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We are in ‘Fergie time’ when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint but it is not too late to chart a path to sustainability

Climate change is a defining global issue, and football is not exempt. Roughly a quarter of England’s 92 league clubs could be regularly flooded within the next three decades, and the average grassroots pitch in England already loses five weeks a season to bad weather. Sport is also a significant contributor to climate change, with an estimated global carbon footprint the equivalent size of Tunisia’s – and that is at the low end of estimates.

It’s tempting to ask fans to reduce our carbon bootprint – but how can we use public transport on matchdays, when it’s often too expensive and sometimes unavailable? There were no trains running from the north-west to Wembley when Liverpool and Manchester City competed in the FA Cup semi-final. The FA provided 100 buses, enough for 5,000 fans.

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Ontario’s opposition parties began campaigning this week to unseat the Progressive Conservatives in the June 2 election, with Premier Doug Ford’s decision to scrap the province’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme four years ago still looming large over the jurisdiction's climate policy.

AgriProve Solutions has added additional projects to the Clean Energy Regulator’s (CER) project registry, as opposition energy and climate spokesman Chris Bowen reiterated the Labort party’s commitment to add Safeguard Mechanism Credits and review Australia’s broader carbon market.  

Labor's Chris Bowen says what Angus Taylor won't – that Australia's coal power stations are going to close.

The post “Coal fired power stations will close, regardless of who’s in office:” Bowen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

However it plays out, there is much at stake in the battle between Mike Cannon-Brookes and AGL Energy – not just for AGL, but for the rest of the fossil fuel industry.

The post Win or lose, Cannon-Brookes is forcing coal die-hards to face the future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

This long, uncharacteristically early heatwave has hit hundreds of millions of people in one of the world’s most densely populated and vulnerable regions. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hear the highs and lows, inspiration and learnings, from this week’s Smart Energy Conference with Luke Beattie from Solar Gain and Karl Jensen from Solar Juice.

The post Great Solar Business Podcast: A wrap on the Smart Energy Conference appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A major international energy body warns that hydrogen blending in mains gas networks is likely to be costly and impractical.

The post Costly and impractical: IRENA warns against hydrogen blending in gas networks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ESB dumps controversial congestion management model and puts forward four new alternatives, including - for the first time - ones favoured by investors.

The post ESB bows to industry pressure on controversial grid access reforms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WA says it is looking at setting a renewable hydrogen target for its main grid, the first in Australia and likely the world.

The post WA proposes renewable hydrogen target for main electricity grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Only 10 of the small silver porpoises are left on the planet, but genetic studies offer new hope.

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The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has rescheduled a hearing for next week where GOP lawmakers and the coal industry seek to block the implementation of the state’s RGGI-linked cap-and-trade regulation in July.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices vacillated this week as activity remained light ahead of the Q2 WCI auction, while bid-side interest in RGGI Allowance (RGAs) was robust on reported demand from emitters.

Frontloading more EUA sales over the next two years to raise cash for the bloc’s Innovation Fund would help accelerate the clean energy transition with limited bearish impact on carbon prices, ICIS analysts said in a position paper that suggests various scenarios for an upcoming EU proposal.

Offset project developer and retailer Bluesource on Thursday announced it has received the first offsets from improved forest management (IFM) projects explicitly tagged as removals, while voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants are already witnessing the price premium commanded by such credits over reduction-based units.  

Utility Dominion Energy on Thursday asked Virginia to suspend its existing rate case to recover RGGI allowance costs, as the company anticipates Governor Glenn Youngkin (D) will remove the state from the power sector cap-and-trade programme.

Renewable energy sources accounted for half of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022.

The post Renewables deliver 50% of German electricity consumption in first quarter appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Senior MEPs are nearing agreement on parts of EU ETS reform, with alignments emerging on expanding the market to new sectors and backloading cap cuts, according to EU sources on Thursday.

The birds’ wings are clipped to keep them from escaping their enclosure – leaving them unable to escape a predator

A wild fox in Washington DC, has chewed through a fence at the National zoo and killed 25 flamingos in the worst animal attack there in two decades.

On Tuesday, zoo officials announced that in addition to the 25 American flamingos that were killed early on Monday in their outdoor habitat, three more were injured. A northern pintail duck was also killed by the fox.

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