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Tomago Aluminium's chief flags a switch to 100 per cent renewables, a win for wind and solar and a potential death sentence for a major coal generator.

The post Tomago’s pivot to renewables could spell end for biggest coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia should be a global leader in clean technology solutions – but it does not have clear national energy policy, or clear targets.

The post Trumped up: IPCC confirms Morrison is fiddling while the country burns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The world's biggest "dry cooled" coal generator - and likely the most expensive - explodes just a week after it was fully commissioned.

The post World’s newest and most expensive coal plant explodes after hydrogen leak appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Andy McCarthy from RACV Solar, who started his business in his third bedroom, discusses the risks and benefits of M&A.

The post Great Solar Business Podcast: Mergers and acquisitions as a solar growth strategy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin and Neoen hope to advance Bell Bay and two massive renewable projects in South Australia to support green hydrogen and ammonia.

The post Origin, Neoen sign deals for green ammonia and hydrogen projects with Japan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A series of major wildfires across the world has hit the headlines - how do they compare to previous years?

Sixty percent of Ghana's water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining operations.

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Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor are blaming the developing world for the world's climate problem. That approach is both ignorant and cruel.

The post Bad faith: Morrison blaming Global South for climate change is beyond belief appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Offset (CCO) discounts are remaining close to historic highs despite a flood of speculators in the California Carbon Allowance (CCA) market this year, with participants saying credits are decoupling from permit values due to diverging buying interest.

Commodity price reporting agency S&P Global Platts announced the launch of four new voluntary carbon offset assessments on Tuesday, differentiating some credits between GHG reductions and removals while adding a tech-based category.

To many people, Australia’s spider diversity is a source of fear. To arachnologists, it’s a goldmine, with most Australian spider species still yet to be discovered. Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnology at the Western Australian Museum, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers develop a robot that changes colour in response to its background.

Climate campaigners say dire landmark findings mean the federal government must abandon gas basin and coalmine expansions

Australian politicians are facing calls to accept the era of new fossil fuel investments should end immediately after a major report on the climate crisis confirmed it was already causing havoc across the planet, with worse to come.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, said on Tuesday the sixth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on climate science, confirmed the “serious implications for Australia of what’s happening globally”.

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Politicians around world continue to respond to report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Food production around the world will suffer as global heating reaches 1.5C, with serious effects on the food supply in the next two decades, scientists have warned, following the biggest scientific report yet on the climate crisis.

Rising temperatures will mean there will be more times of year when temperatures exceed what crops can stand, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its sixth assessment report published on Monday.

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A Houston-based environmental trader has joined a US-headquartered bank to lead their environmental desk, as more financial firms look to expand into the compliance and voluntary carbon markets, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Czech utility CEZ saw its coal power output further decline in the first half of 2021, as a result of divestment of assets and a “deterioration of medium-term market conditions” following the increase in the EU’s climate ambition and a potential phaseout of Czechia’s coal-fired generation.

The head of European carbon research at BloombergNEF is leaving to join the trading desk of a large energy company, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The world seems to be on the verge of collapse – yet I have just brought a baby into it

“Babe, look!” my wife said excitedly, as we sprawled on the grass reading on one baking hot afternoon. She passed me her book: “Read this – this person is just like you!” I read the paragraph she was pointing to. A clearly distraught character was fulminating about poorly designed roundabouts; she kept going on and on and on about them. To be clear, I don’t have any opinions about roundabouts. Not a single one. I curtly informed my wife of this. “Yeah,” she said. “But you do have, you know, certain rants you keep coming back to. Like, incessantly.”

I couldn’t argue. While I have always been a committed pessimist, recently I’ve gone into full-blown Chicken Little mode with existential obsessions. I’ll wake up, look at the latest terrifying news on my phone and immediately launch a diatribe about how we are almost certainly going to experience climate emergency-induced societal collapse in our lifetimes. “Have you seen what’s happening in Greece/northern California/Turkey?” I’ll screech. “Have you seen how many billionaires are fleeing to New Zealand to avoid the imminent apocalypse? The weather is out of control! Joe Biden and his woefully inadequate infrastructure bill aren’t going to fix anything! We are all doomed! DOOMED!”

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