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Environment Agency ‘letting River Wye go into a death spiral’, say campaigners
Judicial review looking at claims agency allowed destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter waterway
One of the country’s favourite rivers is going into a “death spiral” say campaigners, as lawyers argued in court that the Environment Agency was failing to apply the law and save the waterway.
Anti-pollution charity River Action took the Environment Agency (EA) to court on Wednesday for a judicial review, claiming it is allowing destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter the River Wye.
Continue reading...Double counting of emissions units needs to be addressed in EU’s carbon removal bill -NGOs
Failure of Article 6 at COP28 should be a “wake-up call” for carbon market participants, warns expert
PREVIEW: Migratory species summit seeks to raise efforts on GBF targets
Expectations of carbon credit retirements topping 250 mln this year start to rumble
Researchers single out nine financial leaders on clean energy transition
Microsoft-backed clean aviation startup launches commercial-scale carbon transformation unit -Bloomberg
Nuclear fusion leap brings clean power dream closer
Corporates eyeing carbon credits in countries lined up for Article 6 trade with Singapore
Ulez fines scandal: Italian police ‘illegally accessed’ thousands of EU drivers’ data
Italy’s data protection body investigates claims police shared names and addresses with firm collecting penalties for TfL
The names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and shared with the company that collects Ulez penalties on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), investigators believe.
The Italian data protection authority is investigating claims by Belgium’s government that an unnamed police department misused official powers to pass the personal details of Belgian drivers to Euro Parking Collections, which is employed by TfL to issue fines to enforce London’s low emission zone (Lez) and ultra-low emission zone.
Continue reading...Demand rebound for EU steel not yet in sight, but CBAM will help once effective
EU delays sector-specific sustainability reporting rules until 2026
Energy based on power of stars is step closer after nuclear fusion heat record
Feat by scientists at Oxfordshire facility described as ‘fitting swansong’ for pioneering project as reactor is decommissioned
The prospect of a green energy source based on the power of the stars has received a boost after scientists set a world record for the amount of energy created by fusing atoms together.
Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET), an experimental fusion reactor at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, generated 69 megajoules of energy over five seconds from a mere 0.2 milligrams of fuel in the final fusion experiment performed at the facility.
Continue reading...ITMO carbon credit auction delayed to April
Euro Markets: Midday Update
ICROA revamps best practice code for the voluntary carbon market
Ghana expects to finalise first Article 6.2 transfer by Q3
‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures
As the photographer turns 80, we look back as some of his most striking images from around the world. Salgado has been awarded Sony’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award 2024, and a selection of his work can be seen at Somerset House in London between 19 April and 6 May
Continue reading...Iceland: aerial footage shows volcano near Grindavík erupting for second time this year – video
A volcano in south-western Iceland has erupted for the second time this year, the country's meteorological office has said. Live images captured lava gushing out of a fissure, sending plumes of smoke and ash into the air. It the sixth outbreak on the Reykjanes peninsula since 2021, before when the volcano had been inactive for about 800 years. 'Reykjanes is fed by five volcanic systems, many of which come to life every 800 to 1,000 years,' said Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist at Lancaster University
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