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Labor's Joel Fitzgibbon forced the party into saying nice things about coal and gas projects - but has he locked Labor onto a 'go slow' path for renewables?

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Greenpeace East Asia report finds repurposed EV batteries could cover all global demand for energy storage in 2030 – around 368GWh of capacity.

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Total capacity of global offshore wind projects that are operational, under construction or in development has jumped nearly 50 per cent since January.

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BOC to build solar-powered hydrogen production and refuelling facilities at Fortescue's Christmas Creek mine, for fuel-cell buses that transport workers.

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UK millionaire Dale Vince says lab-grown gems will be ‘world’s first zero-impact’ diamonds

A British multi-millionaire and environmentalist has set out plans to create thousands of carats of carbon-negative, laboratory-grown diamonds every year “made entirely from the sky”.

Dale Vince, the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity, claims to have developed the world’s only diamonds to be made from carbon, water and energy sourced directly from the elements at a “sky mining facility” in Stroud.

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A real-time corporate emissions tracking platform has secured $3.4 million in funding from Silicon Valley backers including Uber’s former CEO.

The Australian Government is developing a new Threatened Species Strategy and is seeking input from interested stakeholders and members of the public. The survey will close 20 November.

A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time.

The world is on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an additional 700 million tonnes by 2030 thanks to recent commitments made by policymakers, but the overall reductions forecast are still insufficient to prevent global warming of 2 degrees C or more.

The Osiris-Rex probe is now safely carrying rock from an asteroid several million kilometres from Earth.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices eclipsed the $7 mark for the first time in more than four years this week on relatively thin volume, while California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) continued to retrace from recent highs ahead of the WCI cap-and-trade programme's Q4 auction.

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit bank will increase by 3% during the second quarter of the year due to a plunge in gasoline sales stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts said in a report published Thursday.

Extending the RGGI cap-and-trade programme throughout the PJM wholesale grid could slash CO2 output by almost 100 million tons in 2030 compared to a business-as-usual scenario, according to a report published Wednesday.

Activity in South Africa’s offset market is picking up and prices rising as the first carbon tax compliance deadline arrives, with major emitters seeking more GHG-cutting projects amid a big chunk of the country’s available offset supply being used up.

EUAs briefly topped €24 on Thursday, rebounding from the previous session's four-month low on a stronger auction and wider market gains, rebuffing widespread concerns over the impact of renewed coronavirus restrictions.

A study of dog DNA patterns shows that our "best friend" among animals is also our oldest one.

Conservationists warn move comes too early for species occupying a tiny slice of its former habitat

The Trump administration has removed endangered species protections from the gray wolf, a species once persecuted to near-extinction in the US, in a move that has been condemned as premature by conservationists.

The wolves have been provided federal protection for more than 45 years but this is no longer needed according to David Bernhardt, the US interior secretary, who announced the decision in Minnesota on Thursday.

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Human damage to biodiversity is leading us into a pandemic era. A new report shows we must urgently transform our relationship with the environment. Katie Woolaston, Lawyer, Queensland University of Technology Judith Lorraine Fisher, Adjunct Professor University of Western Australia, Institute of Agriculture Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The worm is turning. European power economics are shifting in favour of coal, especially at the front of the curve, and this might be seen as being supportive of carbon. If coal’s more profitable than gas, then surely there should be more demand for carbon, right?