptation Fund Secretariat is recruiting a Senior Climate Change Specialist to coordinate the Fund’s work on portfolio management and results including on concrete action and innovation.

Germany is examining extending carbon pricing to more sectors of its economy, national media reported on Monday in a move designed to meet the country's out-of-reach emission goals more cost-effectively.

Swiss carbon prices have recovered from their recent low, according to the country’s latest auction results, but they remain valued well below the EU Allowances towards which they are expected to converge as the two schemes prepare to link.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) will hold its first public stakeholder meeting in April and a subsequent workshop in May after spending the first quarter of 2019 having internal discussions about the proposed carbon programme.

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European carbon prices climbed towards €22 on Monday in a choppy session that saw the publication of emissions data suggesting a bigger-than-expected drop in CO2 output in the EU ETS last year.

Four Canadian provinces that resisted the federal government’s carbon pricing mandate became subject to Ottawa’s ‘backstop’ CO2 levy on fossil fuels on Monday, as the British Columbia government raised its existing carbon tax rate.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) seeks an experienced mid-level associate attorney with 2 to 6 years of relevant experience to join the Legal Team and provide legal support to the association. The candidate must possess strong research, analytic and writing skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is seeking an Energy Policy Associate, Analyst, or Senior Analyst to develop and advocate for policies and mechanisms that reduce the environmental impact of electricity production in the Interior West. There are positions open in Carson City or Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Labor has ditched its reliance on a single economy-wide climate policy, in favour of a range of different measures that will all help drive down emissions. But some crucial issues remain unaddressed. Nicky Ison, Research Associate, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s global leadership on whale conservation will be tested as Japanese hunters move to a different hemisphere

Japan’s whaling fleet arrived back at the port of Shimonoseki on the weekend with a barbaric tally of 333 dead whales that are no longer swimming freely in the Southern Ocean.

If the work of the Japanese whalers is anything like last year, more than 100 pregnant females and 50 or so juveniles will have been killed. But from now on, things are different.

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