The Canberra Times

The government's plan to expand the remit of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to include carbon capture and use, carbon sequestration and hydrogen has been met with suspicion in some quarters, with the Greens promising to block the legislation in the Senate.

The Guardian

The New South Wales government has been ordered to redo world heritage assessments for its proposed raising of the Warragamba Dam wall after a federal analysis found it had failed to consider the impact on iconic species including the platypus.

ABC News

A council in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has rejected a proposal to build the state's first lead battery recycling plant in the municipality, saying lead from the plant posed too big a risk to the community.

The Guardian

It is beyond regrettable when scientific evidence is ignored or diminished because it doesn’t fit apparently predetermined views

The Guardian

We also faced the gross insult to our intelligence, told it was not man-made climate change that was to blame for the fires

The Sydney Morning Herald

On September 7, for the first time in Australia’s history, renewable energy was generating more power than coal. For solar, wind and other renewables to reach more than 50 per cent of supply is pretty astounding given the calamitous rhetoric around Australia’s supposed failures in renewable energy.

Reneweconomy

It has been an unusually dense week of climate and energy policy announcements in Australia. Some, such as help for new interconnectors that ease the integration of wind and solar, make sense. Some, such as reducing funding for government research agencies and changing their mandate to include support for fossil fuels are the realisation of long-held efforts to erode government support for zero emissions technologies. Others, such as a ‘hydrogen hub‘, could go well, if fuelled by renewables, and terribly, if fuelled by fossils.

Insurance Business

As the impacts of climate change worsen year after year, businesses are seeking more ways to prepare for the challenges caused by natural hazards – and Zurich might have found the best way to address them.

Money Management

Climate change is the biggest environmental, social and governance (ESG) concern for NGS Super members with the firm saying 90% of the ESG enquiries it received related to this issue.

Cosmos

Honeybees continue to cause quite a buzz with their smarts. Previous studies have found that not only can they understand basic maths, they can also connect symbols to numbers and transfer information about an object from one sense to another.

ABC News

Ken Pimlott once commanded a firefighting army. As the former chief of the world's largest firefighting force, Cal Fire, he had more than 15,000 people and 50 aircraft at his disposal.

Farm Weekly

A PROPOSAL to produce Sulphate of Potash (SoP) fertiliser from hypersaline brine at Lake Wells, a remote WA salt lake, has been approved by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).

Yahoo News

Scientists have found a clever new way of measuring ocean warming, using sound waves from undersea earthquakes.

Independent Australia

Toxic emissions from burning coal can cause serious health damage to not only the environment but to all humans, including the unborn, writes David Ritter.

B & T

Sustainability and innovation are at the core of the 2020 Australia National Team Kit, revealed live today by Nike and Football Federation Australia for thousands of fans.

The Sydney Morning Herald

One of Australia's leading environmental groups has called the federal government's inclusion of gas in its renewable energy agencies' mandate "deeply concerning", and said a focused approach on new energy technologies would create three times as many jobs as fossil fuel investment in the future.

SBS World News Australia

Critics have argued the federal government's overhaul of Australia's renewable energy agency risks propping up technologies linked to fossil fuels.

Sky News Australia

APPEA CEO Andrew McConville says the government’s investment in low emissions technology would go a long way to helping Australia move more rapidly to meeting its Paris climate change emissions reductions target.

News.com.au

South Australia is “leading the nation” when it comes to hydrogen. putting the state in the running to house a $70m hydrogen export hub.

The Australian

Scott Morrison has increased pressure on Anthony Albanese to outline Labors emissions reduction targets and explain to Australians how

The Age

Councils are engaging lawyers to fight the Andrews government's West Gate Tunnel soil dump, as the state's environmental watchdog approves landfill expansions that would never be allowed under the current permit system.

