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New footage of CEWO's Local Engagement Officer, Michelle Campbell talking with our delivery partners in the Riverland about the amazing response of Murray Hardyhead to water for the environment.

New footage of CEWO's Local Engagement Officer, Michelle Campbell talking with our delivery partners in the Riverland about the amazing response of Murray Hardyhead to water for the environment.

The number at the heart of the decision whether to lift lockdown.

California regulator ARB should consider a rule-based mechanism to automatically adjust allowance supply based on surplus volume, as well as tweak ETS auction provisions to sell state-owned permits simultaneously with consigned volume, a government watchdog group said Wednesday.

Alberta’s large emitter programme will not significantly harm the Canadian province’s oil industry compared to a pre-coronavirus scenario, as some facilities may even come out ahead, according to new analysis published Tuesday.

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released a draft RGGI regulation that aligns with the post-2020 Model Rule on Thursday, with enhancements that include coverage for peaking plants underneath the 25MW threshold for the regional ETS.

Researchers built cheap air quality monitors using parts found at hardware and electronics scores. The results have big implications for anyone who travels outside near busy roads. Hugh Forehead, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU should widen an industrial pollution law to cover greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, environmental campaigners have said, a move that would effectively put an additional layer of regulation on companies already covered by the bloc's carbon market.

EU power generators Vattenfall and Iberdrola have both reported substantial drops to their ETS-covered thermal power generation in Q1, with milder, wetter weather crimping demand even without account for coronavirus impacts.

The discovery that the badger-like animal lived alongside dinosaurs challenges ideas about mammals.

Plunging EU ETS emissions due to the COVID-19 crisis and other market forces will balloon the scheme's allowance surplus this year to the equivalent of around two years’ worth of demand, analysts have predicted.

In our latest instalment of the Carbon Pulse Conversations podcast, we speak to Marcus Ferdinand, head of European power and carbon analytics at ICIS, about what's driving EUAs at the moment, how the coronavirus crisis is impacting the EU ETS, and his forecasts for allowance prices.

AEMO says no technical issues to prevent operating at 75% renewables by 2025, but it does need the market and regulations to catch up and be flexible.

The post AEMO lays out “action plan” to manage 75 pct wind and solar by 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will begin taking comments on its revised post-2020 RGGI regulation on Wednesday after opting not to hold public hearings due to the coronavirus pandemic.

EUAs once again flirted with sub-€20 levels on Wednesday despite the market comfortably absorbing a bumper auction, as data showed speculators were further building their net short positions.

Environmentalists say a misguided attempt to protect residents has damaged a sensitive ecosystem.

Devastated by hunting and logging, the chimps now face threats from coronavirus, says conservationist.

One of China’s leading bike-sharing brands has become the first in the country to earn compliance grade carbon credits for its business.

As the coronavirus lockdown makes wildlife more visible in our cities, biodiversity reporter Patrick Greenfield speaks to ecologist Dr Rana El-Sabaawi and evolutionary biologist Prof Menno Schilthuizen about what this means for the future of cities and how urban dwellers can become more involved with nature

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