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Financial services firms DBS and Standard Chartered, the Singapore Exchange, and Singaporean government-owned investment company Temasek on Thursday announced plans for a new exchange for the global voluntary carbon market.

Greens/EFA MEPs will seek to establish a carbon price floor and additional measures to stabilise prices under the much-anticipated EU ETS reform kicking off in mid-July, two EU lawmakers said Thursday.

New Zealand will use future revenue from its quarterly sales of carbon allowances under its emissions trading scheme towards investing in projects that will further cut greenhouse gases, the government said Thursday as part of its annual budget.

Leading credit ratings agency warns Snowy Hydro still faces significant credit risk, even after $600m of taxpayer funds to build a gas plant.

The post S&P says taxpayer handout for gas plant won’t solve Snowy’s financial pressures appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy start-up Verdant Earth Technologies says it has figured out a way of using biomass to produce hydrogen and help firm the grid.

The post Could biomass become a renewable peaking fuel? This man is counting on it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ampol to trial green hydrogen production and solar and storage to cut emissions at its service centres, but not from the petrol it sells.

The post Ampol to trial green hydrogen production and Tesla battery VPP at outlets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

They overlook a vast body of evidence that crown fire – the most extreme type of fire behaviour in which tree canopies burn - is more likely in logged native forests. Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Honorary Fellow at University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Grant Wardell-Johnson, Associate Professor, Environmental Biology, Curtin University James Watson, Professor, The University of Queensland Michelle Ward, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Government owned utilities like Snowy Hydro should be leading the clean energy transition, not acting as a handbrake.

The post Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bee populations around the world are under significant threat from extreme climate events, destruction of natural habitat, intensive farming practices, pests and disease. Australian apiarists and scientists are developing innovative solutions to protect the country’s bee population, increase genetic diversity and increase numbers

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A San Francisco Bay Area nursery owner showcased the giant blooming flower to neighbors at an abandoned gas station

More than 1,000 people have flocked to an abandoned gas station in the San Francisco Bay Area to get a whiff of a corpse flower, named for the stench it emits when it blooms, which has been compared to rotting flesh.

Solomon Leyva, a nursery owner in Alameda who deals in exceptionally rare plants, had been posting on social media about his amorphophallus titanum. When he saw a lot of interest in the giant blooming flower, he decided to share the rare plant with his neighbors.

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The Morrison government is going on a fossil gas spending spree. But a deeper, more urgent coal problem is growing bigger.

The post Crony capitalism: Morrison’s gas spending masks a deeper coal addiction appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Director of Industrial Programs is a senior role within the American Carbon Registry (ACR), providing oversight of all aspects of ACR services, including, but not limited to ensuring the highest level of quality for all ACR-registered projects and related offset credits issued by ACR for industrial sector projects.  

A US federal court on Wednesday nixed three Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance waivers handed out in the final hours of President Donald Trump’s tenure, as judges ruled that the EPA did not analyse necessary legal questions in handing out the relief.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices will accelerate over the coming decade due to greater speculative involvement in the linked WCI cap-and-trade programme, analysts said Wednesday.

MEPs adopted a position on the EU’s Hydrogen Strategy on Wednesday, emphasising support for renewables-derived hydrogen but also leaving the door open for production from gas.

Washington legislators are exploring ways to reverse Governor Jay Inslee’s (D) vetoes of their carbon market and low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) bills, while regulatory experts believe future prospects for a WCI cap-and-trade link could hinge how the final rules are drafted.

Residents urged to help keep persecuted raptors safe after two males disappear from Geltsdale nature reserve, Cumbria

People in Cumbria are being urged to watch over a pair of hen harriers who have begun nesting on a nature reserve as police investigate the disappearance of two other of the endangered raptors.

Two male hen harriers vanished from RSPB Geltsdale last week in what the police described as “suspicious circumstances”, just when both were providing nesting females with food. As a result both nests failed.

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Ukraine should gradually raise its national CO2 tax to avoid the effects of the EU’s planned carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) while it prepares its national carbon market, an expert group said in a report presented Wednesday.