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Gulf between PM's promises and action on climate change, advisory group warns
An offset loophole could be the saviour for high emissions fossil hydrogen
Will hydrogen be a blessing or a curse? Probably a bit of both, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting for much more of the second.
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UK policies will not deliver emission cuts pledge, says climate adviser
Climate Change Committee says government needs to ‘step up very rapidly’ to meet ‘historic’ targets
Boris Johnson’s government has set “historic” targets on the climate crisis but has failed so far to come up with the policies needed to reach them, the government’s independent advisers on the climate have warned.
The Climate Change Committee published two progress reports on Thursday, showing the UK lagging behind on its key goal of 78% cuts to greenhouse gases by 2035 and making recommendations on how to get back on track.
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California offset issuance maintains snail’s pace as monthly total drops to 3-year low
The government’s idea of ‘national environment standards’ would entrench Australia's global pariah status
Great Barrier Reef: Labor calls on Sussan Ley to back up claim Unesco bowed to political pressure
Evidence the reef is in trouble has been building for years, federal opposition environment spokesperson Terri Butler says
Labor has called on the government to justify its claim a UN body bowed to political pressure in recommending the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a world heritage “in danger” list, saying there had been warning signs the site had been in trouble for years.
Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday that Dr Fanny Douvere, of Unesco’s World Heritage Centre in Paris, had rejected a suggestion by the environment minister, Sussan Ley, that the body told the Australian government a week ago it would not be recommending the reef be moved to the “in danger” list.
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Euro Markets: EUAs hit 5-week high as gas rally drags up energy complex
California spent months examining non-compliance issue before launching offset probe, documents show
COMMENT: Climate impact claims to crowd in private sector finance
Environment Agency needs £120m grant restored to protect rivers, says CEO
MPs warned of £40m budget cut hindering effort to monitor sewage discharges and farming activity
The head of the Environment Agency has called for the government to reinstate a £120m grant to help increase surveillance of water companies and cut pollution in rivers.
Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the agency, told MPs that water companies and the farming industry, the two main polluters of rivers, were not doing enough to protect the environment.
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Climate crisis: dangerous thresholds to hit sooner than feared, UN report says
Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, and other climate impacts are accelerating
Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN’s climate science advisers obtained by AFP.
Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas – these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.
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EU policy to cut shipping carbon emissions would be ‘disaster’ – leak
FuelEU Maritime would ‘lock in’ use of fossil fuels for decades, says NGO
A leaked draft of a flagship EU policy designed to cut carbon emissions in shipping, one of the world’s biggest polluters, has been described as an environmental disaster for “promoting” liquified natural gas, a fossil fuel, as an alternative to heavy oil.
The decision, says an NGO that has analysed the plans, will ‘lock in the use of fossil fuels for decades to come and make the EU’s target of net emissions neutrality by 2050 unreachable.
Continue reading...China tells aluminium and steel industry bodies to prepare for carbon market
INTERVIEW: Startup founded by ex-BP risk boss aims to streamline net zero commodity trading
Most new wind and solar projects will be cheaper than coal, report finds
Almost two-thirds of renewable energy schemes built globally last year expected to undercut coal costs
Almost two-thirds of wind and solar projects built globally last year will be able to generate cheaper electricity than even the world’s cheapest new coal plants, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena).
The agency found that the falling cost of new windfarms and solar panels meant 62% of new renewable energy projects could undercut the cost of up to 800 gigawatts (GW) worth of coal plants, or almost enough to supply the UK’s electricity needs 10 times over.
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