Solar photovoltaic pioneer Professor Martin Green says solar module prices will continue to plummet, reaching 10 US cents per watt by 2023.
South Korea to spend $40 billion on world’s biggest floating wind farm
Three months after announcing it was building the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, South Korea now wants to build the world’s biggest floating wind farm.
Westpac takes ‘small first step’ towards oil and gas divestment
Westpac has told oil and gas producers it will no longer accept them as new customers unless they have clear strategies aligning them with the Paris goals.
Companies warned that ‘greenwashing’ could have legal consequences
Companies that rush to make net zero pledges without examining the firm’s ability to meet the goals could be guilty of “misleading or deceptive conduct”.
Australia spends more propping up fossil fuels than it does on the Army
Federal and state governments are spending more than $10 billion a year subsidising the fossil fuel industry, mostly through fuel tax credits.
Morrison’s last minute climate token: $70m a year for ‘international partnerships’
New initiatives mean Morrison will now go to Biden’s climate summit with $1.1 billion of promised investment, but no new emissions targets.
Morrison dodges net zero, throws cash at blue hydrogen and CCS instead
The $540 million plan will fund carbon capture and storage technology and methods for making ‘clean’ hydrogen out of gas or coal.
Energy giant Stanwell flags coal exit as it pivots to renewables and storage
Queensland’s state-owned energy generator may put its two coal plants on “standby” mode as more renewables come onto the grid.
Hydrogen-powered space rockets are coming to Queensland
Queensland space company Hypersonix plans to use green hydrogen produced in Brisbane to fuel zero emissions rockets.
CCS, but not as you know it: US prize targets cement’s monster emissions
Two prize-winning companies have developed technology that can inject carbon dioxide into concrete and store it there “for good”.
