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G20 energy ministers wrapped up their meeting in Goa on Saturday without any progress on ambition to ratchet up renewable energy production and cut the use of fossil fuels.

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Science and business leaders say lurch away from climate agenda after byelections would be deeply unpopular with voters and damage UK’s reputation

Britain’s leaders have been warned against a “politically suicidal” lurch away from their green pledges as concerns grow that both major parties may dilute their plans to combat the climate crisis in the wake of a shock byelection result.

Senior figures from business, the scientific community and across the political divide warned that any watering down of climate policies would be deeply unpopular with voters, set back the international fight to reach net zero and damage Britain’s green reputation.

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Energy sector stakeholders have urged the Ugandan government for bolstered support to solidify the country’s standing in global carbon markets, as ministers acknowledged domestic fragmentation and a need for more regulatory enhancements.

Campaigners’ pressure sees London mayor withdraw approval for stoves billed as better for the environment

The London mayor Sadiq Khan has withdrawn his endorsement of woodburning stoves promoted as “environmentally friendly” after a surge in sales of the appliances, which contribute to harmful air pollution.

In 2018, Khan endorsed the Ecodesign stoves, which comply with new regulations in an EU’ directive on minimum energy efficiency standards that came into force on 1 January last year, in order to encourage householders to switch from open fires and older stoves to more modern technology. He said Londoners could make a big difference by using the “right kit”.

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Virus has spread around the world, with 200,000 wild birds dead in Peru alone and concerns Australia could be next

Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone.

The highly infectious variant of H5N1, which gained momentum in the winter of 2021, caused Europe’s worst bird flu outbreak before spreading globally. The disease reached South America in November 2022, and has now been reported on every continent except Oceania and Antarctica.

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A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are "unprecedented", some scientists say.

The country’s ‘first mining boom’ drove its oyster reefs to near extinction. But a new generation of artists has a voice their ancestors never did

Megan Cope calls it the “first mining boom”, one that drove Australia’s oyster reefs to near extinction. First, British colonists raided the enormous piles of shells and animal bones Indigenous people had gathered after feasting and ceremony, mixing these middens with water into a lime slurry for building the new colony.

Then, once these “Aboriginal architectural forms” – sites of carbon-dated evidence of traditional life – were exhausted, the colonisers began demanding live oysters to eat. They sent fishers to deploy harmful extractive processes on the reefs. “Within 15 to 20 years of the British arriving, the landscape changed so incredibly,” says Cope. “Our ancestors were witness to that, but powerless, of course.”

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Opposition energy spokesman Ted O'Brien says solar panel inverters made by Chinese companies could be taken over by officials for spying purposes.

The post Coalition says inverters in rooftop solar systems are national security risk appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia contributes $50m as part of Quad deal to diversify clean energy supply chains, with focus on solar panels, batteries and electrolysers that produce hydrogen.

The post Australia commits $50m to find new supply chains for solar, batteries and hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A community panel of Ad Standards finds gas industry commercial breached the advertising code for environmental claims by making an unclear comparison with coal.

The post Gas lobby forced to pull ad for misleading viewers over “50 pct cleaner” claims appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Emitters once again added to their California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) net length as prices made new year-to-date highs ahead of ARB’s public workshop next week, while speculators took profits, choosing to reduce CCA net positions but continuing to amass RGGI Allowances (RGA), data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

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A summary of legislative, regulatory, and policy action on carbon, clean fuel, and clean energy markets at the US federal and subnational levels this week, including the continued progression of voluntary carbon market disclosure and climate risk disclosure bills in California.

Vattenfall stops work on the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm over soaring costs.

Regulatory language introducing Brazil's ETS to congress is expected in August, but an Indigenous group is vowing to oppose the measure over a lack of consultation, according to local media reports.

A Switzerland-based carbon project developer announced Friday it was planning new activities that comply with Verra and Gold Standard methodologies in a heavily deforested Brazilian state by partnering with local landowners.

The Kariba REDD+ project and other voluntary carbon initiatives in Zimbabwe have paused their technical activities in line with a government directive, but monitoring and other operations continue as normal, the operator of the large forest protection scheme said Friday.

The Hungarian government announced this week it will introduce a tax of €40 per tonne of emissions for EU ETS participants that receive a proportionately large volume of free carbon allowances, as well as a 10% transaction fee on the value of those permits.

Surfers Against Sewage’s annual audit finds 12 companies responsible for 70% of branded pollution

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Pepsico have been named as the biggest packaging polluters in the UK, according to an annual audit.

The campaign group Surfers Against Sewage examined more than 30,700 individual polluting items collected by 4,000 citizen scientists alongside coastlines, canal paths, bridleways and city streets over a 12-month period up to 5 June 2023.

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