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MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that

Several grisly bloodsports, legal or otherwise, are enjoyed in the English countryside. But none is as popular as shooting the messenger. Rather than attend to our environmental crisis, politicians, lobbyists and the media prefer to hunt the people seeking to address the problem. No quarry is pursued as keenly as the government’s conservation agency Natural England.

This weekend, a full-spectrum attack was launched in the billionaire press. The Sunday Telegraph raged against the agency’s call for “nutrient neutrality”. This means that new housing or business developments should not increase the amount of shit in our rivers. The paper also attacked Natural England’s advice that when new homes are built there should be no net increase in air pollution. It quoted a mysterious “insider” accusing the agency of “green activism”. What’s the betting that this “insider” is a property developer? A similar attack was launched in the Times on Monday.

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The New Zealand government has partnered with the country’s largest dairy cooperative, committing NZ$90 million ($56 mln) in co-funding to Fonterra to cut coal use at six of its dairy factories, which is expected cut manufacturing emissions in half by 2030.

Tatton Park flower show features garden of flowering plants whose heady scents at night attract crucial but ‘invisible’ pollinators

Gardens should be as attractive to pollinators at night as they are in the day, horticulturalists have said, as they present a moth-friendly version at a flower show in Cheshire.

The RHS nocturnal pollinators experience garden at Tatton Park flower show, which began on Wednesday, showcases flowering plants that produce heady scents at night to attract moths, which a 2020 study found were crucial but “invisible” pollinators.

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Mainstream media reckons electricity prices went up last quarter because the cost of generation rose. Bollocks. The energy oligopoly simply exercised its market power.

The post Energy oligopoly turns screws on customers after Liddell exit and renewable pause appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UNSW researchers have developed a new way of recovering important metals from end-of-life solar panels – including silver.

The post New solar panel recycling process recovers 99 pct of silver from cells appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable electricity generation could outpace coal as world’s largest source of power in 2024, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

The post Renewables could pass coal as leading global power source next year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Claiming ‘woke hysteria’ is driving policy, lobby group Advance Australia makes a series of claims by the usual suspects that are easily debunked

Have you been “infected by this woke climate hysteria”? Would you like some reheated climate tropes to go with your anti-renewables populist rhetoric?

If your answer is yes, then the conservative activist group Advance Australia has a campaign for you.

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US climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington and Beijing will stick to their global commitment and hold climate meetings on a regular basis, after three days of talks to revive the dialogue between the world's two largest carbon emitters.

"We need to try and speed up that process as much as possible." NSW state energy minister responds to industry concerns about planning bottlenecks for new wind and solar projects.

The post NSW to speed up planning approvals for wind and solar as it seeks to cover coal exits appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's longest and shortest-serving energy ministers have moved to soothe investor fears about governments taking control of clean power assets.

The post Energy ministers try to soothe fears over state intervention in clean power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As much of the northern hemisphere endures blistering heatwaves and parts of Asia are deluged with rain, a number of climate records are being challenged

The climate crisis is moving into uncharted territory as much of the northern hemisphere endures a blistering heatwave, many countries are deluged with rain, sea surface temperatures reach new heights, and Antarctic sea ice new lows. A number of climate records – some unofficial – have tumbled in recent weeks.

Many factors have combined for this to happen, including climate change but also the El Niño weather event, and the northern hemisphere summer.

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A 764km HVDC submarine cable linking the electricity grids of Great Britain and Denmark has been completed – the world's longest of its kind, for now.

The post Viking Link: World’s longest undersea power cable connects UK and Denmark appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Cattle farmers have expressed their concerns over using asparagopsis feed additive as a way to cut methane emissions from their livestock, urging the emerging industry to take the necessary time to thoroughly scrutinise the process.

Tensions are said to be escalating over reports that the Liberian government is in talks with UAE-based Blue Carbon to grant it access to a million hectares of crucial forest land to develop for carbon credit generation.

Biodiversity crediting will soon have to face up to the challenge of when to bundle or stack mitigation outcomes alongside carbon, experts have told Carbon Pulse, with the sometimes controversial practice expected to come to the fore of the conversation as the nascent nature market looks to scale.

Deaths of some of the cheetahs brought to India last year amid much fanfare have been making headlines.

The Australian government expects a draft of the hotly anticipated Integrated Farming and Land Management (IFLM) methodology to be released later in the year, but crucial details have yet to be resolved.

A report from an international consultancy group says Brazil will need to invest $80 billion per year to control its emissions, largely driven by illegal deforestation, and that carbon markets have an important role to play.

US federal government regulators heard pointed criticism of voluntary carbon standards, as agency officials defended their record and suggested greater participatory roles at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) second voluntary carbon markets convening on Wednesday.