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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices dipped on the secondary market after the May auction bid guarantee deadline passed last week, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) saw an incremental price uptick amid increased buying.

Secondary market activity in the northeast US RGGI ETS declined during the first quarter of 2019 as the largest firms gained a bigger share of net short and long positions, according to a report published Thursday.

Knowing that air pollution is affecting livestock may prompt farmers to help clean our air

Thousands of scientific papers tell us that air pollution harms our health and shortens our lives, but what about effects on other animals? Thirteen prize cattle at the Smithfield agricultural show were among the first victims of London’s coal-induced smog in 1952, and when industrial smog engulfed Belgium’s Meuse Valley in 1911 and again in 1930, farmers tried vainly to save their herds by driving them up hillsides above the pollution.

In the Netherlands, scientists have found possible links between modern air pollution and deaths of young cattle, mainly in summer when the animals graze outside. In Belgium, researchers examined the (non-slaughterhouse) deaths of 87,108 adult dairy cows. They compared air pollution when each one died with times when the cow was well. Their results also point to cattle being vulnerable to air pollution.

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Current environment laws are manifestly failing Australian animals. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Desley Whisson, Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Mike Weston, Associate Professor, Deakin University Raylene Cooke, Associate Professor, Deakin University Tim Doherty, Alfred Deakin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s international reputation depends on rejecting the use of Kyoto carry-over. More importantly, so does our climate. Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Tim Baxter, Fellow - Melbourne Law School; Associate - Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Invasive species are the biggest single threat to Australian plants and animals. Andy Sheppard, Research Director CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO Linda Broadhurst, Director, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

It's hard to say exactly how many koalas are in the wild, but there's no doubt they're in serious trouble. Christine Adams-Hosking, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Social services statement backs Labor’s emissions reduction target as a minimum

Action on climate change should make polluters pay and include compensation for people on low incomes, according to the social services sector.

The Australian Council of Social Services and others have called for “at least” a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 coupled with regular indexation of the energy supplement to compensate welfare recipients.

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Enel’s EU ETS-regulated power output fell 16% in Q1 2019 compared to a year earlier, shrinking the company's EUA requirement even as it kept its hedging roughly steady, according to quarterly results released late Wednesday.

EU power sector emission cuts have had little to do with the recent trebling of the bloc's ETS prices and are more because of ever-increasing renewables deployment, ICIS analysts said on Thursday, adding this was likely to change over the next few years as prices push to €40.

A US federal appeals court should not accept a biofuel trade group’s motion to temporarily halt compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) because its argument is untimely and lacks merit, the EPA said in a court filing this week.

EUAs raced to an early peak above €27 on Thursday, but a weak auction and declining natural gas prices dented the confidence of bullish speculators, triggering a sell-off.

Jury finds Roger Hallam not guilty of causing damage after spray painting building’s wall

The founder of Extinction Rebellion has been cleared by a jury of all charges relating to a protest against fossil fuels in what campaigners say is a historic moment for the climate justice movement.

Roger Hallam, 52, did not deny criminal damage worth £7,000 in an action to urge Kings College, London to divest from fossil fuels.

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About 2.8 planets would be needed if rest of world followed suit, biocapacity data shows

Europe is using up natural resources so quickly that the planet’s ability to replenish itself over the year would be exhausted by this Friday if everyone consumed as much, a new analysis has found.

It would take 2.8 planets to extend the EU’s rate of consumption of fuels, food, fibres, land and timber to all the world’s people, according to data collected by WWF and the Global Footprint Network.

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A shellfish consignment is carried across the busy North Sea by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel.

Ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent to pipe greenhouse gas into vast under-sea cavities

Three of the largest ports in Europe – Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent – are to be used to capture and bury 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions under the North Sea in what will be the biggest project of its kind in the world.

The ports, which account for one-third of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg region, would be used to pipe the gas into vast cavities about two miles (3km) below the seabed.

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South Korean carbon allowances inched upwards in Thursday trade to hit new record highs for the fifth time in just over two weeks as sellers continued to sit on their surplus units rather than bringing them to market.

An Anglo-Saxon royal whose tomb was found next to a road in 2003 may have finally been identified.

What are the major political parties planning to do about the hot-button issues of climate change and energy?

Our public space is increasingly out of reach for all but the fit, the brave, and those in motor vehicles

Almost 90% of cyclists experience a “close pass” – an overtake within 1.5m – at least weekly, and 70% say conditions on Britain’s roads haven’t improved in the last five years, according to a new damning survey from British Cycling.

Of 15,000 respondents, 66% said they were concerned about their safety while cycling on Britain’s roads, and almost 40% said they experienced a close pass daily.

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