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Certifier Gold Standard on Monday launched plans for a new contribution claims framework to help companies take climate action beyond offsetting, while teaming up with others to initiate ideas on how firms should approach mitigating climate impacts outside their own value chain.

Industry wants accountability to cover putting sewage spills right, not firms’ previous compliance

“We want to be held to account …” said Ruth Kelly, the new public face of the English water companies, last week, briefly raising hopes of a moment of reckoning for the industry’s past (and current) sewage spills. Then the chair of Water UK clarified what her version of accountability covers. The companies wish to be held to account “… for putting it right”.

The past 30 years, we were invited to think, should be considered an unfortunate chapter in which the industry, terribly unfortunately, didn’t give sewage spills enough attention while other investments were prioritised. That was the gist of her apology. “By and large, the water companies were carrying out their legal responsibilities but … what’s legal is not necessarily the right answer or what people expect,” she argued on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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Better early warning systems and disaster management mean fewer lives lost to extreme weather.

The co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has confirmed the launch date for the final nature reporting recommendations as Sep. 18, speaking at a conference in London on Monday, stating that the highly-anticipated disclosure guidelines will be presented at the New York Climate Week.

Wind overtakes gas for first time to become biggest contributor to UK grid in first three months of 2023.

The post Wind beats out gas generation in UK in first quarter for first time appeared first on RenewEconomy.

European carbon prices weakened sharply on Monday morning as the market began a full schedule of five daily auctions after a truncated timetable last week, while energy prices fell again, further increasing natural gas' advantage over coal in power generation and diminishing potential demand for EUAs.

Actively-restored tropical forests have shown a much larger increase in carbon stocks compared to other types, new research has found.

Exclusive: Fossil fuel companies register drop in value after litigation or unfavourable judgments

Climate litigation poses a financial risk to fossil fuel companies because it lowers the share price of big polluters, research has found.

A study to be published on Tuesday by LSE’s Grantham Research Institute examines how the stock market reacts to news that a fresh climate lawsuit has been filed or a corporation has lost its case.

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Another 15 financial institutions have signed up to the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) pledge, committing to help reverse the ongoing nature loss and set specific biodiversity targets.

Transmission lines in the US need to be increased threefold, but faces pushback from fossil conservation and green groups

America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transition lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils.

The Greenlink West project would build a 470-mile-long transmission line bringing clean electricity north of Las Vegas to Reno in Nevada, but it cuts through an area containing everything from woolly mammoth tusks to giant sloths to ancient camels.

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Typhoon projected to affect US territory of Guam as early as Tuesday. Elsewhere, Europe is heating up

Over the weekend, a rapidly intensifying region of thunderstorms in the western Pacific culminated in the formation of Typhoon Mawar.

The movement of this storm is projected to affect the Mariana Islands, including the US territory of Guam, as early as Tuesday. There is a risk of wind speeds above 75mph, together with torrential rain.

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CapGemini is looking to hire a manager for its carbon credit business in India.

Australia will soon consult on how the proponent-led carbon project method development will work and what role the market's new integrity body will play in that process, as it seeks to implement the reforms of the recently held offset market review.

Renewables generate enough power to cover all demand in Spain for the longest period yet.

The post Spanish renewable production exceeds 100 pct of demand for 9 hours appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A major Japanese conglomerate has struck a deal with an Angolan agricultural firm on the potential rehabilitation of a degraded forestry area to launch its first carbon credit project in the Southern African nation.

The sensible methods didn’t work, so I became a member of the Red Rebel Brigade. Now I feel I’m doing something useful

My clown-white facepaint makes my skin feel tight and I’m scared my elaborate headdress is going to slip. It’s my first outing with the Red Rebel Brigade, the silent climate activist performance group. About a dozen of us are clad in robes, veils and evening gloves – all a bright blood-red. We glide to our local Barclays bank to stand in a tableau of grief. We are meant to aim for the faraway stare of “a watcher through the ages”, but I’m afraid I look more like someone stuck in a slow queue at Sainsbury’s. I suddenly catch the eye of someone I know as they walk past, staring at me like I’m bonkers. But I’ve tried the sensible ways of doing something about the climate crisis. I’ve written letters to politicians, carried placards and had endless conversations. At best, I just put people’s backs up. So I’ve decided to shut up and wrap myself in a red sheet instead.

Two years before this, on the morning of 9 September 2020, I woke in my home in Berkeley, California, to a Plutonian twilight. Smoke from the latest wildfire had mixed with the fog in a blanket that shorter wavelengths of light couldn’t penetrate. I tried to explain away the darkness to my kids but I felt like a parent in biblical Egypt, claiming everything was fine while frogs rained from the sky. My husband and I had worried about California’s escalating drought and wildfires for years, but after Orange Skies Day we decided we’d had enough. Time to move back to my native UK. (Unlike millions displaced by the climate crisis, we were privileged to have this option.)

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Facilities covered under Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism are likely to hoard below baseline credits until they at least match the price of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) later in the decade, a market analyst told a panel discussion Monday.

Iron ore billionaire reminds those in NSW who "bitch and whinge" about power prices that 78% of the state's power is still coming from coal.

The post “Savagely imperfect:” Forrest lets fly at coal, nuclear and ex-Snowy boss Paul Broad appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It can be hard and costly to collect data on the threats to species at specific locations. Wildlife emergency response services have long-running records for hundreds of species that suffered harm. Elodie Camprasse, Research fellow in spider crab ecology, Deakin University Adam Cardilini, Lecturer, Environmental Science, School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

AEMO given funding boost to fast-track connections for key wind, solar and battery projects as part of a trial to help reduce delays.

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