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Federal Labor promises a leg-up – and a home base – to businesses seeking to manufacture clean energy technologies and other climate solutions in Australia.

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Full-sized digital scans reveal shipwreck in stunning detail, showing unopened champagne bottles.

IRENA report says lessons learned from scaling up wind and solar to become cheapest options for new electricity generation must be applied to emerging technologies.

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Even if the industry could make the shift, there’s not enough land or renewable energy potential on Earth to produce all the sustainable fuels airlines need. Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University Brendan Mackey, Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University David Simon Lee, Professor of atmospheric science, Aviation and Climate Research Group Leader, Manchester Metropolitan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A plastic removal project at a banana plantation in northern Queensland, Australia this week was registered under Verra’s plastic programme and became the second project to receive its WCC plastic credits.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), the nation’s stock market watchdog, has highlighted the need for transparency, as it seeks to clamp down on greenwashing by corporate entities, while the price for Australian Carbon Credit Units has fallen.

Labor's retrograde pandering to the tax-avoiding multinational gas cartel is almost as counterproductive as the "gas-led recovery" brain-fart of the previous government.

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Orchid Energy says it is investigating the feasibility of building a multi-gigawatt portfolio of offshore wind farms off the coast of Far North Queensland.

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After old crisp packets wash up on a beach, the BBC asks what is being done to improve packaging?

Belief in climate change seems to be linked to willingness to cooperate for the common good. This suggests there may be ways to bridge ideological divides to combat complex problems. Ananish Chaudhuri, Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, University of Auckland Quentin Douglas Atkinson, Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland Scott Claessens, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

US-based commodities exchange operator NYMEX will relaunch trade in EU Allowance futures and options next month, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The Zimbabwe government has declared all current carbon offset deals in the country “null and void” and will take a 50% revenue cut of all future contracts, a media outlet reported Tuesday, in what could further imperil a large, already beleaguered REDD+ project and set a precedent for other countries to extract similar concessions.

Uncertainty over fuel availability and infrastructure amongst the risks jeopardising efforts to meet the global shipping sector’s decarbonisation targets, according to a new report.

An area the size of Belgium will be needed to meet the EU’s renewable energy targets by 2040 for just France, Germany, and Italy, according a consultancy report that noted how large chunks of land are precluded from development because of strict regulations and environmental limitations.

Throughout last winter, 81% of homes in a new study were colder than the recommended minimum – the coldest fell to a minimum hourly average of 5 degrees. Cold homes can have deadly consequences. Cynthia Faye Barlow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide Lyrian Daniel, Associate Professor in Architecture, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Community batteries are popular. But that doesn’t mean they’re always the right tool for the job. We have to make sure they do what we want them to do Bjorn Sturmberg, Senior Research Fellow, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Alice Wendy Russell, Research fellow, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University Louise Bardwell, Research Assistant, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Marnie Shaw, Associate professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Most traders expect the California-Quebec current vintage carbon auction on Wednesday to clear at a small-to-medium discount to prevailing allowance prices, though some feel bolstered sentiment in the WCI programme could lead to the first premium settlement in a year.

Italy's government and businesses shouldn’t make citizens choose between keeping their jobs and advancing the low-carbon transition, the European Commission's climate chief Frans Timmermans said Monday.

The burgeoning biodiversity market should be given more flexibility around the measurement and reporting of impact as it grows, compared to voluntary carbon, and also starts further along the development process, according to a senior member of standard body Verra, speaking at an event on Tuesday.