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Companies have continued to deliver Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the government, despite not having to now they can choose to exit their contracts with its Emission Reduction Fund (ERF).

Mike Cannon-Brookes fires some choice language, and more than $650 million, at AGL board claims it has no other option than demerger.

The post “I’m sick of them f-cking it up:” Cannon-Brookes takes aim at AGL board appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Building houses better at withstanding the impacts of climate change is one way we can protect ourselves in the face of future catastrophic conditions. Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Independent North Sydney challenger talks Australia's failed climate leadership and the opportunity to seize a climate-focused economic future.

The post Meet Kylea Tink: North Sydney independent who wants to break climate gridlock appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Independent ACT senate candidate and former Wallabies captain says Australians could slash energy bills and emissions by going electric.

The post Electric cars and homes: Rugby great joins push to electrify Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists develop tandem solar cell with a certified efficiency of 29.2% and have clear steps to achieve yields beyond 30% in the future.

The post Swiss scientists set new record for tandem solar cell efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Details emerge of enormous WA project to combine wind and solar and 3GW of electrolysers to produce green ammonia.

The post Danish giant reveals details of giga-scale renewable hydrogen plans in Murchison appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Polling suggests junior energy minister Tim Wilson could lose his seat to an independent backing stronger climate action.

The post Junior energy minister Tim Wilson may lose his Liberal blue ribbon seat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL to plough on with demerger plan, announces partner for new fund to invest up to $5 billion in wind and storage assets.

The post AGL dismisses Cannon-Brookes, signs partner for $5bn renewables fund appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court this week will hear GOP lawmakers and a collection of coal companies and labour organisations make their case for blocking the implementation of the state’s newly-published RGGI regulation, after a previous hearing was cancelled.

CO2 output under the RGGI cap-and-trade programme rose in the first quarter of 2022 as greater oil-fired generation in the Northeast offset steep reductions in the market’s southern region, according to data updated Friday.

EU energy ministers are united in favour of stronger energy-saving measures and renewable energy expansion, they said on Monday as they brace for more gas supply disruption following Russia's abrupt halting of deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria last week.

The goal of our new web app is to help users engage with their elected representatives and put imperilled species on the political agenda this election and beyond. Gareth Kindler, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland James Watson, Professor, The University of Queensland Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Electric cars are important - but we can now electrify all land-based transport, from buses to bikes to trucks. We need good policy settings. Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Lawmakers in Vermont’s Senate last week passed a bill to create the US' first ever Clean Heat Standard (CHS), a market-based policy designed to lower GHG emissions in the building sector.

As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, a lack of rain and food prices soaring globally following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left many families in Kenya struggling to provide the iftar that ends their daily fast

All photographs by Peter Caton for Islamic Relief

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Up to 120,000 new homes halted in areas including Eden Valley and Norfolk Broads due to ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules

A legal requirement that new houses do not pollute nearby wetlands, rivers and nature reserves has halted development across a swath of England.

Forty-two local authorities in England were last month told they must ensure that new homes are “nutrient neutral” and do not add damaging nitrates or phosphates to river catchments and protected areas including the Eden Valley in Cumbria, the River Camel in Cornwall and the Norfolk Broads.

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Mike Cannon-Brookes makes dramatic market raid to become biggest shareholder in AGL, vowing to stop demerger and fast-track exit from coal.

The post Cannon-Brookes steps in to stop AGL demerger, fast-track coal exit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The New Zealand government should update its domestic ETS settings to ensure they align with the country’s NDC under the Paris Agreement to avoid a massive over-auctioning of NZUs in the coming years, an analyst said.

A Hong Kong-listed company has issued two non-fungible tokens (NFTs) backed by VCS credits generated by a China-based biomass project, but is finding interested buyers hard to come by at an asking price more than four times higher than regular voluntary offsets.