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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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The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades
Director, CAN Europe – Brussels
REDD+ Analyst, NatureBased Ventures – Remote (Europe/Asia preferred)
IEA’s simple message for Australia: No place for gas-fired recovery in net zero by 2050
Get ready for exponential change in the global energy landscape as a global tsunami of capital flows to support the science of climate change.
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Sales of peat compost to gardeners to be banned from 2024
Funding for restoration of peatlands and tripling of tree planting in England also announced
Sales of peat compost to gardeners will be banned from 2024, the government has said. Ministers will also give £50m to support the restoration of 35,000 hectares of peatland by 2025, about 1% of the UK’s total.
The UK’s peatlands store three times as much carbon as its forests. But the vast majority are in a degraded state, and are emitting CO2, which drives the climate crisis.
Continue reading...No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body
Governments must close gap between net zero rhetoric and reality, says International Energy Agency head
Exploitation and development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world is to stay within safe limits of global heating and meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, the world’s leading energy organisation has said.
In its strongest warning yet on the need to drastically scale back fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) also called for no new fossil-fuel cars to be sold beyond 2035, and for global investment in energy to more than double from $2tn (£1.42tn) a year to $5tn (£3.54tn) The result would not be an economic burden, as some have claimed, but a net benefit to the economy.
Continue reading...IEA says net zero by 2050 within reach, but the world needs to do more
A major new report from the IEA highlights a potential pathway to net zero - and Australia will be a loser if it doesn't act soon.
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