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Nine women used hammers and chisels to shatter building’s windows in April 2021 as part of Extinction Rebellion protest

Nine climate protesters have been cleared by a jury of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to the windows at the headquarters of HSBC bank in London.

The women, who were all taking action as members of Extinction Rebellion, sang and chanted as they shattered the custom-made glass windows with hammers and chisels at about 7am on 22 April 2021.

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The European Commission will soon present a communication on how to improve energy grids in Europe that will also cover how important CCS technology has become, the executive's Green Deal boss Maros Sefcovic said on Thursday.

Two large corporate carbon credit buyers expressed a broadly positive outlook for the development of jurisdictional REDD+ in spite of "a difficult year" for the forestry sector, in a webinar on Thursday, urging patience from the market.

Companies are counting on an under-the-radar tweak to EU ETS rules to kickstart projects to store carbon permanently in buildings, with the incentive to shave carbon costs enough to get going without needing to rely on fledgling efforts to generate carbon credits from removals.

Superb singers, pollen showers and some Jambalaya on the Bayou. The winners of the sixth annual BirdLife Australia Bird Photography awards have been announced

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I used to believe I had no real say in what our government did. But eventually I realised that that simply wasn’t true

I’m 16 years old and today I will be striking from school because of the government’s complete failure to combat a very real, and very dangerous threat to my future. I live in western Sydney and have lived here all my life. I enjoy school, and take my education seriously. I take pride in my academic achievement. Despite this, I’m walking out of school to fight for my future.

When I was in primary school, my teacher taught us about climate change, and how it’s caused. He would explain that it would lead to things like rising sea levels, more extreme temperatures, andworsening floods and fires. I understood what he said, but at the time it was hard to actually imagine what it meant.

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Even with bigger subsidies, the technology looks attractive price-wise compared with gas

The good news is that the government has an offshore wind strategy again, something that was in doubt after the last auction flopped by producing no bids from developers. The maximum price the state is prepared to pay for a windfarm’s output for 15 years has been set at £73 a megawatt hour for the 2024 auction, a level that should be high enough to grab attention in boardrooms and spark some bidding action.

The bad news, of course, is that £73 is a mighty leap from £44, the price that generated the big thumbs-down, and these subsidies end up on our bills. Yes, we all know about higher interest rates and inflation in everything from steel to the cost of transporting turbines to the North Sea. But a 66% increase?

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An international conservation NGO on Thursday announced it is launching a Mangrove Conservation Fund for Malaysia as its first action after establishing a presence in the Southeast Asian nation.

Researcher says data suggests permit conditions breached on up to 70 days, but United Utilities disputes findings

Suspected illegal dumping of raw sewage into Windermere took place on up to 70 days in 2022, a year in which campaigners said the lake had its worst summer of harmful algal blooms, according to analysis of data released under environmental information rules.

Prof Peter Hammond, whose research first identified the scale of illegal raw sewage discharges from English water companies, has analysed detailed data on spills and treatment by United Utilities, which was released by the Environment Agency.

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Most Asia-Pacific nations are trailing global commitment levels in emissions targets, and they should use the next cycle of NDC updates in 2024-25 to recalibrate, a UN report said Thursday.

A coalition of countries could collaborate on a plan for regulation to push a nature positive agenda globally, the director general of the WWF International has said.

European carbon declined slowly through Thursday morning, tracking movements in natural gas amid a general lack of activity, as participants continued to speculate over whether prices will recover ahead of the expiry of the current front-December contract.

A financing mechanism, launched on Thursday by green groups with backing from the UK government, will provide advanced funding for forest-rich countries that sign binding Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreements (ERPAs) with the LEAF Coalition, with executives hoping to secure two such deals this month and several more in the first half of 2024.

A global study of over 15,000 small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has highlighted that many SMEs want to make progress sustainability, but often are unable to measure and report on emissions.

Scientists in eastern China find 24 out of 28 water samples have plastic particles commonly seen in synthetic fibers and packaging

Air, water, soil, food and even blood – microplastics have found their way virtually everywhere on Earth, and now that list includes clouds.

Bits of plastic particles were recently discovered above eastern China, with new research showing that these microplastics could influence cloud formation and the weather.

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A ratings agency for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has announced a partnership with a satellite data provider, it announced Thursday, to enhance the monitoring, reporting, and verification of forestry projects.

Woodside Energy was among those assessed to be at significant risk of "net zero greenwash" because of their efforts to influence governments against phasing out fossil fuels.

The post “Net zero greenwash:” Energy giants called out over plans to burn more fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Danish tech company announced Thursday its soil carbon platform now covers two million hectares spanning 17 European countries, with the expansion aided by a €46 mln raise earlier this year. 

A European cleantech firm has raised €4.5 million including grants from Brussels to improve the energy efficiency and reduce emissions as part of heavy industrial processes, according to a release Thursday.

None of Japan’s ‘big three’ steel makers are close to realising the kinds of steep emissions cuts needed for the energy transition according to their own stated emissions plans, an Asian think tank said Thursday.