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How do you approve a wind farm that is already being built? Enel Green Power has found a way with its Flat Rocks project in WA.

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A Tokyo-listed engineering consultancy has teamed up with a climate tech firm to secure credits from nature-based solutions (NbS) around the world through early investments.

Public companies are well ahead of their private counterparts when it comes to setting emissions reduction targets and net zero pledges, with a far larger proportion of the latter yet to make any, according to a report released Monday.

Overseas firms sending key goods to UK would have to show they were paying for emissions or face CBAM

Ministers are under growing pressure to firm up plans for a green levy on imports to the UK before the general election campaign.

The government is consulting on plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from 2027. Under the system, overseas companies wishing to export key goods to the UK would have to show they were paying for their carbon emissions, or face a levy equivalent to the price paid for carbon by UK manufacturers.

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Agencies and scientists from around the world head to the UK to share space-exploration techniques.

The government of Japan has opened the door to the use of international credits in its domestic carbon market, adding four types of eligible carbon removal projects to the GX-ETS.

The worldwide event aims to raise awareness about the need to protect the environment.

Bleached coral draws our attention, but marine heat does damage to many unseen parts of these ecosystems. John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney Emma Johnston, Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney Graeme Clark, Senior Research Fellow, Marine Biology, University of Sydney Steph Gardner, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Science, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Federal government grants $1.5 million to install three new community batteries in the suburbs of Canberra.

The post Canberra to soak up solar with three new community batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How Tritium, the EV fast charger maker that was the darling of the Australian manufacturing industry, came to collapse will be written about for many years.

The post Tritium’s rapid rise and spectacular collapse will be a lesson for Labor’s Made in Australia campaign appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A four-hour battery project near the wheat belt town of Merredin gets planning approval as state prepares for a grid with no coal power.

The post Another four-hour big battery wins planning approval as state gears up for grid with no coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Deals in climate tech and industrial decarbonisation played a key role in driving the recovery of European venture capital in Q1 2024, as investors seek opportunities to tackle the climate crisis, according to an analyst report.

Coalition delays release of nuclear power policy, saying "it won't be bullied" into meeting the timeline it set itself.

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Batteries become biggest supplier in California's evening peak for fourth time in a week, as renewables smash records with 156 pct of demand.

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Rewiring Aotearoa study shows the rising cost of petrol and gas in New Zealand means electric homes and EVs are now more affordable than fossil fuel alternatives.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: NZ one of the first countries to reach an electrification tipping point appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Federal government gives environmental approval to 400MW wind farm in central Queensland on the same day it closes the door on a 300MW project proposed for the state's far north.

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Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green light

New Zealand’s parliament is considering a law that would allow major development projects to bypass environmental approvals – and that should be a cause for extreme alarm.

The proposed Fast-track Approvals Bill emerged from the coalition agreements that enabled a centre-right government to form after last year’s election.

Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis are professors of law at the University of Otago.

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Europe was severely impacted by climate change last year, according to data released today by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organisation, and things seem only to be getting worse.

Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report finds

Scorching weather has baked Europe in more days of “extreme heat stress” than its scientists have ever seen.

Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helped push temperatures in Europe last year to the highest or second-highest levels ever recorded, according to the EU’s Earth-watching service Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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The federal government has announced 6 gigawatts of new variable renewable energy projects will go out for tender in May, as part of its Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS).