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RGGI’s impending Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger price spurred a rise in allowance prices throughout Q4 2020, as the volume of units transferred between unaffiliated parties surged over the final months of the compliance period, according to a report released Tuesday.

The M7 was supposed to be offset by environmental protection 15 years ago. Leaked documents show that never happened

Western Sydney has seen some of the most intensive urban development in Australia in the past 20 years – and what’s known as “conservation offsets” have been used as a bargaining chip to make this rapid construction of new residential suburbs and infrastructure more palatable to the public.

But an investigation by Guardian Australia has found at least two instances where the offsets never eventuated, in one case 20 years after they were first proposed.

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Planning proposal for project near Whitehaven faces widespread opposition from environmentalists

Cumbria county council has said it will reconsider the planning application for a new coalmine near Whitehaven, which has prompted widespread criticism.

Government ministers in January declined to intervene in the go-ahead for the mine on the basis it was a local decision, but environmental campaigners have warned it undermines UK efforts to tackle climate change.

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EUAs slipped back below €38 on Tuesday as energy prices gave back some of the previous session’s gains, even as freezing temperatures continued to bite.

Experts say coronaviruses related to Sars-CoV-2 may be found in bats across many parts of Asia.

Landfill gas and beef herd management projects picked up the majority of credits in Australia’s latest offset issuance, as secondary market prices continued to firm.

Highbury Corner tunnel built by same crew behind HS2 protest tunnel at Euston, say environmentalists

A second tunnel or tunnel network has been occupied by tree protectors in central London in protest at plans by Islington council to fell a range of mature trees to make way for new housing.

Activists from a group called Save The Trees are occupying the site, which is close to a busy roundabout in a polluted part of London.

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Shift is caused by the heating of the oceans and other wildlife is suffering more attacks

The climate crisis is pushing great white sharks into new waters where they are causing populations of endangered wildlife to plunge, research has shown.

Heating of the oceans, which reached a record level in 2020, has led young great white sharks to move 600km (373 miles) northwards off the coast of California since 2014, into waters that were previously too cold. Over that time there was a dramatic rise in sea otters killed by white sharks, with the number in Monterey Bay dropping by 86%.

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The cumulative value of Southeast Asia-generated carbon credits surpassed $100 million last year, according to a report released this week, with projects in Indonesia securing around four-fifths of the total for their avoided deforestation efforts.

A second tunnel or tunnel network has been occupied by activists in London in a protest against plans by Islington council to fell a range of mature trees.

Activists say the tunnel at Highbury Corner tree protection camp was built by the crew that dug the tunnel at the Euston Square Gardens HS2 protection camp.

• Activists occupy second London tunnel in protest at tree-felling plans
  

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Changes could mean replacing gas boilers in homes and finding new ways to make steel without coal.

Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals

Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found.

Countries with the most prodigious consumption of fossil fuels to power factories, homes and vehicles are suffering the highest death tolls, with the study finding more than one in 10 deaths in both the US and Europe were caused by the resulting pollution, along with nearly a third of deaths in eastern Asia, which includes China. Death rates in South America and Africa were significantly lower.

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Climate action wreckers who used to rant about real things – carbon pricing, a national energy guarantee – are spouting about policies that don’t even exist

Given Australian politics has transited back to climate change, stupid isn’t really a shock. Stupid is the default.

But even though stupid is to be expected – and stupid always gets supercharged when the Coalition fuses its climate change “debates” with internal leadership tension – I’m still gobsmacked that somehow, over the past 72 hours, we have managed to move to somewhere even dumber. Let me explain what I mean by this.

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Oil projects over the next decade would destroy hopes of meeting Paris climate goals, thinktank warns

The world’s state-owned fossil fuel companies are poised to invest about $1.9tn (£1.4tn) in the next decade in projects that would destroy any prospect of meeting the Paris agreement climate goals.

A large proportion of these investments are likely to become stranded assets, with at least $400bn unlikely to be profitable if the world sticks to its promises to hold global heating to less than 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels, according to a report from the Natural Resource Governance Institute thinktank.

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Boris Johnson told exploding wartime ordinance to clear way for windfarms can harm marine life

Joanna Lumley has urged Boris Johnson to stop the “needless” detonation of wartime bombs at sea because it can cause deafness and even death in vulnerable whales and dolphins.

In a letter to the prime minister and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, who is a conservationist and animal welfare campaigner, the actor describes underwater explosions used to clear ordinance ahead of windfarm construction in the UK as “truly shocking in scale”, with a “devastating impact” on marine mammals.

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A 200MW Victorian solar farm and battery storage proposal engaged in a landmark battle over land use lodges a revised planning application.

The post Solar and battery project embroiled in land use battle submits revised proposal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Media billionaire Kerry Stokes reportedly floats idea of repurposing Muja coal mine for a pumped hydro storage project - a solution to rehabilitation costs?

The post Could pumped hydro come to the rescue of failing coal mines? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Increasingly severe and unpredictable extreme weather events have knocked an extra $86m off Suncorp's half year accounts, prompting calls for more action on climate change.

The post From fire to ice: Suncorp gets the weather wrong again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla sold a quarter of all EVs worldwide in 2020, and will likely hold the upper hand for 2021.

The post Tesla sold quarter of all global electric vehicle market in 2020 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Blue whales may be at a bigger risk than previously thought of getting entangled in fishing nets.