The Fifth Estate

The release of Australia’s “gas-fired recovery” plans this week – topped off with new rules to allow government clean energy finance to flow towards carbon capture and storage –should hardly come as a surprise.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Labor found out the hard way at the last election that it cannot be all things to all people when the country splits on whether to dig more coal out of the ground.

The Guardian

This will undermine competitiveness, destroy innovation and prop up a failed polluting fossil fuel industry

Reneweconomy

A Covid recovery plan based around wind, solar and energy efficiency would deliver a stronger economic recovery for Australia, with lower unemployment, higher living standards, and contained government debt, an independent analysis by former Treasury economist Chris Murphy has found.

The Guardian

The federal government’s increasingly desperate and ideological energy market interventions are costing us all

The Conversation

If Labor were threatening to build a power station, the Liberals would likely be screaming “socialists”.

The Monthly

A plan to tackle unemployment and climate change is staring the government in the face

The Conversation

This week’s announcement of mandatory disclosures of climate-related risks for companies and financial institutions is arguably the New Zealand government’s most significant climate policy — even more so than the Zero Carbon Act itself.

The Daily Telegraph

Every residential lot in a major urban growth area of Sydney will be required to have at least one eight-metre-high tree in the backyard and one five-metre tree in the front yard.

Reneweconomy

Consider the octopus – although you may never eat those chewy little suckers again. Only 600 million years or so ago, the story goes, the evolutionary tree branched in two directions. While ours, the vertebrates, developed a single brain and central nervous system, invertebrate mollusks like octopi went in a different direction.

The Australian Financial Review

The world's largest investor is pressing companies and stock exchanges to set a global standard for the disclosure and auditing of climate change risks.

Business Insider Australia

Nespresso, known for its strong espresso and coffee, is taking a bold stance on climate change.

The Fifth Estate

The booming industrial sector is going great guns under Covid with people shopping more online and forcing up demand for more logistics space, but will the low carbon profile of many of these buildings as flagged by the Green Building councils of Australia and New Zealand potentially lead to unintended consequences.

Reneweconomy

Australia is on track to increase its total share of renewable electricity generation to 30 per cent by the end of 2020, the Clean Energy Regulator has confirmed in a new report published on Thursday.

The Fifth Estate

A shocking number of Australians experience energy poverty and its only expected to get worse post-Covid as people spend more time at home. But there’s tried and tested tactics to alleviate energy poverty and boost the economy at the same time.

The Fifth Estate

Australia, like the US is trying to stick to the coal agenda despite cleaner sources of energy making the fossil fuel irrelevant to our futures.

Yahoo News

Hundreds of back alleys in Montreal have been turned into community gardens and parks, creating safe meeting places for pandemic-weary city dwellers eager for fresh air and greenery after months of isolation at home.

The Fifth Estate

Europe’s president Ursula von der Leyen has called for “NextGenerationEU to kickstart a European renovation wave and make our union a leader in the circular economy”.

The Guardian

Matt Wright – known as ‘the outback wrangler’ – came across the large reptile while clearing logs in a river path in the Northern Territory

7 News

The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could be driven to extinction by climate change, a new study has found.

The Age

Victoria’s state logging agency faces another possible court case, with three community environment groups accusing it of illegal logging in the Central Highlands.

Yahoo News

Chile's environmental court confirmed Thursday a final order to close Canadian company Barrick Gold's huge Pascua Lama mining project, on hold since 2013 over environmental concerns.

7 News

If carbon emissions continue at current rates, so much mercury will leach from thawing permafrost that fish in the Yukon River could become dangerous to eat within a few decades, researchers say.

The Age

The environment regulator is hiring dozens of surveillance experts, intelligence analysts and forensic accountants to staff a special taskforce for cracking down on polluters and rogue operators in the waste industry.

Yahoo News

When you add it up, the total amount of synthetic microfibres going into the wider environment as we wash our clothes is an astonishing number.

Yahoo News

Households have been warned against a dangerous recycling habit after an irresponsible disposal left a residential street covered in smouldering rubbish.