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Director, Corporate Climate Solutions – Arlington, VA
Environmental Scientist, Greenhouse Gas Professional, Ruby Canyon Environmental – Grand Junction, CO
Greenhouse Gas Professional, Ruby Canyon Environment – Grand Junction, CO
Queensland to launch second round of call for carbon projects
China ETS progresses onto legislative work plan
Global carbon price expectations surge as markets prove resilient to pandemic -survey
Illegal sewage discharge in English rivers 10 times higher than official data suggests
Underreporting by water companies and failure to hold them to account have resulted in ecological damage, analysis shows
Water companies are being allowed to unlawfully discharge raw sewage into rivers at a scale at least 10 times greater than Environment Agency prosecutions indicate, according to analysis to be presented to the government.
The number of prosecutions of English water companies for unlawful spills from sewage treatment plants in 10 years are just a tiny fraction of the scale of potentially illegal discharges, the research presented to the environment minister, Rebecca Pow, this week will suggest.
Continue reading...G7 fails on solid coal message but worries are building for Morrison
While the G7 meeting was unremarkable, there are growing signs of action on coal phaseout - particularly among Australia's biggest coal customers.
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‘Really, really rare’ seahorse spotted off UK coast
G7 climate pledges leave many details aside
Even without new fossil fuel projects, global warming will still exceed 1.5℃. But renewables might make it possible
Swiss citizens reject updated CO2 reduction strategy by narrow margin
G7 summit: How significant are group's climate pledges?
NSW plan to ban single-use plastics from next year a win for the environment, advocates say
Plastic bags, straws and cutlery, along with polystyrene, will be banned as part of a five-year $365m plan
Lightweight plastic bags, disposable plastic straws and cutlery, plastic cotton buds and microbeads will be banned in New South Wales from next year, as part of a state government push to reduce plastic litter by 30% by 2025.
Reducing plastic waste is part of a wider $356m five-year plan from the NSW government that will also see a new “green” bin for food and organic waste rolled out to homes across the state by 2030 – something the state’s environment minister Matt Kean says will help reduce emissions in landfill and allow greater extraction of biogas from waste.
Continue reading...NSW accepts thermal coal is set for major decline, now it needs to act
A moratorium on new thermal coal mining capacity is needed to avoid chaotic employment impacts.
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