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The EU’s flagship Green Deal and ‘Fit for 55’ climate legislative package must take into consideration gender and racial perspectives, say NGOs increasingly pushing for a more socially-just and feminist lens of the bloc’s climate policy.

Human activity is causing unprecedented changes in our climate - that's the main message in the latest report from the IPCC. In this month's Climate Check, Ben Rich explains why a warmer world will also be a wetter one.

Germany-based utility Uniper reported a major rebound in its ETS-covered emissions for H1 amid an easing of pandemic restrictions and as more of its facilities came online.

New rules mean solar homes will need to pay to access the best feed-in-tariffs and avoid curtailment.

The post “Solar tax” optional as networks told to make grid solar and battery friendly appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists say that rapid cuts in methane could be a key tactic in the battle against climate change.

Next year's California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade floor price expectations narrowed in July as inflation tempered after seeing significant year-on-year gains in prior months.

People are urging the government to take further and faster action but those who think it’s too costly must first be defeated

It’s easy to feel despair reading the stark warnings in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the window in which warming can be limited to 1.5C is rapidly closing. The forest fires and flooding on our TV screens, and closer to home, are a wake-up call to the realities of a rapidly warming climate.

The IPCC, the UN body responsible for climate science, described the report as a “code red for humanity”, but 30 years of warnings have not brought about action on a meaningful scale.

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EUAs weakened on Wednesday morning in advance of the fortnightly UK allowance auction, as traders anticipated some selling of surplus EUAs by British utilities, while energy markets also fell.

Communities on the frontline of the climate crisis say radical solutions must be on the table – before it’s too late

Ayisha Siddiqa doesn’t want fossil fuel companies to determine her future anymore. The industry has promoted climate denial for longer than the 22-year-old has been alive. Rather than watch companies pad their profits as the world burns, Siddiqa has a radical solution in mind.

“Abolish these oil companies, finish them, get rid of them, no more,” she said.

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Revealed: investigation shows how Tyson’s near monopoly in its home state of Arkansas gives it huge power, at a cost to farmers and the environment

The lockhold that America’s largest meat processing company has on the chicken industry has generated dire consequences for its workers, farmers and the environment in one of the US’s leading poultry-producing states, an investigation has found.

Tyson Foods is ranked 73rd on the Fortune 500 list, with a revenue of $43bn in the last fiscal year.

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South Korea’s monthly CO2 auction cleared on Wednesday at a price 20% above July’s sale, but still failed to keep up with the secondary market, where traders expect prices to rise over the next few months as the ETS this week entered its third phase.

Meteorologists have named the sixth Atlantic storm of 2021, hinting at an above-average season.

Critics baulk at the cost of getting Britain to net zero, but the alternative is so much worse

Ruinous, eye-watering, crippling, stratospheric, massive. That’s the cost to the UK of beating the climate crisis, according to those who portray getting to net zero emissions as economic suicide that is being thrust on an unwilling population by posh eco-fundamentalists and zealots.

This is not just wrong, it is the exact opposite of reality. The delusions come from those with histories of climate change scepticism and could be dismissed as the latest mutant variant thrown up by the death throes of denial. But they are having a real-world impact, slowing action at the precise moment acceleration is needed.

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During the warmer months, the number of days when the river ceases to flow will increase. Climate change is to blame. Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Lance M Leslie, Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

BP says no doubt Australia's vast wind and solar resources can deliver green hydrogen and ammonia, the biggest question is cost.

The post BP gives technical tick to 4GW of wind and solar for massive green hydrogen project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Organic farming methods, which use fewer pesticides and store more carbon in soil, are becoming more popular

There is growing momentum behind a shift to ‘regenerative’ agriculture in the UK, which can help to mitigate the climate crisis, say leading experts in the sector.

“More and more people are seeing other farmers doing it [regenerative farming] and are happier for it,” said John Cherry, who founded Groundswell, the UK’s flagship event for regenerative agriculture, on his farm in Hertfordshire. “People may be getting a higher yield with conventional approaches, but it is costing them more too with all the inputs, so they are not making more money.”

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Tomago Aluminium's chief flags a switch to 100 per cent renewables, a win for wind and solar and a potential death sentence for a major coal generator.

The post Tomago’s pivot to renewables could spell end for biggest coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia should be a global leader in clean technology solutions – but it does not have clear national energy policy, or clear targets.

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The world's biggest "dry cooled" coal generator - and likely the most expensive - explodes just a week after it was fully commissioned.

The post World’s newest and most expensive coal plant explodes after hydrogen leak appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Andy McCarthy from RACV Solar, who started his business in his third bedroom, discusses the risks and benefits of M&A.

The post Great Solar Business Podcast: Mergers and acquisitions as a solar growth strategy appeared first on RenewEconomy.