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CP Daily: Monday October 29, 2018
LCFS Market: California prices tick back up ahead of Q2 data release
Utility petitions NY grid operator to alter REC treatment under carbon charge
Strongest tremor yet halts fracking at Cuadrilla site near Blackpool
1.1-magnitude tremor second to have breached regulatory threshold in recent days
Fracking has stopped again at a shale gas well near Blackpool after the area was struck by the most powerful earthquake since operations began.
A total of 27 minor earthquakes have occurred near energy company Cuadrilla’s site since fracking started a fortnight ago.
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EU Market: Carbon plunges 9% to 3-month low as bears take reins
Virginia board gives nod to revised cap-and-trade regulation
Climate change is 'escalator to extinction' for mountain birds
UK commits £60 mln to buy domestic forest carbon credits
It's clear why coal struggles for finance – and the government can't change that
UK to consult on plastic packaging tax, chancellor says
Budget seeks to reduce non-recycled plastics but resists call for levy on coffee cups
The government is to introduce a new tax on plastic packaging as it seeks to ramp up efforts to tackle the scourge of litter and waste from single-use plastics, it was confirmed in the budget.
Food and drink companies will be taxed on plastic packaging that does not include at least 30% recycled content, in a drive to reduce dependence on “virgin plastics” that are difficult or impossible to recycle, such as black food trays and plastic straws.
Continue reading...UK outlines carbon tax replacement for EU ETS under ‘no deal’ Brexit
£60m 'greenery drive' to plant 10m trees in England
Conservationists say money is step in the right direction in tackling climate change
More than 10m trees will be planted across England with the injection of £60m of new funding over five years, as part of what the government billed as its “drive to preserve the country’s greenery”.
The bulk of the money, £50m, will pay landowners for planting trees that lock up carbon, which observers said raised questions over how accessible those woodlands would be to the public. That fund, the Woodland Carbon Guarantee scheme, should pay for 10m trees.
Continue reading...To save the planet we need a treaty – and to consider rationing | Letters
We, the undersigned, support the call for the UK and other OECD governments to negotiate a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to complement the Paris agreement on climate change, as proposed in your article “We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – and we need it now” (theguardian.com, 23 October).
The latest report from the IPCC shows we cannot afford to burn the vast majority of remaining reserves of fossil fuels if we are to keep warming below 1.5 or even 2 degrees. A new line in the sand is needed. We support an agreement with a moratorium on any further expansion of the fossil fuel industry in rich countries, together with a fund to support renewable energy development in poorer countries to reduce the need for fossil fuels, paid for by redirecting the staggering $10m per minute that governments currently spend on fossil fuel subsidies. The best way to mark the 50th anniversary of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty would be to begin negotiation of its fossil fuel equivalent.
Bill McKibben Founder, 350.org
Naomi Klein Writer and activist
Caroline Lucas MP Green party
John Sauven Executive director, Greenpeace
Craig Bennett CEO, Friends of the Earth
Ann Pettifor Prime Economics
Leo Murray 10:10