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A new AEMC rule explicitly factors potential climate change risks into network resilience, allowing DNSPs to spend on preventing major blackouts.

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The New Zealand Department of Conservation, which has managed a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta since 2006, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, white egg started emerging from a snail’s slimy neck. The land snails, otherwise known as the Mount Augustus snail, are found only in New Zealand and are among some of the largest in the world. They are slow-growing and can live for decades.

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A stocktake of the first 18 months of Vietnam and Indonesia's Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) has found less progress in some areas than hoped.

The US could support a variety of sectors to decarbonise while boosting federal and state economy by leveraging the 45V production tax credit and encouraging the development of blue hydrogen, according to a report published on Monday.

Canada's Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) credit values moved higher following re-election of the Liberal government late April, while programmes across the US largely stabilised heading into May anticipating actions that would direct price trajectory.

Cap-and-trade reauthorisation post 2030 presented California lawmakers with an opportunity to redesign elements of the ETS based on policy priorities, rather than defer key decisions to ARB, a legislative agency recommended in a report Wednesday.

A company owned by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull has sold nearly 1.4 GW of 10-hour pumped hydro energy storage projects to major Australian gentailer AGL.

The post Turnbull sells two pumped hydro storage projects to help AGL switch from coal to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Attorneys general (AGs) from more than 15 states filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a federal agency following its February suspension of a $5 billion electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure programme.

Australia's renewable building mojo is back - but lots of new capacity is lost to physical and financial constraints. AEMO sheds light on the shift in thinking needed to reduce this trend.

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The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus but has been stuck in orbit for more than 50 years.

A carbon credit financier and a Dubai-headquartered investment firm have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a global decarbonisation and climate solutions joint venture (JV), with an expected $100 million in initial investment.

A free market think tank is urging the Trump administration to use the US DOE’s Loans Program Office (LPO) to help enable the president’s national energy agenda, although it warns against using the tool to advance politically favoured investments.

An exchange announced Wednesday it has completed the successful delivery of some 50 CORSIA Phase 1-eligible credits at several dollars above both recent settlement prices and a special auction held late last year.

A researcher presented alternative use of California cap-and-trade revenues to dull the edge off of rising compliance costs expected to increase fuel prices, as lawmakers plan for extending the programme post 2030.

Under a Labor government, coal and gas have a fast-declining role to play in Australia’s energy mix – and nuclear has none at all. Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) announced this week the certification of Louisiana’s first water quality credits for nitrogen and phosphorus reductions, achieved through native cypress reforestation.

Loss of the vast Hornsea 4 offshore wind project is bad news but it reveals a big flaw in setting a deadline

• Danish firm shelves huge UK windfarm project over rising costs

“Immensely challenging” and pushing the limits “of what is feasibly deliverable”. That was the state-owned National Energy System Operator’s description of its own proposals on how to decarbonise electricity generation in Great Britain by 2030. In short, it thought clean power by that date, a key Labour manifesto pledge, was “credible” and “achievable” as long as little went wrong along the way.

Neso’s £200bn plan, detailing a rapid rollout of offshore wind, onshore wind, solar farms plus a major upgrade of the electricity grid, was adopted virtually unchanged by the government at the end of last year.

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First stage of initiative will introduce ‘keystone’ species to beaver enclosures in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

Elk could return to the UK after 3,000 years under plans by the Wildlife Trusts to reintroduce the “keystone” species into Britain’s landscapes.

The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust wants to introduce elk into two existing beaver enclosures in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with the hope of demonstrating that the large semiaquatic deer should be released to roam free in the wild.

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The simplification of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism will be approved before the summer by both the European Parliament and EU council thanks to widespread support, a lead member of the European Parliament said on Wednesday.

A widespread blackout in Spain and Portugal at the end of April has ignited fierce debate on Wednesday among European lawmakers gathered in Strasbourg, with critics of renewable energy seizing the moment to launch a broader assault on the EU’s green agenda.