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Harvard will divest itself from holdings in fossil fuels, the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, announced late on Thursday.

Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s vast endowment of almost $42bn, has already been reducing its financial exposure to fossil fuels and has no direct investments in companies that explore for or develop further reserves of fossil fuels, Bacow said in a message posted on the university’s website.

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Twenty of the world's poorest countries face hotel quarantine before the event in Glasgow.

The Q3 RGGI auction cleared within market expectations as it settled above the secondary market, with compliance entities procuring their smallest sale share since the Q1 2021, according to results released Friday.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including developments in Illinois and California.

Exclusive: crunch meeting of world leaders tabled for this month with China key to success of climate summit

Boris Johnson is planning to convene last-ditch climate talks with the president of China, Xi Jinping, at a crunch meeting of world leaders later this month, in hopes of breaking the global impasse on climate action ahead of the Cop26 climate summit being hosted in Glasgow this November.

Xi will be invited, along with the leaders of about 30 other countries, to a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on 20 September, the Guardian has learned.

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Exclusive: revelations come amid rising concerns over government’s plans to meet net zero target

UK government ministers have held private meetings with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers roughly nine times as often as they met companies involved in clean energy production, despite the increasing urgency of meeting the government’s climate targets.

Analysis by DeSmog, the environmental investigation group, of publicly available data shows that ministers from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) held 63 private meetings – with one company present, along with ministers and advisers – with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers between 22 July 2019 and 18 March 2021.

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In the developing world most people are not factory farming and livestock is essential to preventing poverty and malnutrition

The pandemic has pushed poverty and malnutrition to rates not seen in more than a decade, wiping out years of progress. In 2020, the number of people in extreme poverty rose by 97 million and the number of malnourished people by between 118 million and 161 million.

Recent data from the World Bank and the UN shows how poverty is heavily concentrated in rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America where people are surviving by smallholder farming. This autumn there will be two key events that could rally support for them.

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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a coloured photo of Tasmanian tiger, humpback whale and friendly donkey

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Fixating on ‘net zero’ means betting the future of life on Earth that someone will invent some kind of whiz-bang tech to draw down CO2

The world has by and large adopted “net zero by 2050” as its de facto climate goal, but two fatal flaws hide in plain sight within those 16 characters. One is “net zero.” The other is “by 2050”.

These two flaws provide cover for big oil and politicians who wish to preserve the status quo. Together they comprise a deadly prescription for inaction and catastrophically high levels of irreversible climate and ecological breakdown.

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Allowance prices in China’s national emissions trading scheme fell another 6% over the Sep. 3-9 period, with volumes dropping to near zero as frustrated market participants were left waiting for financials to be brought in.

Chevron has agreed on a framework to acquire an equity stake in the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project, the US major has announced.

Australian carbon credits rose to all-time highs in a flurry of trades on Friday afternoon, as steady demand from Safeguard Mechanism entities and voluntary buyers soaked up supply.

The new NSW waste-to-energy plan shifts incineration projects out of Sydney and into the regions. Can it win support?

The post Controversial incineration projects shifted out of Sydney in waste-to-energy plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greg Hannan, the head strategy at three Victoria network owners, on why batteries will be hanging from poles, and the need for more storage.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Pole Position – Networks want more battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The phenomenon is called heliotropism, and sunflowers are most famous for it. But why do they track the sun? And how? Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

University of Sydney spin off Gelion secures a deal to have its long-life and fire resistant battery technology manufactured in Australia.

The post Gelion strikes Sydney manufacturing deal for “safe and durable” zinc-bromide battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ASX-listed Infratil to make a may pivot to the Asian renewables market, after exiting Australia with the sale of Tilt Renewables.

The post Infratil pivots to Asian renewables market, after $2 billion exit from Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW energy minister says "we absolutely can" end coal generation by 2030, and says he won't appeal a recent court case.

The post Matt Kean: We absolutely can cut out coal generation by 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia to introduce flexible exports for new and upgraded systems as it seeks to manage the growing dominance of rooftop solar.

The post Flexible PV: South Australia trials new solar export rules as it heads to 100 pct solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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