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Two RGGI power plants surrendered allowances last year for past carbon obligations in the Northeast power sector ETS, programme officials confirmed Monday.

Climate change is changing Antarctic krill habitat. The repercussions for the Southern Ocean food web are huge. Devi Veytia, PhD student , University of Tasmania Stuart Corney, Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Queensland's new human rights act has opened the door for a flood of climate change litigation. Justine Bell-James, Associate professor, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK-based Liberty House Group sold more than €100 million worth of EUAs in January and February, opting to offload units only months after the expansion of its steelmaking division across Europe.

The elaphrosaur roamed Australia 110 million years ago and was related to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Senior Analyst position in Portfolio Management is anticipated to perform portfolio analysis associated with managing PG&E’s commercial activities involving RA, RPS, energy, CRR, GHG, and LCFS procurement and support various compliance reporting obligations to the CPUC, CEC, CARB, and CAISO. 

The Senior Analyst will join the BPC Energy Project policy team, a dynamic and fast-moving group that is focused on the development of pragmatic, durable federal policies that responsibly transition the U.S. to a low-carbon economy, invest smartly in the next generation of energy technologies and infrastructure, and maintain economic growth.

NCEL is currently seeking a program manager to lead NCEL’s state policy work on clean energy and climate adaptation. Their primary policy focus will be on the deployment of renewable energy and efficiency, and they will also oversee work on topics related to just transition, beneficial electrification, and climate resilience.

Morrison government also plans to allow businesses to bid for carbon capture projects via the $2.55bn emissions reduction fund

The Morrison government has promised new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including introducing an incentive scheme to allow big industrial polluters to earn revenue by emitting less than an agreed limit.

It also plans to allow businesses to bid for funding from its main climate policy, the $2.55bn emissions reduction fund, for projects that capture emissions and either use them or store them underground.

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Price reporting agency Argus Media has cancelled its Biofuels and Carbon Markets Summit in California this autumn due to COVID-19, but the company said Monday that it may offer a digital version instead.

Attorneys general from seven refining-heavy states on Friday asked the US EPA to waive Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending requirements this year due to coronavirus-induced economic impacts, as the federal agency sent its 2021 biofuel quotas for White House review.

Scientists make a surprising discovery about the Red Planet by playing with mud in the laboratory.

A rise in electric-bikes would extend the range of cyclists using them to commute, a study finds.

One-off £15m rise only ‘10% of what has been cut since 2009’, says Green party

The government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency “in crisis”.

Natural England’s chairman, Tony Juniper, said the funding marked a “significant change of trend” in the financing of the government body, which has seen its budget slashed by £180m since 2008.

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Increases in rainfall in England could impact ambulance and fire crew response times.

Climate breakdown means conditions that wrought devastation across Great Plains could return to region

The agricultural conditions known as a “dust bowl”, which helped propel mass migration among drought-stricken farmers in the US during the great depression of the 1930s, are now more than twice as likely to reoccur in the region, because of climate breakdown, new research has found.

Dust bowl conditions in the 1930s wrought devastation across the US agricultural heartlands of the Great Plains, which run through the middle of the continental US stretching from Montana to Texas. The conditions are caused by a combination of heatwaves, drought and farming practices, replacing the native prairie vegetation.

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The European Commission on Monday launched a tender to appoint a common auction platform to host carbon allowances sales during the first half of Phase 4 of the EU ETS (2021-30).

Secretive "King Review" into emissions policies released, with the Morrison government to funnel climate funds into carbon capture and big emitters.

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A radical 10-year plan should draw on community crisis responses to fix ‘faultlines in our food system’

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A radical 10-year recovery plan for the UK food system should draw on local and community responses to the Covid-19 crisis to create a more diverse, sustainable and fairer supply chain, say experts.

The pandemic exposed fragility in the food supply system: farmers poured away more than a million litres of milk, supermarket shelves were stripped of flour while millers were unable to sell it, and potato farmers were forced to hoard stocks. Meanwhile, food banks faced unprecedented demand as household incomes plummeted.

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