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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits set a new all-time record on Tuesday as prices smashed through the $200 mark that has served as a psychological barrier over the past year.

The threat of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit may be dissipating amid cross-party efforts by UK lawmakers, but analysts say there remains much uncertainty for UK emitters and allowance prices in the EU ETS.

UK breeders are hastily shipping in potential suitors for their rare species in the hope that they get it on ahead of a no-deal scenario

Name: Brexit breeding.

Age: Very much of its time.

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Chemical is blamed for death of insects and suspected to cause cancer in humans

Germany has said it will phase out the controversial weedkiller glyphosate because it wipes out insect populations crucial for ecosystems and pollination of food crops.

The chemical, also suspected by some experts to cause cancer in humans, is to be banned by the end of 2023 when the EU’s approval period for it expires, ministers said.

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EUAs jumped to near €26 early on Wednesday as the risk of a no-deal Brexit lowered substantially overnight amid a cross-party effort by UK lawmakers to avert such an outcome.

Report urges meat, dairy and seafood companies to address impact of industry’s deforestation, use of antibiotics and emissions

The world’s biggest producers of meat, dairy and seafood are failing to tackle the enormous impact they are having on the planet through deforestation, the routine use of antibiotics and greenhouse gas emissions, a report warns.

The Coller Fairr index ranks 50 of the largest global meat, dairy and fish producers by looking at risk factors from use of antibiotics to deforestation and labour abuses. The producers are the “hidden” supply chain, providing meat and dairy to global brands including McDonald’s, Tesco, Nestlé and Walmart.

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The American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has won the Leica Oskar Barnack photography award with his eight-year project exploring the global crisis around water, and how different cultures interact with this precious resource

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The Western Australian government on Wednesday launched a public consultation on landholder consent for regeneration projects, a process that’s expected to unblock around 40 projects with some A$65 million ($44 mln) in government offset contracts and pave the way for new development.

For first time, Queensland's biggest pumped hydro unit didn't pump at night in August, it soaked up only excess solar. Meanwhile, Queensland hits the price floor.

The post How solar is changing the energy market: No pumping at night appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The BBC's David Shukman returns to the Sermilik glacier that he last visited in 2004.

CMI is looking for an energetic and creative communications specialist to join a passionate and dedicated team working with Australasian business leading the transition to net-zero emission by 2050.

Forest restoration is the number-one strategy for stopping global warming, according to some scientists – but Britain is falling far short. Here’s a complete guide to what you should be planting, and where

‘Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis.” That’s how the Guardian reported findings from the Crowther Lab in Switzerland two months ago. Billions more trees, scientists claimed, could remove two-thirds of all the carbon dioxide created by human activity. Forest restoration “isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said the lead scientist, climate change ecologist Tom Crowther.

Such a programme might take 100 years to be fully effective, but along the way it would reduce the consequences of the climate crisis – protecting soil from erosion, reducing the risk of flooding and providing habitats for a vast range of animals and other plant species.

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Value of European agriculture could fall 16% in 30 years due to drought and higher rainfall

Any advantages to European agriculture from a warming world will be outweighed by the losses from extreme events and environmental stress, leading to a probable large economic loss for farming in the next 30 years, research on the impacts of the climate crisis has found.

While some have pointed to longer growing seasons and a wider range of crops becoming viable in northern Europe as benefits from temperature rises, the effects on rainfall and extreme conditions mean farming is already suffering.

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New data shows that the cost of solar PV continues to fall dramatically, while Victoria’s solar rebate program hits another hurdle just days after government broadened the program.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Solar’s stunning cost fall, and Victoria’s rebate hurdles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hurricane Dorian has devastated the Bahamas, with the death toll expected to rapidly rise as rescue work gets under way. Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Distributed Energy Resources Lab at ANU to model devices including home batteries, rooftop solar, inverters, and controllable loads for industry and researchers.

The post Canberra to host distributed energy test lab, to fast-track a smarter grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The latest report card on Australia’s greenhouse gas production is the same old news: emissions are up again. We’ve heard it before, but the news should never stop being confronting. It’s 2019. The first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which outlined the serious consequences of unmitigated climate change, was released the...

The post Nice try Mr Taylor, but Australia’s gas exports don’t help solve climate change appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first major roll out of acoustic listening devices to monitor the health of wind turbines will go live in Australia today.

The post Ping flicks switch on wind turbine listening devices appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland government to tip $132m into new transmission line linking pumped hydro facility with main grid in move that will open up more wind and solar capacity.

The post Genex to add more solar and wind to pumped hydro after Queensland funds new link appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced in an attempt to reverse their decline.