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China has approved the setting up of a futures exchange in Guangzhou, moving closer to a carbon futures market as provincial officials in Guangdong are keen for the bourse to establish itself as an emissions trading hub spanning Hong Kong and Macao.

MPs criticise the Bank of England for providing financial help without attaching environmental strings.

Rate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The melting of ice across the planet is accelerating at a record rate, with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up the fastest, research has found.

The rate of loss is now in line with the worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on the climate, according to a paper published on Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.

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A factory with more than 800 plants has been discovered in a building beside the Bank of England – and the news had an unexpected effect on me

There’s always a detail in apocalypse fiction that looms horrifically in your subconscious from your first encounter with the genre, when you were a bit too young for it. Mine is plants bursting through concrete, that stark reminder that mankind is evanescent and nature is stronger. As a child, it was the most terrible thing I could imagine: grass growing through pavement, creepers tendrilling out of defunct offices. I think I got this phobia from The Day of the Triffids, possibly the only book in the British canon where the plants are the bad guy.

It’s easy to imagine it happening in the City of London, which is deader than every other dead place, eerie and full of foreboding. What happened instead was that someone established a cannabis factory of “significant size” (according to the police) right next to the Bank of England. It wasn’t the gigantic tent with the 826 plants that gave it away, but rather the strong smell commonly associated with the class B drug. Can you call a smell a smell when there’s nobody around to smell it? Philosophically, maybe not, but yes, in the eyes of the law.

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Paris-based company worth €70bn now seen as world’s most sustainable company on Global 100 index

A Paris-based tech company has seen off competition from the world’s best-known green businesses to be named the most sustainable corporation on the planet.

Schneider Electric has climbed the annual Global 100 index, from a ranking of 29 last year, offering the technology and energy solutions needed by the likes of retailer Walmart, hotel group Marriott and steel business ArcelorMittal to meet their climate targets.

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• At least 14 new calves seen off south-eastern US this season
• Advocacy group warns of ongoing ‘unusual mortality event’

Wildlife officials in Florida have reported an “encouraging” number of sightings of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the south-eastern US, including at least 14 new calves, three born to first-time mothers.

Related: Left stranded: US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists

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BioAmmo aims to make 50m of its plastic-free, biodegradable cartridges this year

One day a little over 12 years ago a Spanish entrepreneur, Enrique López-Pozas, was playing Airsoft when he was struck not by an opponent’s shot but by an equally uncomfortable realisation.

What, he wondered, would become of all the little plastic pellets being fired? And, come to that, what about all the shotgun cartridges discarded by hunters and sports shooters around the world?

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Another key federal government body, in this case responsible for overseeing emissions reduction projects, is stacked with Morrison government allies.

The post Morrison and Taylor continue to stack government bodies with fossil fuel allies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Gowing Bros takes equity stake in UNSW spin-off Lavo and orders 200-plus of its 40kWh hydrogen storage systems to install across its property portfolio.

The post Home hydrogen storage start-up lands equity investor – and major battery order appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A neat combination of new technology, repurposed batteries and old school looks and feels give the impression that this Kombi's fate was always to be reborn as an electric vehicle.

The post Something old, something blue: Electric Kombi conversion hits the spot appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Vattenfall announces plans to convert Moorburg coal plant, shuttered just five years after being commissioned, into a green hydrogen hub powered by wind and solar.

The post Germany’s youngest coal plant shuttered, considered for hydrogen transformation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The McGowan Government has made a suite of regulatory changes to improve governance arrangements for Western Australia's energy sector.

The post Changes to Western Australia’s energy sector governance appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Trina Solar has released the TrinaTracker Vanguard 600+ series in China, a product series that has passed TÜV and UL certifications, increasing energy efficiency by 2%-8%.

The post Trina Solar Releases TrinaTracker Vanguard 600+ Series increasing efficiency by 8% appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New joint venture to develop four east-coast hydrogen hubs, but may tap into coal-seam gas as the feedstock.

The post Joint venture targets four not-so green hydrogen hubs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian researchers unveil secrets to record-breaking perovskite solar cells in new paper.

The post “Poking holes” in solar cells the secret to Aussie perovskite world record appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The EPA is looking for a Senior Analyst to provide high quality multi-disciplinary analysis, advisory and implementation services that support the business as usual operations and change initiatives relating to the Emissions Trading Scheme and the New Zealand Emission Trading Register

The trading analyst will support the Fuels and Carbon Trading Manager to source LPG from domestic producers and imports and manage the carbon liability of the business.

The Program Manager will help build a strategic vision for the pursuit of globally-significant nature-based solutions to change.

Biodiverse Carbon is looking for a motivated Reforestation Carbon Project Officer to support the development of new large-scale reforestation carbon programs.

Kristalina Georgieva says investing to create resilient economies is a ‘win-win-win-win’ scenario

Helping the most vulnerable people to cope with the climate crisis can boost the global economy during the Covid crisis and governments should make this a priority, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.

Kristalina Georgieva said international responses to the pandemic must urgently take account of the need to adapt to the impacts of extreme weather and other climate shocks, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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