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A ban on new gas boilers from 2025 is one step to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, say energy experts.

Exclusive: consultations for asthma and other respiratory infections go up with increased dirty air, finds study

A “huge” increase in the number of visits to doctors by children with asthma problems occurs after a week of raised air pollution, according to a study. The number of inhaler prescriptions also increases significantly.

Dirty air is already known to increase hospital treatment for severe asthma attacks and other respiratory problems. But the new research is the first using clinical data to show increased illness among the much bigger number of people who seek treatment from their GP.

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There must be no more investment in new fossil fuel supply projects and no further sign-offs on unabated coal projects, the IEA said in a landmark report on how to achieve global net zero CO2 emissions in energy and industry without nature-based removals.

The UK is aiming to allocate the first free carbon allowances to emitters under its new ETS before the end of May, the government announced Tuesday, meaning trading in the market will very likely begin this week amid virtually no physical supply being available.

Nigel Topping acknowledges world is running out of time as he lobbies businesses and lawmakers in lead-up to Cop26 summit

The UK’s climate champion, Nigel Topping, says he is stubbornly optimistic that the world will converge on an agreement to forge a transition to a net zero future at the UN climate talks later this year.

Topping’s role in the run-up to the UN Cop26 climate summit, to be held in Glasgow in November, is to drive and encourage action from businesses, civil society, and local and regional government on climate change.

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Angus Taylor sets new regulations opening up Australian Renewable Energy Agency to support carbon capture and storage, and potentially gas projects.

The post Taylor files new regulations to push ARENA into CCS and gas projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Environmentalist actor, with other conservation groups, aims to rewild the entire archipelago and other Pacific islands in Latin America

Leonardo DiCaprio has announced a $43m (£30.4m) pledge to enact sweeping conservation operations across the Galápagos Islands, with his social media accounts taken over by a wildlife veterinarian and island restoration specialist.

The initiative, in partnership with Re:wild, an organisation founded this year by a group of renowned conservation scientists and DiCaprio, the Galápagos National Park Directorate, Island Conservation, and local communities, aims to rewild the entire Galápagos Islands, as well as all of Latin America’s Pacific archipelagos.

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Transcript of the Energy Insiders podcast from the Smart Energy Conference on May 13.

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In last week's budget, the federal government allocated money to restore the local environment around the mine. But it didn't disclose how much. Gavin Mudd, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Get ready for exponential change in the global energy landscape as a global tsunami of capital flows to support the science of climate change.

The post IEA’s simple message for Australia: No place for gas-fired recovery in net zero by 2050 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Funding for restoration of peatlands and tripling of tree planting in England also announced

Sales of peat compost to gardeners will be banned from 2024, the government has said. Ministers will also give £50m to support the restoration of 35,000 hectares of peatland by 2025, about 1% of the UK’s total.

The UK’s peatlands store three times as much carbon as its forests. But the vast majority are in a degraded state, and are emitting CO2, which drives the climate crisis.

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Governments must close gap between net zero rhetoric and reality, says International Energy Agency head

Exploitation and development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world is to stay within safe limits of global heating and meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, the world’s leading energy organisation has said.

In its strongest warning yet on the need to drastically scale back fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) also called for no new fossil-fuel cars to be sold beyond 2035, and for global investment in energy to more than double from $2tn (£1.42tn) a year to $5tn (£3.54tn) The result would not be an economic burden, as some have claimed, but a net benefit to the economy.

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A major new report from the IEA highlights a potential pathway to net zero - and Australia will be a loser if it doesn't act soon.

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The study looked at approximately 1,000 factories that make the raw materials for single-use products.

The Climate Policy is a new team that will act as the focal point for the department’s work on climate change. The precise shape, size and responsibilities of the new Climate Policy Team are still to be worked out and the new Deputy Director (DD), once appointed, will be expected to design and build the team working with colleagues within the Climate Energy and Environment Group within the Enterprise & Growth Unit and elsewhere in the department.

Origin tells market operator that the first units of Eraring - Australia's biggest coal generator - will close in 2030 in a staged exit.

The post Origin to close first unit of Australia’s biggest coal generator in 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New analysis from BloombergNEF finds green aluminium is already cost competitive, and Australia could be a global superpower.

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Wind industry leaders say that despite hot investor appetite and lots of opportunity, developers are in "excruciating pain" trying to get projects online.

The post “Harder than ever” to build new wind farms in Australia, industry warns appeared first on RenewEconomy.