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An independent watchdog warns that England is facing a 'deeply concerning decline in biodiversity'.

Emission cuts must be accompanied by greater efforts to remove CO2 from the atmosphere a new report says.

Report finds that dirty panels are having a heavy impact on the output of solar PV installations.

The post Dirty panels are cutting output from solar PV by up to five per cent appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Known as parallel importing, importing goods directly from overseas suppliers lowers costs and increases supply, which is what Australia’s electric vehicle market needs to catch up with the world. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Flavio Menezes, Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A blockchain marketplace, that has just raised $7.5 million, is to sell tokenised forward carbon credits to boost pre-funding of voluntary carbon market projects, it announced on Thursday.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) released new timelines on Thursday, aiming to guide integrity for carbon credits amid a wave of quality-related concerns, with labels aimed at clearly distinguishing credits expected to emerge this year.

Countries need to double the amount of existing forms of nature-based carbon removals and to roll out new technologies by a factor of 1,300 to keep within a 1.5C of warming pathway as outlined in the Paris Agreement, according to a report published Thursday.

As part of the International Land Use team, the Junior Forest Carbon Analyst will play a key role in the development of a variety of forest carbon projects types, including Improved Forest Management (IFM), avoided deforestation/degradation (REDD), and afforestation/reforestation (A/R) projects. This role requires a strong understanding of issues around the science of climate change, as well as land use and natural resource management dynamics.

The Senior Director for Climate Policy will lead CI’s climate policy engagement and is responsible for developing and implementing CI’s strategy to influence globally important climate policies. They will be responsible for setting policy goals, overseeing focal areas of work on climate policy, leading the development of relevant policy positions to achieve CI’s climate policy goals, and taking technical leadership on key topics that will vary over time.

AGL names a new CEO to lead switch from fossil fuels to renewables and appoints contractors to demolish the Liddell coal generator.

The post AGL names new CEO as contract awarded to demolish Liddell coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The US EPA announced on Wednesday that it will publish a suite of new emissions reduction regulations in the coming months, while federal agencies are relying on the private sector to help decarbonise the electric grid.

New amendments to Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) regime will cause the programme’s credit bank to plunge 75% over the rest of the decade in the absence of significant carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) uptake, analysts said in a recent report.

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The UK government has slashed another 1.7 million tonnes from industrial emitters' free carbon allowance allocations under the country's ETS, removing subsidies worth an estimated £112 mln at current prices.

The UAE's climate envoy on Wednesday shrugged off conflict-of-interest concerns about the nation appointing its state oil firm boss as head of upcoming COP UN climate negotiations, while warning that the global stocktake due at the meeting will likely show the planet off-track on global warming goals.

Prices for forestry conservation carbon credits held steady on Wednesday despite the publication of damning reports about Verra-accredited REDD+ projects that the standards body has refuted as untrue.

Plan unveiled at Davos to find fair limits on impact of climate and other crises, which most affect poorer countries

Countries, companies and cities need to establish environmental justice targets to counter the impact of the climate and other crises on global inequality, according to the authors of the most comprehensive study of the issue to date.

From floods in Pakistan to air pollution in India, the Earth Commission researchers say the poorest parts of the world are being disproportionately harmed by environmental problems, which is adding to global injustice and threatening social stability.

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To achieve low or even no electricity bills, there are three areas owners of home solar systems should focus on getting right. Wasim Saman, Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.