Feed aggregator

Nexport plans to offer Australian made buses, trucks and passenger vehicles, after announcing a $700M investment in a NSW manufacturing facility.

The post Nexport’s grand vision to make electric cars, buses and trucks in NSW, lands deal with BYD appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

California municipalities issue first tender for long duration storage - from eight to 16 hours - to back up growing share of wind and solar.

The post California issues first tender for long-duration storage to support wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock samples.

A big week for South Australia as solar delivers 100 per cent of its demand one day - the first time ever in any large grid - and wind does the same thing a few days later.

The post South Australia reaches 100 pct solar, and then 100 pct wind power in same week appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Amid fresh concern about overfishing, scientists say eating more jellyfish may give us benefits.

*PREMIUM LISTING (viewable by non-subscribers) - Carbon Pulse is looking for a Net Zero Correspondent to help us bolster and expand our coverage of voluntary carbon markets and government and corporate strategies to achieve climate neutrality, as well as other measures and technologies that will complement these efforts.

A brewing storm of major financial institutions divesting from Arctic and oil sand drilling signals a dark future for oil and gas, finds a new investigation from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The investigation, published today, quantifies the scale of shifts among large investors. The World Bank, BPN Paribas, Goldman Sachs,...

The post Oil and gas destined to become the new coal as large investors retreat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Investigation alleges Lactalis breached environmental regulations at several plants and released milk derivatives that killed fish

France’s largest dairy company has repeatedly polluted the country’s rivers over the past decade, according to a new report by French media organisation Disclose.

During a year-long investigation into dairy giant Lactalis, Disclose found that 38 of the company’s production sites in France had breached environmental regulations. In many cases, according to the report, this involved the release into rivers of milk-related derivatives – which can be deadly to aquatic life in large volumes – or byproducts from wastewater treatment plants. The report contains evidence of several instances that it says resulted in the death of fish.

Continue reading...

Professional sport has enormous power to influence positive change. So ahead of this weekend's grand finals, let's examine the carbon emissions of our major men's football leagues. Brett Hutchins, Professor of Media and Communications Studies, Monash University Libby Lester, Director, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania Michael Ambrose, Research Team Leader, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) appeal on constitutional challenges to the California-Quebec cap-and-trade linkage will not progress until shortly before Christmas, with the fate of the Nov. 3 presidential election set to weigh heavily on the case.

EUAs inched down to a new four-month low on Monday, as technical selling backed by supply- and pandemic-linked pressures held benchmark prices under €25 for a third straight session.

Former PM says Australia risks becoming ‘the complacent country’ and could suffer another recession if it remains tied to fossil fuels

Kevin Rudd has called for solar panels to be made compulsory on all new buildings and increased incentives to be offered to households that do not yet have them as part of a “genuinely green recovery” from recession.

Speaking at an Australian National University event on Monday, the former prime minister repeated his 2007 declaration that climate change was the “great moral challenge of our time” and accused the Morrison government of putting jobs and long-term living standards at risk by failing to deal with the issue as promised under the Paris agreement.

Continue reading...

US biofuel credit (RIN) values rose to a one-month high at the end of last week on reports of fuel importers covering their Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations after booking shipments of European gasoline.

Exposure is far higher than previously thought and also affects plastic food containers

Bottle-fed babies are swallowing millions of microplastic particles a day, according to research described as a “milestone” in the understanding of human exposure to tiny plastics.

Scientists found that the recommended high-temperature process for sterilising plastic bottles and preparing formula milk caused bottles to shed millions of microplastics and trillions of even smaller nanoplastics.

Continue reading...

BASF is looking for a senior manager for chemicals and environmental policy to monitor EU policy and legislative trends, developing and implementing appropriate advocacy plans, representing BASF group, as well as internal and external communication regarding these themes.

BP is looking for a senior specialist to support bp Target Neutral (BPTN) and develop business opportunities by creating differentiation in the sustainability space, specifically through carbon reduction and offsetting.

China is likely to hand out 8-8.5 billion allowances for 2019 and 2020 when its emissions trading scheme eventually comes off the ground, starting off with a soft scheme that could be ramped up fairly quickly given the government’s recently announced climate ambitions, analysts said Monday.

Poland’s largest utility PGE will spin off its coal assets into a separate company by the end of 2021 to help secure access to loans to build new renewables facilities, its CEO confirmed on Monday, unveiling plans to reach zero emissions in 2050. 

UNSW spin-off announces that it will start taking orders for one of the world's first hydrogen based energy storage systems for homes and businesses.

The post Australian invented hydrogen storage for homes and businesses hits the market appeared first on RenewEconomy.