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The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday called for the EU to strengthen its ETS and non-ETS carbon pricing to help meet its decarbonisation goals, playing down the carbon leakage risk that to date has resulted in heavy industries getting the vast majority of their EUAs for free.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices fell further below the WCI auction reserve value this week as secondary market activity declined, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) dropped beneath the supply-curbing Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger price.

The Senior Technical Advisor (the Consultant) will assist in connecting the EU4Climate project and its beneficiaries in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the EU best practices and recent developments related to climate change policies and greening agenda.

Illegal hunters are damaging farm property, shooting at buildings and killing livestock. So why do farm trespass laws target animal activists? Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England Alistair Harkness, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

It is time to consider the community and social factors underpinning a non-optional critical component of Australia's energy transition.

The post How Australia’s energy transition might trip over the wires appeared first on RenewEconomy.

In a letter to the Japanese company, activists call for rapid transition to products sourced from plantations and recycled fibre

More than 40 Australian environment groups have called on Japan’s Nippon Paper Group to remove timber logged in Victoria’s native forests from its supply chain in the aftermath of bushfires and a landmark judgment that found a government forestry agency repeatedly breached conservation regulations.

It comes as a legal injunction halted VicForests’s operations in a further 14 coupes in the state’s central highlands and amid growing pressure for a statutory review of Australia’s national environment laws to reconsider the industry-wide exemption for logging.

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Government advisers have set a course through the pandemic to net zero. Is Boris Johnson capable of following it?

The colossal challenge facing human civilisation, of ending our reliance on fossil fuels in short order, has almost certainly been made harder by the pandemic. Ever since scientists discovered that the Earth was warming as a result of human activity, it has been a struggle to get people, governments and businesses to do anything about it. Even in those countries least resistant to the evidence of rapidly approaching danger, something else was usually seen as more important. In the past few months, once again, the climate emergency has been knocked off the top of world leaders’ to-do list by the more immediate threat of the virus.

Recognising this, the environmental movement came up with the excellent idea of a green recovery. The annual report published on Thursday by the Committee on Climate Change, which provides official advice to the UK government, is a crucial, national component of that global effort. It sets out to tell Boris Johnson, his ministers and the British public how we can embed the lessons of Covid-19 in the next phase of carbon cuts.

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CO2 prices three to seven times higher than RGGI's Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger prices are necessary for New England states to meet their long-term economy-wide GHG abatement goals, analysis commissioned by power producers said Wednesday.

The Energy Community secretariat will this summer release a study setting out a roadmap to introduce carbon pricing in the Western Balkans and Eastern European countries, an official at the regional organisation said Thursday.

Global emissions from shipping in 2020 are set to shrink by up to 35% year-on-year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but could recover quickly as progress to tackle maritime pollution remains slow, researchers have projected.

It’s 38C in Siberia. The science may be complicated – but the need for action now couldn’t be clearer

There’s an Arctic heatwave: it’s 38C in Siberia. Arctic sea ice is the second lowest on record, and 2020 may be on course to be the hottest year since records began.

For many people, such news induces a lurch of fear, or avoidance – closing the webpage because they don’t want to hear yet more bad news. A few might think “It’s just weather,” and roll their eyes.

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Robin Hood-style shoplifting session at London supermarket ‘because poverty sucks’

A new political party was launched in London on Thursday by a group of activists from Extinction Rebellion, who marked the event by shoplifting a haul of supermarket goods to highlight the instability of global food distribution.

The stunt involved five members of the nascent Beyond Politics party walking out of Sainsbury’s in Camden with shopping trolleys filled with food but without paying.

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EUAs slipped below €25 early on Thursday, dropping back from the previous session's four-month high as traders flagged warnings about a rapid correction as wider markets showed more weakness.

The UK could experience some of the highest UV levels ever recorded, on Thursday.

The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated corporate-focused leader to join our technical team, reporting directly to the Chief Technical Officer. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape and lead efforts to address global climate change in corporate action while gaining exposure as a leader in the field.

Mary Jackson was among the African-American women whose story was told in the film Hidden Figures.

One of the world's biggest financiers of fossil fuel developments has signed a major solar off take deal with one of the world's biggest suppliers of fossil fuels.

The post Oh, the irony: Fossil fuel financier signs major solar contract with fossil fuel producer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Conservation groups call for independent environment regulator after scathing review of national laws

The government has failed in its duty to protect the environment in its delivery of Australia’s national conservation laws, a scathing review by the national auditor general has found.

The Australian National Audit Office found the federal environment department has been ineffective in managing risks to the environment, that its management of assessments and approvals is not effective, and that it is not managing conflicts of interest in the work it undertakes.

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Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) will pilot buying offsets up front from soil carbon projects in a bid to help farmers overcome high initial costs.

New Forests seeks a qualified candidate for the position of Associate Director, Natural Climate Solutions.