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31 May 2024

  • Keir Starmer in front of the words Change and Scottish Labour

    Starmer admits he flew by private jet to clean energy jobs rally in Scotland

    Labour leader says it was ‘most efficient form of transport’ from Wales and party has offset the carbon
  • Australian federal police commissioner Reece Kershaw

    Australia news live
    AFP concerned about youth radicalisation, Senate estimates hears – as it happened

    This blog is now closed
  • Can I install a heat pump in my Victorian home?

    Heat pump mythbusters
    Can heat pumps be installed in older properties?

    Critics claim the technology is best suited to newbuilds – but studies reveal success with retrofits and in poorly insulated homes

30 May 2024

  • Off-shore oil platform

    No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds

  • Eraring Power Station, New South Wales, Australia.

    Origin Energy offered to sell Eraring power station to NSW government for $544m

29 May 2024

  • wind turbines

    Increasing use of renewable energy in US yields billions of dollars of benefits

    New study published in Cell Reports Sustainability finds emission reductions provided $249bn of climate and health benefits
  • Workers installing solar panels on a roof surrounded by scaffolding.

    Make accreditation mandatory for low-carbon heating installers, says Which?

    Widening government-run scheme would counter mistrust among householders, says consumer group
  • Construction work at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the UK

    CSIRO stands by nuclear power costings that contradict Coalition claims

    The Coalition has attacked the GenCost report that found nuclear power plants would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind

28 May 2024

  • Brent Finlay in farmer's gear silhouetted against a bright blue sky

    The rural network
    In the largest windfarm in the southern hemisphere, ‘renewable energy farmers’ look to the future

  • A large pollution-spewing oil refinery.

    Big oil uncovered
    Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows

27 May 2024

  • Adam Morton

    Present Tense
    On Australia’s climate and extinction crises, the major parties both have questions to answer

    Adam Morton
    The Coalition has no climate policy. But Labor’s positions are undermined by its confused stance on gas and the delay of new environmental laws

25 May 2024

  • Ed Miliband

    Just Stop Oil ‘alienates people’ from its cause, says Ed Miliband

    Labour shadow energy security secretary agrees climate crisis is emergency but ‘massively questions’ activist group’s tactics
  • UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

    Coalition’s brave nuke world a much harder sell after new CSIRO report

    The agency’s GenCost analysis says a first nuclear plant for Australia would deliver power ‘no sooner than 2040’ and could cost more than $17bn
  • Climate protesters outside the French asset manager Amundi headquarters on Friday to denounce its holding in energy company TotalEnergies

    Nearly 175 arrested as climate protesters target France’s TotalEnergies and key investor

    Demonstrators gathered outside Paris meetings of energy giant and Amundi, with some forcing their way into fund manager’s tower block

23 May 2024

  • Nuclear power is more expensive than most other sources

    One big chart
    One Big Chart: how does the cost of nuclear power compare to renewables?

    Peter Dutton has suggested Australia should build large-scale nuclear reactors, but CSIRO’s GenCost report shows the price compared to solar and wind
  • towering electricity pylons stretch across a green field amid a blue sky

    National Grid taps shareholders to help fund £60bn low-carbon energy switch

    Infrastructure firm raises £6.8bn to connect homes to renewable energy sources across US and UK

    • Corporate welfare may keep the lights on. But backing Eraring power station will have other costs for the NSW government

      Peter Hannam

    • A nuclear reactor next door? It could be good news on the home front

    • Extending life of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station is ‘deeply disappointing’, green groups say

22 May 2024

  • a smart meter next as a woman pours herself a cup of tea from a freshly boiled kettle

    Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice

    Charity says tech problems and poor customer service mean millions in Great Britain missing out on promised benefits
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