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Wind, solar and tidal projects will compete for contracts, including funding for onshore schemes

Renewable energy developers will compete for a share in a £265m subsidy pot as the government aims to support a record number of projects in the sector through a milestone subsidy scheme later this year.

Under the scheme, offshore wind developers will compete for contracts worth up to £200m a year, and onshore wind and solar farms will be in line for their first subsidies in more than five years.

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Figures from Global Witness for 2020 show violent resource grab continued unabated despite pandemic

Murders of environment and land defenders hit a record high last year as the violent resource grab in the global south continued unabated despite the pandemic.

New figures released by Global Witness show that 227 people were killed in 2020 while trying to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems that their livelihoods depended on.

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UK policies will deliver a quarter of emissions cuts needed, say campaigners ahead of the COP26 summit.

Roaming pet cats can kill more than 180 animals each year. But most people who keep cats inside do so for the welfare of their pet. Lily van Eeden, Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash University Emily McLeod, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology Fern Hames, Director, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Zoe Squires, Policy Officer, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New report questions assumptions over costs and benefits of new transmission link for Snowy 2.0, and why consumers will be lumped with the cost.

The post Snowy 2.0 hit by another blow out in costs, and consumers will foot the bill appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Locals in the host city are being asked to offer a warm welcome to indigenous delegates visiting for Cop26

In October, Calfín Lafkenche of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, on the southernmost tip of Chile, will embark on an 8,000-mile journey across the Atlantic. He won’t be the only one taking such a trip; indigenous people from Peru’s highest mountains will walk for eight hours to board day-long flights, while those from the deepest Amazon will travel for two days to board a canoe bound for their nearest town. Their ultimate destination? Glasgow.

These are just some of the indigenous communities journeying across the globe to make their voices heard for the first time at Cop26, the UN climate change conference taking place in Glasgow from November.

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Trade bodies and unions say the UK is slipping behind other nations on green investment.

The former EPA scientist is among five who have come forward alleging that the agency has become deeply corrupted

The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning.

“The people of the United States expect the EPA to protect the health of their children, but the EPA is more concerned with protecting the interests of polluting industries,” said Ruth Etzel, former director of the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP). The harm being done to children is “irreparable”, she said.

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Indonesia has terminated its decade-long deforestation partnership with Norway after a lengthy delay in the first results-based payment, which the European country had pledged to make last year.

Stephanie worries about climate change, but her dad is a senior employee at BP.

TUC report says producers that don’t clean up operations will wither and die as rivals blaze trail towards carbon net zero

Up to 660,000 jobs will be at serious risk if the UK continues to fall behind other countries in the amount it invests in green infrastructure and jobs, according to an alarming study published on Saturday.

Coming just two months before Boris Johnson’s government hosts the United Nations Climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, the report by the TUC makes clear that the impact on employment in the UK as a result of jobs moving “offshore” to countries in the vanguard of green investment and technology will be particularly acute in the UK’s industrial heartlands in the north-west, Yorkshire and the Humber.

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Campaigners say Sadiq Khan’s support for a four-lane road under the river is at odds with his environmental aims

Burrowing deep under the Thames, Silvertown tunnel is scheduled as the first new road link across the capital’s river for 30 years. But, the four-lane highway, due to be completed in 2025, is about to become the focus of environmental protests in the lead-up to the Cop26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November.

Preliminary construction work has begun and tunnelling is due to begin next spring, but campaigners insist it is not too late to halt the £1bn-plus engineering project and are planning protests at both ends of the tunnel later this month.

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Leaked documents that reveal the removal of references to temperature targets set a worrying precedent

When the prime minister, Boris Johnson, launched trade negotiations with Australia in June last year, he lauded the opportunities of trading with a like-minded country, a land that could ply the UK with reasonably priced chocolate biscuits and cheap wine.

Except, of course, when it came down to it, there would always be more to this deal than swapping Penguins for Tim Tams. For the environment, current Australian rules do not match up to ours. On animal welfare, pesticide standards and climate change, the approach of the current Australian government isn’t the same at all.

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The California Senate failed to pass a bill on Friday that would have enshrined the state’s economy-wide CO2 neutrality goal into law and increased the jurisdiction’s direct GHG reduction goal.

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A tight race and key party climate platform differences are combining to keep everyone from policy experts to emissions traders guessing ahead of the Sep. 20 Canadian election.

WCI regulated entities added to their open short positions immediately after the Q3 auction cleared above market expectations, while speculators slightly increased their length, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

EUA prices on Friday slipped further from this week's record high, losing more than €2 at one point on profit-taking and as Russia announced that Nord Stream 2 (NS2) was complete and would begin transmitting gas before the end of the year.

Munich motor show showcases the latest EVs from Europe – but they’re unlikely to make their way here anytime soon

The Munich motor show is on again and Europe’s biggest carmakers are taking the chance to debut all the latest electric vehicle designs, with some surprising developments.

With governments across Europe moving to ban sales of internal combustion engines by 2030, manufacturers are racing to bring out a range of affordable zero-emissions cars to avoid being left behind.

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African offset developer Aera Group has struck a €9 million deal to sell offsets from an efficient cookstove programme in Burundi over five years.