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Why vulnerable is the new confident
Once a sign of weakness, it now represents courage and the ability to be real.
PETER HANNAM 1:54pm The recent decline of demand for solar photovoltaic panels would accelerate sharply if the Abbott government scrapped the renewable energy target (RET), potentially halving jobs in the industry, new research finds.
Barry Ritholtz It's time to throw out any preconceptions of climate change as a fight between green hippies and Big Oil.
An opposition proposal to prohibit Norway's $US815 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, from investing in coal companies has won the support of two minority parties whose backing the government needs.
President Barack Obama will lay out an agenda on jobs, the economy and the environment during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
The pace of consolidation in the solar manufacturing industry will accelerate in the next three years as the cost of the technology declines and installations surge, the founder of the fourth-biggest solar-panel maker said.
The world's biggest trading powers aim for global free trade in environmental goods, though they gave no timeline for a deal they said would boost the fight against climate change.
China's commerce ministry called on the United States on Sunday to stop anti-dumping investigations into imports of solar power products from China, expressing "serious concern" and vowing to defend its producers.
China will allow big emitters to use offset credits from nitrous dioxide (N2O) destruction to meet domestic climate targets, potentially limiting the ability of China's markets to be joined with other carbon markets.
Developers in China installed a record 12 gigawatts of solar panels last year, almost matching the total amount of solar power in operation in the US, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Wind and solar power producers said they’re at risk of losing investment after the European Union’s executive arm scrapped proposals for a mandatory target on renewable energy use in 2030.
George Liondis Westpac has been ranked the world’s most sustainable company in a major global coup for the Australian bank.
CO2 Group, Australia's biggest carbon project developer, said its chief executive has resigned as proposed changes to the country's climate policy force the company to pursue new growth areas.
Seven years after it set some of the world's most stringent environmental targets, the European Union is about to revise its long-term goals to take more account of industry and changed economic circumstances.
Climate change will play havoc with farming, and policy makers and researchers aren't fully aware of the significance on food supply, according to the World Bank.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are seeking to increase the efficiency of solar cells by helping them take advantage of more of the sun's rays.
Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi Arabian company, has teamed up with a European partner to build projects in the Arab nation's $US100 billion solar program.
The Netherlands will cut gas production at Groningen, the largest gas field in western Europe, by about a quarter over the next three years, after public concerns over earth tremors in the area.
Germany's economy minister wants to cut the support price paid for electricity from solar and wind power generators by about a third by 2015, according to a draft proposal for Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government.
Germany's economy minister wants to cut the support price paid for electricity from solar and wind power generators by about a third by 2015, according to a draft proposal for Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government.
PETER HANNAM Australia's world-leading efforts to drive down the cost of solar energy have been recognised.
BRIAN ROBINS Elevated demand amid heatwave weather conditions in southern Australia have prompted warnings of the potential that large users could lose electricity supplies for a time Thursday and Friday.
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for limiting global warming, backed by trillion-dollar shifts towards clean energy, a draft U.N. report shows.
Steel factories and thermal power plants in eastern China frequently exceed national standards, according to a study led by an environmental group in Beijing.
The European Union plans guidelines for shale drilling under proposals that may facilitate oil and gas extraction using the contested technique that's brought the U.S. toward energy independence.
Cloudy Britain is emerging as Europe's hottest market to build solar parks.
PensionDanmark A/S and other Danish pension investors backed a state fund to finance emission-reduction projects in developing countries as the Scandinavian nation seeks to export its climate know-how abroad.
US President Barack Obama ordered a broad review of the country's energy infrastructure, noting that factors such as rising demand and climate change have put increased pressure on the aging system.
North Europe's devastating storms sent wind turbines spinning and helped strengthen a new winter phenomenon for the region - negative electricity prices.
China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 - six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10% of U.S. annual usage - flying in the face of plans to tackle choking air pollution.
The value of the global carbon market will rise 15 percent this year to 46 billion euros ($70 billion), driven by the European Union's plan to postpone sales of pollution permits, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Ministers from Germany, France and six other countries call for the European Union to set a 2030 goal for renewable energy use, in opposition to their British counterpart who advocates a sole greenhouse gas emissions target.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hopeful the Keystone XL pipeline will eventually be built even as President Barack Obama delays making a decision on the $US5.4 billion project.
The European Union's emergency plan to help boost carbon prices may get all necessary regulatory approvals as soon as next month and start around April, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
China pledges further support support for its ailing solar power industry as the government seeks to revive a sector struggling with with overcapacity and falling prices.
China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, will assign credit ratings to companies in industries with heavy pollution or overcapacity based on their efforts to protect the environment.
Japan plans smart meters in every residence and factory by the early 2020s and 5.3 million fuel cells in homes by 2030 to tackle climate change, according to a report to be submitted to the United Nations.
The Chinese city of Tianjin has launched the country's fifth emissions trading scheme as the world's biggest-emitting nation took another step towards reining in its impact on the environment.
PETER HANNAM Christmas has come early for mining billionaire and newly minted MP Clive Palmer, with the federal government approving his monster China First coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.
The first day's trading in what will be by far the largest carbon market in China kicked off briskly yesterday with pricing in line with expectations, as Beijing continues its drive to slow its rapid growth of heat-trapping emissions.
Gas giant Santos' NSW branch could be slapped with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after it admitted to failing to report contamination and excessive salt levels at a drilling site in the state's northwest.
John Kemp "There is no denying the controversial reality of coal," Maria van der Hoeven, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), wrote in its annual report on the coal industry, published on Monday.
The U.K. government is ready to open an area the size of Wales for shale drilling next year, doubling the space available for exploration.
Gareth Hutchens, Peter Hannam The federal government has cut billions of dollars from programs ranging from the environment to health and indigenous legal aid.
Opponents of a northwest NSW coal mine vow to continue protesting, after human barricades stopped tree-clearing bulldozers entering the site.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new cabinet sends a message on her priorities: Nurturing Germany’s economy takes precedence over the drive to renewables.
The European Union adopts an emergency law change to alleviate a record glut of emission permits in the region’s carbon market and help prices recover from near all-time lows.
Australia this week surpassed 3 million credits issued under its carbon offset scheme for agriculture, forestry and waste, but uptake of new projects is low with regulatory uncertainty weighing heavily on project developers, experts say.
China's Suntech Power said its restructuring manager would investigate the planned sale of its main unit to Shunfeng Photovoltaic International for legal infractions - a move sources say could delay the $US495 million deal.
China's southern province of Guangdong will start auctioning 3 million metric tons of carbon permits on Dec. 16 with the highest debut price in the nation.
The U.K.'s ambition to cut carbon emissions by half is affordable and mustn't be watered down, the government's adviser on global warming said.
Once a sign of weakness, it now represents courage and the ability to be real.
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