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CP Daily: Monday November 30, 2020
Climate change: Temperature analysis shows UN goals 'within reach'
Australia’s states have been forced to go it alone on renewable energy, but it’s a risky strategy
Several Australian states are going it alone on the the energy transition, forced to act on renewables after the federal government effectively vacated the policy space.
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Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro
An area seven times larger than Greater London has been lost in what one activist called a ‘humiliating and shameful’ destruction
A vast expanse of Amazon rainforest seven times larger than Greater London was destroyed over the last year as deforestation surged to a 12-year high under Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Figures released by the Brazilian space institute, Inpe, on Monday showed at least 11,088 sq km of rainforest was razed between August 2019 and July this year – the highest figure since 2008.
Continue reading...Vales Point owners pocket another $62m dividend from coal generator bought for $1m
Vales Point owners share in another $62 million windfall dividend from ageing coal generator they bought from NSW government for just $1 million.
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NSW and ACT ministers play it cool on electric car tax
Senior ministers in NSW and the ACT extinguish ideas of following other states in adding an EV tax, a move that is at odds with other jurisdictions around the world.
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California fuel consumption declines in August amid COVID-19 pandemic
Brazil's Amazon: Deforestation 'surges to 12-year high'
WCI emitters added length prior to Q4 auction results as speculators cut positions again
EU Market: EUAs soar beyond €29 on colder weather, recording huge 23% November gain
Carbon floor price will undermine, distort EU ETS, energy exchanges warn
Policy Intern, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership – Brussels
Australia's states have been forced to go it alone on renewable energy, but it's a risky strategy
Director for Climate and Energy, Rud Pedersen Public Affairs – Brussels
UPDATE – EU set to overachieve its 2020 emissions reduction target
EU carbon market must include methane emissions from 2030 -NGO report
New Brunswick seeks retroactive start for large emitter programme
Talks to finalise EU Climate Law expected to drag into next year -sources
The UK's farmers face upheaval, but a reform to subsidies is needed | Simon Jenkins
British agriculture will be transformed utterly by bold new proposals
This is a good week to start a revolution. With Brexit now on the brink of deal or no deal, Britain could yet retreat behind a wall of tariffs and protectionism. But if a free-trade deal is done and borders stay open, the way is clear for British agriculture to be transformed utterly. Today a seven-year transition plan has been announced by the environment secretary, George Eustice. It switches the money, currently £2.4bn a year, pumped into farm support from merely subsidising an industry to safeguarding the countryside and supporting good food and animal welfare. As the plan goes out to consultation, it will face a hundred reservations, but freed from the EU’s longstanding, anti-conservation agricultural policy it is emphatically in the right direction.
Within a decade, taxpayers will stop paying farmers on the size of their farms, now roughly £233 per hectare and comprising a third of farm incomes. This has been a massive distortion in favour of rich landowners. By 2028 farms are expected, says Eustice, to be “sustainable businesses that do not need to rely on public subsidy”. But lest that leads to arable degradation and the erosion of nature, and further exacerbates the climate crisis, the present subsidy is to be redirected to what the plan rightly called “public goods”.
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