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Wildlife groups welcome ruling as high court dismisses judicial review by NFU on all grounds

Farmers have lost a challenge to the government’s cancellation of the badger cull in Derbyshire in a high court ruling that has been welcomed by wildlife groups.

A judicial review of the environment secretary’s decision to halt a planned expansion of the cull to Derbyshire last September brought by the National Farmers’ Union was dismissed on all grounds.

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Airlines could avoid buying CORSIA units through the mid-2020s if nations alter the emissions baseline for the international aviation offset system, but the EU made no mention of changing that provision in its proposal to implement the ICAO programme’s pilot phase on Wednesday.

A carbon market investment fund in April handed back most of the gains made the previous month after a bet on volatility went sour.

Climate change could leave the 1,000-year-old conifers too stressed to seed, but a two-person cone-gathering operation aims to safeguard their survival

Hunched against the wind in Tasmania’s central highlands are the floral relics of the last ice age. Walking among them, armed with a large pole and a cloth bag, is James Wood, the coordinator of the Tasmanian seed bank. It is the first time in five years that Tasmania’s 1,000-year-old conifers have seeded, and he is determined not to miss it.

It is the third week of April. A coronavirus outbreak has occurred in Tasmania’s north-west, causing the premier to close two regional hospitals and place 5,000 health workers and their families in quarantine. And Wood is walking a deserted stretch of the Overland Track, alone but for Justin Dyer, his guide from the Tasmanian Walking Company, in search of stands of pencil pines, or Athrotaxis cupressoides.

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Environmentalists call for crackdown on ‘destructive’ vessels after fleet spotted

A fleet of Russian supertrawlers has been spotted fishing off the coast of Scotland in a protected area, raising concerns by environmentalists over the impact of industrial vessels on marine life in UK waters.

The 11 vessels, among the largest trawlers in the world, have spent “significant time” fishing in the Wyville-Thomson Ridge, a British special area of conservation (SAC), according to data analysed by Greenpeace.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek to review the EU's non-ETS Effort-Sharing Regulation (ESR) should the 27-nation bloc agree to increase its 2030 emission target, she said Wednesday following pressure from her own political party.

AEMC seeks views on proposed introduction of five-minute settlement rule change, as regulators focus on Covid-19 response.

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EUAs extended a five-week low early on Wednesday but then ticked higher despite struggling to absorb the UK's bumper auction and several bearish technical and fundamental signals.

African climate negotiators want next year's COP27 UN summit to go ahead in Africa as planned, despite this year's postponement of the UK-hosted talks to 2021.

UK police department takes advantage of new electric vehicle fleet's silent running to sneakily listen for wildlife poacher's gunshots.

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South Korea’s monthly CO2 auction failed to sell out on Wednesday as secondary market allowances suffered a second consecutive day of heavy losses, closing nearly 10% below the previous session.

European commission finds welfare gaps, non-compliance and poor planning in trade of animals to North Africa and the Middle-East

The welfare of millions of cattle, sheep and goats exported from the EU is being put at risk by failings including heat stress, bad planning and a lack of information from the destination country, a new European commission report has found.

Among the systemic problems identified were poor planning for high temperatures, an issue that has been raised repeatedly by campaigners. In summer, the report said, animals “in many vehicles arriving to ports” must sometimes “endure temperatures of over 35C”.

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Survey shows food waste generated has risen from £111 to £148 per restaurant per week

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Food waste generated by UK restaurants dishing up takeaways during the lockdown has risen as a result of consumers’ “unpredictable ordering patterns” during the pandemic, research has revealed.

Unusual fluctuations in demand have led to an increase in food waste generated in takeaway outlets rising from an average of £111 per restaurant per week in normal times to £148 – equivalent to a £16.7m rise for the sector as a whole since lockdown, according to the research.

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A crediting mechanism for big Australian emitters beating their CO2 targets would put a downward pressure on offset prices without adding fresh demand and could force the need of a new type of carbon credits to distinguish higher-value land-based units, analysts said Wednesday.

Companies want to power greener economic recovery following Covid-19 pandemic

Britain’s biggest green energy companies are on track to deliver multi-billion pound wind farm investments across the north-east of England and Scotland to help power a cleaner economic recovery.

Scottish Power plans to “repower” Scotland’s oldest commercial wind farm as part of a £150m scheme to develop a clean energy cluster in central Scotland capable of supplying 100,000 homes with green electricity.

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Environmental groups warn of the influence the fossil fuel industry is exerting over the Morrison government's economic response to Covid-19.

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Missed the Stimulus Summit? SEC has you covered with new website and links to recordings of all of the day's presentations.

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Lion is proud to announce that it has become Australia’s first large-scale carbon neutral brewer.

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Greenpeace investigation highlights how Murdoch press used misinformation to protect the fossil fuel industry from blame for climate fuelled bushfires.

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BP's proposed renewable hydrogen plans in W.A. involves 1.5GW of new wind and solar plants, three times the current renewable energy capacity in that state.

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