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New analysis shows the UK’s gas imports would be 13% lower if successive Conservative-led governments had not “cut the green crap” over the past decade.

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Japan and Sri Lanka on Monday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to bring the South Asian nation into the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).

Here are some of the top images in the global photography competition which attracted more than 100,000 entries from 196 different countries and territories. The competition is divided into six categories: people and nature, landscape, water, wildlife, climate, and plants and fungi

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As we accelerate towards a green future, will batteries or fuel cells power the world? The short answer is, we’ll need both.

The post Musk’s battery packs vs Forrest’s green hydrogen: Battle for the future will need both appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Representatives from the three EU institutions agreed on two concessions for heavy industry under the EU ETS reform bill in resumed trilogue negotiations on Monday, but left most issues for later. 

Australia has a vast network of undersea cables and pipelines. Bolstering their security must be a priority. Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) issued 235,000 carbon credits on Monday, more than doubling its tally so far, as the standards registry starts to work through a large pipeline of projects.

Petroleum company Ecopetrol on Monday announced it has sold carbon offset-backed crude oil to a US-based refiner, the first of several such shipments planned by the Colombian entity that omits Scope 3 output.

Use of toxins must be justified, but the sad reality is a similarly effective alternative to the lethal pesticide doesn’t exist

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We may not like it, but killing feral animals is an action we need to take if we truly care for Australia’s environment and wildlife.

As an island nation with a trove of unique wildlife that evolved in isolation, Australia is highly susceptible to invasive species.

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Prices drifted over the week in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) that continued to be undermined by thin liquidity and negative press about a lack of integrity in the market amid the global macro-economic slowdown.

Incomes have stalled while the rich get richer. It’s clear the obsession with GDP has to change

Liz Truss was clear what she wanted. “I have three priorities for our economy,” the prime minister told the Conservative party conference last week: “Growth, growth and growth.” But her problem is that this is not actually clear at all.

The definition of economic growth is an expansion of national income, as measured by GDP (gross domestic product). Since the 1950s it has been the objective of more or less all governments to have GDP growing every year.

Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the University of Sheffield

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The EU will pay Estonia €354 million in grants to support the phaseout of oil shale in energy production that accounts for over 50% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions, and also approved €1.1 billion in Slovakian measures to help ETS-exposed industry to decarbonise.

European air carriers are purchasing VERs with questionable environmental integrity and failing to provide enough transparency about their carbon credit practices more generally, said an NGO-commissioned report published Monday.

Alexander Darwall lodges papers seeking end to camping on moorland without permission

A wealthy landowner is pressing ahead with legal moves that could threaten the right of backpackers and youth groups to wild camp on Dartmoor.

A small group of right-to-roam activists built a protest camp over the weekend on the estate owned by Alexander Darwall and his wife, who are challenging the legal basis of bylaws that allow for wild camping on the moor, despite a growing outcry from local people, hikers and environmentalists.

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The London Stock Exchange on Monday outlined a set of listing rules for firms that finance carbon credit-generating projects as part of an aim to drive growth in the voluntary carbon market and increase its transparency.

EUAs fell back from Friday's nine-day high settlement price early on Monday, and went on to drop as much as 4.4% in a thin market as traders waited for fresh signals on market reform and on the EU's plan to auction more EUAs to fund its REPowerEU initiative.