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Green group asks Virginia commissions to reject Dominion’s RGGI rate request
RGGI emitters unloaded allowances following Q1 auction -report
NA Markets: California allowances soar to near all-time highs, RGGI rises on speculator interest
Queensland steps in to back wind and battery plant vetoed by Keith Pitt
Queensland government partly funds grid upgrade it says will support Kaban wind and battery hub snubbed at last minute by federal Coalition.
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How Australia’s government is trying to create fossil funding agencies
Why is Australia's government trying to transform clean energy agencies into fossil funding bodies? It marks a major global power shift.
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Mouse plague: bromadialone will obliterate mice, but it'll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too
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Natural England to get 47% funding increase amid ‘green recovery’ plans
Conservation watchdog given boost after decade of funding cuts that left it at ‘crisis point’
Natural England, the government’s conservation watchdog, is to receive a 47% increase in government funding this year as its role expands to support a “green recovery” and provide environmental scrutiny of the government’s controversial “Project Speed”.
The dramatic funding increase is a boost for wildlife protection and monitoring after a decade of deep cuts which left the agency at “crisis point” and its chairman, Tony Juniper, admitting that it would struggle to reverse declines in biodiversity.
Continue reading...Extreme weather may drive flying foxes to seek ‘climate refuge’ as far south as Tasmania
Scientists predict migration of the megabats, mostly found in eastern and northern Australia, could have significant effects on Tasmania’s ecosystems
Fruit bats may migrate as far south as Tasmania in the future as a result of extreme weather events linked to the climate crisis, new modelling suggests.
University of Tasmania scientists predicted the grey-headed flying fox could take “climate refuge” in the southernmost state in coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions continued on their current trajectory.
Continue reading...Trillions of litres of water released into Murray-Darling fails to help threatened species, research finds
A ‘just add water’ approach is unlikely to be successful, with better monitoring of species needed to target environmental watering
Trillions of litres of water released into the Murray-Darling Basin to benefit the environment has failed to increase the populations of threatened species, according to new research.
In a damning assessment of the monitoring of eight threatened species, the research from Australian National University scientists says the public reporting of the benefits of environmental watering was fragmentary and not backed by evidence.
Continue reading...European markets: Carbon rebounds as traders bid for return to records
Australia’s beef exports to UK ‘could rise tenfold’ on free-trade deal
Head of Australian agricultural firm predicts sales surge as UK farmers warn they will struggle to compete
Australia’s biggest cattle farmer has predicted that the nation’s beef exports to the UK could rise as much as tenfold if the two countries strike a free-trade deal.
Boris Johnson is determined to push through a free-trade deal with Australia, despite warnings from the National Farmers’ Union over the “irreversible damage” such a deal would do to UK agriculture. It was discussed by ministers at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Continue reading...Czech utility CEZ sets targets to further reduce coal-fired generation by 2030
RFS Market: RINs shrug off report of flat biofuel quotas for 2021-22
Community reusable cup scheme unites Hampshire village
Initiative just one of several after Overton parish council declared a climate emergency in 2019
A Hampshire village has launched a scheme to replace all disposable cups in their village with a reusable mug that will be free for users with a simple £1 deposit.
The Overton cup will be available in all the shops and cafes along Overton’s high street, including the greengrocer, “who does a lovely soup from his leftover vegetables”, according to Alison Zarecky, chair of Sustainable Overton. Customers pay their deposit (plus another £1 if they want a lid, which are non-returnable) and then return the cup once it’s been used to any deposit point in the village.
Continue reading...Angus Taylor: “I’m not driving an electric car”
Federal energy and emissions reduction minister says he will not drive an electric vehicle.
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Climate crisis behind drastic drop in Arctic wildlife populations – report
Native shorebirds and caribou among species at risk as survival strategies are upended
A drastic drop in caribou and shorebird populations is a reflection of the dire changes unfolding on the Arctic tundra, according to a new report from the Arctic Council.
The terrestrial Arctic spans approximately 2.7m sq miles (7m sq km), marked by extreme cold, drought, strong winds and seasonal darkness. Species living in this environment have adapted to thrive in the harsh conditions. But the climate crisis has upended such survival strategies, according to the State of the Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity report, published by the council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (Caff) working group.
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