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Green energy arm of Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals signs MOU with Japanese engineering firm for green ammonia project in Tasmania.

The post Fortescue in talks to export green ammonia from Tasmania to Japan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UNSW's Martin Green says the average Australian solar household will soon be installing "tens of kilowatts" on their rooftops, as costs continue to fall.

The post Australia’s “father of PV” says your next rooftop solar system might be tens of kilowatts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Biden test drives the new Ford electric ute and tests its acceleration, and announces new EV policies. Meanwhile, in Australia ...

The post “This sucker’s quick:” Biden test-drives electric Ford ute, fleshes out EV plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Impact completes Brigalow solar farm in Queensland but is now focusing on helping other project developers get over the line on finance.

The post Impact completes Brigalow solar farm, now looking at project financing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Telstra gets ready to challenge big utilities with new low carbon energy offer to its 13 million telco and internet customers.

The post Telstra gets ready to challenge big utilities with low carbon energy offer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian petroleum company Ampol will pilot carbon neutral offerings and build carbon trading capability as well as spend a minimum A$100 million ($78 mln) on “future energy” projects over the next five years.

Ampol wants us to believe it can transform itself into a low emissions fuel company – a big ask for a company that does nothing much other than sell oil.

The post Don’t bet on Ampol pulling off a zero carbon switch appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Aluminium producer gets funding to trial new technology that uses solar power rather than fossil fuels to turn bauxite into alumina.

The post Alcoa to trial new alumina process that uses renewables instead of fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Submarines controlled by artificial intelligence are being designed to take on military missions.

An environmental group has asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to reject utility Dominion Energy’s proposal to recover RGGI allowance costs due to the lack of a least-cost analysis or a prudent procurement strategy, according to documents filed this week.

Regulated entities in the Northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme shed carbon permit holdings after the March auction settled far below the secondary market allowance price at the time, a report published Thursday showed.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose to near all-time highs this week amid a flurry of speculative activity before the Q2 WCI auction, while RGGI allowances also rose on the secondary market on relatively thin demand.

Queensland government partly funds grid upgrade it says will support Kaban wind and battery hub snubbed at last minute by federal Coalition.

The post Queensland steps in to back wind and battery plant vetoed by Keith Pitt appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Why is Australia's government trying to transform clean energy agencies into fossil funding bodies? It marks a major global power shift.

The post How Australia’s government is trying to create fossil funding agencies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The NSW government has secured an extremely toxic bait to try to end the mouse plague. But there are safer alternatives. Robert Davis, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University Bill Bateman, Associate professor, Curtin University Damian Lettoof, PhD Candidate, Curtin University Maggie J. Watson, Lecturer in Ornithology, Ecology, Conservation and Parasitology, Charles Sturt University Michael Lohr, Adjunct Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

In order to avoid fungibility becoming a race to the bottom, the voluntary carbon market needs tools that recognise the variation in carbon returns and enables the creation of products that capture this variation, according to Sebastien Cross of BeZero Carbon.

While carbon removals will play a role in mitigating climate change, we cannot afford to take our focus away from the urgent objective of avoiding emitting in the first place, write Sarah Leugers and Owen Hewlett of Gold Standard.

Conservation watchdog given boost after decade of funding cuts that left it at ‘crisis point’

Natural England, the government’s conservation watchdog, is to receive a 47% increase in government funding this year as its role expands to support a “green recovery” and provide environmental scrutiny of the government’s controversial “Project Speed”.

The dramatic funding increase is a boost for wildlife protection and monitoring after a decade of deep cuts which left the agency at “crisis point” and its chairman, Tony Juniper, admitting that it would struggle to reverse declines in biodiversity.

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Scientists predict migration of the megabats, mostly found in eastern and northern Australia, could have significant effects on Tasmania’s ecosystems

Fruit bats may migrate as far south as Tasmania in the future as a result of extreme weather events linked to the climate crisis, new modelling suggests.

University of Tasmania scientists predicted the grey-headed flying fox could take “climate refuge” in the southernmost state in coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions continued on their current trajectory.

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