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The Top Climate News for Wednesday 18 June 2025:

- Climate focused ReGen Ventures’ Byron Bay base is helping to lure the VC fund’s high-profile backers to its annual meeting

- Environment minister says consumer rebates for EVs will return

- Climate Council calls for €10,000 EV grants as transport emissions cuts ‘unlikely to be achieved’

- Turning coalmines into solar energy plants ‘could add 300GW of renewables by 2030’

- Govt discusses roadmap to implement stricter emission norms for four-wheelers

- Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster

- In Ireland’s peat bogs, rural traditions and EU climate laws are mired in conflict

- Israeli strikes damage Iran's underground nuclear site, agency says, as Trump issues ominous warning

- Supernovas may have triggered life-threatening changes in ancient Earth's climate. Scientists say it could happen again