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A Northeast US trading firm opened a RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) account this week as speculators continue to flock to the power sector cap-and-trade scheme with allowance prices at four-year highs.

Inquest into Ella Kissi-Debrah’s asthma death hears Lewisham council was slow to tackle issue

Illegal levels of air pollution in the area where a nine-year-old girl lived and died should have been treated as a public health emergency, an inquest heard.

Instead the London borough of Lewisham moved at a “glacial pace” to take steps to address toxic air from traffic where Ella Kissi-Debrah lived and went to primary school, the inquest in south London was told on Monday.

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UN officials are considering ways of temporarily maintaining the CDM into 2021, aiming to avert killing off the offset mechanism before countries decide whether it can transition into the Paris Agreement era.

Major emitters in Western Australia won’t face mandatory offsetting or other GHG requirements under the state’s long-awaited climate policy package released Monday, but the government did announce a modest carbon farming and land restoration programme.

Some 300 homes in Fife to be fitted with free boilers, heaters and cooking appliances

Hundreds of homes in Scotland will soon become the first in the world to use 100% green hydrogen to heat their properties and cook their meals as part of a new trial which could help households across the country replace fossil fuel gas.

Some 300 homes in Fife will be fitted with free hydrogen boilers, heaters and cooking appliances to be used for more than four years in the largest test of whether zero carbon hydrogen, made using renewable energy and water, could help meet Britain’s climate goals.

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European court of human rights case could result in countries being bound to take greater action

The European court of human rights has ordered 33 European governments to respond to a landmark climate lawsuit lodged by six youth campaigners, the Guardian has learned.

The plaintiffs’ British barrister says it could be the most important case ever tried by the Strasbourg-based judges.

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Nemonte Nenquimo is one of the six environmental leaders to be awarded this year's Goldman Prize.

The Goldman environmental prize honours the achievements of grassroots activists in six continents, recognising their efforts to protect natural habitats and push for political change, often at great personal risk

• Plastic in paradise: Goldman prize winner’s fight to protect Bahamas

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New hearing into 2013 death of Ella Kissi-Debrah follows mother’s seven-year fight

An inquest is to consider evidence that illegal levels of air pollution caused the death of a nine-year-old girl, in a landmark legal case.

A coroner will be asked to rule that toxic levels of nitrogen dioxide, from the South Circular road in south London, led to the acute asthma attack that killed the primary school pupil, Ella Kissi-Debrah. Her mother, Rosamund, a former teacher, has fought for years for an inquiry into the role of air pollution from traffic in Ella’s death.

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British Lithium is prospecting in the county to find economically viable seams of the element.

You're more likely to drown at a beach than be killed by a shark. But there are things people can do to reduce the already low risk even further. Daryl McPhee, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Bond University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Regulator seeks input on whether it should declare a 154MW reliability shortfall in NSW, much less than the 1,000MW that Scott Morrison has claimed is needed.

The post AEMO asks regulator to declare reliability gap for Liddell closure, of just 154MW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genex secures $1.5m development deal with Japanese utility J-Power to commence development works for Kidston wind project.

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The AEMC's transmission pricing proposal will ultimately hurt and disincentivise investment in wind and solar in Australia.

The post It is time to put an end to AEMC’s controversial transmission pricing plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Horizon Power’s Onslow DER Project was announced State winner of the 2020 Australian Institute of Project Management Achievement Awards, in the category of Regional Projects.

The post Onslow DER Project wins prestigious national industry award appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Western Australia’s Labor-led McGowan Government announces members of its Future Battery Industry taskforce which will seek to grow the state’s battery industry.

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Exciting opportunity to be part of a newly established team of climate experts working for New Zealand’s most climate ambitious companies to accelerate our transition to zero-carbon by 2050.

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Biggest solar project in NSW approved by planning commission, despite resident concerns of heat islands and glare and council's fear of "batteries melting down like nuclear".

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The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is offering a role for someone to take a leading role in shaping UK energy, environment and climate change engagement with South West China.