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New Unicef report finds that in even best-case scenario 2 billion children will face four to five dangerous heat events annually

The climate crisis is also a children’s rights crisis: one in four children globally are already affected by the climate emergency and by 2050 virtually every child in every region will face more frequent heatwaves, according to a new Unicef report.

For hundreds of millions of children, heatwaves will also last longer and be more extreme, increasing the threat of death, disease, hunger and forced migration.

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A climate tech startup this week announced plans to expand from mainly evaluating forest carbon projects to origination earlier in the value chain, aiming to drive supply that it says is in need of scaling.

Uzbekistan on Tuesday became the 24th nation to sign up to the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), Japan’s bilateral mechanism designed generate carbon credits aligned with the Paris Agreement.

EUA prices extended their three-day rally and jumped to the highest in seven weeks on Tuesday morning, as traders boosted covering of short positions, though some suggested that that market had been spooked by news that Germany was buying member-state level allowances.

Battery storage to get funding boost from funds previously allocated by Angus Taylor to his failed UNGI scheme.

The post Battery projects to gain funds from Angus Taylor’s failed gas support scheme appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Hong Kong-headquartered tech firm is in talks with a number of banks and pension funds in the Asia-Pacific over Paris-aligned smart contract-based carbon credits attached to green bonds.

Labor ploughs funds back into the Climate Change Authority, and efforts to restore Australia's international reputation - and to host annual climate talks.

The post Labor spends big to restore defenestrated Climate Authority and international diplomacy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Germany has struck deals with three other EU nations to buy intergovernmental EU carbon units to cover its shortfall in meeting its non-ETS emissions obligations built up over 2013-20, the government said on Monday.

Climate and environment programs in 2022-23 partly funded by redirecting $746.9m from those promised by Coalition

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Labor has revamped Australia’s response to climate change and environmental degradation, redirecting nearly $750m in Coalition commitments, including some spending on gas and carbon capture and storage.

As revealed by Guardian Australia, the first Albanese government budget scrapped a Scott Morrison-era electricity generation underwriting scheme that was promised, but failed, to build up to five new gas-fired power generators and six hydro plants. It also reduced and “realigned” support for CCS away from new fossil fuel developments.

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Singapore will aim to peak its GHG emissions at a lower level than previously planned and before 2030, the island-state’s Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced at a conference on Tuesday.

A mix of evolving regulatory landscapes and more informed consumer demand will likely spark far more stratified carbon credit prices in the future compared to in the current market, a conference heard on Tuesday.

Victorian authorities say nature of emergency flood management means ‘sometimes difficult and challenging decisions need to be made’

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Trucks began spraying stormwater “full tilt” into the back yard of Bobby Lang’s Echuca home two days ago.

Lang said that since an emergency levee was built to help protect part of the town from recent flooding, those houses within the levee have no outlet for their stormwater, so authorities are pumping it back over the barrier when it rains.

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China’s current power market design has hindered the ability of the national ETS to unleash its potential in driving significant CO2 emissions reductions, a policy paper found.

Nearly nine in 10 farms inspected failed to comply with regulations, according to a report from the Environment Agency

The government’s efforts to protect UK rivers have been labelled an “abject failure” after two-thirds of farms in Devon were found to be causing pollution when inspected by the Environment Agency.

Between 2016 and 2020, the agency visited more than 100 cattle farms in north Devon to check levels of compliance with environmental regulations, particularly around safe slurry storage and spreading.

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The New South Wales (NSW) state government in Australia has launched a A$360 million ($228 mln) investment plan to accelerate emissions reduction in its most carbon intensive industries, NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean announced on Tuesday.

EnergyAustralia to work with bus and truck industries to build out green charging infrastructure for heavy duty electric vehicles.

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How baseline settings on Safeguard facilities are configured is largely a moot point, so long as their aggregate emissions levels meet Australia’s climate targets, a panel of experts said Tuesday.

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Climate and clean energy leaders call for a national scheme to underpin “massive” investment in large-scale energy storage critical to shift to renewables.

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SMA warns developers will struggle to source basic big solar ingredients, like inverters and transformers, if demand-side issues are not addressed.

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