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The UK said it was open to considering a link between a future national ETS and the EU carbon market on Thursday, even as it pushes to reject applying EU rules in a post-Brexit trade pact.

The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.

EUAs dropped below €24 early on Thursday, with the energy complex continuing to come under pressure amid fears that the spreading Covid-19 coronavirus will disrupt the global economy.

Isolation and bad weather are compounding the strain from what National Farmers’ Union calls the “anti-meat agenda”

When 20-year-old shepherd Ffion Hooson opened up on social media about her recent mental health struggles, she was overwhelmed by the response.

Her father had suffered a stroke, leaving her to run their farm in Denbighshire, North Wales, alone. The responsibility and bad weather had crushed her to breaking point, she said.

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Campaigners say plans for a third runway should be cancelled, but the airport says it will appeal.

The hungry ducks could be sent to devour locusts that are devouring crops in Pakistan, experts say.

Appeal court says decision to give go-ahead not consistent with Paris agreement

Plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been ruled illegal by the court of appeal because ministers did not adequately take into account the government’s climate change commitments.

The ruling is a major blow to the project at a time when public concern about the climate emergency is rising fast and the government has set a target in law of net zero emissions by 2050. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, could use the ruling to abandon the project, or the government could draw up a new policy document to approve the runway.

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Victoria regulator makes small cuts to 2020/21 recommended solar feed-in tariff, says only one retailer offering customers both single and time-varying FiT.

The post Victoria regulator lowers rooftop solar tariff, says few retailers offering variable rate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Investors are facing scrutiny like never before about what they're doing to tackle climate change.

A senior Philippines MP has introduced a bill that would establish a cap-and-trade programme for the biggest-emitting sectors in the South East Asian nation.

A dozen more facilities covered by Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism have switched to using multi-year targets, meaning they don’t have to worry about compliance for another three years.

It’s more than just a local issue. Expansion will stunt growth in the regions, and fly in the face of Boris Johnson’s pledge

On Thursday the high court will rule on a case brought by campaigners against the decision made by Theresa May’s government to allow Heathrow to proceed with its third runway expansion. The decision to expand the airport was both environmentally and economically ill-judged. Obviously, Heathrow Airport Ltd, the company involved, wants the go ahead for its growth strategy – it’s not up to a private company to balance the wider impact of that on the UK economy and people. It’s the government’s job to do that and it has got that balance badly wrong. The Heathrow third runway proposal significantly undermines Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” strategy and it should be stopped.

Of course, it’s a big issue in London – it’s hugely polluting to local communities, causing air pollution in areas that already breach legal limits, extra noise affecting millions of people when they step out of their homes and the obvious public safety risk from extra flights over the most densely populated part of the entire country. Even the Victorians would never have built a national hub airport in such an ill-suited location, surrounded by homes and roads making expansion complex, risky and expensive.

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Police warn of major disruption as activist joins climate strike in city

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A huge security operation is being put in place in Bristol for a visit by Greta Thunberg that is expected to attract a crowd of around 25,000, most of them children and young people.

Police and Bristol council officials said there would be significant disruption for the youth climate strike on Friday and warned that they could not be responsible for the care of unsupervised children.

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All the winning images, all the backstories and all the judges’ comments can be found in the The Underwater Photographer of the Year Yearbook

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Report also calls for ban on black plastic and an end to bottom trawling at sea

Litter louts should be fined a minimum of £500 as part of measures to protect wildlife, according to a thinktank.

Bright Blue recommends 50 new policies in its report, including banning black plastic and non-flushable wipes, ending UK taxpayer subsidies for wood burning in power stations and outlawing the destructive practice of bottom trawling at sea.

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For the second time, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras largest events will be 100% carbon-offset in 2020 thanks to their partnership with Australia’s greenest energy retailer, Powershop. 

The post Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2020 – 100% carbon-offset in partnership with Powershop. appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brisbane-based zinc-bromine flow battery maker says overseas markets providing growing pipeline of “significant opportunities” while Australia continues to weigh the benefits of energy storage.

The post Redflow hits straps overseas, says Australia still proving case for battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia needs a new market design to cater for shift to high share of renewables. Energy Transition’s Eric Gimon has some suggestions.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: How to design a market for high renewables grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rising sun: The contrast between solar output and wind output, plotted over a 12 months period.

The post Graph of the Day: Contrasting outputs from a wind farm and a solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Failure to fully implement 14 of 16 recommendations to regulate CSG extraction could lead to more support for moratorium across NSW

Santos’s coal seam gas project near Narrabri could face further obstacles after a parliamentary inquiry delivered a scathing assessment of the state government’s progress in implementing recommendations to regulate coal seam gas extraction.

A New South Wales legislative council inquiry found that 14 of 16 recommendations from the 2014 report by the chief scientist have not been implemented in full. Half were found to have not been implemented at all.

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