2018 was boom year for renewables despite political chaos, report finds
Clean Energy Australia snapshot shows investment in large-scale projects has doubled to $20bnDespite Canberra remaining locked in ongoing partisan war about emissions reductions, and Malcolm Turnbull...
View Article‘Historic breakthrough’: Norway’s giant oil fund dives into renewables
Experts say even nations that got rich on fossil fuels are seeing the future is greenNorway’s $1tn oil fund, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is to plunge billions of dollars into wind and...
View Article'The perfect storm': hydrogen gains ground on LNG as alternative fuel
With demand set to rise across the world, Australia is set to become a global primary producer of hydrogen In March, the Queensland University of Technology made history when it achieved the first...
View ArticleAmazon accused of abandoning 100% renewable energy goal
Slow progress on powering firm’s datacentres using renewables raises questionsAmazon has been accused of abandoning a much-publicised goal of running its datacentres on 100% renewable energy – instead...
View ArticleCoalition 'tying themselves in knots' on electric vehicles, Mike...
Labor’s 50% target for new car sales ‘is ‘very achievable’ and not ambitious, Australian tech billionaire saysMike Cannon-Brookes says the Coalition has tied itself in knots over Labor’s electric...
View ArticleIs there a beautiful, briny solution to the world’s clean water crisis?
Desalination is often dismissed as being expensive and polluting. But advances in tech are putting it back on the agendaIt’s tipped to be the key environmental challenge of the century – and there’s...
View ArticleQueensland solar projects could become ‘unviable’ due to safety regulations row
Clean Energy Council says requiring electricians to mount commercial solar panels could cost industry up to $390mSolar projects in Queensland could become “unviable”, the renewable energy industry’s...
View ArticleDutch engineers build world's biggest sun-seeking solar farm
The 15 floating solar islands will possess sunflower-like ability to turn to face the sunDutch engineers are building what will be the world’s largest archipelago of islands made up of sun-tracking...
View ArticleThe joys of springs: how Kenya could steam beyond fossil fuel
Engineers are tapping the Rift Valley’s subterranean energy to power an expanding economyA faint smell of sulphur, a shrill hiss of gas and a Rift Valley panorama punctuated by 30 pillars of steam mark...
View ArticleIf the house is on fire, who has the 'flying water tankers'?
Greta Thunberg has got the Guardian Upside team thinking: how DO we get out of this?If Greta Thunberg is right, and the house is on fire, then who are the people with the fire extinguishers? Or as...
View ArticleWe must have a green industrial revolution. And Labour will lead it | Rebecca...
We must draw on our history to find a way through the environmental crisis that faces usWhere I grew up, visits to Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum were a staple rainy-day activity. I remember...
View ArticleCoalition gets a miserable 4% on climate change policy scorecard
The Australian Conservation Foundation gives Labor a better 56% and rates the Greens a near perfect 99%The Coalition has rated a miserable 4/100 on the Australian Conservation Foundation’s climate...
View ArticleModelling that shows Labor’s climate policy could cost billions is ridiculous...
We should be talking about positioning Australia for a low-carbon future, instead it’s carbon wars againThe national debate about climate policy is off the rails again.We should be talking about...
View ArticleThe obsessive focus on imaginary costs of climate action is harming our...
With Australia’s current policy, the government is saying to business to sit on their hands and do little for another decadeThe current election campaign discussions on climate change fails to address...
View ArticleBritain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882
Landmark follows government pledge to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2025Britain has gone a week without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since Queen Victoria was on the...
View ArticleThe climate change election: where do the parties stand on the environment?
With the global and local environment at crisis point, Australians have a clear choice at Saturday’s election. Here are the parties’ key policies This has been called the climate change election, and...
View ArticleHas the politics of climate change finally reached a tipping point? | John Vidal
People increasingly see the environmental crisis as a national priority. This is an opportunity for bold action from governmentLast week a small campaign group in the staunchly conservative town of...
View ArticleGreens would demand $1bn fund from Labor for 'just transition' of coal workers
Richard Di Natale says plan would be one of the first things Greens would bring up with Shorten government on climate changeThe Greens would demand $1bn to help workers and communities transition away...
View ArticleLabour reveals plans to fit solar panels to 1.75m homes
Jeremy Corbyn to make pledge as part of party’s ‘green industrial revolution’Labour have announced plans to fit solar panels to 1.75m homes lived in by socially housed or low-income households as part...
View ArticleLabour to end energy consumer 'rip-off' and renationalise network
Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long-Bailey will say heat and electricity are a human rightLabour will announce plans on Thursday to seize back control of Britain’s energy network from private shareholders...
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