The Sydney Morning Herald

Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor says lowering the cost of low-emissions technology will be a key driver in the world’s efforts to hit net-zero emissions, as he reaffirmed Australia’s ambition to reach the target “as soon as possible”.

Reneweconomy

State governments will be under pressure to lift their game on the regulation of networks, following the recent draft determination by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) to allow solar export tariffs.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Washington: US President Joe Biden has unveiled a massive US2 trillion ($2.6 trillion) infrastructure plan he says will allow America to beat China economically and position the country as a global leader in clean energy technology.

Yahoo News

Sharp divisions between the major global emitters have emerged at a series of meetings designed to make progress on climate change.

The Guardian

A senior European Union official has sounded the alarm over the rapid decline of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef while backing calls for all countries to make more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

The Mandarin

U.S. President Joe Biden wants the United States to take back up the mantle of global climate leadership. But that won’t be fully possible until his administration prioritises critical partners: African nations. Africa’s urban centres are swelling, threatening more emissions, and half of the global population growth over the next two decades is expected to occur in the continent. It must be a global priority to strike a balance between this ongoing development and its climate impact. And with Washington’s help, the sustainability strides made in Africa over the next decade can serve as models for countries worldwide.

The Spectator Australia

Australia’s by-sea-girtness, as much as its size, means meteorologists will always have their work cut out predicting the kind of weather which has caused such devastation on our eastern seaboard. The chorus of climate catastrophism which the floods triggered, on the other hand, was entirely predictable, even though these are the same voices which assured us only ten years ago that if we didn’t stop burning coal immediately our dams would never fill up again.

Reneweconomy

This article is the Total Environment Centre’s response to the orchestrated misinformation campaign being waged in the media against the AEMC’s draft determination on distributed energy resources (DER, not only solar) exports to the grid, which was the product of an 18 month long codesign process with the energy sector.

Reneweconomy

A new Australian research project will investigate how the growing number of small-scale energy devices, like rooftop solar and battery storage systems, can help in maintaining reliable supplies of power when the grid is impacted by sudden and unexpected equipment failures.

News.com.au

Australia will be included in an international rollout of a significant change to Google Maps in which directions will default to the route with the lowest carbon emissions, the company has confirmed.

ABC News

Kristin Stubbins was one the most frequent flyers at her firm, and not for lack of competition.

The Conversation

The resurgence in humpback whale populations over the past five decades is hailed as one of the great success stories of global conservation. And right now, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is considering removing the species from Australia’s threatened list.

Cosmos

Invasive species have cost the planet US$1.28 trillion over the past 50 years, according to a new analysis published in the journal Nature. The team of authors warn these costs will continue to soar unless prevention and control is improved.

News.com.au

A damning new report has painted a grim picture of Australia’s future, with one of the nation’s most renowned natural wonders set to suffer.

Cosmos

A new study of rocks in Western Australia’s Pilbara region rewrites the history of early continent formation on our planet.

In the Black

Two pandemics swept the world in 2020. The second - the growing use of single-use plastic as a COVID-safe measure - was considerably less reported, but no less dangerous.

Inside Waste

Ventia has been recognised as a finalist in the prestigious Banksia Sustainability Awards for its world-first, patented PFAS removal technology, known as SourceZone.

Ragtrader

Animal welfare group Four Paws Australia has welcomed the news that international luxury labels Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen have gone fur free.

Reneweconomy

As we head into April, the drumbeat on climate is beginning to quicken. It’s another big climate week in America, with Biden announcing a very big plan for new offshore wind – some 30 gigawatts by 2030. Biden is also set to detail a major infrastructure package that likely include record spending on climate, probably relating to electric vehicle charging and new energy efficient homes.

ABC News

A contentious proposed go kart track at the so-called home of Australian motorsport is set to be blocked under federal Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation.

The Age

Labor’s new electric vehicle policy would deliver big tax breaks to companies with fleets and could deliver significant growth in electric vehicle sales, experts say.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Berejiklian government to pause the approval of new coal mines in NSW, saying the industry is already in decline and some of the “gigantic rehabilitation” cost will end up with the state’s taxpayers.

The Sydney Morning Herald

I know a lot of people get quite dispirited when reflecting on the past decade or two of climate change and emissions pricing policy in Australia. For those deeply involved in the policy debate, the hours of work wasted in trying to design the various iterations of Australia’s attempt at a carbon emissions trading scheme a decade ago don’t bear thinking about.

Investment Magazine

At the end of February, the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) legislation was introduced to Parliament and was subsequently referred to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 22 April 2021.

Investor Daily

Human rights and environmental advocacy groups are pressuring mega investors such as BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase to cut ties with an Adani subsidiary, over links to the Myanmar military.

Reneweconomy

TPG Telecom, Australia’s third largest telco provider and owner of Vodafone Australia, says it will source all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, following a similar plan announced by Telstra last year.

Reneweconomy

AGL CEO Brett Redman has conceded that the traditional “gentailer” model for Australian energy utilities is breaking down, unable to cope with the pace of change in the energy market driven by the uptake of large scale wind and solar, battery storage and rooftop PV installations.

Reneweconomy

Oil and gas giant Santos has made a final investment decision on the Barossa gas project in the Northern Territory that will effectively operate as a “carbon emissions factory”, with gas as a side product, according to critics.

Pursuit

There’s been some progress in incorporating climate change into engineering design, but flood guidance must keep up with our changing climate

The Australian

Suncorp has been hit with 7600 flooding claims, sending it close to exceeding its $950m natural hazard allowance for the year.

ABC News

A large stingray left filleted on an Adelaide beach has upset beachgoers who want the animals protected.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jungle turning to savannah. Homes swept away by rising seas and monster storms. The world is on track for 3 degrees of warming by the end of the century. What does that mean? And what can we do about it?

News.com.au

They’re one of Japan’s top drawcards, but a disturbing development concerning the iconic cherry blossoms have left people worried.

The Mandarin

Improved weather conditions have pulled Australia’s environment out of its worst state on record, but recovery remains partial and precarious, new research reveals.

Yahoo News

An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet's tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to research Wednesday.

ABC Rural

In little more than 12 months Paula Grey's dairy farm in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, has been threatened by fire, emaciated by drought and inundated with floodwater.

Business Insider Australia

Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that these algae are a major contributor to the so-called “dark zone,” a strip of darker ice on the South Western coastline of Greenland which can be seen from space.

The Conversation

Fungi — a scientific goldmine? Well, that’s what a review published today in the journal Trends in Biotechnology indicates. You may think mushrooms are a long chalk from the caped crusaders of sustainability. But think again.

Lens

One day soon, climate change might change the way we dress. People are discarding clothes that they’ve never worn, or worn only once, says researcher Aleasha McCallion, and that’s wasting our natural resources and contributing to our greenhouse emissions.

News.com.au

La Nina – which helped bring huge rains to Australia’s east – is over. But as it vanishes, another climate driver has begun messing with our weather.