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State-owned Romanian utility CE Oltenia has crafted a restructuring plan that envisages €1.33 billion in government grants to help pay its EU ETS bills for five years, the company said.

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EU carbon prices rose nearly 4% on Wednesday to test Monday’s one-month high, but profit-taking and technical selling caused the day’s gains to completely unravel, traders said.

Scientists have sequenced the "code of life" of species from almost every branch of the bird family tree.

Big City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkey

There’s a new reason to engage with some of Australia’s most ubiquitous birds. A new app allows users to record the whereabouts of “big city” species like the sulphur-crested cockatoo and the Australian white ibis.

Researchers at the University of Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society have launched the Big City Birds app to assist scientists with data collection and help them better understand some of our most common species.

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Power consumption in EU energy firm E.ON’s markets reached last year’s levels during the second half of Q3, the company said in its quarterly results on Wednesday.

North Atlantic tropical storms are stronger for longer when they hit land because of global warming.

The firm says the project will create 6,000 new jobs in the Midlands and the North of England

Crucial fish stocks could disappear within five years without urgent action, so desperate fishers are using a new smartphone app to log alleged crimes

Illegal and destructive practices by industrial trawlers in Ghana have led to one of the worst overfishing crises in west Africa, with small pelagic species known as “the people’s fish” driven almost to the brink of collapse.

Scores of small-scale fishers are now fighting back against illegal trawlers using a smartphone app that allows them to record, log and report any alleged fishery crimes they spot out at sea.

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Oil and gas firm Woodside told investors on Wednesday it aims to develop a large-scale carbon offset portfolio to 2030 to meet new emissions targets, and has identified the potential to store as much as 3.4 billion tonnes of CO2e underground.

New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission is expected to recommend an increase in the country’s Paris target, according to climate minister James Shaw.

The coming decade will be crucial for mobilising funds for zero-carbon shipping fuels, an industry report released Wednesday said, renewing calls for the creation of a $5 billion R&D fund to help the maritime sector decarbonise.

South Korea on Wednesday sold just over half the allowances on offer at its monthly KAU auction, with prices coming in well below secondary market levels as expectations about oversupply tamed interest.

Bike-friendly measures introduced during lockdown have led rightwing populists to revive much-disproved myths

If you’re a fan of the historical notion that progress doesn’t move as a straight, upward line but tends to be a bit more wiggly, then there was an article about cycling in this week’s Mail on Sunday that very much proved the point.

Anti-cyclist pieces in the Mail are not exactly uncommon, but this one was notable because its key argument was that cyclists should “pay road tax”.

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New Zealand carbon allowances have inched up to all-time high levels again as supply remains tight with sellers happy to wait and see where prices go once the ETS reform kicks in next year.

Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain

Environmentalists have been heartened by Joe Biden’s victory as, if the US rejoins the Paris agreement as expected, it will give the world a much better chance of averting climate catastrophe. However, there are still hurdles to overcome to rein in emissions and keep warming to within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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Joe Biden has vowed to return US to Paris agreement and result brightens prospects for Cop26

Preparations for the next vital UN summit on the climate – one of the last chances to set the world on track to meet the Paris agreement – have been given a boost by the election of Joe Biden as president.

The election caps a remarkable few weeks on international climate action, which have seen China, the EU, Japan and others commit to long-term targets on greenhouse gas emissions to fulfil the Paris climate agreement.

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Experts accuse government of using EVs as ‘a scapegoat for falling fuel excise taxes’

South Australia’s controversial new electric vehicle charge has been labelled “a big tax on not polluting” by policy analysts and the EV industry.

It comes as MG launches the lowest price electric vehicle on the market in Australia yet – a $40,000 SUV crossover – that is about $10,000 cheaper than its nearest rival, the Nissan Leaf.

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Retail giant Woolworths Group joins RE100 initiative with pledge to power all of its operations with 100 per cent renewable electricity within just five years.

The post Woolworths pledges to source 100 per cent renewables by 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian researchers unveil a new artificial intelligence platform that fast-tracks the development of cheaper and more efficient solar cells.

The post Australian researchers build new AI that could solve challenge of cheaper solar power appeared first on RenewEconomy.