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BRIEFING: ASX Environmental Futures contracts will be a tale of two credit types, carbon market participants say

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-22 16:25
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is set to launch futures contracts for the Australian and New Zealand carbon markets later this month, however participants say the level of participation and interest will vary considerably between the two jurisdictions.
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APAC countries should consider complementary policies to ensure effective carbon pricing -IMF

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-22 14:05
Policymakers in the Asia Pacific should take into consideration complementary policy options such as power sector reforms and fuel tax changes when drawing up carbon pricing schemes, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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South Korea to allow for CCUS in ETS accounting

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-22 13:59
South Korea has circulated a proposal that would let CO2 removed through carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) be deducted from company emissions accounts under the nation’s emissions trading scheme, according to local media reports.
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POLL: Analysts lift EU carbon price forecasts, but expect enduring bearish factors to cap any gains

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-22 10:19
Analysts have nudged up their short- and medium-term forecasts for EU carbon allowances, though most repeated expectations that any prices rises will remain limited by weak demand from emitters and ample supply.
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Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-22 09:01

Opposition in wealthier areas is likely and overcoming it is essential, says Resolution Foundation

The government will need to “take on net-zero nimbys” and ramp up public investment to decarbonise Britain’s homes, transport and electricity system, a leading thinktank has said.

With Keir Starmer promising a rapid transition to decarbonise the power system by 2030, a report by the Resolution Foundation said achieving the target would require more government spending and private investment.

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Olympics sponsor Toyota emits much more CO2 than host nation, says think tank

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-22 08:01
Toyota has been awarded the gold medal for being the highest emitting sponsor of this year's Olympics, responsible for much higher CO2 emissions than host nation France, in an ironic twist for the event claiming to be the 'greenest games yet'.
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Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution – and Australia must be ready

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-07-22 06:22
Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids - and they could be a game-changer. Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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The Guardian view on GB Energy: a good idea turns up just in time | Editorial

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-22 03:30

Ed Miliband has won the argument that his party must go big to cut carbon emissions. But he will need to go bigger still

Sir Keir Starmer’s legislative plan to green Britain has arrived not a moment too soon. Last week, the government’s advisers warned that only a third of the carbon reductions required by law would be met under existing plans. The Climate Change Committee said that, for the first time since setting itself carbon-reduction targets, the UK is not on track to meet its goal. It is supposed to reduce emissions in 2030 by 68% compared with 1990 levels, to meet net zero by 2050.

The UK should, says the committee, now be in a phase of rapid investment and delivery. But the Tories’ turn against net zero policies has meant little progress on the rollout of low-carbon technology. That is why Labour’s king’s speech, which put the environment at the centre of policymaking, was so welcome. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, won the argument that the urgency of the climate emergency needed a bigger, more interventionist state.

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Real-time water quality monitors installed at wild swimming spots in southern England

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-07-21 23:00

AI-based system designed to help people assess immediate risk of getting ill from water polluted with bacteria

Real-time water quality monitors are being installed at wild swimming spots and beaches across southern England to help people assess their immediate risk of getting ill from polluted water.

Wessex Water is installing sensors at three freshwater sites in Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire, plus two coastal sites in Bournemouth, after a successful pilot study at Warleigh Weir near Bath. Here, the artificial intelligence-based system correctly predicted when bacteria in the water were high 87% of the time.

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Florida grasshopper sparrow: scientists hail resurgence of endangered bird

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-07-21 22:00

Sparrows were taken into captivity after numbers dwindled – and this week experts released 1,000th bird back into wild

Scientists in Florida are hailing the landmark release this week of a tiny bird only 5in tall as an oversized success in their fight to save a critically endangered species.

Numbers of the Florida grasshopper sparrow, seen only in prairies in central regions of the state, dwindled so severely by 2015, mostly through habitat loss, that authorities took the decision to remove remaining breeding pairs into captivity. Their wager was that a controlled repopulation program would be more successful than leaving the birds to their own devices.

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Yes, five years in jail is too harsh, but the Just Stop Oil Five shouldn’t have done it | Sonia Sodha

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-07-21 16:00

The urgent needs of the road users they held up were ignored during this climate crusade

It was “a dark day”, according to a UN special rapporteur. Others lamented “a gross miscarriage of justice” and “a farce” marking “a low point in British justice”. Such language would not have been hyperbolic had they been talking about the review highlighting the failings that left Andrew Malkinson jailed for 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit. Or a recent travesty of the single justice procedure, the expedited closed-door process that saw a woman dying from stage 4 breast cancer convicted for non-payment of a TV licence. But it was actually referring to the handing down of five- and four-year prison sentences to five Just Stop Oil activists for their role in masterminding four days of serious motorway disruption: if we are to believe them, a grave affront to the right to protest.

There are certainly questions about whether the sentences for their offences are proportionate or appropriate in the context of the wider criminal justice system. But to suggest that freedom of conscience creates an unlimited right to cause other citizens harm is to fail to engage with the nature of their offence. And, more broadly, to misunderstand what it means to live in a democracy where we enjoy a right to noisy protest, but are also bound by obligations to each other that are framed by the rule of law that applies to us all equally.

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