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European carbon prices jumped steeply on Monday morning and approached a five-month high after natural gas markets were roiled by an unscheduled outage in the North Sea, while UK Allowances also climbed to their most in nearly eight months.

The SpongeBob SquarePants fungus and Shakira wasp might sound funny, but there is a rising acceptance that eponyms in the natural world are a legacy of empire and oppression

Unsurprisingly, numerous species of animal (including a flightless weevil and a parasitic flatworm) are named after David Attenborough – but were you aware of the existence of a Shakira wasp (aleoides Shakira) and the Taylor Swift millipede (nannaria swiftae)?

It’s not just fauna. Spring on middle-aged-lady Instagram is a riot of people posting pics of their Gertrude Jekyll (a formidable horticulturist) roses and there are hundreds of others named for everyone from Judi Dench to Jimmy Greaves. We name the natural world for people we admire and want to honour, and always have; even asteroids, which makes me wonder if anything out there has named us. (The dismissive alien equivalent of “flightless weevils” perhaps?)

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The operating entity of three Paris airports closes a tender Monday for the provision of voluntary carbon credits from France-based projects to offset some of the group's annual emissions.

India’s biggest bottled water company has proposed developing a framework for establishing water credits to make the beverage industry accountable for its water use. 

A Japanese financial institution has signed an agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to collaborate on growing carbon markets, they announced in a joint statement Monday.

Institutions like this can prove enduring despite Australia’s contested climate politics. Here's why.

The post Why do we need a Net Zero Economy Authority? And how can it meet its goals? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Intera Renewables says $258 million in non-recourse project financing will help with development and construction of new wind and solar.

The post Renewable fund lands new financing deal to help chase new projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Shanghai municipal government on Friday sold all 1 million CO2 permits that were on offer, with the sale clearing in line with the secondary market, well above the auction’s price floor.

Indonesian Ministry of Finance officials have attributed the limited activity on the country’s national carbon exchange to a lack of awareness, as its staff continue to hold seminars and information sessions to get the word out.

Claude the koala was caught eating 4,050 food tree seedlings at Eastern Forest Nursery near Lismore in 2023. The bandit continues to return for a meal at the nursery, as workers look on. Conservationists say Claude's behaviour is part of a bigger problem as heavy land clearing has meant that there isn't enough food in the local area for koalas to eat

• Daylight robbery: Claude the ‘leaf thief’ koala caught munching seedlings

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Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issue

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Claude the koala became Australia’s cutest thief and a viral sensation when he was filmed munching on seedlings at a nursery near Lismore last September.

But fame has only made him more brazen, with the hungry marsupial now helping himself to a weekday feed in front of staff at Eastern Forest Nursery.

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Barnaby Joyce is so unhappy with Andrew Forrest building wind farms - or "swindle factories" - that he is refusing to wear boots made by his company.

The post From junk science to “swindle factories”, Barnaby Joyce hates wind farms down to his boots appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The number of large scale solar PV projects under construction in Australia is lowest since 2017, raising fears some contractors will move on.

The post Large scale solar PV projects at lowest level for seven years. Will contractors stay the course? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian state government once "solved" the problems of late trains by changing the definition of late. The same thinking applies to climate change.

The post Australia’s land-use emissions data revisions are an engine of climate delay appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The relationship between neighbours Australia and Indonesia has gone through major swings. Could the green transition offer a win-win? Cahyani Widi Larasakti, PhD Student in International Relations, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Major new study finds public support for renewables at risk without better communication about their ability to replace fossil fuels.

The post Can renewables replace fossil fuels? Survey finds many Australians not convinced appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We want healthy, liveable cities and to cut emissions to net zero. Getting more people to use bicycles instead of cars will go a long way towards achieving these goals. Melanie Davern, Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Afshin Jafari, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Alan Both, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Science, RMIT University Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Lucy Gunn, Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Qian (Chayn) Sun, Associate Professor of Geospatial Science, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

In a new Quarterly Essay, Joëlle Gergis says that while Rome wasn’t built in a day, the Albanese government’s lack of action on climate change does not reflect the urgency of the crisis

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Although the 2022 federal election ushered in a new era of progressive politics in Australia, as Labor’s first term in power has progressed many people are now wondering if the political deadlock on our nation’s climate policy has really been broken.

Although some good ground has been made, the federal government’s actions still don’t reflect the urgency of the planetary-scale crisis we are in. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising and enormous fossil fuel projects continue to be approved to meet domestic and international demand.

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With elections affecting half the world’s population this year, campaigners offer their views on the chances of real change

This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies. The Guardian asked young climate activists around the world what they want from the elections and whether politics is working in the fight to halt global heating.

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A decision from Unesco on giving the peat-rich Flow Country the same standing as the Great Barrier Reef is just weeks away

It is a land of mire, mist and midges that could soon be awarded a special status among the planet’s wild habitats. In a few weeks, Unesco is set to announce its decision on an application to allow the Flow Country in north Scotland to become a world heritage site.

Such a designation is only given to places of special cultural, historical or scientific significance and would put this remote region of perpetual dampness on the same standing as the Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon and the Pyramids.

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