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New Mexico’s Interagency Climate Change Task Force identified the development of an economy-wide carbon market as a priority area for stakeholder engagement in 2021, according to a report published Friday.

EUAs touched a new four-month low below €23 on Monday but rebounded as better-than-expected industry data and a stronger auction helped boost sentiment battered by new COVID lockdowns.

State governments, councils, researchers and entrepreneurs are slowing our slide to disaster – but they need others to step up. Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Impact of human illumination has grown to point of systemic disruption, researchers find

Artificial light should be treated like other forms of pollution because its impact on the natural world has widened to the point of systemic disruption, research says.

Human illumination of the planet is growing in range and intensity by about 2% a year, creating a problem that can be compared to climate change, according to a team of biologists from the University of Exeter.

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We are now looking for a strategic and dynamic leader with the ability to lead and manage the delivery of this complex, innovative programme, which links to wider energy and decarbonisation policies. As Director of this programme you will join the Senior Leadership Team at a critical time as we develop and implement plans to ensure the low-carbon economy plays a pivotal part in our green recovery.

Competition and Markets Authority says rising demand may lead to ‘greenwashing’

Companies that market their products or services as eco-friendly are to be scrutinised by the UK competition watchdog to make sure they live up to the claim and do not mislead consumers.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was concerned that a rise in demand for green goods could encourage some businesses to make misleading claims about the environmental impact of what they are selling.

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Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into ocean

Rescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the country’s biggest mass beaching.

The short-finned pilot whales began beaching at Panadura, 15 miles (25km) south of Colombo, shortly before dusk. Within an hour their numbers swelled to about 100, a local police chief, Sanjaya Irasinghe, said.

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The decision to allow meat and dairy words to be used on vegetarian food suggests diets are changing for the better

It’s no longer obvious that one’s burger must come from an animal – and this has people in the industrial livestock world scared.

In recent years, both the United States and European Union have seen cases brought by advocates of animal-flesh meat against plant-based meat, which can be made of anything from genetically modified soy protein to oyster mushrooms. What is important here is the resemblance to the animal product; meat industries don’t want vegetarian products to be sold as “vegan burgers” or “vegetarian sausages”.

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Like the country as a whole, Oxford's Radcliffe weather station recorded an extremely wet October.

The RGGI cap-and-trade programme reported a year-on-year rise in CO2 output during the third quarter, as hotter weather across the Northeast US coupled with more people working from home prompted heavier electricity demand.

This new post will bring added capacity and skills in an innovative and growing area of work for Scottish Forestry. It will lead the Woodland Carbon Code team’s promotional work, play a central role in the operational management of the Code and help build new initiatives to develop the carbon market and green investment more widely.

Trump and Biden have wildly different Twitter attitudes towards climate and energy

The post Graph of the day – US Presidential candidate tweets on climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Prof Carlos Frenk is one of the originators of a theory on dark matter and galaxies.

Responsible for internal and external fuel emissions figures reporting and to independently prepare regular internal and annual external audits regarding fuel usage for all DHL Aviation Latin America AOC holders. 

Three of China’s regional pilot emissions trading schemes have reported that they successfully completed 2019 compliance, though details were scant as in previous years.

On Tuesday a London council decides over a 20-storey tower in Brixton – a tale familiar to cities from Manchester to Sydney

Taylor McWilliam, the Texan property developer, friend of Prince Harry and DJ, has been no stranger to gentrification battles since he bought large swaths of Brixton, in south London, with the backing of a New York hedge fund.

One of the most multicultural and vibrant parts of London, Brixton has been at the heart of the UK’s gentrification struggles for more than a decade. A hard-fought community battle to save the famous glass-covered indoor markets eventually resulted in listed status, which staved off demolition, on the basis of their cultural significance as one of the principal centres of the Afro-Caribbean community.

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Green Party co-leader James Shaw will continue as New Zealand’s climate change minister, keeping his place in Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s new cabinet that was announced Monday.

China’s Ministry for Ecology and Environment (MEE) on Monday released draft rules for its national ETS as well as registry and settlement regulations, a major step towards launching the market.

Many Australian restaurants and cafes admirably reduce their environmental footprint by minimising waste, but until atiyah, none have been officially recognised by Climate Active as being a 100 per cent, carbon-neutral business. 

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ACT Labor and Greens ink new power-sharing deal, including deal to phase-out gas by 2045, build large-scale energy storage and incentives for EV uptake.

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