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Caroline Lucas will table bill which would extend countryside access to woods and green belt

People across England are right to trespass to stand up for their right to roam, Caroline Lucas has said.

The Green MP will table a bill later in October to allow the public to access woodlands and the green belt in the same way they can currently walk on the coast path.

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The EU's frontloading plan will serve two purposes - revenue generation and carbon price reduction - a senior lawmaker said Thursday, but warned that EU Allowances should not fall below €50.

Corporates are increasingly making net zero commitments but their pledges are not being matched by the development and implementation of credible decarbonisation strategies that demonstrate to investors detailed efforts to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement, a survey of 159 companies by a climate investor action group has found.

Natural England chief says pledge to stop biodiversity loss by 2030 will not be met if scheme is cut

The government will not meet its commitments to stop biodiversity loss by 2030 if it scraps new payments to incentivise wildlife-friendly farming in England, the head of its nature watchdog has said.

Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, told the environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, in a letter this week that if the government did not keep its commitment to move from area-based farm payments to “public money for public goods” – rewarding farmers for work to replenish soil, prevent floods and restore pollinators – it will not meet its legally binding target to halt biodiversity decline by 2030.

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ExxonMobil has entered into an agreement with a US hydrogen and nitrogen manufacturer to capture and store up to 2 million tonnes per year of CO2 generated from an industrial facility in Louisiana, the US oil and gas major announced.

Peak body says assurances given and must be upheld or trust with rural Australia ‘will be broken’

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The Albanese government has provided assurances that farmers will not be hurt if Australia signs on to Joe Biden’s global pledge to cut global methane emissions by 30% by 2030, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) says.

Guardian Australia revealed in June that Labor was considering signing the pledge, and the agriculture minister, Murray Watt, on Thursday said he was “comfortable if we sign up to it”, although he said the government had not yet signed off on the commitment.

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The Western Australian state government has launched a technology grant programme for heavy industries to cut their emissions and generate carbon credits, and a separate consultation on a renewable hydrogen target.

A Web3 start-up and a Colombia-based offset registry have announced plans to build the first direct two-way bridge between a carbon offset registry and a blockchain-based trading platform.

Wildlife has an amazing ability to recover – but only if we keep vital legal protections in place

In the latest of what can often seem like the “final nails in the coffin” of biodiversity across Europe, we heard in recent weeks that UK environmental protection is under threat. But while the global scale of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss remain alarming, vital new research, which I helped lead, shows there are also heartening examples of European wildlife bouncing back from the brink.

For the past two years, we at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology, along with colleagues at BirdLife International and the European Bird Census Council, have been investigating the fortunes of 50 European wildlife species over the past 50 years, from humpback whales to Iberian wild goats to white-tailed eagles. Each of these species are incredible comeback stories, and researching how they have recovered has been a refreshing and inspiring endeavour – the Eurasian beaver and European bison, for example, have both increased in average relative abundance by more than 16,000% since 1960.

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Photographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this summer killed more than 1,500 people and left millions homeless.

The portraits, part of his Drowning World project, are a powerful reminder of the impact of the climate crisis on the poorest people on the planet

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PM wants to prevent panels on 58% of farmland but business secretary says renewables need to be boosted

• Jacob Rees-Mogg: I’m no green energy sceptic

Liz Truss is facing a rebellion from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business department over plans to ban solar power from most of England’s farmland.

The prime minister and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, want to ban solar from about 41% of the land area of England, or about 58% of agricultural land, the Guardian revealed earlier this week.

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Critics suggest our growth agenda conflicts with the need to achieve net zero. They couldn’t be more wrong

• Truss and Rees-Mogg on collision course over solar power

It is always intriguing to see my own views through the lens of a newspaper refracted away from what I think. Although I am no admirer of Extinction Rebellion, I can assure Guardian readers that I am not a “green energy sceptic”. I am in favour of intelligent net zero in which green energy will play the biggest role.

I’m proud to belong to a country that has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% since 1990, while growing the economy by over 70% in that time.

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All Energy will be the launch platform for a number of new product offerings from international and national companies, both those already established and new entrants to the AU market. 

The post All-Energy Australia – New products to be launched & floor highlights appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rain has fallen across almost all of Australia’s mainland in the last two weeks. Our rain events are usually regional – not national like this. Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

JV buys development rights to WA Kondinin project, which proposes to combine up to 230MW of wind, 80MW of solar and 60MW/120MWh battery storage.

The post WA wind, solar and battery project snapped up by Shell and Foresight JV appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia’s Northern Territory will allow the use of international carbon credits by large polluting facilities as part of its newly released greenhouse gas offsets policy.

Each year, enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost at sea. This not only harms marine life, but also the livelihoods of fishers worldwide. Britta Denise Hardesty, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO Chris Wilcox, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Joanna Vince, Associate professor, University of Tasmania Kelsey Richardson, PhD Candidate, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Quinbrook sells minority stake in huge Nevada project to Netherlands largest pension fund, hot on heels of another renewables deal where it doubled its money.

The post Renewables juggernaut Quinbrook flips stake in US solar and battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Government’s oceans review also presents grim picture of species under threat of extinction including seabirds and mammals

Microplastics are found in three of every four of New Zealand’s fish, huge portions of indigenous seabirds and marine species are threatened with extinction, and warmer oceans are becoming uninhabitable to native species, a stark new government report on the state of the country’s oceans has found.

The ministry of environment’s marine stocktake, released on Thursday, lays out a grim picture of species under threat. It found that 90% of indigenous seabirds, 82% of indigenous shorebirds, 81% of assessed marine invertebrate species and 22% of marine mammal species were classified as threatened with extinction or at risk of becoming threatened with extinction.

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