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UNSW's Martin Green wins prestigious Millennium Technology prize and says solar is the key for replacing fossil fuels.

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Sun Cable sets up new partnership looking at building a massive “green grid" to transmit renewable electricity across Asia.

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Switching from coal and gas will save a lot of energy. Renewables like wind and solar don’t need to convert heat into motion, so they don’t lose energy.

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US long duration energy storage developer ESS breaks ground on a battery manufacturing facility in Queensland

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The former chief scientist tasked with chairing the independent review into Australia’s carbon credit market, Professor Ian Chubb, has outlined what he sees as the main themes coming out of the raft of submissions and research his team is pouring over, but told a conference Wednesday it was too soon to say what the specific outcome of the review will be.

Leading medical experts call for action ahead of a major climate conference next month.

This year's climate summit comes amid spiralling energy costs and diplomatic tensions.

Snowy Hydro admits Snowy 2.0 contractors have made claims on costs, but executives still pocket big bonuses for meeting project milestones.

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Halloween has become yet another consumption ritual – but you can choose to celebrate it sustainably. Olav Muurlink, Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

H&M, Sainsbury’s and Nestlé are among more than 300 companies urging governments to agree to the pledge at Cop15 in December

More than 300 businesses, including H&M, Sainsbury’s and Nestlé, have urged world leaders to make it mandatory for companies to assess and reveal their impact on nature by 2030.

Businesses and financial institutions in 56 countries – including the UK, Canada and China – are pushing for governments to agree to the disclosures at Cop15, the UN biodiversity conference being held in Montreal this December.

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Reliance on oil and gas worsening climate impacts and compounding food, energy and cost of living crises

The health of the world’s people is at the mercy of a global addiction to fossil fuels, according to a study.

The analysis reports an increase in heat deaths, hunger and infectious disease as the climate crisis intensifies, while governments continue to give more in subsidies to fossil fuels than to the poorer countries experiencing the impacts of global heating.

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The joint venture between a US-based carbon credit originator and its investment firm partner has purchased Michigan forestland to develop a voluntary carbon market project, as the company builds out its portfolio across the country.

Project-specific, nature-based offset prices appear to have aligned with standardised contracts, a carbon market exchange detailed on Tuesday, as VERs continue to suffer losses this year amid corporate disinterest and uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

World's biggest offshore wind projects plans major investment in Australia, starting in Gippsland, as well as onshore renewables and "Power-to-X."

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US-based food processing and commodities trading corporation ADM is evaluating how to generate voluntary carbon offsets from its regenerative agriculture programme, a company official said Tuesday.

Australia must map out the best sites for generating the most electricity with the least environmental impact. Madeline Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A carbon credits ratings agency on Monday said that only less than 10% of voluntary offset projects that it has evaluated to date are of the highest integrity, while VER undertakings that issue large batches each year also warrant more scrutiny.

A group of countries are likely to push for formal recognition of pre-2021 efforts to conserve and enhance global forests, hoping to mainstream the topic beyond technical negotiations at this year’s UN climate talks after seeing little success in initial offerings to the voluntary carbon market. 

The European Parliament's budgets committee (BUDG) voted on Tuesday largely in line with their MEP colleagues on the bloc's REPowerEU proposal, seeking to part-finance the package with €20 billion worth of carbon allowance sales sourced from frontloaded member state auctions over three years.