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A consortium of players in the energy and shipping industries launched a project this week to explore the viability of carbon capture on vessels, reflecting a push to explore the utilisation of the technology to reduce emissions from shipping, a sector which is heavily dependent on fossil fuels but faces increasing pressure to decarbonise its operations.

Campaigners say marine protected area set up to save UK’s only fan mussels exists merely as a ‘paper park’

New underwater footage taken by environmental campaigners in Scotland has revealed severe damage to marine life and habitats wreaked by scallop dredgers in “marine protected areas” (MPAs).

The Scottish government designated the seabed around the islands of Canna and Rum, on Scotland’s west coast, as the Small Isles MPA in 2014, to conserve Britain’s only colony of rare fan mussels and other features. The islands host a large breeding colony of black guillemots.

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Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27

African climate activists from some of the countries most affected by global heating say they are struggling to get access to the UN climate talks in Egypt in November.

Cop27, which has been termed “the African Cop”, threatens to take place without African activists advocating for communities devastated by drought, floods and fossil fuel projects in the negotiations when life-or-death decisions about climate finance will be made.

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The Western Australia Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has flagged the possibility of not recommending new polluting projects based on their Scope 3 GHG emissions.

He’s spent his life sniping from the sidelines. Now he has the power to make radical environmental reforms to the monarchy

So King Charles won’t be going to COP 23, by order of Liz Truss https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/01/king-charles-abandons-plans-to-attend-cop27-following-liz-trusss-advice; an inauspicious start for a monarch with pretensions to remain an influencer and be known as the first “green” king.

But he should take heart: Truss may not be long for No10, and Charles may look at recent events and conclude that no-one listens to her anyway. If so, there are plenty of opportunities now for him to turn the archaic House of Windsor into an institution fit for an age of climate breakdown, poverty and deep inequalities.

John Vidal is a former Guardian environment editor

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Environmental issues in low-income areas have long been ignored by activists who fail to grasp the importance of equity

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“Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.”

From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those affecting the borough’s lower-income residents. There were very few jobs such as this in local government, and I was the only Black person employed in one.

Julian Agyeman is a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, and editor-in-chief of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability

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A spate of positive climate policies around the globe is expected to drive big growth in the wind energy sector, according to analysts Wood Mackenzie.

The post Climate policies to push global wind capacity past 2TW over coming decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The New Zealand government on Thursday proposed to give local councils a greater say in regulating carbon forestry as it launched yet another ETS consultation that pushed the NZU price up by almost 6%.

New licenses for North Sea oil and gas are incompatible with reaching net zero by 2050, a report says.

On Australia’s rainiest days, more than 30 trillion litres can fall from the skies. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Almost all of the world’s largest corporate emitters do not sufficiently acknowledge climate risks in their financial statements, leaving investors ‘in the dark’ as to whether and how their financial reporting takes into account the impacts of climate change, according to a report released on Thursday.

Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and investors must stop funding it, say campaigners

Hundreds of coal companies around the world are developing new mines and power stations, according to a study. The researchers said the plans were “reckless and irresponsible” in the midst of the climate emergency.

Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and its use must be quickly phased out to end the climate crisis. However, almost half the 1,000 companies assessed are still developing new coal assets, and just 27 companies have announced coal exit dates consistent with international climate targets.

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Competition illuminates beauty of ocean and threats it faces. Ben Thouard’s winning image of surfer was chosen unanimously by the six judges

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A mixed quarter of trading shaped by the announcement of the Chubb ERF review and the federal government's plan to reform the Safeguard Mechanism.

The post A flight to quality, as carbon traders hedge against a tightening of rules appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A group of firms on Thursday announced the launch of a venture that will generate carbon credits and other environmental products across the Asian region for the voluntary market.

Albanese government launches consultation on how to deliver long overdue energy efficiency improvements across the economy, starting with a discussion paper.

The post Federal government opens “discussion” on a national energy efficiency strategy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Good Car Company plans to run a batch-buy program that would source cars from Japan and the UK

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A philanthropic foundation backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes has invested $10m into Tasmanian startup the Good Car company to help slash the cost of secondhand electric vehicles in Australia.

The announcement from Boundless on Thursday follows months of signalling by Cannon-Brookes that he was prepared to invest large sums into businesses addressing aspects of the carbon transition.

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The Australian conference supposedly devoted to ‘bold action’ from the right spent much of its time pouring scorn on any form of climate action

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Climate science is a fraud, according to one speaker; renewable energy has pushed up electricity prices for Australians and the case that carbon dioxide drives global warming is unproven, according to others.

Those were just some of the themes at last weekend’s annual conference in Sydney of the Conservative Political Action (CPAC) network – billed as the “largest and most prominent conference for conservatives and liberty lovers in Australia”.

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According to conventional economic theory, whether or not fracking should occur is simple – and the answer these days is almost always "not."

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X-ray scans of a tiny reptile fossil reveal the pterodactyls' ancestors scampered around on two legs.