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PREVIEW: Q2 RGGI auction to flirt with new record settlement, though CCR release uncertain
Canadian investment manager teams up with ESG investor to partially offset portfolio emissions
Brazil bike offset scheme gets lowest grade in ratings firm’s latest awards
EU leaders task ministers to quickly sign-off on RePowerEU plans
American Carbon Registry follows Verra in carbon credit tokenisation ban
PetroChina hires new US-based head of environmental products trading
Megalodon shark extinction may have been linked to great white competition
Is Thomas Heatherwick’s Tree of Trees the new Marble Arch Mound?
Amid accusations of greenwashing, the designer’s steel-tree gift to the Queen appears to be a dangerously inept heir to London’s other recent urban misfire
Continue reading...Green groups launch interactive tool to score carbon credit quality
Us older people must fight for a better America, and world, for younger generations | Bill McKibben
Baby boomers were complicit in the decay of our civic life and cultural fabric – and we must play a serious role in fixing it
I had the chance this month to spend a couple of weeks on an utterly wild and remote Alaskan shore – there was plenty of company, but all of it had fur, feathers or fins. And there was no way to hear from the outside world, which now may be the true mark of wilderness. So, bliss. But also, on returning, shock. If you’re not immersed in it daily, the tide of mass shootings, record heatwaves and corroded politicians spouting ugly conspiracies seems even more truly and impossibly crazy.
Camping deep in the wild is not for everyone, but there’s another way to back up and look at our chaos with some perspective – and that’s to separate yourself in time instead of space.
Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College and the author most recently of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
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Australia Market Roundup: Bowen takes climate and energy minister post, AgriProve registers more projects
China’s finance ministry to brush up low-carbon toolkit, fuelling carbon tax speculation
Species recovery targets in England damaging and illogical, scientists warn
Exclusive: PM told there could be eight years’ decline before any gains despite already being at ‘rock bottom’
The government has set damaging and illogical targets for species recovery in England that could mean there is eight years of decline before any improvement, despite already being at “rock bottom”, scientists have warned the prime minister.
Twenty-three leading scientists from institutions including Oxford and Cambridge universities, the Natural History Museum, the Zoological Society of London and the RSPB have written to Boris Johnson expressing their alarm over the nature targets.
Continue reading...Big-emitting Chinese province rolls out offset plans
Global asset managers up alignment with net zero goals to $16 trillion
Will a Labor majority stunt climate action? If the government wants a second term, more climate ambition is essential
Chris Bowen confirmed as new energy and climate minister, McAllister as assistant
Chris Bowen confirmed as Australia's next climate and energy minister, the first climate minister since the last Labor government.
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Analysts see ACCU price doubling by 2030, but stable in the near term
South Australia seeks ideas for Whyalla hydrogen hub, both blue and green
SA Labor calls for designs and delivery concepts for $592 million hydrogen hub proposed for Whyalla, but stays vague on what colour it prefers.
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