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Chicago-based financial firm opens second RGGI COATS account
EU carbon rally loses momentum, but any near-term correction to be short-lived -analysts
Photos from the field: the stunning crystals revealing deep secrets about Australian volcanoes
Morgan Stanley lifts long-term EU carbon price forecasts but warns of H2-21 pullback
Euro Markets: EUAs, UKAs slip as British auction weighs
The Treasury missed a green trick when it handed out Covid cash | Phillip Inman
Commitments to a greener and healthier environment would have been a reasonable price to ask
When the government reacted to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 with unprecedented rescue funds, ministers were urged to attach strings before the money disappeared out the door.
The strings would have forced employers to adopt policies they had resisted for years, most obviously cutting carbon emissions and promoting a healthier environment.
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Fowl play: duck hunting struggles to stay afloat in Victoria
Duck hunting has been practised as a recreational sport in Australia since colonisation. In Victoria alone, an average of 400,000 birds are killed during hunting season. South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory are also yet to ban the practice. But recent changes in Victoria, including a cut to the season’s length, have made the hunt less accessible for shooters, and with growing community dissent the hunt could soon come to an end
EU joins forces with Bill Gates to mobilise $1 bln for clean energy tech
Brussels to keep low-carbon fuels out of updated renewables directive -EU official
PREVIEW: June RGGI auction expected to clear near secondary market, with eyes on compliance buying
Climate crisis is suffocating the world’s lakes, study finds
Falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists
The climate crisis is causing a widespread fall in oxygen levels in lakes across the world, suffocating wildlife and threatening drinking water supplies.
Falling levels of oxygen in oceans had already been identified, but new research shows that the decline in lakes has been between three and nine times faster in the past 40 years. Scientists found oxygen levels had fallen by 19% in deep waters and 5% at the surface.
Continue reading...ICIS head of European power and carbon analytics leaving to join boutique consultancy
Flower power: how one company is beautifying the wind turbine
Tulip-shaped ‘eco-art’ turbines address common complaints about noise, danger to wildlife and ugliness
Tulips and flowers could help harness the power of the wind, after a green energy company came up with its own spin on wind power in an “eco-art” design.
Flower Turbines, based in the US and the Netherlands, has installations across Rotterdam, Amsterdam, parts of Germany, Israel and Columbia. The company aims to democratise green energy for everyone and make small windfarms a leading player in the green energy industry.
Continue reading...China govt agencies back Beijing as carbon offset market hub
Blue Abyss: Plans to build world's deepest pool in Cornwall
Major project aims to clear clean energy hurdle
Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds
Vessels primarily from China switch off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in possible illegal fishing
Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from China, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in a possibly illegal hunt for squid and other lucrative species on the very edge of Argentina’s extensive fishing grounds, according to a new study by Oceana, an international NGO dedicated to ocean conservation.
Every year, vessels crowd together along the limits of Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to take advantage of the lucrative fishing grounds.
Related: Cat and mouse on the high seas: on the trail of China's vast squid fleet
Continue reading...South Korea suspends 5.1 mln allowance auction as KAU price crashes
Cycling schemes popular with London voters, analysis finds
Parties that back schemes such as low-traffic neighbourhoods outperformed critics in mayoral election
Schemes to promote cycling and walking condemned by some critics as controversial and unpopular actually appear to be welcomed by many voters, according to analysis of last month’s election results in London.
Examination of the London mayoral election on 6 May on a ward-level basis showed that votes for parties that support such projects tended to rise in areas where they had been introduced, while parties that opposed them were more likely to shed votes.
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