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'One sip can kill': why a highly toxic herbicide should be banned in Australia
Conservationists urge regulation to cut plastic pollution as voluntary scheme launches
Supermarkets and multinational manufacturers have unveiled a plastics pact across Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands
Australia will miss its 2025 targets to cut plastic pollution from packaging unless it shifts from voluntary programs to enforcement, an alliance of conservation groups and the Greens have said.
On Tuesday major supermarkets and multinational food and consumer goods manufacturers launched a new voluntary program across Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands with a goal that plastic “never becomes waste or pollution”.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs tumble 7% as slowing rally, onset of UK ETS supply trigger sell-off
RFS Market: Biodiesel RINs top $2 for all-time high as bull run continues
Belarus drafts plan to shield itself from EU carbon border measures -media
China carbon trader leaves Engie to lead US commodity firm’s Singapore environmental desk
Gas Boilers: What are heat pumps and how much do they cost?
ANALYSIS: Destined for a bumpy road, Chinese carbon traders go carefully into the ETS
COMMENT: Financing carbon dioxide removals – what role for ETS in the race to net zero?
Climate change: Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero
Air pollution linked to ‘huge’ rise in child asthma GP visits
Exclusive: consultations for asthma and other respiratory infections go up with increased dirty air, finds study
A “huge” increase in the number of visits to doctors by children with asthma problems occurs after a week of raised air pollution, according to a study. The number of inhaler prescriptions also increases significantly.
Dirty air is already known to increase hospital treatment for severe asthma attacks and other respiratory problems. But the new research is the first using clinical data to show increased illness among the much bigger number of people who seek treatment from their GP.
Continue reading...No more fossil fuel projects to ensure 1.5C warming limit – IEA
UPDATE – Free permit allocations under UK ETS to come by end-May, meaning tiny supply pool for this week’s trading start
UK climate champion ‘stubbornly optimistic’ about net zero deal at UN talks
Nigel Topping acknowledges world is running out of time as he lobbies businesses and lawmakers in lead-up to Cop26 summit
The UK’s climate champion, Nigel Topping, says he is stubbornly optimistic that the world will converge on an agreement to forge a transition to a net zero future at the UN climate talks later this year.
Topping’s role in the run-up to the UN Cop26 climate summit, to be held in Glasgow in November, is to drive and encourage action from businesses, civil society, and local and regional government on climate change.
Continue reading...Taylor files new regulations to push ARENA into CCS and gas projects
Angus Taylor sets new regulations opening up Australian Renewable Energy Agency to support carbon capture and storage, and potentially gas projects.
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Leonardo DiCaprio pledges $43m to restore the Galápagos Islands
Environmentalist actor, with other conservation groups, aims to rewild the entire archipelago and other Pacific islands in Latin America
Leonardo DiCaprio has announced a $43m (£30.4m) pledge to enact sweeping conservation operations across the Galápagos Islands, with his social media accounts taken over by a wildlife veterinarian and island restoration specialist.
The initiative, in partnership with Re:wild, an organisation founded this year by a group of renowned conservation scientists and DiCaprio, the Galápagos National Park Directorate, Island Conservation, and local communities, aims to rewild the entire Galápagos Islands, as well as all of Latin America’s Pacific archipelagos.
Continue reading...Transcript – Energy Insiders podcast from the Smart Energy Conference
Transcript of the Energy Insiders podcast from the Smart Energy Conference on May 13.
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