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Cheap, throwaway clothing was past its sell-by date even before the Leicester garment factory reports. Brands like Boohoo need to change their act – and so do consumers

During lockdown, everyone’s id has been allowed to float untethered. Obsessions, manias, strange desires and perverse fantasies have risen to the surface as the conventions of normal life melted into a free-floating miasma of Netflix and pasta bakes.

Judging by the spike in sales of fast fashion, many people across the nation are buying outfits for an alternative fantasy life rather than their homebound realities. In their imagined Sliding Doors timeline they’re having brunch cocktails on a hotel balcony in Ibiza or dancing the night away in “the club”. And so they logged on to cheap clothing sites and bought a polyester playsuit, some bold separates and a nylon dress in a snappy print that will fall apart after three wears.

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Australian project developer Corporate Carbon has hired an experienced offset market expert to head up the strategic development and origination team of its advisory arm.

Carbon permits in South Korea’s emissions trading scheme saw a fourth consecutive session of losses on Tuesday as traders increasingly realise the COVID-19 driven economic downturn means the market will be oversupplied for the foreseeable future.

The European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) on Tuesday voted in favour of an amendment to fast-track international shipping into the EU ETS via the bloc's monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) regulation for maritime emissions.

China’s biggest coal company is set to make huge windfall profits under the national CO2 emissions trading scheme after data showed Tuesday the CO2 intensity at its power plants is far below even the strictest benchmark proposed for the carbon market.

Dinosaurs are thought of as giant creatures, but new work adds to evidence they started out small.

The pipeline, which protesters fought against, is ordered to conduct a fresh environmental review.

Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds

More than 5,600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3bn in coronavirus aid from the US federal government, according to an analysis by Documented and the Guardian of newly released data.

The businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, as well as refiners, pipeline companies and firms that provide services to the industry.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has awarded over 300,000 carbon credits to three coal mine methane power stations in its latest offset issuance, which topped 550,000 credits in total.

The heat in June helped fan wildfires and released 59m tonnes of carbon dioxide, scientists say.

A Lancet study estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish population has developed antibodies.

Accounts from Indonesian crew on illegal fishing operation reveal ‘inhumane’ conditions including bodies dumped at sea

When Sepri and Ari boarded a Chinese tuna fishing vessel in February 2019, the 24-year-old best friends were excited at the prospect of working together and having adventures at sea. Lured by the promise of high wages after being jobless back in their village in Indonesia, they told their families they would bring home “a lot of money” and make them proud.

Neither of them saw their families again. Both men died at sea after weeks of agony: working 18-hour days without adequate food or water and under the threat of violence, according to survivors who gave harrowing accounts of the deaths to the Guardian – including their bodies being thrown overboard. 

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Proposed £3bn environmental funding for UK contrasts with Germany’s £36bn investment

Environmental groups have reacted with disappointment to details of the government’s Covid-19 economic rescue package released by the Treasury.

On Monday night the government announced some details of the announcement expected on Wednesday, including a £1bn energy efficiency upgrade for public buildings and insulation for some social tenants, who could save up to £200 a year on their energy bills as a result. A Green Jobs Challenge fund will provide £40m for green charities working on improving England’s landscapes, with the money to be spent on projects such as tree-planting and cleaning up rivers. A further £50m will go to innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from social housing.

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Western Power to pilot new energy management platform for 'flexibility services', boosting renewables penetration and supporting network strength.

The post Western Power taps Schneider for new ‘flexibility’ platform using solar and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Six Tesla Megapacks with 15MWh combined capacity installed on UK grid in JV between Fotowatio Renewable Ventures and British renewables developer Harmony Energy.

The post First Tesla Megapack big battery system switched on in UK appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ASX-listed ClearVue inks deal to have its solar glass units integrated with the ultra-energy-efficient building component system of leading US construction materials company.

The post ClearVue opens solar window to trillion-dollar US construction market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Iberdrola receives clearance from the Foreign Investment Review Board, and board endorsement, for takeover of the ASX-listed Infigen Energy.

The post Spanish firm Iberdrola receives FIRB clearance for $864m Infigen takeover appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla turns 10 as a listed company, and becomes the most value car company in the world as investors dial in the end of the ICE age for Big Oil and Big Auto.

The post It’s taken Tesla just 10 years to end Ice Age for Big Auto and Big Oil appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It's painfully clear nature is buckling under the weight of farming's demands. There's another way – but it involves accepting nature's limits. Sue McIntyre, Honorary Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

State policies boost confidence in clean energy sector to highest levels, despite Covid-19 disruptions and lacklustre federal energy policy.

The post States give clean energy sector big confidence boost in absence of federal policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.