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Cleanco deal paves way for 1GW wind project - the biggest in Australia - to be built in Queensland.

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Thirty Australian energy experts call for a halt to Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, questioning environmental and economic viability of the massive project.

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Findings of new study are the latest in a string of papers to suggest methane emissions from the fossil-fuel industry have been “severely underestimated”.

The post Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New York's wholesale grid operator (NYISO) is experiencing an overall reduction in electricity demand due to the COVD-19 pandemic, a trend that is likely to reduce obligations for power generators in the RGGI carbon market.

California regulator ARB minted more than 535,000 new offsets this week, with another half million credits seeing their invalidation period cut to three years, according to data published Wednesday.

Emissions covered under the EU ETS likely fell last year by the largest amount since the financial crisis, according to a poll of analysts, as coal-to-gas fuel-switching and increased renewables generation outweighed an increase in CO2 from aviation and somewhat stagnant industrial output. A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today […]

Virginia officials are unlikely to revise the state's power sector annual ETS carbon budgets in the short term if Governor Ralph Northam (D) signs a bill implementing the existing cap-and-trade regulation into law, a state regulator said.

Mexico will aim to release offset protocols for use under its ETS in the final quarter of 2020, with several methodologies under consideration, a government official said Wednesday.

A European Commission proposal to adopt a border adjustment mechanism to prevent carbon leakage will need to wait until spring 2021, despite demands from member states and industry to deliver earlier, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.

A hulking grizzly bear has found online stardom after he was caught groggily emerging from hibernation on camera. Canadian ranger Nicole Gagnon filmed the end of Boo's hibernation on her phone, a moment she said she had been waiting to document for eight years. It has since been viewed over 100,000 times on Twitter. Boo, 18, draws thousands of tourists every year to his 20-acre enclosure near the town of Golden, Canada

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If there is an economic alternative now, there was one before – and we are all suffering from the failure to take it

Covid-19 isn’t just infecting humans. It’s also weakening ideology.

Think about Tina: the acronym popularised after Margaret Thatcher declared that “There is no alternative” to the market economy.

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Jet stream appears to have stopped moving south and may be moving back towards normal

International cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state after decades of human-caused disruption, a study shows.

Scientists say the findings prove there is the capacity to heal damaged climate systems if governments act promptly and in coordination to deal with the causes.

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Viruses such as Covid-19 wouldn’t emerge in food markets if it wasn’t for factory farming, globalised industry and rapid urbanisation

• Laura Spinney is the author of The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

When I get stressed, a patch of annoying red eczema appears on the inside of my upper right arm. The doctor gives me some cream to rub on it, but I also know that to stop it coming back I have to deal with the underlying problem.

Too much information, you’re thinking, but let me make the analogy. The reason we shouldn’t call the Sars-CoV-2 virus causing global misery the “Chinese virus” is the same reason I shouldn’t blame my eczema on my upper arm: there is clearly a superficial weakness there, but the real cause lies elsewhere.

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The US federal government missed a deadline on Tuesday to challenge a court’s ruling that limits the EPA’s use of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance waivers, though refiners involved in the lawsuit will forge ahead with their own appeal.

The UK’s only EU Aviation Allowance (EUAA) auction of 2020 was cancelled on Wednesday, sale host ICE Futures Europe said, after bidding interest failed to exceed the amount of spot carbon units on offer.

The possibility of infection in great apes like gorillas warrants the utmost caution, say experts.

EU carbon prices raced to a one-week high early on Wednesday as markets were buoyed by US lawmakers agreeing a virus-busting stimulus package, but EUAs then fell back after buyers struggled to absorb a bumper auction.

Offshore windfarms and onshore projects in US and China fuel one of strongest years on record

The world’s wind power capacity grew by almost a fifth in 2019 after a year of record growth for offshore windfarms and a boom in onshore projects in the US and China.

The Global Wind Energy Council found that wind power capacity grew by 60.4 gigawatts, or 19%, compared with 2018, in one of the strongest years on record for the global wind power industry.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator opened the latest two-day auction under the Emissions Reduction Fund on Wednesday, but with little indication of a resurgence in interest from project developers.