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China is worst hit as lack of financial support leaves small-scale farms struggling to survive while big companies continue to expand

Small farmers across the globe are losing out in the aftermath of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak that killed a quarter of the world’s pig population, argues a new report.

Nowhere is this more evident than China, where swine fever has hit the country’s nearly 40 million small-scale pig farmers hardest, says the report by non-profit organisation Grain.

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Rishi Sunak pledges to more than double spending on government research and development by 2024.

Astronomers study an exotic planet where they suspect iron droplets fall through the atmosphere.

Losses of ice from Greenland and Antarctica are tracking the worst-case climate scenario, scientists warn

The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.

The ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say. Without rapid cuts to carbon emissions the analysis indicates there could be a rise in sea levels that would leave 400 million people exposed to coastal flooding each year by the end of the century.

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The UK will in the coming months launch a consultation on a new tax as a post-Brexit carbon pricing alternative to an ETS, the government announced as part of its annual budget on Wednesday, while keeping the country’s domestic carbon levy frozen for another year.

The Budget has simultaneously pleased and infuriated environmentalists.

California regulator ARB should set the state’s pending Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) maximum price at just under $218 this year, while the current US inflation figure would place the state's WCI auction reserve value close to the $18.00 level, according to federal data published Wednesday.

Large energy users to be able to sell power to the grid as AEMC paves way for demand response trading, but households and small-businesses look set to be sidelined.

The post AEMC set to approve demand response energy trading, but households left out appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EUAs sank back below €24 early on Wednesday, below technical support that some had seen as helping carbon defy wider weakness across financial markets on the impact of the coronavirus.

The Shanghai municipal government on Wednesday ordered 73 companies to submit their 2019 emissions data by the end of this month, keeping China on track to launching its national emissions trading scheme before the end of the year despite the massive disruptions caused by the coronavirus.

South Korea’s monthly CO2 allowance auction sold out on Wednesday, with the clearing price moving up nearly 1% from last month’s sale as an overall shortage in the market continues to prop up demand.

The international aviation industry’s offset market will have access to ample supply of carbon credits in its three-year pilot phase even if eligible units are restricted to those generated from 2016, according to a study released Wednesday.

Ninety per cent of Bellinger River snapping turtle adult population was wiped out but Australia’s Taronga Zoo is breeding numbers back up

The Bellinger River snapping turtle is one of the rarest turtles on the planet after a virus wiped out more than 90% of the adult population in 2015, but a captive breeding program is bringing hope that a healthy population can be restored in the wild.

Thirty-five turtles have hatched at the special breeding facility at Taronga Zoo since the beginning of this year.

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Coronavirus is not the only global crisis we face. So why has the global response to the climate crisis been so starkly different?

The post Coronavirus should give us hope that we are able to tackle the climate crisis appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW government awards seven grants to community solar and storage projects across regional parts of the state.

The post Regional community solar and storage projects win NSW government grants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brisbane-based electric vehicle fast-charging company Tritium appoints former Boeing Phantom Works executive as its new CEO.

The post Tritium appoints former Boeing executive Jane Hunter as new CEO appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's rooftop solar market has shown no signs of slowing down so far in 2020, with booming residential installations in February helping to break all previous records and delivering the highest monthly registered capacity of 218MW.

The post Rooftop solar unstoppable as market breaks “all previous records” in February appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla has now made one million cars, all with zero tailpipe emissions.

The post Tesla rolls out one-millionth electric car – and it’s a Model Y appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW's first large-scale hydrogen energy storage project to partner with community-owned solar and battery project in states's north-east.

The post Regional NSW town to host large-scale hydrogen energy storage project – state’s first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New rules could spell the death of today's "throwaway" culture in which products are bought, used briefly, then binned.