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A Republican takeover in the US Congress on Nov. 8 could create barriers to implementing Democrats’ climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and a strong GOP showing at the state level could scuttle North Carolina’s planned RGGI linkage and Arizona’s clean energy plans, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Egypt has expressed frustration at leaders making positive statements that are abandoned in negotiations

Governments meeting for vital climate talks have been accused of making positive commitments in public but denying them later in the privacy of the negotiating rooms by the Egyptian hosts of the summit.

Wael Aboulmagd, the Egyptian diplomat in charge of running the negotiations at the Cop27 UN climate summit, said: “Political statements and pledges are made in front of the cameras, but in the negotiating rooms it’s back to the adversarial approach. These [publicly positive positions] will not be of value until translated into the negotiating rooms, and that has not been the case so far.”

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About 70 people seized in protest at environmental damage from crude oil spillage into Cuninico River

Indigenous people in the Amazon in Peru have detained a group of Peruvian and foreign tourists, including UK and US citizens, in protest at a lack of government aid following an oil spill in the area.

“[We want] to call the government’s attention with this action, There are foreigners and Peruvians, there are about 70 people,” Watson Trujillo, the leader of the Cuninico community, told RPP radio.

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We environmentalists must avoid sending the message that the situation is hopeless. Let’s focus on solutions

My dear fellow environmentalists,

With the Cop27 summit about to be begin, can we please think about how we talk about the climate crisis? The scale of it is there to see – it can’t be missed – but haven’t we read enough books and attended enough events where we are told, once again, about the historic causes of the problem, the intransigent complexity of the problem and the inevitable worsening of the problem? Given a little more time, I swear that most speakers would detail the length, depth and height of the problem. It is depressing. It doesn’t help. Please stop.

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Hurricane Fiona and Hurricane Ian were the only storms to strengthen enough to become major events

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 20 November, with activity peaking between August and October. The past seven years have seen above average activity – the 2021 season was the third-most active on record – and the trend looked set to continue.

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Debris from the Chinese rocket is expected to pass over Catalonia and land in the Atlantic.

German utility RWE announced a 16% increase in coal, lignite, and gas generation covered by the EU ETS over the first nine months of 2022, it said in preliminary data.

Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the climate crisis, but with the right support at Cop27 it can build a stronger, greener future

• Emmanuel Macron is the president of France; Macky Sall is the president of Senegal and chair of the African Union; Mark Rutte is the prime minister of the Netherlands

This year, we have witnessed devastating hurricanes, typhoons and floods. The US and Australia burned. Europe sweltered under a prolonged heatwave. Drought and flooding in east Africa has left many facing food shortages. One-third of Pakistan was underwater after torrential monsoon rains, and half a million people there are homeless.

Though no corner of the globe is safe, Africa is more vulnerable than any other continent to this planetary crisis. There, it’s as if all the negative effects of global warming are amplified: Africa loses up to 15% of GDP growth a year to the destructive forces of climate change; extreme and erratic weather threatens human life, food, water security and the very foundations of economic development; and living off the land is increasingly untenable for a quarter of a billion people on the continent.

Emmanuel Macron is the president of France; Macky Sall is the president of Senegal and chair of the African Union; Mark Rutte is the prime minister of the Netherlands

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Australian carbon projects delivered some 1.6 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the government between July and October, as officials confirmed the approval of 18 fossil fuel projects would be reassessed.

An Australian legal non-profit that advocates on environmental issues has referred Shell in Australia to corporate and advertising regulators for alleged misleading or deceptive statements about the climate impact of its products and operations, it announced on Friday.

The spot price for Chinese carbon allowances remained unchanged throughout the past week but with improved liquidity, though observers said trading activities might not improve significantly in the near term despite a possible reduction in allowance allocation due to lasting oversupply issues.

The British government continues to set catch limits in defiance of scientific advice. People must act, before it is too late

There are few sadder symbols of post-Brexit Britain, or of its deliberate assault upon nature, than the national dish, fish and chips, and the fate of one of its principal ingredients, the cod. Cod are tasty creatures but they are severely overfished in UK waters, a fact masked by plentiful supplies reaching fish and chip shops until recently from Iceland, Norway, and – ah yes – Russia.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given us one of two reasons why we urgently need to save our favourite fish from 40 years of mismanagement. The first is to protect our own future food security. Just when the price of cod and other materials has rocketed, leading our fish and chip shops to call for more cod from our own waters, stocks are around their worst levels on record. These national assets – which, under British law, belong to the king on behalf of the people – have declined precipitously in the past four decades.

Charles Clover is executive director of the Blue Marine Foundation and author of Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans

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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including jellyfish, wild ponies and a squadron of pelicans

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The Beijing municipal government will auction 2 million carbon allowances under its pilot emissions trading scheme in late November, with the price floor set at a relatively high level compared to previous years.

A group of high-profile local carbon and investor groups are urging the Australian government to spearhead the next phase of a global forest and land sector use pact.

Oil major Shell has partnered with Chinese national oil company Sinopec, steelmaking giant Baowu, and chemicals company BASF to explore the feasibility of developing an “open source” CCUS project in eastern China that could potentially handle "tens of millions" of tonnes of CO2 annually, the partners announced on Friday.

Scientists have long sought to farm the scarce seafood staple, but critics say animals are not suited to intensive methods

Scientists in Japan say they have developed a groundbreaking method of farming squid that could solve shortages of the seafood staple, amid warnings from environmental groups that aquaculture is incompatible with the animal’s welfare.

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) say their system produced a reliable supply of squid and has the potential to be commercialised.

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In another week of fast moving events, we look at Neoen’s new “baseload” wind and battery deal, the relaunch of solar tiles, and an interview with the man behind electric Tuk Tuks for last mile deliveries in Australia.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Solar tiles and electric Tuk Tuks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland environment group had asked federal minister to revisit decisions made going back to 2011

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Federal environment officials have agreed to look again at 18 proposed new coal and gas projects after a Queensland environment group submitted requests to have the effects of climate change considered.

None of the 18 projects has been approved under the country’s environment law, but have been through a process where the environment minister determines the nature and scale of their likely impacts.

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Devastating floods across Pakistan in August and September after several years of high temperatures have left chilli farmers struggling in a country heavily dependent on agriculture, where the flooding is estimated to have caused $40bn worth of damage

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