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Germany publishes free EU carbon allocation list for 2021-25, estimates start for this year’s delayed handouts

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 23:55
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.
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The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining | Thea Riofrancos

The Guardian - Mon, 2021-06-14 20:45

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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Technical Director (Carbon Markets), Climate Impact X – Singapore

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:55
CIX is looking for a Technical Director with strong background and familiarity with technical standards in the carbon market, strategy and international policy.
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Business Analyst and Platform Manager, Climate Impact X – Singapore

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:52
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.
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Director of Forest Carbon Origination, Finite Carbon – Eastern US

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:45
The Director of Forest Carbon Origination will support the development of Finite’s growing portfolio of forest offset projects.
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Director, Corporate Climate Solutions – Arlington, VA

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:35
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.
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Environmental Scientist, Greenhouse Gas Professional, Ruby Canyon Environmental – Grand Junction, CO

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:27
RCE is seeking an entry-level professional to join our team of experienced GHG professionals. The full-time, multi-disciplinary position requires technical, data analysis, auditing, communication and project management skills.
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Greenhouse Gas Professional, Ruby Canyon Environment – Grand Junction, CO

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 18:23
Ruby Canyon Environmental is seeking a GHG Professional to join our growing GHG verification and consulting business.
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Queensland to launch second round of call for carbon projects

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 17:27
The Queensland state government in Australia is readying a second round of investments in carbon projects under its Land Restoration Fund, which will include setting up a new vehicle focused on natural capital.
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China ETS progresses onto legislative work plan

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 17:19
China’s emissions trading regulations have captured a place in the State Council’s legislative work plan for 2021, meaning the nation’s carbon market could be embedded in law before the end of the year.
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Global carbon price expectations surge as markets prove resilient to pandemic -survey

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 17:00
Expected carbon prices over the next decade have increased for every major emissions trading system, reversing bearish sentiment of a year ago as the markets withstood impacts from the global pandemic, according to an annual survey of carbon market participants and observers published on Tuesday.
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Illegal sewage discharge in English rivers 10 times higher than official data suggests

The Guardian - Mon, 2021-06-14 16:00

Underreporting by water companies and failure to hold them to account have resulted in ecological damage, analysis shows

Water companies are being allowed to unlawfully discharge raw sewage into rivers at a scale at least 10 times greater than Environment Agency prosecutions indicate, according to analysis to be presented to the government.

The number of prosecutions of English water companies for unlawful spills from sewage treatment plants in 10 years are just a tiny fraction of the scale of potentially illegal discharges, the research presented to the environment minister, Rebecca Pow, this week will suggest.

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G7 fails on solid coal message but worries are building for Morrison

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2021-06-14 10:02

While the G7 meeting was unremarkable, there are growing signs of action on coal phaseout - particularly among Australia's biggest coal customers.

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‘Really, really rare’ seahorse spotted off UK coast

BBC - Mon, 2021-06-14 09:04
A marine biologist says it’s the first time he’s ever seen a long-snouted seahorse in the wild.
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G7 climate pledges leave many details aside

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 07:33
G7 leaders agreed multiple efforts to raise climate ambition but stopped short of many firm commitments at the close of their three-day summit in the UK on Sunday, disappointing environmental campaigners.
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Even without new fossil fuel projects, global warming will still exceed 1.5℃. But renewables might make it possible

The Conversation - Mon, 2021-06-14 06:07
Keeping global warming under 1.5℃ is still achievable with rapid deployment of renewables. A new report found solar and wind can supply the world's energy demand more than 50 times over. Sven Teske, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Sarah Niklas, Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Swiss citizens reject updated CO2 reduction strategy by narrow margin

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2021-06-14 01:45
Switzerland defeated by a narrow margin the country’s CO2 Act in a referendum on Sunday, rejecting more ambitious emissions reduction measures under an updated climate plan.
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G7 summit: How significant are group's climate pledges?

BBC - Mon, 2021-06-14 00:08
G7 leaders make new pledges to combat climate change, but campaigners say they lack detail.
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NSW plan to ban single-use plastics from next year a win for the environment, advocates say

The Guardian - Sun, 2021-06-13 14:03

Plastic bags, straws and cutlery, along with polystyrene, will be banned as part of a five-year $365m plan

Lightweight plastic bags, disposable plastic straws and cutlery, plastic cotton buds and microbeads will be banned in New South Wales from next year, as part of a state government push to reduce plastic litter by 30% by 2025.

Reducing plastic waste is part of a wider $356m five-year plan from the NSW government that will also see a new “green” bin for food and organic waste rolled out to homes across the state by 2030 – something the state’s environment minister Matt Kean says will help reduce emissions in landfill and allow greater extraction of biogas from waste.

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NSW accepts thermal coal is set for major decline, now it needs to act

RenewEconomy - Sun, 2021-06-13 13:15

A moratorium on new thermal coal mining capacity is needed to avoid chaotic employment impacts.

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