Around The Web

EU finance ministers on Tuesday kept on the table the option of earmarking a fifth of ETS auction revenues for the post-Brexit 2021-2027 central EU budget, and discussed a bloc-wide aviation carbon tax as France pushed ahead with its own plans.

The naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says that climate change will make parts of Africa uninhabitable.

Recycling reverse vending machines will soon be a common sight across Scotland.

Satellite pictures shows how the 7.1 magnitude earthquake changed the landscape.

Researchers adapt a solar panel so that it can produce drinking water from the sea as well as green electricity.

The northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme will auction off more than 13.1 million carbon allowances at its Sep. 4 auction, the regulator announced Tuesday.

AEMO puts case for accelerated transmission investment, and outlines how storage may evolve as coal plants exit and the grid becomes dominated by renewables.

The post AEMO pushes storage, new links as renewables head for 60% share appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Snowball went viral in 2008, but now scientists say he can teach us about dance and social behaviour.

The naturalist David Attenborough appears before a parliament select committee to discuss environmental policy with MPs. He says the government’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions for the UK by 2050 is not necessarily the best approach. ‘The question is: what is practically possible? How can we take the electorate with us in dealing with these things?’ he says

• David Attenborough: polluting planet may become as reviled as slavery

Continue reading...

EUAs climbed towards €27 early on Tuesday, hitting a five-day high on strong demand in the day’s auction.

New Brunswick is abandoning its plan to sue the Canadian government over the federal backstop carbon tax, the province’s premier announced late Monday, adding that his administration would still intervene in Saskatchewan’s Supreme Court appeal.

Judge says there was no evidence that decision not to re-test for bovine TB was unlawful

An alpaca farmer has lost a high court battle to prevent one of her prized animals from being killed.

Helen Macdonald took legal action against the government in a last-ditch attempt to save her stud alpaca, Geronimo, who was earmarked for slaughter after twice testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

Continue reading...

Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has told the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that "to chuck plastic into the ocean is an insult".

Billions of leaves in the Amazon rainforest take in CO2 – a gas that contributes to global warming.

What is the way forward for managing the mighty river system that flows through four states?

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved $266.9 million in new funding to ten mitigation and adaptation projects, including a payment to Ecuador for cutting emissions by halting deforestation, the second programme of its kind to receive GCF funds.

Labor says there is a need for better monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the multi-billion dollar agreement.

Indonesian officials say containers of paper contaminated by electronic waste, used cans and plastic bottles

Indonesia says it will immediately send eight containers of household rubbish back to Australia after inspectors declared the material too contaminated to be recycled.

It is the latest in a series of announcements by south-east Asian nations that they will not be dumping grounds for overseas waste.

Continue reading...

Iran has announced it will breach the limits on uranium enrichment agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal, after the US turned its back on the agreement. What does that mean for Iran's nuclear program? Martin Sevior, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

MPs must stop prioritising cars over people if we are to stand a chance of meeting climate goals

The UK is among the worst countries in Europe for cycling participation, and the government is predicted to achieve just a third of the 800m extra cycling trips by 2025 it had aimed for. What’s more, much of the growth so far has been restricted to London.

This is why Tuesday’s debate among MPs on government support for cycling and walking – or rather, the lack thereof – is so important.

Continue reading...