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The EU will need to carefully calibrate its 2030 renewables targets with the bloc’s carbon market to avoid depressing EUA prices due to reduced power sector demand, analysts said in a report last week.

A "forgotten" coffee plant that grows in warmer conditions could help ensure the drink's future.

Some of the more than 2,000 taken to court after UK demonstrations tell why they felt impelled to act

• Extinction Rebellion prosecutions showed spectrum of climate protest
• Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts

Just after 10am on a bright and sunny Monday in April 2019, hundreds of people stepped off the pavement and on to the road on Waterloo Bridge in London.

Within a few minutes, one of the main crossings over the River Thames was full of people, tents were erected, banners unfurled, mobile kitchens opened and trees in planters dragged into the carriageway.

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More than 400 climate scientists sign letter that says activists are being targeted at pivotal time in fight against global heating

• Extinction Rebellion prosecutions showed spectrum of climate protest
• ‘I’ll continue to fight’: the prosecuted Extinction Rebellion protesters

Peaceful environmental protesters are being threatened, silenced and criminalised in countries around the world including the UK and the US, according to some of the world’s leading climate scientists and academics.

More than 400 leading experts – including 14 authors from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – say that non-violent civil disobedience from groups like the school strikers, Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement have transformed the debate around the climate crisis in recent years.

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There were professionals and parents, tears and eloquence, as the courtrooms filled to overflowing

• Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts
• ‘I’ll continue to fight’: the prosecuted Extinction Rebellion protesters

In the past two years, I have spent a lot of time at City of London magistrates court. As part of Extinction Rebellion’s media team, I have followed the mass prosecution of hundreds of peaceful climate campaigners.

It began with plea hearings for those charged after our April protests. Every Friday through the summer and autumn of 2019, two courtrooms filled to overflowing with XR defendants, their friends and supporters. The media coverage of April had showcased the young and the flamboyant, but the people who appeared were from across the spectrum: professionals, parents, retirees, the vast majority first-time activists.

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Suez vessel’s crew said to be ‘relaxed but apprehensive’, while 50 miles away a cautionary tale plays out on another ship

For two years Mohammad Aisha has been the lone resident of an abandoned container ship marooned off Egypt in the Gulf of Suez. If he needs to charge his phone, get drinking water or buy food, he has to row to shore, although he can only stay for two hours at most as the area is a restricted military zone. According to one doctor who examined him, the malnourished sailor has started to exhibit similar symptoms to prisoners held in poor conditions.

Aisha has been the custodian of the 4,000-tonne MV Aman, trapped onboard as a prolonged legal battle to sell the vessel and pay the crew plays out thousands of miles away. Less than 50 miles north, the crew of the Ever Given, now immersed in its own legal struggles, are hoping to avoid anything close to the same fate. On Sunday, representatives from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), an umbrella union that represents seafarers, boarded the ship to check on the crew’s wellbeing.

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The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) is seeking a senior policy analyst to join its team in Brussels to work on EU and international climate policy, starting as soon as possible.

The teenage activist spoke to Greg James about climate change and Ikea meatballs.

Another near disaster in mid-April was the result of a lot of thermal generation – coal, gas and nuclear – being off line for maintenance, not renewables performing poorly.

The post Texas has another close call, sparking more false claims about wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Murdoch media serves up some "jagged bulldust" and delivers a record amount of myths and misinformation about EVs to its readers of "common clay."

The post “Jagged bulldust”: Why the Murdoch media hates electric vehicles so much appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Analysts have welcomed the joint US-China statement on climate change released over the weekend but warned against lifting expectations too high, whereas the outlook in Japan is brighter after a bilateral announcement made on Friday.

The Ingenuity drone completes the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.

Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight

Phasing out fossil fuel is a crucial step to address the climate emergency. But to do so will mean facing not only political and economic obstacles, but legal ones. Fossil fuel companies can use domestic and international laws to demand compensation for bans on fossil fuels or prohibitions on the extraction of oil or coal. The legal system can make our collective transition to a green economy easier, or more difficult; among other things, it can increase the bill we pay for a healthy environment. Like big tobacco, big oil can and will litigate.

Related: It's unavoidable: we must ban fossil fuels to save our planet. Here's how we do it | Roland Geyer

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We are looking to hire an experienced Carbon Offset Project Manager on a permanent basis, with the location being flexible. There will be regular travel to Africa required for this role. This role will support the selection, development and implementation of carbon offset projects in Africa and then manage a growing portfolio of projects.

To move towards zero carbon, the government must focus on overconsumption by the wealthy and powerful

While the government gears up to hold the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, it continues to bail out Britain’s biggest polluters by granting tax credits to major oil and gas firms and slashing taxes on domestic flights within the UK. This is precisely the wrong way to go about meeting the Paris climate targets. If ministers are serious about the government’s environmental agenda, they should be enforcing policies that dramatically reduce the carbon footprints of society’s richest, and severing political ties with polluting industries.

In a recent report that I co-authored with a team at Sussex University, we argue that governments must focus on addressing the overconsumption of the rich in order to successfully drive down emissions. According to one recent analysis, emissions from the poorest 50% of the EU population fell by 24% from 1990 to 2015, while the carbon emissions from the most affluent 10% of EU citizens grew by 3%, and emissions from the wealthiest 1% – the super rich – grew by 5%. As work on the “polluter elite” shows, this problem is made worse by the political power and influence that these groups have over government policy, an issue that has once again come to the fore in the UK.

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Total Eren to collaborate with ASX listed Province Resources on the development of a huge wind, solar and green hydrogen project in Western Australia.

The post French giant Total Eren signs on to massive 8GW green hydrogen project in WA appeared first on RenewEconomy.