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Morrison and Taylor use promises for new 'clean hydrogen' hubs as a guise for channelling more than $285m into CCS projects.

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Solar and wind power are on track to become the new baseload electricity supply for global energy markets as early as 2030, McKinsey says.

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Neither major political party can be bothered with vehicle emissions standards, let alone a policy that might change consumer behaviour. Utterly hopeless.

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Canavan triggers choas within Coalition after declaring 'net zero dead', while Labor hits back at 'lazy and toxic' climate scare campaign.

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Owner of Hillston solar farm says it has reached full operation less than three months after first energisation.

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The world's biggest CCS project hasn’t worked as planned and taxpayers will be left with the liability.

The post If Chevron, Exxon and Shell can’t get carbon capture right at Gorgon, who can? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Scientists believe the reptiles have shifted from marine prey towards land-based food sources in the Territory, helping to boost numbers

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The exponential increase in saltwater crocodile populations in the Northern Territory in recent decades may be partly a result of them preying on feral pigs, new research suggests.

Scientists who have analysed the diets of saltwater crocodiles in the Territory believe the reptiles have shifted from marine prey to predominantly terrestrial food sources in the last 50 years – driven specifically by an abundance of feral pigs.

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A collection of Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant owners and labour organisations on Monday filed a court challenge to prevent the state’s newly published RGGI-modelled cap-and-trade regulation from taking effect, arguing the programme is an unconstitutional tax and falls outside existing authority.

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 Canada needs to increase its stringency requirements for subnational CO2 pricing systems for industry and foster better public reporting practices to help the country hit its 2030 emissions target, according to a report released Tuesday by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.

The Bahamas has proposed legislation that will chart a course for the Caribbean nation’s participation in the voluntary carbon market, a move that follows other legal frameworks emerging from host countries and raises questions on how these play into the unregulated market’s norms.

The price of nature-based carbon credits could rise to as high as $15 in the voluntary market by year-end, according to analysts on Tuesday who added that units generated by renewables and energy efficiency projects will fall or remain flat under the weight of a supply glut.

Pressure is mounting on an influential non-profit group to drop its classification of burning waste as an “alternative fuel” in cement kilns, with environmental campaigners claiming that millions of dollars meant for climate mitigation will instead prop up one of the world’s most climate-polluting industries.

Plans to launch a new EU carbon market covering buildings and transport are likely to be rebuffed by European Parliamentarians in favour of even sharper reforms of the current ETS, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday just three weeks before a key parliamentary committee is due to forge its position.

EU lawmakers are weighing up the possibility of introducing limits on speculative trading in the EU ETS, though they acknowledge that there is a role for intermediaries to service compliance participants in the carbon market, a leading MEP said on Tuesday.

Over-the-counter online trading platform Emsurge Carbon Marketplace has originated its first deal, it announced Tuesday, the latest provider seeking to facilitate trade in the fast-growing voluntary carbon market.

Retired GP Diana Warner, accused of obstructing M25, joined by two others in the act of ‘civil resistance’

Three members of Insulate Britain have disrupted a magistrates court trial, gluing their hands to court furniture and paying tribute to the environmental activist who died after setting himself on fire outside the US supreme court.

Dr Diana Warner, a retired GP from Bristol, had been due to face trial at Stratford magistrates court on a charge of causing a public nuisance by obstructing junction 14 of the M25 on 27 September last year.

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A Singapore-headquartered bank has teamed up with a regulated digital exchange to offer tokenised carbon credits that the bank’s customers can use to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.