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Echuca is on edge. Our near neighbours, at Rochester, are bracing for a second peak.

We were awake as the rain pelted our roof at 4am on Saturday morning. We are tired, emotional and fragile. Processing information and making decisions is getting harder as the anticipation and preparation takes a mental and physical toll.

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Police arrest 17 protesters after activists glued themselves to the road in Upper Street, Islington

Just Stop Oil activists have glued themselves to a road in north London on the 22nd day of the group’s campaign of civil unrest.

About 20 protesters stopped traffic in Upper Street in Islington, north London, on Saturday.

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Farmers say having solar sites allows them to subsidise food production during less successful years

Farmers have urged whoever succeeds Liz Truss as UK prime minister to abandon plans to ban solar energy from most of England’s farmland, arguing that it would hurt food security by cutting off a vital income stream.

Truss, who resigned on Thursday, and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, hoped to ban solar from about 41% of the land area of England, or about 58% of agricultural land, the Guardian revealed last week.

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Queensland's energy plans begs the question: what is the true value of longer duration storage? And how much, really, is needed?

The post Has Queensland overpumped its pumped hydro plans? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Compliance entities boosted their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI holdings in 2022 vintages, while financials picked up both 2022 and 2023 vintage CCAs while reducing RGGI holdings this week, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favour of President Joe Biden's $51/tonne social cost of carbon (SCC) on Friday, a verdict that likely pushes the case by the Republican states closer to the conservative-majority Supreme Court.

Using electric heat pumps at manufacturing facilities could cut the US industrial sector's emissions by 5% below projected levels in 2030, according an environmental policy firm study published Friday.

Constraining US state laws could limit opportunities for natural gas power generation combined with CCS when planning for long-term decarbonisation of the power sector, a summit heard this week.

The NSW town is in a hurry to transition from mining and power generation – but attracting new industries has its own pitfalls

Lithgow, with its coalmines, power stations and cauldron-like geography, used to be a lure for young public health officials, keen to study the effects of the heavy pollution. Nestled on the western edge of the Blue Mountains about two hours from Sydney, the gritty industrial town hosted Australia’s first steelworks. Residents were given coal for next to nothing to burn during the cold winters.

“The place was just full of smog,” says Chris Jonkers, now an activist with the Lithgow Environment Group, whose father worked in the nearby state coalmine for about nine years before its closure in 1964. “He’d come home black every day.”

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Three ARR forestry projects in Uruguay have had slight downgrades in ratings by one agency this week, although they were still given a moderate chance of avoiding or removing CO2, while a fresh rating was awarded to a renewables projects in India.

France on Friday became the latest EU nation to signal that it will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), with the governments concerned that the pact will undermine their efforts to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

John Kerry tells the BBC he hopes the King reconsiders his decision not to go to the UN climate summit in Egypt.

This week marks the one-year anniversary since a handful of crypto outfits burst onto the scene to send shockwaves through the carbon market, and despite a series of setbacks since then participants remain convinced that Web3 will play a major role in the future of carbon trading.

European carbon continued to trade in its narrow channel on Friday, setting up the narrowest weekly high-low since April as many traders again stayed away, while energy prices fell back as the prospects of healthy winter supplies erased Thursday's gains.

Traded volumes in China’s national emissions trading scheme remained stable over the past week with prices moving just marginally, and observers expect the negative sentiment to continue in the near term.

The wildlife authority describes this as a landmark punishment in the protection of rare species.

Climate activists defiant as public order bill aims to curtail civil disobedience tactics

UK climate activists have vowed to continue their disruptive protests until the government imposes the death penalty for their actions, as they signalled their contempt for a new bill aimed at curtailing their civil disobedience tactics.

The public order bill, which passed through the Commons this week and is now before the House of Lords, takes aim at “criminal, disruptive and self-defeating guerrilla tactics” used by groups such as Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved nine new climate projects worth $544.1 million, and a further $1.7 billion with co-financing, it announced in Friday as it concluded its final board meeting for the year.

Despite an increase in interest for ocean-based CO2 removals, experts are sceptical on their capacity to grow into large-scale carbon credit-generating technologies amid substantial hurdles relating to MRV, regulation, and the nascency of the technology itself.