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Mount Isa Mines responsible for 91% of emissions in the outback city despite having an ‘industry-leading air quality management framework’

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Mount Isa has been named the most polluted postcode in Australia in a new report from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).

The ACF said the outback city is one of four Queensland locations listed among the Top 10 most polluted postcodes in the country, alongside Gladstone, Stanwell and Tarong.

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The UAE is to buy 500 gas decarbonisation devices over the next five years which will cut the equivalent of half a million tons of CO2 over the next decade, with the gas-rich Gulf nation aiming to make good on the multilateral pledge it signed up to at last year's UN climate negotiations.

Buying sentiment remained extremely weak across the voluntary carbon market (VCM) as the value of technology-based credits in particular continued to plummet, with multiple standardised exchange-traded offset contracts falling to their lowest end-of-week settlement since August.

A carbon credit ratings agency has awarded ratings to two more hydro projects, while a REDD forest protection project remained on firm's “watch” list for a potential change.

This role is a key contributor to Shell’s global carbon market analysis with a focus on offering comprehensive and regular fundamental analysis and forecasting of the global carbon offset market.

EUA prices made moderate gains on Monday as the market eyed proceedings in the European Parliament's environment committee (ENVI), where lawmakers were preparing to vote on proposed amendments to the ETS  reform bill and other Fit for 55 climate policy proposals.

Canadian company Carbon Streaming, the main seller of credits from the large Indonesian Rimba Raya REDD+ project, now expects a complete halt in offset issuances for the scheme until the government has finalised its new carbon market policy, according to news reports.

China last month saw its biggest plunge in thermal power generation – and likely in carbon emissions – since 2015, as Covid lockdowns hit demand while renewables recorded strong growth.

Ministers instead urged to focus on reducing flights and halting airport expansion to cut carbon emissions

The UK government’s “jet zero” plan to eliminate carbon emissions from aviation relies on unproven or nonexistent technology and “sustainable” fuel, and is likely to result in ministers missing their legally binding emissions targets, according to a report.

The study from Element Energy, which has worked for the government and the climate change committee in the past, says instead of focusing on such unreliable future developments, ministers should work to reduce the overall number of flights and halt airport expansion over the next few years.

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Friends of the Earth says there will be no market for Whitehaven coal as Europe’s steelmakers move to ‘green steel’

A new coalmine proposed for Cumbria is likely to be redundant before it even opens because the steelmakers that are its target market are moving so rapidly away from fossil fuels, analysis from green campaigners claims.

Steelmakers across Europe are moving to “green steel”, which uses renewable energy and modern techniques to avoid the need for coking coal of the type that the proposed mine in Whitehaven would produce.

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EU concern over ‘cruel’ practice of taking blood from mares to create hormone products that increase reproduction in farmed animals

Iceland is under pressure to ban the production of a hormone extracted from pregnant horses, a practice that has been described as “cruel” and “animal abuse”.

The hormone is used by farmers across the UK and Europe to increase reproduction in pigs, cows and other female farm animals.

Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG) is extracted from pregnant horses in Iceland during the summer at “blood farms”, before being converted into powder and shipped around the world.

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Alinta is looking for a Contracts Trader to join its Trading & Portfolio Management team, reporting to the Senior Contracts Trader.

Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetacean

The expansion of an iron ore mine in the Arctic that would have increased shipping and led to the “complete extirpation of narwhal” from the region has been blocked.

After four years of consultations and deliberations, the Nunavut Impact Review Board rejected a request from Baffinland Iron Mines Corp asking to significantly increase mining on the northern tip of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. The area is home to one of the world’s richest iron ore deposits, and the densest narwhal population in the world.

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Labor and the Greens launched environmental policies last week. We take a close look at what was promised, and if they’re enough to tackle Australia’s extinction crisis. Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Ecology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The wind energy industry is having its best year to date, and project sizes and turbines are getting bigger.

The post Australian wind market takes off again as projects and turbines get bigger appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Coalition provides another $30m in grants for CCS, potentially investigating the capture and storage of CO2 in Angus Taylor's electorate.

The post Morrison buries more funds in CCS projects in late pre-election splurge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon traders are undertaking a "flight to integrity", analysts say, offering a premium for offsets free of environmental integrity concerns.

The post Australian carbon market splits as buyers pay more for “high integrity” units appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Pioneering solar and battery storage project, and one of the first in world to showcase different market services, has new owner.

The post “World first” solar and battery grid project in Queensland changes hands appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Its hue was created by sunlight being projected through the Earth's atmosphere onto the Moon.

The New Zealand government released its economy-wide Emissions Reduction Plan on Monday, however it has conceded that the technology needed to cut emissions from one of its most polluting sectors – agriculture – is still some years away.