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Right now, Bruce Kerr is fretting about the shape of a certain curve – but not the one relating to the spread of Covid-19.

Kerr is an asparagus farmer in east Suffolk. In a good year he will harvest up to 500 tonnes of the highly prized vegetable, which requires urgent attention when the mercury rises.

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Downing Street confirms the PM's chief adviser attended Sage meetings but denies he is a member.

The Living Archive aims to help people worldwide see the significance of species loss as it affects individual lives and places

The first time poet Craig Santos Perez encountered a bird native to his homeland of Guam it was in a cage at San Diego zoo.

Growing up on Guam in the 1980s and 90s, Perez, a native Chamorro, had learned about the island’s lost birds at school. Children studied pictures and listened to audio recordings of their calls – but by then, the island’s forests were silent.

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Tackling climate change must be woven into post-Covid economic solutions, UK ministers say.

The strategy devised by scientists was to keep large parts of society open but not everyone is convinced.

Public transport usage won't recover to pre-Covid19 levels once the lockdown ends, a survey suggests.

It is possible to recover from a deadly crisis through a trajectory that prevents another deadly crisis. We have to fight for that future.

The post Fossil fuel web leading Australia to a Deadly Recovery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla Powerwall installed alongside solar at Hunter-region home marks first of up to 300,000 battery systems to be delivered via NSW govt interest-free loan scheme.

The post Tesla Powerwall install marks start of NSW home battery scheme appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Netherlands government has pledged to achieve an additional 8 million tonnes of emissions cuts by year-end, with most coming from EU ETS-covered coal power and industrial facilities.

Speculators' total California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings remained mostly flat week-on-week as prices climbed on the secondary market, while compliance entities further trimmed their position, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released Friday.

The Program Officer will review and approve offset project listing applications, data reporting and verification documents; constructively engage with ARB and other regulatory agencies, project developer clients and verification bodies to formulate responses to technical issues; and engage with relevant state agencies, clients and other market stakeholders.

The Forestry Program Officer is an important technical role within the American Carbon Registry (ACR), providing support to the Director of Forestry, and other members of ACR staff on all aspects of registry management, including, but not limited to reviewing project listing applications, data reporting and verification documents; formulating responses to technical questions raised by project developers and verification bodies; supporting business development and outreach activities; and helping to coordinate the development and/or approval of new quantification methodologies.

The REDD+ Program Officer is an important technical role within ART (Architecture for REDD+ Transactions) providing support to the ART Secretariat and staff on all aspects of implementation of the ART.  This will include providing technical support and training to ART Participant Countries and jurisdictions, developing technical analyses, development of outreach materials, coordinating expert committees, review of documents, report writing and registry operations. 

The Canadian environment ministry pushed back the release of a draft regulation for the national Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) on Friday, though it kept the 2022 start date intact for the implementation of the programme’s liquid fuel stream.

EUAs dipped below €21 on Friday and were poised to end a tumultuous week at a loss, with oil prices continuing to strongly influence price direction.

In the latest Carbon Pulse Conversations podcast, we speak to Megan Boutwell, vice president of operations at US-based consultancy Stillwater Associates, about the coronavirus-related impacts on the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and neighbouring transportation sector clean fuels markets.

Nearly 20 Pennsylvania Republicans have asked Governor Tom Wolf (D) to withdraw his executive order that requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to draft a RGGI-modelled cap-and-trade programme by this summer. 

The US Supreme Court will decide at a May conference whether to take up a case that challenges the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), with refiners arguing the EPA should reconsider that facet of the biofuels programme on an annual basis.

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including lockdown sea loin and IVF toad

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