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Wind-dominated Denmark to host northern Europe’s largest solar farm
European Energy gets green light to develop northern Europe’s largest solar farm, a 300MW project set for the municipality of Aabenraa.
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CORRELATIONS: EUA link to power and coal prices strengthens amid wider market turmoil
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Coronavirus: Denmark imposes lockdowns amid mink covid fears
It’s Scott Morrison versus the world about his gas-fired fantasy
The electoral turmoil within the world’s second highest emitter of greenhouse gases (number one for oil and gas, by a decent margin) is going to last a few weeks even after a winner is declared, so it’s worth taking a moment to pause and thinking about how Australia’s climate future is closely interlinked with the...
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Graph of the day – Without a big government stick, gas power will decline in Australia
Increasingly, it seems gas is becoming the main focus of global climate debates, as coal enters a structural decline around the world (albeit one that is too slow). With that in mind, today’s graph of the day is the contribution of fossil gas to Australia’s National Electricity Market into the future, as modelled by the...
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Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air
Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark? Well, it’s complicated
EU Market: EUA recovery rally enters third day amid buying spurt, looming supply curbs
Global food production emissions 'would put Paris agreement out of reach'
Study calls for more focus on farming and food waste, behind a third of greenhouse gas production
Our diets and agricultural production around the world are so carbon-intensive that emissions from the global food system alone would be enough to put the Paris climate goals out of reach, even if all the other major sources of emissions were closed down, research has shown.
Farming and food account for about a third of global greenhouse gas production at present. The world’s food systems produced about 16bn tonnes a year of CO2 from 2012 to 2017.
Continue reading...EU receives over 300 proposals for clean tech projects chasing €1 bln of Innovation Fund cash
Free allocation of 2021 EU carbon allowances to be delayed -govt announcement
ArcelorMittal sees output recover in Q3, prepares ‘green steel’ plans
RFS Market: RIN prices spike on prospect of Biden election victory
Spanish utility Iberdrola unveils €75 bln decarbonisation plan
Danish Covid-19 mink variant could spark new pandemic, scientists warn
Mutations in mink herds and wildlife such as weasels, badgers, ferrets may pose risk to human health and vaccine development
A Danish vaccine specialist has warned that a new wave of coronavirus could be started by the Covid-19 mink variant.
“The worst-case scenario is that we would start off a new pandemic in Denmark. There’s a risk that this mutated virus is so different from the others that we’d have to put new things in a vaccine and therefore [the mutation] would slam us all in the whole world back to the start,” said Prof Kåre Mølbak, vaccine expert and director of infectious diseases at Denmark’s State Serum Institute (SSI).
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Wizz Air expects Q4 capacity drop as COVID resurgence reverses summer recovery
UK campaigners set out plan to meet Paris agreement and beat Covid recession
Plan includes home insulation and replacing gas boilers to ensure country reaches its climate targets
A decade-long rollout of home insulation and heat pumps to replace gas boilers is urgently needed to enable the UK to meet its climate obligations and recover from the Covid-19 recession, campaigners say.
A government scheme to insulate homes, requiring households to apply for green grants, began in September and is due to finish next March. That will leave tens of millions of homes still leaking energy and relying on fossil fuel heating, which must be phased out for the UK to meet its net zero carbon goal.
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