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Alinta admits to being "caught out" by price spikes since 5-minute settlement, and is flagging changes to cap contracts, and maybe a big battery.

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Alinta plans 1GW plus offshore wind farm and the first wind farm in the Pilbara as part of a $6 billion investment in renewables and storage.

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ESB cites wind droughts or "dunkelflaute" as reasons for a capacity market, but the modelling for such claims does not exist.

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The Climate Change Authority says stronger climate action is key to Australia's global competitiveness

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The final 10 birds in contention in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll were the Australian magpie, gang-gang cockatoo, regent honeyeater, Australian brush turkey, Gouldian finch, superb fairywren, galah, tawny frogmouth, peregrine falcon and laughing kookaburra

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Our 8th place-getter has some of the most passionate supporters around. With 8152 votes, it’s the Laughing kookaburra!

In 9th place, we have the hero of the Australian backyard and friend of cyclists everywhere, the Australian magpie with 8046 votes.

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By spending $2 billion each year for about 30 years, we could restore much of Australia’s severely denuded landscapes. Bonnie Mappin, PhD Candidate, Conservation Science, The University of Queensland James Watson, Professor, The University of Queensland Lesley Hughes, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Emissions reduction minister told to expect more vigorous calls for ambitious targets before Barnaby Joyce declined to endorse findings

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Australian government officials privately advised Angus Taylor that the latest international report on climate science was “balanced and transparent” before Barnaby Joyce later refused to endorse some of the key findings.

Amid government divisions on climate policy in the lead-up to the Glasgow Cop26 conference, Guardian Australia can reveal Taylor’s department also told him to expect intensified calls “for more ambitious climate targets, such as net zero emissions by 2050 or earlier”.

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Tests in the UK have shown that artificial lightning can strip pollutants from animal manure.

The BBC travels to Wuzhou to see how cities are grappling with climate targets and a "build" mantra.

Britons are cutting their meat consumption, but not quickly enough, according to scientists.

CO2 output from the California Independent System Operator dropped slightly in August, though continued low levels of hydropower deprived the state of a low-carbon resource, according to data posted Thursday.

Airlines’ communications around carbon credits are “misleading” from close to half of all carriers, academic researchers examining greenwashing found, although the study’s methodology included strict criteria about avoiding vague or irrelevant language in offset advertisements.

Governments should refrain from interfering in the EU ETS as part of efforts to deal with the jump in energy prices, the European Commission is expected to say next week when it unveils a 'toolbox' of emergency measures to help member states.

German utility RWE held its place as the biggest corporate emitter in the EU ETS last year, amid a major drop-off in CO2 output among the market’s major polluters, a report found Thursday.

Voluntary carbon market investments risk being hindered by a focus on buying carbon removals and a push to insist that companies require their offsets to include corresponding adjustments, a conference heard on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) values set consecutive all-time highs in recent days on the continued strength of speculative involvement in the North American cap-and-trade programmes, though both markets saw prices retrace mid-week as European gas and carbon experienced a downturn.

UN body ICAO must respond to more ambitious climate goals from countries and industry for its CORSIA programme to remain the sole market-based mechanism for global air travel and avoid a patchwork system of multiple carbon pricing policies, a panel heard Thursday.

Andrew Forrest invests in breakthrough thin film solar PV tech that he says will deliver significant costs reductions and underpin his huge hydrogen plans.

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