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California offset issuances sink to lowest since June
Yes, it is entirely possible for Australia to phase out thermal coal within a decade
Huge wind, solar and battery project proposed for central Queensland
RES and Energy Estate propose a 900MW wind, solar and battery project, part of a plan for 2GW of renewables to support major industrial loads.
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PREVIEW: RGGI traders anticipate at or above market clear for Q3 auction
Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience
At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s ancient forests
A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.
The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of resistance such as locking their bodies to the logging road and police responded by beating, dragging and pepper-spraying demonstrators – has surpassed the previous record of arrests set in the 1990s at the anti-logging protests dubbed the “War in the Woods”.
Continue reading...95 per cent of Australia’s coal must remain in ground to meet global climate targets
Virtually all of Australia's coal reserves must go unburnt, and global fossil fuel use must peak 'over next decade', new research finds.
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Vast majority of fossil fuels ‘must stay in ground’ to stem climate crisis
Analysis shows future is bleak for fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake
The vast majority of fossil fuel reserves owned today by countries and companies must remain in the ground if the climate crisis is to be ended, an analysis has found.
The research found 90% of coal and 60% of oil and gas reserves could not be extracted if there was to be even a 50% chance of keeping global heating below 1.5C, the temperature beyond which the worst climate impacts hit.
Continue reading...Three California-registered projects apply for LCFS via book-and-claim pathway
EU financial watchdog “stands ready” to raise ETS market abuse concerns
Carbon and natural gas prices likely to de-link in coming months– analyst
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Indigenous peoples call for ‘new alliance with equal rights’ at IUCN conservation summit
Campaign launched to protect 80% of Amazon and for conservation to be based on human rights as indigenous peoples get to vote at key gathering
Indigenous voices on the environment are finally being heard as Marseille hosts a global biodiversity summit, with a call to protect 80% of the Amazon, as well as a “counter conference” highlighting the conservation movement’s historic violation of people’s rights.
For the first time in its seven-decade history, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is including indigenous peoples as full voting members. Dozens of indigenous meetings are happening at the summit – which occurs every four years – with representatives from 23 organisations.
Continue reading...SK Market: Lukewarm interest as South Korean CO2 auction fails to sell out again
Mitsubishi teams up with Shell for Canadian hydrogen for export project
Conservation finance attracts huge investor interest despite challenges -study
NZ Market: NZUs gain another 5% as govt data shows big jump in speculator holdings
Plug-and-play solar tapped to green up hydrogen production at massive platinum mine
A mobile plug-and-play solar plant will help power greener hydrogen production at the world’s largest open pit platinum mine, and fuel the world’s largest HFC mining truck.
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Audit office blames UK government for botched £1.5bn green homes scheme
Spending watchdog says home insulation drive was fatally rushed and missed chance to cut heating bills and create jobs
A “botched” scheme to insulate England’s draughty homes collapsed after six months because officials rushed its design, put in place an undeliverable timetable, and failed to heed industry warnings, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found.
The National Audit Office (NAO) blamed the government for scuppering the opportunity to help households to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, reduce carbon emissions, and create tens of thousands of jobs by rushing the flagship scheme.
Continue reading...Birdwatch: yellow wagtail – from Somerset to the savannah
These sleek and slender birds have lost their bright spring plumage and will soon leave for sunnier climes
In spring, yellow wagtails (Motacilla flava) are so bright they look like flying lemons – or, as a birding buddy of mine memorably described them, “like an effing canary”.
But now, at the start of autumn, the juvenile bird I’m watching is far less conspicuous. Olive-brown above, buffish-yellow below, he almost blends in with the muddy earth, churned up by the cattle among which it feeds.
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