How can Europe decarbonise shipping while avoiding fossil fuel lock-in, reducing energy demand, and building a resilient maritime future?

An electric car is being sold every 100 seconds in Australia, but there is still a long road ahead to decarbonise the country's transport sector, according to the Electric Vehicle Council. The 10th anniversary edition of the annual State of Electric Vehicles Report shows how EVs have become mainstream within a decade, making up one in four new cars sold. Sales have more than doubled within a year and last month, EVs outsold petrol and diesel cars for the first time. "EVs are being taken up as a cost of living measure by households across Australia," Julie Delvecchio, CEO of the Electric Vehicle Council, said. Owning an EV is no longer a luxury reserved for well-heeled inner-city dwellers as electric cars come close to price parity with petrol versions. Some are now selling for under $20,000. This year's sales boom is being driven by suburban commuters, with the highest EV uptake in Tarneit, about 30 kilometres west of Melbourne. "It's very much an average Australian suburb with people who have mortgages in the six to seven hundred thousands," Aman Gaur, the EVC's Head of Legal, Policy and Advocacy, said. "They rely on their cars, they do not have access to...

Gas prices, a thin storage cushion and a bruising survey season are reopening the argument over how fast Britain should decarbonise.

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Patrick Schröder is a senior research fellow at Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre. A climate summit serious about implementation cannot afford to leave major emissions reductions off the table. Yet, that is the risk COP31 faces unless it makes reducing raw material use central to the way countries decarbonise their economies. On…

Finnish Energy says power price volatility drives market-based decarbonisation and lower costs, warning politicians against market intervention.

President Javier Milei set a two-week deadline for the Sea Lion oilfield project to be scrapped.

The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.

Thousands of campaigners have walked the proposed route of a 125-mile pipeline to highlight concerns over a giant Net Zero carbon capture scheme. The Peak Cluster project will use an underground pipe to funnel CO2 emissions from cement producers in the Peak District out through the Wirral and to storage beneath the seabed. ### With a cost estimate of up to £5billion, the project aims to balance the needs of the cement industry, which is notoriously difficult to decarbonise, with the demands of Net Zero. But the project has met fierce opposition from locals and politicians who complain about the scale and location of the scheme. Concerns have been raised over the size of the infrastructure, the impact on the rural landscape and also the safety implications of transporting high pressure CO2 near residential areas. ### TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say ### Wirral Council, Derbyshire County Council and Cheshire West and Chester Council have each voted to oppose the pipeline scheme. Wirral Reform councillor, Kathy Hodson, has said she was willing to "lay in the mud naked" to prevent land being dug up. On Sunday, thousands of campaigners walked in relay along the proposed route today to signal their opposition. The Great Pipeline Walk was organised by Action Against Carbon Capture Storage (AACCS). ### ### ### Participants walked, ran or cycled three to six mile segments, marking the route from the High Peak in Derbyshire to the Wirral. Ruth George, Derbyshire County Councillor for Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith, said: “The aim of the ‘Pipewalk’ is to raise awareness of Peak Cluster’s proposals, the impact they will have on our environment, and the way in which the pipeline is routed directly above so many of our communities, posing a lethal risk in the event of a leak of carbon dioxide. “Many people have concerns and we are aiming to bring communities together.” Organisers have said that their opposition is not to clean energy or Net Zero targets but to the Peak Cluster scheme specifically. Because of its scale, any decisions on the scheme’s future will be taken by Westminster, rather than local planners. ### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: * John Healey admits Britain's coffers are empty amid fears over next month's Budget * BBC slammed over news story claiming bare fingernails are 'racist and classist' * Ed Miliband vows to bring UK closer to the EU: 'Our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership!' ### The ‘pipe walk’, participants said, showed that “communities still have a voice” and was meant as an act of solidarity, not protest. Speaking after the walk, a spokeswoman said: “People did not turn out simply because of house prices or what might happen on their own doorstep. They came because they care about something much bigger. “They care about our environment. Our ecology. Our wildlife. Our countryside. And the species that cannot stand up and speak for themselves. “There remain serious questions surrounding the Peak Cluster proposals, including pipeline safety, emergency planning, environmental impacts and the short and long-term financial implications for the taxpayer. ### ### ### “Communities along the proposed route want those questions properly answered. “The pipe walk was about something else, too. It was about showing that communities still have a voice. “From one end of the proposed route to the other, people stepped outside their front doors and stood alongside people they may never have met, but with whom they share a common purpose. “Thousands of people across five counties came together in solidarity with one clear message: NO to the Peak Cluster pipeline.” Peak Cluster has previously promised that it will work with experts to minimise the environmental impact of the pipeline. To safety concerns, it has said that the project would be regulated by the Health and Safety Executive and pointed out that “the UK has a wealth of experience in designing, constructing and operating pipelines for gas”. The land will be restored once the pipe is laid, it says, and the project would prevent three million tonnes of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere every year. ### ### David Parkin, Chair of Peak Cluster, told GB News earlier this year: “We recognise that this infrastructure could affect communities along the route, and we do not take that lightly. “However, it plays a critical role in reducing the UK’s industrial emissions and enabling the continued production of materials that society depends on in a more sustainable way.” Because certain industrial sectors, including cement, are almost impossible to decarbonise entirely, carbon capture is seen as a route to reaching Net Zero without having to curtail production. Industrialist Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s energy firm, Ineos, has recently opened a carbon storage scheme in Denmark. He said he had hoped to develop a scheme in the UK but there had been a lack of Government support. The Government has committed £21.7billion to carbon capture projects over the next 25 years. ### **Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**

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Federal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced.

A Global Maritime Forum event highlights mixed progress on 2030 targets and leading shipowners see diversity of fuels and solutions as the way forward