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Environmental products development firm IncubEx and energy trading platform Trayport will launch their new voluntary emissions reduction (VER) marketplace on Mar. 25, the companies said Tuesday.

Time to face the truth: UK aviation, as it exists today, and tackling the climate crisis are incompatible

I was once the only passenger on a four-hour “ghost flight” across Europe. I loved it – the exclusivity, the speed, even the meals. But that was 45 years ago, when flying was quite rare and seemed glamorous. The idea that air travel might one day threaten future generations seemed very far-fetched.

But the facts change. Travel is now a global commodity, and aviation is the world’s fastest growing major source of climate breakdown emissions. Flying empty or near-empty planes around just to hold on to landing slots at airports now seems close to “ecocide” – an act of deliberate destruction of the environment. A staggering 15,000 ghost flights flew from UK airports between March 2020 and September 2021.

John Vidal was the Guardian’s environment editor

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A US$500 billion global rush to build new gas pipelines - including Australia's "gas fired recovery" - undermines efforts to achieve zero net goals.

The post “Makes no sense:” Push for new gas pipelines could create $A675bn of stranded assets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cannon-Brookes makes another major play into green energy transition, tipping $200m into fund financing renewables and battery storage projects.

The post Cannon-Brookes tips $200m into debt fund, targeting renewables and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California gasoline consumption in November remained in the same range below pre-COVID levels that has persisted since the spring, while diesel usage accelerated to an all-time record for the month, according to recent state data.

EUA prices fell back despite widespread gains across the energy complex after Russia formally recognised two breakaway regions of Ukraine, paving the way for Russian military forces to move into the area, and Germany in response halted work on operationalising Nord Stream 2.

A student on a field trip finds the world's largest complete fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur.

It is illegal to mine these areas of the rainforest but the government wants to change the law.

Exclusive: Thousands of near-empty planes flown since March 2020, new figures reveal

Almost 15,000 “ghost flights” have departed from the UK, according to newly revealed official figures.

The ghost flights, defined as those with no passengers or less than 10% of passenger capacity, operated from all 32 airports listed in the data. Heathrow was top, with 4,910 ghost flights between March 2020 and September 2021. Manchester and Gatwick were the next highest. There were an average of 760 ghost flights a month over the period, although the data only covered international departure and not domestic flights.

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Some institutional investors might be given access to trade in China’s national emissions trading scheme in the second half of the year, an official with the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange said this week, though it remains unclear exactly when financials will be able to open their trading accounts.

Drexel's sulfur cathode breakthrough could pave the way for better-performing and sustainably sourced batteries for EVs, computers and mobile devices.

The post Researchers claim major breakthrough in Li-S batteries that could revolutionise batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The total number of NZUs held in the national registry rose to 157.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase in the number of overall holdings of around 6.6 mln, according to data released by the New Zealand Environmental Protection Agency.

Eighty years after its sinking in World War II, a new heritage virtual reality (VR) experience gives viewers a rare chance to explore the wreck of the Imperial Japanese submarine I-124.

Shanghai will establish its own regional carbon offsetting scheme that over time will be linked to the city’s emissions trading scheme, the municipal government has announced.

The English countryside is not a blank slate for the whims of city-dwellers — it has a hidden history of politics and power

No one expects to see pastoral scenes at Finsbury Park, north London, when they’ve just emerged from the underground. But there it was last Christmas: a huge billboard depicting the English countryside as one big meadow – a grassy landscape devoid of people, buildings or roads, imprinted with the words “Explore the life that could be …” Advertising Rightmove, the UK’s largest property-listings website, this was an invitation to Covid-weary commuters to opt out of stressful city life and run for the hills.

The pressures of lockdown life and the realities of working from home have been inducing many to move away from cities to smaller towns and villages. By the end of 2020, the words “detached”, “rural” and “secluded” were Zoopla’s fourth, fifth and sixth most common search terms. Estate agents have been reporting this phenomenon throughout the UK since mid 2020, and the same is true across the EU and in North America too. More recently, however, evidence of rural buyers’ remorse has emerged.

Vron Ware is the author of Return of a Native: Learning from the Land

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The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a "steep decline", say conservationists.

Minette Batters says industry is in crisis because of government failures over staff shortages, Brexit red tape and cheap imports

The government has shown a “total lack of understanding of how food production works”, introduced “completely contradictory policies” on farming, and risks “repeatedly running into crises” through the lack of a post-Brexit plan for UK farming, the leading representative of British farmers will say today.

Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Union, will make a scathing attack on ministers’ failures, unprecedented in recent memory in its ferocity from a farming leader.

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Morrison government to fight early coal closures, in last ditch attempt to protect its mates, and donors, in the fossil fuel industry.

The post Morrison digs in for last ditch battle to protect coal generators appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The tertiary sector’s air miles may be dominated by a small number of hyper-mobile senior academics, but studies show virtual conferences can improve diversity, career development and emissions. Sal Lampkin, PhD, Sustainability Transformation Manager, Massey University Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.