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Members of the EU parliament voted on Friday in favour of aligning the bloc's coronavirus recovery measures with the EU Green Deal, dismissing efforts by right-wing lawmakers to ease the impact of the EU ETS.

Ukraine's capital is now among the world's most polluted cities, an international ranking shows.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will revise its existing RGGI-modelled cap-and-trade regulation to implement state-run auctions as the state eyes entering the Northeast US power sector carbon market next year.

EU countries have signed off on a sustainable finance regulation to establish criteria setting out what qualifies as a green investment, but several flagged concerns that may store up problems in future.

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including bald eagles and roaming wild boar

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Pennsylvania’s House environment committee chair has called for Governor Tom Wolf’s (D) administration to scrap plans for crafting a draft RGGI-aligned ETS regulation, arguing the programme would be a detriment to residents and businesses in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Contract length, farm location and caring duties cited as reasons for turning down work

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Thousands of British workers who responded to a nationwide appeal to help pick fruit and vegetables on farms have rejected job offers, it has emerged.

As hundreds of workers are being flown in from Romania to pick lettuce and asparagus, specialist recruitment firms revealed that fewer than 20% of the applicants were either willing or able to take up roles on the farms.

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As deaths in communities of color continue to rise, the EPA has suspended enforcement of anti-pollution regulations – making people more susceptible

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To be a person of color in America often means to be unseen and unheard. It means taking on the burdens of disproportionate impacts from pollution, wealth disparities, lack of healthcare and much more. In many cases these burdens begin at your birth and never fully end until you take your last breath.

For too long our most vulnerable communities have been suffering in silence, putting on a brave face and accepting the trauma and stressors of systemic racism and discriminatory policies. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid this reality bare.

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Sir John Houghton, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, died on Wednesday aged 88.

UK wildlife watchdog under fire as conservationists say decision ‘sends wrong message’

Conservationists have condemned the decision to allow falconers to take wild peregrine falcon chicks from nests as “selfish” and “sending the wrong message”.

For the first time ever this year, Natural England, the government’s wildlife watchdog, will allow the taking of six chicks from peregrine nests to help falconers establish a lucrative new “studbook” of British falcons.

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The EU’s coronavirus response has helped accelerate the bloc’s transition to clean power by a decade as more renewables than previously thought possible are able to balance the grid, an energy technology firm said on Friday.

In the latest Carbon Pulse Conversations podcast, we speak to Oslo-based carbon and power analyst Yan Qin from Refinitiv about the latest developments in preparing for China’s national emissions trading scheme and the outlook for getting that market up and running this year.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has released draft regulations that would open for allowing companies with state-level carbon obligations to generate domestic offsets.

Thermal power output in China fell 7.5% YoY in March, failing to pick up as the country began emerging from its virus lockdown while the economy contracted in Q1 for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Leaders condemn backing of global sectors that disregard green economy goals

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Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.

The moves by the fossil fuel, motor, aviation, farming, plastic and timber sectors are described as dangerous and irresponsible by senior figures. Environmental campaigners describe some participants in these industries as “coronavirus profiteers”.

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More than 5,000 solar households apply for battery subsidy in just five weeks, in a last-minute rush to access a $6000 discount via state government home storage scheme.

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Risen Energy’s 132 MWdc Merredin Solar Farm has completed all pre-commissioning testing on major plant and equipment and is now in the stages of starting the commissioning process.

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"I arrived in Perth and bought a foam mattress for the back of my car – my bed for half of the trip. I stocked up on tinned food, and I headed north in search of these tiny eight-legged gems." Joseph Schubert, Entomology/Arachnology Registration Officer, Museums Victoria Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Operator of the 700MW Longview Power coal-fired power plant files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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