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A group of companies and organisations in China’s Guangdong province has launched an ‘ecological compensation’ offset standard, one of the first initiatives to target Chinese voluntary buyers.

Climate crisis likely to have supercharged temperatures around world, data suggests

This winter has been by far the hottest recorded in Europe, scientists have announced, with the climate crisis likely to have supercharged the heat.

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) data dates back to 1855. It said the average temperature for December, January and February was 1.4C above the previous winter record, which was set in 2015-16. New regional climate records are usually passed by only a fraction of a degree. Europe’s winter was 3.4C hotter than the average from 1981-2010.

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No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches from No 10, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic

It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more to early graves. As its effects spread, it could destabilise entire economies and overwhelm poorer countries lacking resources and infrastructure. But this is the climate crisis, not the coronavirus. Governments are not assembling emergency national plans and you’re not getting push notifications transmitted to your phone breathlessly alerting you to dramatic twists and developments from South Korea to Italy.

More than 3,000 people have succumbed to coronavirus yet, according to the World Health Organization, air pollution alone – just one aspect of our central planetary crisis – kills seven million people every year. There have been no Cobra meetings for the climate crisis, no sombre prime ministerial statements detailing the emergency action being taken to reassure the public. In time, we’ll overcome any coronavirus pandemic. With the climate crisis, we are already out of time, and are now left mitigating the inevitably disastrous consequences hurtling towards us.

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South Korea’s ETS will face a bigger shortage than previously thought ahead of the 2019 compliance season, but will also see a larger excess of allowances for 2020 compared to previous estimates, analysts said Thursday.

Exclusive: study shows a 75% fall in 18 years in England, with climate a clear factor

Glow-worm numbers have plunged by three-quarters since 2001, research in England has revealed, with the climate crisis a clear factor.

The larvae feed on damp-loving snails, and increasingly hot and dry summers mean fewer prey and a greater risk of glow-worms becoming desiccated.

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Europe's flagship telescopes will cope with the effects of thousands of new satellites in the sky.

Report demands a clean industrial revolution - but without harming workers or the poor.

Border carbon adjustments will become necessary and inevitable as the world advances toward decarbonisation, a group of academics told UK lawmakers on Wednesday, highlighting that implementing these divisive policies could give Britain a post-Brexit competitive advantage.

ClimateWorks, ASBEC and ISCA team up to release issues paper that aims to develop a vision for infrastructure under a zero carbon world.

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UK government announces onshore wind will be eligible to compete in the country’s next renewable auction, four years after it was barred from taking part.

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Krannich Solar, one of the leading wholesalers for photovoltaics, has signed a cooperation agreement with GoodWe for the worldwide sale of their products.

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Conservative committee members made a rare show of unity in recommending the repeal of state laws banning uranium mining and nuclear power. But it won't last.

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People should always evacuate early to ensure their safety. But when they do decide to stay or they're told it's too late to leave, having a plan B is extremely important. Sahani Hendawitharana, PhD Scholar, Queensland University of Technology Anthony Deloge Ariyanayagam, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Mahen Mahendran, Professor of Structural Engineering, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

GE Renewable Energy says mitigating Covid-19 impact on its enormous wind generation supply chain a top focus, with a hit to cashflow and profits already factored in for Q1.

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A group of leading international climate law academics warns the Morrison government that its proposed use of suplus "Kyoto credits" is legally baseless.

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SEI US (Seattle) is seeking a passionate early- to mid-career researcher to contribute to SEI’s work on emerging topics in climate policy, which could include, among others, low-carbon cities, carbon pricing, energy and development, just transitions, and the economics or politics of oil, gas, and coal extraction.

New performance standards set to be imposed on NT generators, raising costs for solar developments, after NT government delayed reforms.

The post Solar farms to carry cost of Territory government’s glacial pace on grid reform appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Department officials delay providing further details for why two Tesla models were test-driven but then overlooked for the government's Comcar fleet.

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Funding is intended to help countries protect their people from the climate breakdown

People in some of the world’s poorest countries are receiving as little as $1 each a year to help them cope with the impacts of the climate crisis, despite rich countries’ promises to provide assistance.

Climate finance is intended to help developing countries cut greenhouse gases and protect their people from the consequences of climate breakdown, and forms a core part of the Paris agreement. Rich countries pledged more than 10 years ago to provide £100bn a year to the poor by 2020, but it is not certain that these commitments are being met.

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