As Julie Bishop assures UN climate talks in Marrakech that Australia’s private sector increasingly sees it “as their responsibility and their business… to embrace low-emissions technology,” two new new global reports underline just how far behind the climate eight-ball the Turnbull government remains.

Details of Australia’s new embassy building in Washington D.C were announced on Tuesday by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Microsoft has inked two agreements for wind power in the USA, which combined represent 237 megawatts of capacity.

An undersea compressed air energy storage system for offshore wind farms is currently being trialed at a depth of 100 meters, about 200 meters from the shores of Überlingen, Germany.