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Sam Balto took the idea from a local school to the White House and beyond, inspiring a global movement in which children feel the benefits of cycling together

“It’s a movement, not a moment.” That’s the mantra from Sam “Coach” Balto, a former school teacher from Portland, Oregon who quit his day job to stoke a revolution called the “bike bus” – groups of kids and families cycling to school together.

How did one person in a mid-sized American city turn a weekly bike ride into something of a phenomenon? He leaned on the power of social media. In the past two years his videos have been viewed by hundreds of millions of people.

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The European Commission’s leaked state aid measures in support of its upcoming Clean Industrial Deal initiative, due next week, will fail to deliver for Europe’s domestic cleantech sector, an environmental group has warned.

Scientists have developed a machine learning-based model that significantly improves the accuracy of CO2 emission predictions.

Carbon ratings firm Sylvera released a framework on Thursday detailing the criteria for assessing biochar projects, with requirements on carbon sequestration, financial viability, and permanence, which will see it start to assess the quality of activities in this segment of the durable carbon removal sector.

European carbon prices broke free of their strong correlation to natural gas prices in Thursday morning, sinking to a six-week low even as TTF recovered slightly from a sharply weaker opening, leaving EUAs starting to explore a strong technical support area, while the UK market plummeted by as much as 9.2% amid sustained selling.

France has published new afforestation and revegetation methodologies to be used in its 'low-carbon label' scheme.

The European Commission is seeking applications from experts to support the extension of the EU ETS Directive to additional areas of the aviation sector, it announced on Wednesday.

BioCarbon has released a revamped version of its biodiversity credit standard, including making credits eligible for offsetting and strengthening safeguards to protect Indigenous Peoples' rights.

The long-awaited financial mechanism for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information (DSI) from genetic resources will be officially launched during the first day of the resuming UN COP16 biodiversity talks, due to be held in Italy next week.

Australia on Thursday said it is removing the opportunity to register carbon projects on Indigenous land before consent has been given by Native Title holders.

Nature-based carbon projects in Indonesia are hoping for a change in market sentiment, as they await government regulations to allow them to begin trading again.

A Green Iron Investment Fund is exactly what Australia needs to lay the foundations for Australia becoming a Renewable Energy Superpower.

The post Green iron fund will lay foundations for Australia to become renewable energy superpower appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Japanese bank on Thursday partnered with GenZero, a subsidiary of Singaporean government-owned investment firm Temasek, to develop transition credits for accelerating early retirement of coal-fired power plants in Asia.

Australian Energy Market Commission is on the hunt for a new CEO, with current chief Benn Barr announcing his departure from the role – and the Commission – next month.

The post AEMC chief quits market rule maker to take up new role at Energy Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia’s Labor government has announced A$1 billion ($634 million) to develop green iron in the country, with up to half of that going to save South Australia’s Whyalla Steelworks, which was put into administration this week after its billionaire backer failed to make repayments to the state government. 

Research in Chile could help to provide drinking water for some of the world's most arid places.

Greenpeace argues European-backed projects hamper countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies

European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.

Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europe’s quest to diversify its energy supply.

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Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is common in many parts of the world. Bishal Bharadwaj, Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin Institute for Energy Transition, Curtin University Peta Ashworth, Professor and Director, Curtin Institute for Energy Transition, Curtin University Pramesh Dhungana, Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The deadline for the federal environment minister's decision on the contentious Hills of Gold wind farm has been pushed out again.

The post Hills of Gold wind farm stuck in federal green queue as Plibersek delays decision for second time appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Coalition's claimed nuclear cost savings are meaningless because they’ve failed to account for consumers spending a lot more money on petroleum and gas.

The post Peter Dutton’s nuclear accounting trick #2: Pretend petrol and gas are free appeared first on RenewEconomy.