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NSW deputy premier Jon Barilaro could not have chosen better backdrops to highlight the state's big ugly coal problem.

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Analysts have significantly raised their forecasts for EU carbon allowances, with several now predicting prices will average around €100 for an entire year later this decade, as EUAs set all-time highs ahead of the release of major proposals to tighten the ETS and as new investors continue to pile into the market.

Scotland sources more than 97 per cent of its electricity demand from renewables in 2020, as Great Britain's electricity grid records its 'greenest moment'.

The post Scotland’s renewable record cements its place as UK’s onshore wind hub appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rare clues to Mesolithic life in Scotland's mountains add to evidence previously found in Perthshire and Dumfries.

WCI regulated entities are more quickly putting allowances and offsets into compliance accounts for past cap-and-trade obligations for the joint programme’s upcoming full true-up deadline, according to data released this week.

InterContinental Energy, the green hydrogen developer behind the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, has announced a string of top-level hires.

The post InterContinental goes on hiring spree for huge green hydrogen project in WA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia breaks yet another record for rooftop solar installations, with homes and businesses adding 317MW of systems in March – an all-time high for national monthly installs.

The post Unstoppable: Rooftop solar market notches up new all-time high in March appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hyundai's new electric vehicle platform allows for big changes in its first specialised EV design, but the most exciting development might be its "vehicle to load" option.

The post Preview: Why the new Ioniq 5 heralds a step change in electric vehicles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

From solar tower project, to TESS demonstration, to big battery? 1414 Degrees says new Aurora modelling shows starting with a bigger battery and no solar makes better sense.

The post Aurora project could start life as big battery, as 1414 rethinks business case appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Unless mining is done differently, rushing to bring copper mines into production could unleash unacceptable, catastrophic impacts. Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland Eleonore Lebre, Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland John Owen, Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Richard K Valenta, Director - WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre - The Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Oil major Shell invested around $90 mln in nature-based carbon mitigation activities over 2020, ramping up financing to help meet a pre-pandemic pledge to allocate $300 mln over three years.

The US Treasury Department published President Joe Biden’s tax plan on Wednesday that would eliminate fossil fuel subsidies in favour of provisions for clean energy and sustainable aviation fuels.

EUAs matched but could not surpass the prior session's all-time high on Wednesday, easing back on signs of profit-taking, a weaker auction, and softer energy prices.

Light pollution is killing insects and birds – and an ancient human connection with the heavenly bodies

Severe light pollution in Britain appears to have fallen, according to the CPRE, the countryside charity. Across a week in February, the charity asked volunteers to look up and count the stars they could see. The results suggest that 51% of participants were experiencing severe light pollution, compared to 61% the previous year – an effect, the charity concluded, of darker town and city centres, owing to lockdown. Sadly, though, the overall trend is worrying: human illumination of the planet is growing by 2% a year. This has serious consequences: there is mounting evidence that light pollution is a serious contributing factor to what has been called the “insect apocalypse”. Disoriented by light, birds also die as they migrate over cities: a distressing 100,000 a year succumb over New York City, confused by the illumination of the skyscrapers. The solution is simple and obvious: to turn unnecessary lights off – also saving energy – and to shade those required at street level.

Light pollution also has the effect of deracinating humans in densely populated areas from what was once a vivid, intense, and often deeply generative relationship with the night sky. In ancient Babylonia, astronomy was inextricably linked with the development of branches of mathematics, with cosmology and divination, and with the establishment of calendars. Early Greek philosophers and mathematicians were also concerned with the arrangement of the heavenly bodies, borrowing heavily from their eastern forebears to try to understand the universe and the human place within it. Stars, of course, have been used since time immemorial to help human beings move around the planet: Polynesians used a range of methods, including star navigation, to travel prodigious distances across the Pacific.

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Study suggests it is already too warm in tropics for some species to survive

Global heating has made the ocean around the equator less rich in wildlife, with conditions likely already too hot for some species to survive, according to a new study.

Analysis of the changing locations of almost 50,000 marine species between 1955 and 2015 found a predicted impact of global heating – species moving away from the equator – can now be observed at a global scale.

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Quebec is aiming to finalise its draft forestry protocol for private lands this spring, after the coronavirus pandemic and other priorities delayed the process for much of 2020, a government spokesperson told Carbon Pulse.

A US federal judge sentenced on Tuesday two Georgia men that orchestrated a WCI-linked carbon credit scandal, defrauding individuals from more than $1 million in the process.

Concentrations are 50% above pre-industrial levels despite dip in emissions during Covid pandemic

Concentrations of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit record highs, despite a dip in emissions during the Covid pandemic, scientists have said.

The latest measurements from the long-running recording station at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, show global levels of carbon dioxide are 50% above what they were when the Industrial Revolution began in Britain.

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Environmental Protection Agency launches crackdown on pollution that disproportionately affects people of color

Michael Regan, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to revive the effort to confront environmental racism by ordering the agency to crack down on the pollution that disproportionately blights people of color.

On Wednesday, Regan issued a directive to EPA staff to “infuse equity and environmental justice principles and priorities into all EPA practices, policies, and programs”. The memo demands the agency use the “full array of policy and legal tools at our disposal” to ensure vulnerable communities are front of mind when issuing permits for polluting facilities or cleaning up following disasters.

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The EU's emissions trading registry will be temporarily suspended on May 3 for technical maintenance and a software upgrade, the European Commission announced Wednesday.