Australian state offers A$60 mln in decarbonisation, critical minerals grant funding
The Western Australian state government has opened a new round of funding worth A$60 million ($39.6 mln) from its New Energies Industries Funding Stream to drive investment in green iron, renewable hydrogen, carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), and critical minerals.
Read MoreHopes for hydrogen not yet dimmed -survey
Hopes for decarbonisation via new energies like clean hydrogen are not entirely dead in the water, with total committed investment now at over $110 billion across 500-plus projects that have cleared their major final investment decision (FID) hurdle, a report said Tuesday.
Read MoreThai national oil company hits go on country’s first CCS project
Thailand has pulled ahead of the pack in Southeast Asia as its national oil company sanctions the country’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, valued at over $300 million.
Read MoreAustralian miners urged to share renewables infrastructure to decarbonise
Australian mining companies in the Pilbara region of Western Australia risk slowing down their decarbonisation progress if they don’t adopt common-user infrastructure approaches to renewable energy to power emissions reduction technology, a government agency report warned Monday.
Read MoreAustralian airline retires mostly voluntary carbon credits as emissions rise
Airliner Qantas retired over 365,000 carbon credits in Australia’s 2024 financial year, which ended June 30, 2024, with the bulk going to its voluntary carbon programme (VCP), while emissions rose over previous years.
Read MoreActivists say Australian fossil project approvals will shave down 2035 NDC
The Australian Labor government’s ongoing approvals of fossil fuel projects since returning to office will make it more difficult for it to set a more ambitions 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), analysis by an NGO released Wednesday found.
Read MoreAustralia opens consultation for hydrogen reverse auction tenders to Germany
Australia has opened consultation on its H2Global joint tender, or “doubled-sided auction scheme”, with Germany, valued at €400 million, to drive renewable hydrogen development and demand in both nations as a central plank to wider decarbonisation efforts.
Read MoreHydrogen cannot be a half measure for clean steel, think tank says
Half measures such as using hydrogen as a reductant in place of coking coal in a traditional blast furnace to make steel do not offer the deep emissions cuts the sector needs, a think tank argued this week.
Read MoreAustralian regulator defends monitoring after activists urge methane leaks at LNG facility be fixed
Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has defended its emissions monitoring methods after accusations of regulatory failure were levelled at government agencies by environmental groups over a methane leak at a facility covered under the Safeguard Mechanism.
Read MoreJapanese company moves on Australian carbon management junior
A Japanese major has taken a position in a company that assists others in meeting Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism requirements, the latter said Friday.
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