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Acciona's plans to develop a wind energy precinct of more than 1000MW in south-west Queensland have been given the green light by the state government.

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Some flood dangers can be hard to spot initially – to planners, developers and home-buyers. Sometimes, the danger comes from underground. Ana Manero, Research Fellow, Australian National University Anneliese Sytsma, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley Margaret Shanafield, Senior researcher, Hydrology/hydrogeology, Flinders University Sally Thompson, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Clean Energy Council calls on federal government to lead a managed phase-out of Australia's coal-fired power plants, to avoid a disorderly energy transition.

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Queensland's state-owned energy generator may put its two coal plants on "standby" mode as more renewables come onto the grid.

The post Energy giant Stanwell flags coal exit as it pivots to renewables and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Amazon signs up for nine new wind and solar projects in North America and Europe, to become the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world.

The post Amazon signs up nine wind and solar farms to become world’s biggest corporate buyer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Virtual summit on Thursday will be the first meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office

China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a US-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new US administration.

Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit starting on Thursday, after bringing the US back into the 2015 Paris agreement on cutting global carbon emissions.

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Queensland space company Hypersonix plans to use green hydrogen produced in Brisbane to fuel zero emissions rockets.

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AGL, Origin and EnergyAustralia all back decision to ignore Morrison's 'gas led recovery' in next Integrated System Plan.

The post Major energy players back AEMO’s plan to abandon gas-led recovery modelling appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Three indigenous organisations and nine REDD offset project developers have challenged Peru’s new forest emissions reference level (FREL), which they say reflects the preferences of donor nations and not realities on the ground in low-deforestation countries.

A new study questions the sustainability of used cooking oil imports into Europe to make biodiesel.

Researchers say loss of diversity in Sweden’s Atlantic salmon population could compromise ability of fish to adapt to climate change

Fish farming may have been devised as a remedy to reinvigorate dwindling fish stocks but this human solution has spawned another problem: lower genetic diversity.

Now, a study shows that the genetic makeup of Atlantic salmon populations from a century ago compared with the current stock across 13 Swedish rivers is more genetically similar than distinct, which researchers say could compromise the ability of the fish to adapt to climate change.

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Researchers in Canada find that population did not make the 6,000km roundtrip in 2018-2019

As the ice melts at pace in the Arctic, the mining and shipping industry has carved itself an opportunity out of the crisis. Meanwhile, the marine ecosystem is left to coping with the heat, noise, pollution and the cascade of other changes that come with the upheaval of the environment.

Now researchers have found a whale species that typically migrates away from solid sea ice each autumn and returns every summer to feast on tiny crustaceans did not make the 6,000km (3,700-mile) roundtrip in 2018-2019.

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California gasoline consumption rose in February over the prior month as Governor Gavin Newsom eased COVID-19 restrictions, but demand continues to remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.

The UK government has announced a climate target of 78% reductions by 2035. It shines a bright light on Australia's current inaction.

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Yellow crazy ants are one of the world's worst invasive species. And it turns out they have unique systems of reproduction that make life in the queendom more complicated than we realised. Pauline Lenancker, Research scientist, James Cook University Lori Lach, Associate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

President Joe Biden’s administration intends to advance climate resiliency strategies across the federal government as the US is set to lay out a more ambitious Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement this week, panelists said Tuesday.

Russian lawmakers gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to the country’s first climate law, which aims to enable emissions trade and require large polluters to report their GHG output.

Bad decisions are harming the UK’s green credentials. Boris Johnson must get beyond targets if he wants be taken seriously

The starting gun has been fired. With a pledge to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by 78% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels, Boris Johnson’s government has begun the bidding process that will set the scene for the Cop26 climate talks. As Mr Johnson knows, November’s meeting in Glasgow is a chance for the host country and its leaders to shine. And so his government has taken the cue and announced a toughening of existing targets – in line with UK law and following advice from its advisers on the Committee on Climate Change – ahead of a virtual climate summit of 40 world leaders to be hosted by Joe Biden.

In the coming days, countries including the US and Japan are expected to present their nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, as plans to cut emissions over the next decade are known. The world will soon know a good deal more about our prospects of avoiding catastrophic warming of over 1.5C. But distracting as the geopolitical scenario may be, in particular the extraordinary transformation of American climate policy since Donald Trump’s defeat, this is not the time to ease the pressure on Mr Johnson. Instead, it must be drastically ramped up.

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EUAs extended their all-time high on Tuesday, breaking above €45 for the first time ever as strong auction demand spurred bullish confidence despite warnings of a technical correction.