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The upcoming revision of the EU’s renewable energy directive will not include any measures to promote low-carbon fuels, a European Commission senior official said Wednesday, partly as a result of pressure from green groups and progressive EU lawmakers.

The Q2 RGGI auction is expected to settle closer to the secondary market after notching a wide discount in March, with some market participants foreseeing the quarterly sale settling at a premium due to deferred compliance demand.

Falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists

The climate crisis is causing a widespread fall in oxygen levels in lakes across the world, suffocating wildlife and threatening drinking water supplies.

Falling levels of oxygen in oceans had already been identified, but new research shows that the decline in lakes has been between three and nine times faster in the past 40 years. Scientists found oxygen levels had fallen by 19% in deep waters and 5% at the surface.

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The head of European power and carbon analytics at ICIS is leaving for a boutique consultancy, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Tulip-shaped ‘eco-art’ turbines address common complaints about noise, danger to wildlife and ugliness

Tulips and flowers could help harness the power of the wind, after a green energy company came up with its own spin on wind power in an “eco-art” design.

Flower Turbines, based in the US and the Netherlands, has installations across Rotterdam, Amsterdam, parts of Germany, Israel and Columbia. The company aims to democratise green energy for everyone and make small windfarms a leading player in the green energy industry.

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Eight major government agencies and institutions have encouraged Beijing to set up an offset trading platform in its pilot free trade zone to act as the centre for the Chinese carbon credit market.

The £150m project to build a 50m deep pool would be used for deep sea and space research.

A major project aims to overcome a barrier to electricity grids wholly supplied by renewable energy.

Vessels primarily from China switch off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in possible illegal fishing

Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from China, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in a possibly illegal hunt for squid and other lucrative species on the very edge of Argentina’s extensive fishing grounds, according to a new study by Oceana, an international NGO dedicated to ocean conservation.

Every year, vessels crowd together along the limits of Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to take advantage of the lucrative fishing grounds.

Related: Cat and mouse on the high seas: on the trail of China's vast squid fleet

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South Korea on Wednesday announced it has cancelled plans to auction off 5.1 million CO2 permits next week with no plans to make those available before the June 30 annual compliance deadline, after the spot price in the secondary market has collapsed by nearly 20% in the past two days.

Parties that back schemes such as low-traffic neighbourhoods outperformed critics in mayoral election

• The evidence is in: low-traffic neighbourhoods are popular

Schemes to promote cycling and walking condemned by some critics as controversial and unpopular actually appear to be welcomed by many voters, according to analysis of last month’s election results in London.

Examination of the London mayoral election on 6 May on a ward-level basis showed that votes for parties that support such projects tended to rise in areas where they had been introduced, while parties that opposed them were more likely to shed votes.

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The London election proves that measures to make streets safer are a vote-winner, says a former Labour leader of Ealing council

• Cycling schemes popular with London voters, finds analysis

Are measures to make streets safe for walking and cycling unpopular? Are they vote-losers? Have we failed to take communities with us – and will we, as local politicians, pay the price?

As a former Labour leader of Ealing council in west London, I was at the heart of this debate. The low-traffic neighbourhood schemes we installed in my borough, using cameras to stop rat-running in more than a hundred streets, caused a row noisy even by the standards of cycling scheme rows. Demonstrators marched to the council offices with “Julian Bell – end this hell” placards. The “Bell” and the “end” were placed together to make a further well-loved phrase.

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Heat pumps are regarded as a miracle of low-carbon heating technology, but a new report suggests the refrigerants they use carry environmental risks.

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Australia's abundant wind and solar resources mean we're well placed to produce the hydrogen a green steel industry needs. But there are technical and economic challenges ahead. Jessica Allen, Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Newcastle Tom Honeyands, Director, Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the recent Energy Insiders podcast, featuring the Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton. Giles Parkinson  00:29 Hello, and welcome to this latest episode of the Energy Insiders podcast. My name is Giles Parkinson. I’m the editor of Renew Economy, and joining me as usual is David Leitch, ITK Principal. […]

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Federal court hears AGL Energy's legal challenge to Greenpeace's use of its logos in campaign labelling the energy company "Australia's Greatest Liability".

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EnergyAustralia says it may build pumped hydro storage facility next to Mt Piper coal generator in NSW.

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Nigel Morris talks about the transition to electric motorbikes with animator and film-maker and electric motorcycle YouTuber Sam Baker.

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese tells Minerals Council it needs to focus on technologies that support transition to renewables, not fossil fuels.

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Coal shipped out of Australia's ports last year carried 897 million tonnes of embedded CO2 emissions, almost double Australia's domestic emissions.

The post Australia’s monster coal exports emit more C02 than entire German economy appeared first on RenewEconomy.