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The EU will continue to endure markedly higher energy prices than the US and China even in a scenario where it meets its climate goals, due to its continued reliance on imports and growing demand, said the bloc’s business lobby.

A voluntary carbon crediting platform for engineered removals has unveiled plans to update its service fee structure later this year to make market entry more accessible for carbon removal suppliers, it said this week.

Ten individuals are being investigated by the Italian authorities for submitting manipulated CO2 emissions data while administering Italy's largest steel factory, which then affected the facility's EU carbon permit compliance requirements, according to multiple national media sources.

Japan is considering government procurement of direct air capture (DAC) carbon credits in a bid to boost demand, while several relevant methodologies under the domestic offset programme are being developed.

The European Commission will take all the necessary steps to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology available to large industrial emitters and remove barriers to its development, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.

Australia has announced updates to national greenhouse gas reporting rules that a climate think tank warns will let coal companies dramatically under-report their emissions and undeservedly be issued Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs).

The European Commission wants to speed up approval of emerging green and low-carbon technologies, saying it will promote faster permitting for those identified as the most promising by its new Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCITE) in Seville.

Many companies believe mandatory offsetting requirements would be critical for the biodiversity market to scale, according to submissions to the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits’ (IAPB) second round of consultation with market participants.

Speculation and land banking by the palm oil industry is a major contributor to Indonesia’s massive historical deforestation rates, according to a study published this week.

The government of Gambia has introduced a draft carbon trading bill in an effort to regulate project activity and credit transactions in the emerging market.

From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace

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It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.

That may not be the first thing on the minds of British voters as they go to the polls on Thursday. It is probably also a minority view in the rest of Europe or the US, where people are too much in the thick of a polycrisis to consider anything outside politics and economics as usual. But from a distance, in my case from the Amazon rainforest, there is a very different explanation for the tremors being witnessed in the old world and the new.

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Although distributed energy resources are expected to be able to play in the new very fast frequency control market, it wasn't easy hooking them in.

The post Household batteries are now being marshalled to deliver very fast response to grid security issues appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The AFR and other right wing media still describe AEMO forecasts as blackout warnings to argue against wind and solar. But in nuclear dominated Ontario, the shortfall forecasts are even more dramatic.

The post Right wing media serves up more nonsense about blackout warnings and nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A government-backed carbon exchange in Taiwan is likely to see the first transaction of domestically issued emissions reductions by late September or early October, according to local media reports.

Europe’s tallest active volcano roared as it spewed lava from one of its largest craters.

The Shanghai government will auction off 1 million carbon allowances under its emissions trading scheme at the end of this month to ensure regulated emitters can acquire enough permits for compliance purposes.

Small renewable energy systems are replacing dirty diesel generators in remote communities. This study of 20 Australian microgrid feasibility projects reveals widespread benefits. Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia's main grid is heading to 50 per cent renewables in two years, and batteries are moving from a sideshow to centre stage as cell prices plunge.

The post As wind and solar ramp up, batteries are about to take centre stage as cell prices plunge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

False claims about weather manipulation and geoengineering have been spreading online. What are the facts?