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Victoria's recycling system remains in limbo after a court yesterday granted a major recycling company 10 days to pay its creditors or be dissolved.

The New York Independent System Operator’s (NYISO) planned imposition of a carbon adder in the state’s wholesale electricity market could trigger the northeast US RGGI ETS’ Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) in the next decade as more low-carbon generation come online, analysts said Tuesday.

California regulator ARB issued over 900,000 new offsets (CCOs) this week, while Quebec resumed its issuances with more than 50,000 of its own compliance-grade credits, according to jurisdictional data.

A new study, published in today's Nature journal, gives an insight into the threat sharks face from longline fishing.

The clearest picture yet of the past 2,000 years of global temperatures has shown warming in the last 50-odd years is unprecedented in the last two millennia. Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Queensland Council of Civil Liberties says banning them reporting near Carmichael mine ‘entirely inappropriate’

Bail conditions imposed on four French journalists – banning them from reporting near Adani’s Carmichael mine site – are an “abuse of police power” and “entirely inappropriate”, says the head of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties.

Michael Cope, a lawyer in Queensland for more than 30 years, says he has never heard of the sorts of bail conditions imposed after protests at Adani’s Abbot Point coal terminal on Monday.

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The speed and extent of global heating exceeds any similar event in the past two millennia, researchers say.

The call for corporate bosses to be heroes in the fight against climate change and inequality is misplaced, writes Ian Bretman

Although former Unilever boss Paul Polman is rightly acknowledged as a pioneering champion of corporate sustainability, his call for a team of “heroic chief executives to tackle climate change and inequality” (Report, 22nd July) may be a case of trying to solve problems with the same thinking that created them. The complex and interconnected challenges of building an equitable society and economy that meets the needs of nine billion people while living within our finite planetary resources is likely to require a different kind of leadership in business and politics.

Rather than people who see themselves as the heroes of the story, these challenges call for leaders who can make heroes of others by enabling and empowering them to achieve change.
Ian Bretman
London

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Connecticut is hoping to finalise its RGGI Model Rule update in the next two weeks and send it to a state committee for final approval, after an initial proposal was rejected for regulatory inconsistencies, an official told Carbon Pulse.

Energy Aspects has lifted its Q3 EUA price forecast back to near the analysts’ previous levels after the benchmark contract hit a fresh 11-year high, with the analysts also playing down the market impact of a recent EU court ruling involving oil major ExxonMobil.

Spain-based utility Iberdrola reported a 72% rise in its ETS-regulated thermal output over H1, as gas-fired output ramped up to cover for low hydro generation, the company said in its financial results on Wednesday.

As temperatures soar you might be wondering what exactly is causing this heatwave... and it boils down to three words - the jet stream.

EUAs set a new 13-year high of €29.95 early on Wednesday, but sank back after failing to top the €30 milestone as key energy prices also eased.

Australia's Queensland government has picked another six projects that will receive a total A$4 million ($2.8 mln) in grants under a programme designed to catalyse action and generate carbon credits for the state’s Land Restoration Fund.

Call for new Geneva convention to protect wildlife and nature reserves in conflict regions

International lawmakers should adopt a fifth Geneva convention that recognises damage to nature alongside other war crimes, according to an open letter by 24 prominent scientists.

The legal instrument should incorporate wildlife safeguards in conflict regions, including protections for nature reserves, controls on the spread of guns used for hunting and measures to hold military forces to account for damage to the environment, say the signatories to the letter, published in the journal Nature.

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British utility Drax opted to buy back some of its forward hedged coal power output over the first half of 2019 as higher emission costs ensured more of its generation would be unprofitable.

Industrial farms are spreading across Europe. Greenpeace campaigners went to talk to the people who live close by

Warning: readers may find one of the images below upsetting

What is life like for people living next door to an industrial-scale livestock farm, and how does it affect their daily lives? Greenpeace campaigners visited animal farms and their surrounding communities in France, Denmark, Spain and Italy between December 2018 and March 2019 to find out.

There are more than 330m cows, sheep and pigs in the EU, with a further several billion chickens reared and slaughtered every year. The growth of Europe’s animal farming sector has seen it exceed what scientists have claimed are safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss. This has lead to calls from campaign groups for a halving of meat and dairy production by 2050.

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The ninth auction of Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) opened Wednesday, but experts expect the round to produce low volumes at subdued prices.

A chihuahua in Devon was recently taken by a swooping bird – and there have been countless other accounts of seagull attacks. Has there been a sudden change in the birds’ behaviour?

A slight ripple in the wind behind me, the briefest graze of my hair and, within a split second, the ice-cream cone had been snatched from my hand. One second I was holding a mint choc chip, the next I wasn’t. It was so fast, and the raid so precise, I didn’t really see it happen – just a vision of the gull’s tail feathers as it took to the sky.

I share my south-coast town with the gulls and you learn to be wary of them. Once, one landed on our table outside a fish and chip shop and made off with half our dinner. They nest noisily on our roof and like to wake us up at 5am every morning; they rip open the rubbish sacks people leave on the streets and creep close on the beach, looking for snacks.

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Beaches were deemed unsafe on at least a quarter of days tested and climate crisis will likely increase the pollution

Before diving into the waves this summer, beachgoers in the US might like to do some homework on what they will be diving into, according to a new report.

The Environment America Research and Policy Center (EARPC) found that more than half of American beaches were home to potentially dangerous levels of fecal bacteria at some point last year.

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