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EUA prices continued to strengthen by as much as 3% on Monday morning, with an extension of the recent short squeeze and supportive fundamentals driving prices back above €95.

Tony Abbott joins board of UK-based think tank that attacks net zero and other climate and clean energy policies.

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China is considering introducing the opportunity to let coal-fired power plants covered by the national emissions trading scheme borrow permits from future years in order to ease the scheme’s short term cost impacts, according to analysts.

Pollution from wood stoves, popular among middle classes, missed from monitoring which focuses on roads but is just as if not more harmful

A sharp rise in wood burning in urban areas could be bringing harmful pollution to greater numbers of people, and shifting the pattern of pollution from poorer to more affluent areas, one of the UK’s leading air pollution experts has warned.

Currently, air pollution monitoring focuses on busy roads, which have been the main hotspots for fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5) and other air pollutants, largely from diesel vehicles.

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The governments of Canada and British Columbia along with 15 First Nations have released a blueprint for setting up a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) covering a third of the Northern Shelf Bioregion, as Pew Charitable Trusts published a mapping tool to help plan such MPA networks in international waters.

Fishing has been central to life on Holy Island in Northumberland for centuries. Now, despite intense opposition, a proposed highly protected marine area – which would effectively kill off local industry – threatens the livelihoods of the island’s 15 fishing families

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Scientists urge people to stop ‘spraying gardens with poison’ and adopt wildlife-friendly practices

Gardeners who use pesticides are contributing to the decline of British songbirds, a study suggests.

Scientists have urged people to stop “spraying their gardens with poison” in order to halt bird decline and adopt instead wildlife-friendly practices.

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Western Australia is having a spot of bother from its fossil fuel generators, including coal shortages that could take a plant offline in coming months.

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NSW Labor denies claims from NSW energy minister that it will tear up the state's Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap if it wins the election in March.

The post NSW Labor says it will not “rip up” renewable roadmap, but accelerate it instead appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Blue Action Fund, backed by four European governments, will channel €20 million to projects that support ecologically representative and well-connected systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Asia-Pacific region, it announced over the weekend.

Asia oil giant buys into Australian solar market in deal that gives it a large operating portfolio and a bigger pipeline of projects.

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Genex looks to fast track 1.6GW solar project in Queensland as it completes foundations to its first battery storage facility.

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Essential Energy teams with AGL to install a 2MWh battery in the rooftop solar-heavy Port Macquarie region.

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New report argues fuel tax credits should be removed for on-road users, and halved for off-road users, to drive emissions reductions and save billions.

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A New Zealand carbon trader has launched a parliamentary petition demanding the country’s House of Representatives urge the government to implement the ETS price settings recommended by the Climate Change Commission (CCC).

The poles are not known for being noisy but a project reveals their weird and wonderful sounds.

In one finding, fire authorities chose to save a few farm sheds over 5,000 hectares of national park. Clearly, our fire management needs a reset. Libby Rumpff, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Sarah Legge, Professor, Australian National University Stephen van Leeuwen, Indigenous Chair of Biodiversity & Environmental Science, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The reality of intensive egg production is grim, with hens subject to all manner of inhumane conditions. We must face up to the unacceptable costs of our current food choices

Is brunch over? I hope so – like afternoon tea, it’s a stupid meal, sabotaging two perfectly good ones. Then there’s the queueing, all that sourdough massacring your soft palate, and dribbles of hollandaise, horribly reminiscent of baby posset. None of this has stopped people, but perhaps egg shortages will.

The UK egg drought never quite reached pandemic pasta proportions, but rationing was widespread through November and supply has not wholly recovered. The United States is now in the grip of acute shortages, with 60% year-on-year price rises, a dozen eggs reportedly reaching $18.

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Private sector is not seen to be ready to act as main buyer and draft is similarly worded to a Morrison-era bill

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An Albanese government environment plan to encourage companies to invest in nature merely expands a Coalition proposal under Scott Morrison and is at risk of failing due to a lack of business interest, experts say.

The federal government is consulting on legislation to establish a scheme to incentivise investment in nature restoration by creating tradable certificates for projects that protect and restore biodiversity.

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