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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values exacerbated their months-long retracement on Tuesday, as traders continued to cite rising volumes of renewable diesel (RD) as the impetus for the bearish pressure.

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Wasting food feeds climate change but relatively small changes can make a big difference. Here are 6 to try. Mark Boulet, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ministers from up to 50 nations will gather in Milan later this week to thrash out a way forward for November’s crunch UN COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.

A Connecticut-based commodities firm opened a RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) account on Tuesday, marking the fifth speculative firm to open an account this month.

Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weight

Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies worldwide every year, research shows.

The analysis, which combines the results of multiple scientific studies, is the first to calculate the total global burden of outdoor and indoor air pollution combined.

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The Paris Agreement's Article 6 will "look very different" for carbon markets compared to the CDM under the predecessor Kyoto Protocol, said speakers at Africa Climate Week on Tuesday, emphasising that the region will need to take several steps to prepare.

After a year-long Covid delay, the Nature Conservancy photo contest announces its winners – a showcase of Australian natural wonders

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A coalition of more than 100 Brazilian businesses called on Monday for the implementation of a regulated carbon market in the country, as lawmakers called for public hearings on a bill to operationalise a national cap-and-trade system.

Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, uses a speech to mock world leaders, including UK PM Boris Johnson.

Campaigners voice dismay after rule permitting gas pipelines where energy is mixed with hydrogen

European lawmakers have voted to prolong subsidies for fossil fuel gas until 2027, opening a potential backdoor for pollution that campaigners said would be a disaster for the climate if it becomes law.

Members of the European parliament’s industry committee voted on Tuesday to allow the EU to continue subsidising natural gas pipelines until the end of 2027, as long as the energy is mixed with an unspecified amount of hydrogen.

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The 11 RGGI states are hoping to finish the upcoming programme review of the power sector carbon market by 2023, with officials aiming to complete policy scenarios by mid-2022, according to documents published Tuesday morning.

Japan is likely to impose restrictions on the use of voluntary carbon credits from abroad as it wishes to steer offset demand towards domestic units that will help it meet its Paris Agreement obligations, according to observers.

NSW to slash emissions by 50% by 2030 and become a renewable energy superpower, as state Coalition underlines divide with federal counterparts.

The post NSW aims to cut emissions in half by 2030 with $37 billion clean energy surge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Palaeontologists from Australia found the 'exceptional' fossilised remains in 2016.

EU and UK carbon prices continued to rise on Tuesday, setting more all-time highs while other energy contracts posted double-digit gains.

Amateur astronomers across the UK capture the strange cone-shaped lights from their back gardens.

The climate activist Greta Thunberg has taken world leaders to task about their promises to address the climate emergency. In a speech at the Youth4Climate summit, she asked for constructive dialogue and for the media to focus on what politicians do, rather than what they say they are going to do 

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Our housing stock needs better insulation and low-carbon heating, or we’ll continue to suffer these shocks

Over the past few days the country has been thrown into panic, as soaring gas prices threaten to plunge hundreds of thousands more households into fuel poverty, joining the 2.5 million already there. For others, uncomfortably tight budgets will be further squeezed. Any country reliant on the worldwide gas market faces the risk of perennial price shocks. But let’s be clear: the extent of this crisis was not inevitable. It is, in significant part, the result of a decade of government failure to insulate us from the disastrous downsides of fossil-fuel dependency.

The UK is a difficult country to keep warm. It has some of the oldest and leakiest housing stock in western Europe, ensuring that heat dissipates through walls, windows and doors quickly after leaving radiators. Nine in 10 households rely on gas boilers, and lots of gas boilers need lots of gas: UK households consume more of it than almost all of their European peers, at around twice the EU average. In 2000, when North Sea gas accounted for 98% of overall supply, households were at little risk of price shocks. But as national production has tumbled by two-thirds in the two decades since, imports have risen from just 2% to 60% of supply to fill the gap.

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