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Electricity prices in some parts of Australia will increase by as much as 14.1 per cent, as surging coal and gas costs push prices higher.

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Offshore wind farms no longer require subsidies, so German authorities are now looking at their carbon footprint to rank them in capacity auctions.

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The UK government has levied more than £27 million in new environmental fines, with the bulk related to compliance breaches under the EU ETS.

California regulator ARB distributed the smallest number of compliance offsets this week since spring 2020, while traders reported credits tagged with in-state benefits were seeing increasingly higher values than out-of-state units.  

Transgrid revives renewable micro-grid proposal for Broken Hill, dumping diesel option in favour of compressed air storage. But it will depend on a grant.

The post Broken Hill renewable micro-grid revived after Transgrid finds a way to dump diesel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Researchers at Northwestern University in the United States have created robots less than 1mm big.

Tokenisation and the use of blockchain is a double-edged sword that needs high water marks to provide integrity in carbon markets, a conference heard Wednesday following earlier news that Verra stopped crypto companies from tokenising credits that have already been retired.

Wandering salamanders live in the world’s tallest trees and wind tunnel tests show how the amphibians take their ‘leaps of faith’

A new study is shedding fresh light into the incredible world of California’s temperate forests, and the daring survival techniques of one of its inhabitants: parachuting salamanders.

The study, published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, shows how salamanders living in the canopy are able to parachute consistently, slowing their speed and controlling their movements.

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Other seven locations popular with locals have high concentrations of harmful bacteria due to sewage and livestock

Only one popular river spot for bathing and water sports in and around Oxford has bacteria within safe levels, a survey by a campaign group has found.

The other seven locations in rivers which are regularly used by swimmers, punters, rowers and kayakers, were found to have concentrations of harmful bacteria one and a half to three times above recommended safe levels, a study by the Oxford Rivers Project funded by Thames Water has found.

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The difference between the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and compliance carbon markets will continue to blur, speakers told a conference on Wednesday, ahead of hotly-anticipated standards to be published later this year.

Commitment to building four-storey bioreactors is gamechanger for cultivated meat industry, says expert

The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry.

The US company Good Meat said the bioreactors would grow more than 13,000 tonnes of chicken and beef a year. It will use cells taken from cell banks or eggs, so the meat will not require the slaughter of any livestock.

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The pathway for decarbonising the aviation sector will be a political decision because of the lack of available biofuels, while public investment in infrastructure for alternative energies will require concrete evidence of emission reductions rather than "dreams", an Italian minister told a conference Wednesday.

Residents of Jacobabad say loss of trees and water facilities makes record-breaking temperatures unbearable

Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life.

But now, he says, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the whole city and there was no shortage of water and we had other facilities so we could easily beat the heat. But now there are no trees or other facilities including water, due to which the heat is becoming unbearable. I’m scared that this heat will take our lives in the coming years.”

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EUA prices consolidated their gains from Tuesday amid thin trading as participants eyed public holidays across much of Europe in the coming few days.

Gradually introducing permit auctioning and transitioning to a cap-and-trade system from the current intensity-based approach are some of the measures China can put in place to achieve deeper carbon cuts from its ETS at a lower cost, according to a study released Wednesday.

The four nations known as the Quad countries – Australia, India, Japan, and the US – will launch a mission to help the Indo-Pacific region implement Article 6 of the Paris Agreement while backing high-quality carbon markets.

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