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Higher California hydroelectric production and lower natural gas generation will ease the WCI programme’s 2019 emissions total and lead carbon allowance prices lower, analysts said Tuesday.

Researchers examined more than 100 studies on the impact of human-produced noise

Noise produced by human activities should be better regulated to protect wildlife, say the authors of a study exposing how sound pollution affects myriad creatures from fish to birds.

Related: Seals are deafened in noisy shipping lanes, say scientists

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World’s largest “green” hydrogen production facility begins operation at a steel mill in Austria, where it seeks to demonstrate that fossil fuels can be replaced for industrial uses.

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Regulatory violations at a Michigan-based WCI livestock project under investigation by California's ARB do not directly pertain to offset-related functions, rendering them irrelevant for any invalidation-related concerns by the state regulator, the project developer told Carbon Pulse.

Bushfires are spreading across Australia's east coast, ravaging the marsupial's main habitat.

Renewables reach 30 per cent of demand on Australia's main grid for whole week for the first time.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) stakeholders are offering further changes to regulatory amendments that the state regulator ARB's board will vote on this week, according to recent public comments.

EU regulators should not isolate an upcoming review of the EU carbon market’s potent MSR if they are still seeking to modify the bloc’s flagship climate policy instrument, a think-tank said this week.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers on Tuesday announced mostly GOP-led legislation to mandate the General Assembly's sign-off for linking with RGGI, possibly creating some roadblocks for Governor Tom Wolf’s (D) desire to join the Northeast US carbon market.

The Prime Minister once labelled South Australia's big Tesla battery the 'Hollywood solution', but now the Federal Government is tipping in money to increase its capacity by 50 per cent.

For every ten centimetres of sea level rise, the chances of a 100-year coastal flood increase three-fold. This means we'll have to build flood defenses or retreat from the coast. James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Region of Peel recently approved its Climate Change Master Plan (CCMP). The CCMP has 5 key outcomes, the most important for this role is Reduce GHG emissions. The master plan sets ambitious targets of reducing GHG emission by 45% by 2030 against the 2010 baseline.

Labor’s health spokesman says the country and the world have not moved quickly enough to reduce emissions

Australia needs to develop policies and structures to prepare for the health impacts of climate change because we have not moved quickly enough – domestically or internationally – to reduce emissions and mitigate the risk, Labor’s health spokesman, Chris Bowen, believes.

Bowen will use a lecture at Sydney University on Wednesday night to argue a health response to climate change would not be necessary if there was a robust international policy response to emissions. “But the world, and Australia, has failed to act with appropriate seriousness and haste, and so we will need specific policies to deal with the health impacts of climate change,” he will say.

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The director of non-governmental organisation and CO2 pricing consultancy Carbon Trust’s Mexico office will take on a new role at information provider IHS Markit, Carbon Pulse has learned.

EasyJet is the latest firm to adopt offsetting – but is it a solution to the climate crisis?

Global carbon emissions from the aviation industry are growing faster than expected, and pose a serious risk to the world’s climate efforts if left to grow unchecked. The rise of flygskam, or “flight-shame”, has spurred airlines and travel companies to offer customers the option of offsetting the carbon emissions of their flights. But not everyone is convinced that climate sins can be absolved through projects based on simple carbon accounting.

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A three-decades-long search may finally have located the hot object left behind by a famous supernova.

Children as young as 11 discovered on boats fishing illegally in Thai waters for seafood that could end up on sale in EU supermarkets

Children as young as 11 are working aboard Vietnamese vessels fishing illegally for seafood that could end up on sale in supermarkets in the EU and US, according to an investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation.

The children were discovered on boats detained by Thai authorities for fishing illegally in Thai waters, thousands of miles from their homes.

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European carbon prices hit a fresh six-week low early on Tuesday, but rebounded amid a strong auction while energy markets were mixed.

Low-cost carrier easyJet will become the first airline to offset the fuel emissions from all of its flights, it announced Tuesday as part of its annual results.

Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Energy on Tuesday announced an offset initiative that will see it eventually buy over 1 million carbon credits annually, though the programme only covers a minor share of the company’s rapidly growing GHG emissions.