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Free allocation of EUAs for energy-intensive industries has prevented these sectors from enabling the technological innovations needed for their decarbonisation and should be reconsidered, an advisor to a Europe-wide industry trade union said on Thursday.

As Britain eases out of its Covid-19 lockdown, nitrogen vehicle emissions look to be going back up.

Fish and Wildlife Service had sought to strip safeguards, which would have allowed a limited number to obtain hunting licenses

In a stunning victory for wildlife conservationists and indigenous tribes – and for bears – a US court ruled on Wednesday that grizzly bears living in the vast Yellowstone ecosystem will remain federally protected and not be subjected to sport hunting.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service had sought to strip Yellowstone-area grizzlies of safeguards conferred by the Endangered Species Act. This would have allowed the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to permit a limited number of people to obtain hunting licenses, though sport hunting would have remained prohibited within Yellowstone itself.

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The UN Secretary-General tells a meeting that it is "vital" the world moves towards clean energy.

An all-electric construction vehicle from the Staffordshire firm wins this year's MacRobert Award.

EUAs fell back below €29 on Thursday, maintaining distance from this week's year-high as news that lawmakers were considering measures to curb the market's volatility or limit speculative activity spooked some traders.

A future software update could activate full "level-five" autonomy in cars, the Tesla founder says.

Update to IUCN red list warns of hamster’s falling birth rate and high demand for fungus

Hamsters and fungi may not be poster species among those threatened with extinction but are no less important in ecosystems, according to an updated list of the world’s most fragile species.

The European hamster once scurried across much of Europe and Russia but has now vanished from most of its original range and on current trends will go extinct within 30 years, according to the update of the IUCN red list, the global database of species on the brink.

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A third of all the lemur species on Earth are "one step from extinction".

Danish renewable power juggernaut inks record offtake deal with world’s largest semiconductor foundry and world leader in green manufacturing.

The post Ørsted signs world’s largest corporate renewable PPA in Taiwan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Obsession with 4WD vehicles is derailing gains from the switch to electric as the big car makers pursue profit and sacrifice emissions.

The post Four-wheel drives are killing climate gains – bring on the Cybertruck appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Don Pattison lost his family home during the horrific fire season of 2019/20. But this is not a story of loss and grief. Rather, the destruction has set the context for the journey back.

The post We lost our home in summer bushfires. Now we’re going underground and off the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The sighting of young Cross River gorillas in Nigeria eases fears they will soon die out.

Last time CO2 was at similar level temperatures were 3C to 4C hotter and sea levels were 20 metres higher

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is approaching a level not seen in 15m years and perhaps never previously experienced by a hominoid, according to the authors of a study.

At pre-lockdown rates of increase, within five years atmospheric CO2 will pass 427 parts per million, which was the probable peak of the mid-Pliocene warming period 3.3m years ago, when temperatures were 3C to 4C hotter and sea levels were 20 metres higher than today.

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South Korea’s ETS prices collapsed nearly 10% on Thursday to their lowest levels since Jan. 2019, with support disappearing as industrials continued to dump surplus KAUs they normally would have banked.

Rio Tinto is preparing to shut down New Zealand’s only aluminium smelter next year amid high energy costs and a poor industry outlook, putting a stop to the rapid rise of NZ carbon prices as traders digested the prospect of closing the nation’s biggest electricity consumer.

Telstra laments lack of abatement opportunities in Australia as it turns to India for offsets that enabled it to declare itself carbon neutral.

The post Telstra becomes carbon neutral, but forced to buy most carbon offsets in India appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW prepares new call for wind, solar and storage projects in second renewable energy zone as it puts together plan to replace ageing coal fleet.

The post NSW to call for wind, solar and storage proposals for second renewable zone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A pioneering renewable hydrogen production facility being developed in Adelaide today celebrates a construction milestone with the start of installation of its key component, an electrolyser at Hydrogen Park South Australia (HyP SA).

The post Construction milestone in Adelaide for Australia’s pioneering hydrogen park appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Minister for the Environment has amended the list of threatened species and threatened ecological communities.