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RGGI states released feedback on proposed programme review changes, with compliance entities questioning modelling inputs, leakage considerations, and consumer impacts of higher ambition, while investors and environment justice groups pushed back against cost containment plans and delayed implementation.

RGGI allowance (RGA) dipped downwards over the last week as activity remained muted, with the market continuing to await clarity on proposed programme review updates.

California regulator ARB’s second 15-day notice for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) amendments remains contentious ahead of the upcoming vote in November, as it falls short of addressing concerns laid out in prior drafts, commenters said, with opposition further fuelled by residents’ fears that the programme would raise retail gas prices.

It seems reasonable to call the Coalition’s policy what it primarily is: a proposal to expand fossil fuels

Some news you may not have clocked last week while the focus was on important things like a royal tour: 44 of the world’s top climate scientists, including four decorated Australian professors, released an open letter warning that ocean circulation in the Atlantic is at serious risk of collapse sooner than was previously understood.

They said a string of studies suggested the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body backed by nearly 200 countries, had greatly underestimated the possibility that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – or Amoc, a system of ocean currents that brings heat into the northern Atlantic west of Britain and Ireland – could in the next few decades reach a point at which its breakdown was inevitable. The cause? Rising greenhouse gas emissions.

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Windrose, a newly emerging maker of electric heavy trucks, has just completed a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney and has its eyes on the Australian market. Advisor Jason Roycht explains why it might not just be Chinese EVs on our roads.

The post The Driven Podcast: The Chinese electric trucks are coming appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia's biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid.

The post First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project switched on, well ahead of schedule appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Devrim Celal from green energy retailer Octopus explains why the energy transition will not succeed unless the proper incentives are given to use electricity at the right times.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Why the energy transition needs consumers to love electricity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

A biogas technology provider serving the agricultural sector has acquired a digital MRV firm.

Canada’s C$15 billion ($10.9 bln) public investment fund has made an offer to finance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for the fossil fuel industry, media reported Monday.

Carbon credit projects that centre biodiversity in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can attract broader investment and meet both climate and biodiversity targets, said a report authored by voluntary carbon market (VCM) proponents on Monday.

An October study attempts to shed light on how research and innovation funding for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) should be prioritised for CO2 removal (CDR) projects.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new global maps tracking above-ground forest biomass, calling it “a stable and open data source” for monitoring carbon stocks.

A new platform to add transparency to carbon credit purchases in Australia was launched Tuesday at the Climate Market Institute’s (CMI) Australasian Emissions Reduction Summit in Melbourne.

Queensland has more than 120 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects in the pipeline. Will the newly elected LNP abandon them all?

The post Graph of the Day: The massive wind and solar pipeline the LNP may abandon appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Secretariat of the ART carbon credit standard announced Monday it has published another Brazilian state's concept under its TREES jurisdictional certification programme.

Companies in the mining, property, and industrial sectors should have enough data at hand to take the first step to address their impacts on nature and biodiversity loss, according to a new guide for these industries published Tuesday.

National carrier Air New Zealand has become the first to pay into a nature-positive co-financing pilot that seeks to channel funds to community restoration initiatives on cyclone-ravaged Maori land.

A Denmark-headquartered environmental consultancy on Monday released an open-access metric for measuring the biodiversity value of habitats on sites around the world, with potential applications in corporate disclosures as well as the emerging biodiversity credit market, the company told Carbon Pulse.

Australia now has more than enough evidence that proposals to build big dams consistently underestimate both the construction costs and the harm they do. John Kandulu, Research Fellow, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Sarah Ann Wheeler, Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.