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Two EU member states are making moves to further complicate efforts to reform the bloc’s carbon market.

Russian oil giant Rosneft has inked a deal with one of the country’s commodity exchanges to cooperate on carbon trading, and in particular to explore holding emissions unit auctions.

Commodity price reporting agency OPIS on Tuesday announced it has deployed a series of new voluntary emissions reduction (VER) assessments, including a single combination of CORSIA-eligible and nature-based credits as well as the price premium associated with offset project co-benefits.

Scotland has awarded 17 leases for the development of nearly 25GW of offshore wind energy projects – roughly half of which will result in floating wind farms.

The post Scotland awards mammoth 25GW of offshore and floating offshore wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Canadian environment ministry this week released the first two draft protocols under the national carbon offset system, as it revealed further details on the delayed timelines for developing and finalising additional methodologies under the nascent programme.

When China moves, the rest of the world follows. And on the electric vehicle front, the avalanche of technology, policy and finance moves is now unstoppable.

The post Skyrocketing EV sales in China signal no turning back for global energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We are looking for a motivated professional in climate change with background in multilateral development bank operations to support in the assessment of the alignment of our operations with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

The Policy Analyst works with a team of professionals to implement provincial commitments on Nova Scotia’s Cap and Trade Program and other climate change mitigation actions. The policy analyst supports work on developing the Climate Change Plan for Clean Growth to be released in 2022, implementing the plan, and reporting on progress.

The role of Commodity Risk Analyst is a key analytical and control position within the Trading &Shipping - Finance and Risk organization. As part of the Low Carbon Trading (LCT) Commodity Risk team, this role is accountable for providing deep business understanding and control through the delivery of value-added reporting and analysis.

Prospects for linking carbon markets could hinge on how closely jurisdictions make provisions for offset use, according to a report prepared for the regulatory authorities of the EU, California, Quebec, China, New Zealand and Switzerland carbon compliance markets.

The EU's new Climate Action Social Facility should pay out a minimum of €72.2 billion to support poorer households rather than be fully linked to prices in the bloc's second carbon market, media reported on Tuesday, citing a draft report set to be tabled by senior lawmakers.

Australia has one of the highest rooftop solar installation rates in the world, which is great news for our efforts to reduce emissions. But can the grid keep up? Christina Nikitopoulos, Associate professor, Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney Alan Rai, Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney Muthe Mwampashi, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The principal role of the GHG Project Developer is to execute day to day activities on client carbon offset projects by providing top notch customer service and using a continuous improvement mindset to create efficient and effective systems and processes.

If the water industry is to improve its dismal performance, regulators need to be open with the public

English water companies have got used to pumping raw sewage into the sea and rivers. An investigation launched last year by the regulator, Ofwat, and the Environment Agency, is a chance to put things right. But there are worrying signs that this opportunity to shine a light is in danger of being missed. The refusal by the Environment Agency to reveal which 2,000 sewage treatment works in England are being looked at, and whether this will lead to delays in dealing with new complaints, raises questions about its commitment to openness.

That the investigation is happening at all is due to huge efforts by campaigners. Concern over sewage dumps has been rising in response to water companies’ failure to tackle a longstanding problem that increased extreme weather, due to climate change, is expected to make worse. Discharges of untreated waste into the sea or rivers are supposed to happen only in exceptional circumstances, to reduce flood risk. Over recent years, it has become clear that rules are being routinely flouted by an industry that puts profits before environmental stewardship. At the same time, the Environment Agency’s record for punishing breaches has sharply declined following budget cuts. A report from a committee of MPs last week drew attention to the poor condition of rivers and called for a step change.

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The UK ETS Authority will not add any additional UK Allowances to the British market after the market’s cost containment mechanism (CCM) was triggered for a second successive month at the end of December, it said on Tuesday.

Ahead of Penguin Awareness Day, the Wildlife Conservation Society released a selfie video of a penguin feeding underwater.

The footage showed a male Gentoo penguin diving and twisting through schools of sardines.

Fitted with a special camera, the penguin can be seen feeding on sardines in the Beagle Channel off Isla Martillo, in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Penguin Awareness Day is on 20 January

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ExxonMobil on Tuesday announced it will hope to reach net zero GHG output from its operations by mid-century, though it continued the trend of American oil majors declining to cover emissions from their products within their climate strategies.

An average carbon price of almost $200 per tonne would be required to decarbonise the global shipping sector by 2050, with the price ultimately hitting heights of $360 in the target year, according to a report by an industry coalition published on Tuesday. 

Priti Patel’s crackdown on peaceful protesters ignores all the evidence about how to handle large demonstrations

On the first day of 2022 – the hottest New Year’s Day on record – Priti Patel announced that cracking down on eco protesters would be one of her priorities for the year.

It wasn’t simply rhetoric. The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill for England and Wales being debated in parliament provides the police with a dramatic extension to their powers to stop or constrain protest. It even contains a provision allowing police to fine protesters for inadvertent breaches of restrictions they “ought” to have known about.

Stephen Reicher is a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science. He is a professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. During Cop26 he was part of a research team, funded by the New Institute in Hamburg, which was studying the dynamics of protest.

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