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The UK government isn't cutting emissions fast enough to tackle global heating, its advisers say.

Grantham Research Institute found half do not factor climate crisis in decision-making

About a quarter of the world’s highest-emitting publicly listed companies fail to report their greenhouse gas emissions and nearly half do not properly consider the risks from the climate crisis in their decision-making, new research has found.

The findings show the distance even the world’s biggest companies still have to cover to meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, according to the group of investors coordinating the report.

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The Alberta government opened a consultation Tuesday on its proposed overhaul next year for the Canadian province’s carbon trading programme for large emitters, with the ruling United Conservative Party offering input on the CO2 regulation’s excess emissions charge and usage limits for offsets and performance credits.

"There is a massive amount of new, very large dams that are capturing water that used to be surplus to irrigation," says Maryanne Slattery from the Australia Institute.

The British Columbia government is floating the incorporation of a credit clearance market that would act as a hard price cap for the Canadian province’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), while also considering the possibility for new alternative fuel types to generate credits.

The Four Corners report on corporations being handed public money to expand their water holdings has sparked calls for a full audit of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

New Zealand has one of the world's largest ocean territories, but the marine environment is at risk from climate change, pollution and fishing. Rebecca Jarvis, Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Tim Young, Marine Scientist, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian houses are not designed and built for the realities of climate change Anir Kumar Upadhyay, Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW Chris Lockhart Smith, Director - ecodweller, UNSW Krishna Munsami, PhD student, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission confirmed Wednesday that it wants to monetise hundreds of millions of Innovation Fund EUAs in equal annual volumes, a move that analysts said will mean the sales are less likely to affect allowance prices.

Roughly 1.8 million V17 Quebec allowances remain in WCI auction accounts after the second quarter despite proclamations by the province that those credits were retired last month, according to Carbon Pulse calculations.

EU finance ministers on Tuesday kept on the table the option of earmarking a fifth of ETS auction revenues for the post-Brexit 2021-2027 central EU budget, and discussed a bloc-wide aviation carbon tax as France pushed ahead with its own plans.

The naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says that climate change will make parts of Africa uninhabitable.

Recycling reverse vending machines will soon be a common sight across Scotland.

Satellite pictures shows how the 7.1 magnitude earthquake changed the landscape.

Researchers adapt a solar panel so that it can produce drinking water from the sea as well as green electricity.

The northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme will auction off more than 13.1 million carbon allowances at its Sep. 4 auction, the regulator announced Tuesday.

AEMO puts case for accelerated transmission investment, and outlines how storage may evolve as coal plants exit and the grid becomes dominated by renewables.

The post AEMO pushes storage, new links as renewables head for 60% share appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Snowball went viral in 2008, but now scientists say he can teach us about dance and social behaviour.

The naturalist David Attenborough appears before a parliament select committee to discuss environmental policy with MPs. He says the government’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions for the UK by 2050 is not necessarily the best approach. ‘The question is: what is practically possible? How can we take the electorate with us in dealing with these things?’ he says

• David Attenborough: polluting planet may become as reviled as slavery

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EUAs climbed towards €27 early on Tuesday, hitting a five-day high on strong demand in the day’s auction.