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Yallourn coal generator forced to close three out of its four units over the weekend due to flooding at its brown coal mines in Victoria.

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Providing a uniform standard of coverage for emissions sources and aligning large emitter programmes is necessary to improve the short- and long-term effectiveness of Canada’s patchwork landscape of carbon pricing systems, a report said Monday.

An Idaho-based California Carbon Offset (CCO) project is the most recent dairy digester aiming to generate credits under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) instead, according to documents published Friday.

A massive gas industry conference marks an acceleration in efforts to create weak, ineffective climate 'targets' to mask huge fossil expansion.

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For phascogales, tree hollows are getting harder to find. I venture into forests and study how well artificial hollows made with chainsaws can replace them. William Terry, PhD Researcher, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Voluntary emissions reduction (VER) values largely extended their record highs over the past week, even as voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants thought some corporate buyers still weren’t accounting for upside risk in the rapidly expanding area.

The Low Carbon Trader will trade carbon emission credits and options within the Low Carbon Trading (LCT) Team and will be integral to the success of bp’s low energy transition. This trader will manage compliance and entrepreneurial positions, as well as be responsible for pricing and supporting the low carbon origination activity in Trading & Shipping.

EUAs climbed more than a euro early on Monday amid a strengthening energy complex, but reversed course after Germany revealed plans to hand out more free carbon allowances this year than had been expected.

A California heat wave forecast throughout this week is spurring higher WCI carbon allowance prices, with some anticipating higher CO2-emitting generation to occur amid an uptick in electricity demand.

Hot weather bakes in disadvantage. Regenerating natural and living ecosystems will help us all

A century ago the British critic and crime writer GK Chesterton declared that crime fiction is the poetry of the city. Chesterton’s point was that the city is more attuned to the poetry of contemporary life than the country, but his observation also hit upon something no less important, which is that the structures that shape social and economic life are visible in their concentrated forms in the urban environment.

This is especially true when it comes to the impacts of global heating. As our cities get hotter the inequities embedded in them are intensifying rapidly. A 45C day in Sydney’s inner city isn’t fun, but residents of the affluent suburbs close to the centre tend to live in well-appointed, air-conditioned houses and apartments, as well as enjoying easy access to beaches, parks, pools and libraries where they can find refuge from the heat.

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Laurence Tubiana, a key player in 2015 Paris summit, says UK and others must explain how they will achieve climate goals

Rich countries must come forward with detailed plans on how they hope to meet their climate targets, and Boris Johnson must forge much closer relationships with developing countries to bring about the breakthrough needed on the climate crisis this year, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said.

The G7 summit, which ended on Sunday in Cornwall, achieved much less than campaigners had hoped, with no significant new cash forthcoming for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, on the frontlines of climate breakdown.

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Campaigners say government position is 'a step in the right direction but 'not yet on the money'.

Biodiversity pledge is part of formal response to landmark review of economic importance of nature

The UK government has committed to leaving the environment in “a better state than we found it” in response to a landmark review of the economic importance of nature.

Major transport and energy infrastructure projects in England will need to provide a net-gain for biodiversity, and the government said it would ensure all new bilateral aid spending did not harm the natural world as part of an effort to ensure a “nature-positive” future.

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A London-based carbon fund has made its first investment in the UK’s nascent emissions trading scheme, as interest from non-compliance players builds.

Germany on Monday published a provisional list of installations receiving free EU carbon allowances for 2021-25, suggesting the bloc is getting closer to distributing this year’s quota after months of delays.

As the world moves towards electric cars and renewable grids, demand for lithium is wreaking havoc in northern Chile

The Atacama salt flat is a majestic, high-altitude expanse of gradations of white and grey, peppered with red lagoons and ringed by towering volcanoes. It took me a moment to get my bearings on my first visit, standing on this windswept plateau of 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles). A vertiginous drive had taken me and two other researchers through a sandstorm, a rainstorm, and the peaks and valleys of this mountainous region of northern Chile. The sun bore down on us intensely – the Atacama desert boasts the Earth’s highest levels of solar radiation, and only parts of Antarctica are drier.

I had come to the salt flat to research an emerging environmental dilemma. In order to stave off the worst of the accelerating climate crisis, we need to rapidly reduce carbon emissions. To do so, energy systems around the world must transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Lithium batteries play a key role in this transition: they power electric vehicles and store energy on renewable grids, helping to cut emissions from transportation and energy sectors. Underneath the Atacama salt flat lies most of the world’s lithium reserves; Chile currently supplies almost a quarter of the global market. But extracting lithium from this unique landscape comes at a grave environmental and social cost.

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CIX is looking for a Technical Director with strong background and familiarity with technical standards in the carbon market, strategy and international policy.

The Business Analyst and Platform Manager is an exciting hybrid role designed for a dynamic individual capable of leading business analysis to support the platform design functions and managing product delivery.

The Director of Forest Carbon Origination will support the development of Finite’s growing portfolio of forest offset projects.

The Director, Corporate Climate Solutions successfully blends responsibilities in both technical advising on greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, and account management for one or more high-level strategic natural climate solutions-focused corporate partnerships.