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Officials investigate irregularities in poultry and pig waste exports to Ireland, as ammonia risks turning soil into a ‘wasteland’

Ireland has become a “toilet” for cross-border pollution, say campaigners, as officials investigate allegations around the movement of animal manure from Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland has the highest stocking density of livestock in the UK, with 25 million poultry birds, and intensive pig numbers at a 10-year high. But the disposal of animal waste and increasing levels of pollution may now halt the expansion of its multi-billion pound export-driven industry.

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Chris Bowen says capacity market not finalised, and needs to allow for flexibility and emissions. And, unlike his predecessor, he promises to visit wind and solar farms.

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Clean Energy Investor Group calls on market regulators to accelerate market reforms, saying investors may look to other countries.

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New data shows renewable energy supplied roughly half of Germany’s electricity demand for the first half of 2022, boosted by more wind and solar.

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These tiny fish with oversized hands crawl along the seafloor. They only live in two locations in the world, and they’re disappearing rapidly. John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW Sydney Jemina Stuart-Smith, Research Fellow, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New Zealand’s agriculture sector is on track to implement a basic independent carbon pricing system by 2025, however at this stage it is unclear if the government could actually manage such a scheme, according to the independent Climate Change Commission (CCC).

Chris Bowen discusses the energy crisis and the speed of the energy transition, capacity market design, emissions targets, EVs, and actually going to see wind and solar farms.

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Household solar and battery storage plays a key role in AEMO’s future plans, but angry consumers might choose to go their own way.

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Voluntary cancellations of certified emissions reduction (CER) credits against Colombia's domestic carbon tax via the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have jumped this year, with the offsets cancelled over the last two years coming almost entirely from a handful of hydro projects.

A Munich-based startup that helps forestry owners develop carbon offset projects has raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

The landscape for voluntary carbon offset types today is complex, with many buyers in a state of “analysis paralysis”. We need to think about the implications of a company using a carbon offset while observing the key principles that make offsetting a powerful tool, argues Lauren Mechak, Director, Program Development at ClimeCo.

The newly finalised Canadian federal offset system needs to look beyond the shrinking coverage of the ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) to solve its weak demand problem, according to market stakeholders.

The 12 RGGI states on Tuesday pushed back completion of the power sector carbon market’s third programme review by a year, while also publishing the scheme’s new allowance budget with Pennsylvania's inclusion.

Consumer confidence in energy markets has collapsed in the last month, with warnings that many will choose to "go their own way".

The post “Stunning collapse in confidence:” Consumer lose trust in energy markets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Corporate demand for forest-related carbon credits is set to vastly outstrip available supply over the next 30 years, according to research published Tuesday that suggests a sufficient enough pool of carbon finance to allow governments to take on more ambitious measures to save and restore tropical forests.

Nineteenth-century European settlement is often depicted as a triumphal ‘taming of nature’. But does that collective memory impede more honest appraisals of the environmental risks we face today? Olli Hellmann, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Protesters from the coalition have staged disruptions at major British museums five times in the past week

Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil coalition have glued themselves to a 500-year-old depiction of The Last Supper in London’s Royal Academy, the fifth time in a week that it has disrupted a major British art institution.

The activists struck just before noon, supergluing their hands to the frame of the 3-metre-long painting – a reproduction of the Leonardo da Vinci original attributed to his pupil, Giampietrino.

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Brokerage Vertis has hired a well-known emissions trading expert as its new head of research, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Peak at Sonnblick in Austrian Alps has melted more than a month before previous record time

The snow at the highest observatory in the world to be operated all-year-round is expected to completely melt in the next few days, the earliest time on record.

Scientists at the Sonnblick observatory in the Austrian Central Alps, which is 3,106 metres (10,190ft) above sea level, have been shocked and dismayed to see the snow depleting so quickly.

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