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EUA prices added more than 6% on Tuesday morning after a bullish auction led to a significant short squeeze, sources said, while energy prices continued to gyrate modestly higher as the market awaitsed more information on payments for Russian gas.

Green spaces near new housing developments in England and Wales down in last 20 years

New homes have a dwindling amount of green space because property developers claim they cannot afford to build parks, research has found.

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) looked at data from the Office for National Statistics, data on the average age of local housing stock from Datadaptive and national survey data on public perceptions of local green space from the government agency Natural England.

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The US-New Zealand Rocket Lab firm takes a big step forward in its quest to re-use launch vehicles.

Utility Uniper remains in talks with the German government and Russian producer Gazprom over paying for gas in rubles, the firm said in Q1 results on Tuesday as it reported a year-on-year drop in EU ETS-covered fossil fuel output.

According to a recent poll, 82% of American voters would support a decision by the National Park Service to stop selling and distributing single-use plastic at national parks

The writer Wallace Stegner once called the national parks “America’s best idea”, but the second half of that quote is more resonant today: “They reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” In these challenging times, we must look for decisions that reflect us at our best.

National parks like the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yellowstone and Acadia provide the closest thing we have to experiencing unbridled nature. They also represent our collective decision not to do something in special places that can harm their environment, like cutting down the forest, mining for minerals or hunting wildlife. Over time our understanding of what is the right thing not to do has grown and matured. One of those right things not to do is provide single-use plastics in our national parks.

Jonathan B Jarvis served 40 years with the National Park Service and was its 18th director

Christy Leavitt is the plastics campaign director for the international ocean advocacy organization Oceana

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Australia’s National Farmers Federation (NFF) is calling for both major political parties to commit A$2 billion ($1.4 bln) to support the country’s agriculture sector and encourage more farmers to enter the carbon market.

One of South Korea’s biggest asset managers has made its first purchase of international voluntary carbon credits, as it plans to make offsets a key part of its ESG strategy.

Companies have continued to deliver Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the government, despite not having to now they can choose to exit their contracts with its Emission Reduction Fund (ERF).

Mike Cannon-Brookes fires some choice language, and more than $650 million, at AGL board claims it has no other option than demerger.

The post “I’m sick of them f-cking it up:” Cannon-Brookes takes aim at AGL board appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Building houses better at withstanding the impacts of climate change is one way we can protect ourselves in the face of future catastrophic conditions. Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Independent North Sydney challenger talks Australia's failed climate leadership and the opportunity to seize a climate-focused economic future.

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Independent ACT senate candidate and former Wallabies captain says Australians could slash energy bills and emissions by going electric.

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Scientists develop tandem solar cell with a certified efficiency of 29.2% and have clear steps to achieve yields beyond 30% in the future.

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Details emerge of enormous WA project to combine wind and solar and 3GW of electrolysers to produce green ammonia.

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Polling suggests junior energy minister Tim Wilson could lose his seat to an independent backing stronger climate action.

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AGL to plough on with demerger plan, announces partner for new fund to invest up to $5 billion in wind and storage assets.

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The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court this week will hear GOP lawmakers and a collection of coal companies and labour organisations make their case for blocking the implementation of the state’s newly-published RGGI regulation, after a previous hearing was cancelled.

CO2 output under the RGGI cap-and-trade programme rose in the first quarter of 2022 as greater oil-fired generation in the Northeast offset steep reductions in the market’s southern region, according to data updated Friday.

EU energy ministers are united in favour of stronger energy-saving measures and renewable energy expansion, they said on Monday as they brace for more gas supply disruption following Russia's abrupt halting of deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria last week.

The goal of our new web app is to help users engage with their elected representatives and put imperilled species on the political agenda this election and beyond. Gareth Kindler, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland James Watson, Professor, The University of Queensland Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.