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High greenhouse gas emitters should pay for carbon they produce, says IMF
Companies should be subject to globally agreed carbon floor price to reach Paris climate goals
Companies with high greenhouse gas emissions should be subject to a carbon price of $75 a tonne of carbon dioxide, the International Monetary Fund has said, as a way of reaching the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
A carbon floor price would mean that companies, including energy generators and heavy industries, would have to pay for the carbon they produce. At present, many countries and regions have their own carbon pricing systems, but there is no globally agreed carbon price.
Continue reading...US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending June 18, 2021
Euro Markets: EUAs rebound on power gains to limit weekly loss to 1.5%, UKAs trade at discount
Strong carbon price “a core element” of building decarbonisation, says think-tank
Asistente en Comunicacion, Programa UN-REDD – Asuncion, Paraguay
Asociado(a) Gestion del Conocimiento, Programa UN-REDD – Asuncion, Paraguay
Coordinador de Proyecto Pago Basado en Resultados de REDD (RBP), Programa UN-REDD – Asuncion, Paraguay
Especialista en Economia y Finanzas Sostenibles, Programa UN-REDD – Asuncion, Paraguay
SK Market: KAUs extend losses in rush to avoid cancellations
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including courting gannets and sleeping elephants
Continue reading...Analysts see initially modest China carbon price rapidly rising after 2025
The American south-west is running out of water. We’ve known this would happen for years | Kim Heacox and Jimmy Bluefeather
Welcome to the worst drought in an estimated 1,200 years
If water is the lifeblood of planet Earth, the American south-west is in big trouble.
John Wesley Powell, the one-armed US army civil war veteran who led the first white expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon – a daring boat run in 1869 – later became an ethnographer who wrote a prescient 1878 government paper titled: Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States. In it, he unflinchingly described the scarcity of water, and summarized that much of the American south-west, if it must be settled, should be settled lightly and modestly. Overpopulate it, and it will be unforgiving.
Continue reading...Philippines ministry backs intensity-based carbon market
Climate change: UN virtual talks make little progress
Great Solar Business Podcast: Grid 3.0 – What will the grid look like?
Networks expert and consumer advocate Mike Swanston shares his vision for Grid 3.0, and the central role that solar will play in it.
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EnergyAustralia has three options to avert Yallourn mine collapse
Company hopes to repair cracks in the embankment next to the Yallourn mine by the middle of next week, but didn't reveal plans for river diversion.
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LONGi launches N-type TOPcon bifacial module at SNEC 2021
LONGI Solar has unveiled it’s new Hi-MO N module, and launch a new “Lifecycle Quality” standard and showcase further module efficiency gains up to 25.21%.
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Three weeks without power? That’s the reality for thousands in Victoria – and it will happen again
Could this disaster have been avoided? And under climate change, how can the electricity grid prepare for more events like this?
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Coalition controlled committee questions legality of new ARENA regulations
Coalition controlled committee asks Angus Taylor to explain how new regulations issued for a key renewable energy funding body are not illegal.
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Mysterious coelacanth fish can live for 100 years – study
Research sheds more light on the giant ‘living fossils’ once thought extinct but which have survived since the age of the dinosaurs
The coelacanth – a giant, mysterious fish that has survived since the time of the dinosaurs – can live for 100 years, a study has found.
The slow-moving fish, which grow to be the size of a human, are nicknamed a “living fossil”, and also grow at a very slow pace.
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