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Nearly 7 million people die each year from air pollution. Moreover, global warming is already causing catastrophic damage. We have only seven years to eliminate 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – and 12 to 27 years to eliminate the rest – to avoid 1.5C global warming since the 1850 to 1900 period. We are already 1.1C above average.

The world also faces serious energy-security risks related to climate change: the economic, social, and political instability that will result when fossil fuels and uranium run out; blackmail by countries that control the supply of fuel to other countries; the high costs of shipping energy long distances; blackouts when a centralized fossil-fuel or nuclear power plant unexpectedly goes down; and health and environmental problems associated with continuous fuel mining, waste storage, nuclear reactor meltdown, and nuclear energy-related weapons proliferation.

Mark Z Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. His work informs the scientific bases for the Green New Deal. He is also the author of six books, including No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

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Carbon markets can be an incredibly important tool to finance nature-based solutions at the scale required to be meaningful on a global scale, however, there are some serious questions which must be resolved as soon as possible if verified (not just voluntary) carbon markets are to deliver their full potential for nature, writes Ed Hewitt of Respira.

The sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market has emerged rapidly on the green scene in recent years as an increasing number of banks and corporations use such loans as part of their decarbonisation strategies, prompting calls to enhance transparency and industry efforts to counter accusations of greenwashing.

China’s environment ministry has circulated a set of updated management guidelines for emissions reports submitted by power generation facilities under the national ETS, asking regional authorities to enhance day-to-day monitoring of power companies' data reporting activities as regulators seek to avoid further carbon market data fraud.

Aviva Investors has named nature loss and climate change as two of its three main focus areas for 2023, and has written a letter to the 1,600 companies it has invested in, outlining the actions it expects them to take on these issues.

With floods covering much of the land, farmers in Paguir, an isolated village in Fangak county, are replacing despair with resilience and learning new skills to survive

• Words and photographs by Peter Caton. A selection of the images can be seen at a free exhibition at the gallery@oxo in London from 8 to 19 February 2023

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Australia’s Coalition opposition party has formally agreed to oppose the government’s reformed Safeguard Mechanism policy, meaning Labor will be forced to seek crossbench support in the Senate to pass the legislation.

UK-based nature platform provider Natcap will seek to accelerate product development and commercialise its technologies after successfully closing a £2.5 million seed round.

If there’s an unprecedented heatwave outside, do you turn up the aircon and pretend unwelcome change isn’t happening? If so, you’re not alone Hannah Della Bosca, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The race to develop New Zealand's first true utility-scale solar farm is on, with FRV Australia and Genesis Energy hitting go on a 52MW project on the South Island.

The post FRV gets cracking on huge pipeline of big solar in land of long white cloud appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rapid decline stumps researchers, who theorise traffic collisions, climate crisis, cane toads and inbreeding could play a role

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Numbers of spotted-tail quolls in north Queensland have dwindled to critically endangered levels, new research into the threatened marsupials suggests.

Over two years, scientists monitored populations of the north Queensland subspecies of the spotted-tail quoll, Dasyurus maculatus gracilis, which lives in cool regions at high elevation.

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South Australia demand met by rooftop and utility scale solar for six hours straight.

The post Graph of the Day: Solar covers all of South Australia demand for six hours straight appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Team of high profile energy experts selected to guide reboot of Victoria's State Electricity Commission as a publicly owned renewable energy utility.

The post Zibelman, Finkel join expert panel to advise Victoria on controversial public utility appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Indonesian government recently partnered with a local mining company to plant 30,000 mangrove seedlings and releasing 20,000 clams in North Sumatra, as the government earmarked the region as an ideal area for mangrove restoration.

If Australia proceeds with plans to modernise its grid without considering superconductors, it will be a huge missed opportunity.

The post A tenth of all electricity is lost in the grid. Superconducting cables can help appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California policymakers and lawmakers must provide greater certainty on their authority to implement the state’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme after 2030 in order to hit the state’s ambitious GHG reduction targets, a watchdog report said Friday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values rose slightly for the second consecutive week even as transacted volume cratered, with market experts pointing to elevated 2022 CO2 output as one of multiple possible drivers.

California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme reduced air pollution disparities between disadvantaged and other communities in a recent study covering 5% of the state’s reported emissions, potentially allaying concerns that market-based programmes present an equity-efficiency trade off, according to the findings of a new study.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values receded over the past week to levels not seen since December, as traders pointed to the lasting impact of a court ruling on Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance waivers and strong potential credit generation numbers in January.