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A climate finance expert with the European Investment Bank is joining a London climate advisory and investment business, Carbon Pulse has learned.

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday announced an increase in the fixed price option for compliance with its ETS for 2020, as it also published final details for its carbon market reforms which include setting its first ever GHG caps and holding auctions.

It's a stunning win for a small community group that relied on crowd funding to cover legal costs. Julia Dehm, Lecturer, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Analysis shows 500 species on brink of extinction – as many as were lost over previous century

The sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, according to an analysis by scientists who warn it may be a tipping point for the collapse of civilisation.

More than 500 species of land animals were found to be on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost within 20 years. In comparison, the same number were lost over the whole of the last century. Without the human destruction of nature, even this rate of loss would have taken thousands of years, the scientists said.

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Britain is aiming to establish its own domestic carbon market from 2021 that may or may not link to the EU ETS, the UK government confirmed on Monday as part of its long-awaited response to a public consultation, proposing a few ambitious features of its own.

CEC report finds enormous employment opportunity from renewable energy in Australia but warns failure to address policy barriers could see jobs head in opposite direction.

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UpEnergy is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Project Manager to lead technical work associated with our existing and new carbon offset projects. The Project manager will be responsible for the coordinating teams of consultants who conduct the monitoring and auditing of a growing portfolio of carbon offset projects.

Meteorologists say the switch from an extremely wet winter to an extremely dry spring is not "British".

California's WCI-capped fuel consumption rose year-on-year during February, but federal data shows the March figure significantly dropped off amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus scourge.

British Columbia will soon release new product-based emissions benchmarks for the Canadian province’s industrial CO2 pricing mechanism, as it also updates the low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) regulation for changes slated to take effect next year, the environment ministry told Carbon Pulse.

Analysis of emissions data shows that using gas as a transition fuel is dangerous in a world badly missing its climate targets.

The post Gaslighting Australia: How gas industry is driving up emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EUAs briefly dipped below €21 in quiet holiday trade on Monday, sliding on wider market jitters about worsening US-China relations.

American utility-scale energy storage developer Plus Power is to build a 185MW/565MWh battery storage facility in Hawaii that will have as its primary role to ensure that the AES coal plant – the last- remaining coal-fired generation in Hawaii – will end operations in September, 2022. The Kapolei Energy Storage project is the largest battery...

The post How a new mega battery will help Hawaii say goodbye to its last coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has distributed provincial-level renewable energy targets for 2020, pushing a slight increase in wind and solar this year as the nation prepares the launch of its mandatory market for renewable energy credits.

The Tianjin municipal government will auction off 2 million carbon permits under its pilot emissions trading scheme on June 10 to help firms meet 2019 compliance, with prices likely to come in well below current secondary market levels due to how the price floor is calculated.

Lockdown won’t save the world from warming, but the pandemic offers an opportunity to green the global economy

The air is clean and fresh, fish have reappeared in urban waterways, birds are frequenting uncut gardens, wild mammals are meandering through cities and greenhouse gas emissions will likely drop by an unprecedented 8% this year. Nature has clearly benefited from several months of dramatically reduced economic activity. From a climate crisis perspective, this drop in emissions is astonishingly close to the 7.6% yearly reduction in emissions that scientists have advised will be necessary during the next decade. And yet none of this is cause for celebration.

Most surprising are the carbon-intensive industries that confirm they are continuing to decarbonise despite the pandemic

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Australian project developer Country Carbon has agreed to having its business practices strictly monitored by the government for a two-year period to address ‘compliance issues’ with regulations under the nation’s carbon offset market.

The flowering bedstraw was thought to have died out on the sub-Antarctic island in the 1980s

A critically-endangered herb once thought extinct on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island has been found growing at a new location as the world-heritage site continues its rabbit-free recovery. 

The remote island was declared free of pests in 2014, following a seven-year feral animal eradication project.

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The photographs that make up William Arnold’s Suburban Herbarium appear more as clues than specimens. They are not the plants we would notice as we pass verges and hedges, but an idea of them, transmuted and transmitted through photographic methods which are magical and antiquarian

Suburban Herbarium is published by Uniformbooks with a foreword by Mark Cocker and an essay by Val Williams

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AEMO seeks powers to impose minimum standards for rooftop solar, battery storage and EVs in an effort to create a single, nationally consistent set of rules.

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