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The Beijing environment exchange has launched tenders for the construction of a registry and trading system for the national offset market, bringing the restart of the Chinese Certified Emissions Reduction (CCER) programme a step closer, though the exact launch date remains unclear.

The president of the upcoming Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow on Monday described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a 'wake-up call' for the world. Alok Sharma urged leaders to do more so they can 'credibly say that we have kept 1.5 degrees alive'.

The report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and 'unequivocal' and 'an established fact,' makes more precise and warmer forecasts for the 21st century than were made in the last report in 2013.

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Exclusive: Analysis reveals more than 1.2 million people are currently employed in low carbon industry

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• Abandoned pits of former mining town fuel green jobs

The UK’s low carbon economy is now worth more than £200bn, four times the size of the country’s manufacturing sector, with growth expected to accelerate in the coming years, according to new analysis.

Despite what experts say has been lacklustre and patchy support from central government, the analysis found more than 75,000 businesses from wind turbine manufacturers to recycling plants employ more than 1.2 million people in the green economy.

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Matt Kean says most hydrogen produced in NSW is grey, not green, and it's time to push "harder and faster".

The post “It really is a race:” NSW must get cracking on green hydrogen, experts warn appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Morrison and Taylor try to shift the blame for climate change onto poorer countries after world's scientists warn of devastating future.

The post Morrison blames China, refuses to boost climate action after bleak IPCC report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Young Liberals sell lump of Adani coal for $2,600 to boost coffers, as scientists prepared to warn world of the impacts of burning fossil fuels.

The post Young Liberals sell lump of Adani coal for $2,600 in party fundraiser appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We owe it to young people to build a better post-CoVID world. Most importantly, we need to take climate change seriously and get to net zero emissions.

The post Younger people are bearing the brunt of CoVID and climate change appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first wind farm in Saudi Arabia and the largest in the Middle East begins production.

The post First wind farm in Saudi Arabia and largest in Middle East begins production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The system being tested should spot the disease long before symptoms or obvious brain signs develop.

Dire warnings about ‘irreversible’ damage to our climate fill the front pages of newspapers in Britain and around the world

The front pages are filled with alarm in the wake of the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s global climate change report – the first since 2013 – which finds that human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in “unprecedented” ways, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.

An image of an elderly woman reacting to unprecedented wildfires on the island of Evia in Greece so perfectly encapsulates the global feeling of distress and fear that it appears on the front pages of the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph.

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Syncline Energy has upped the ante over what might be the biggest battery project in Victoria, or even in Australia.

The post Syncline unveils 2,400MWh big battery storage project near Melbourne appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The new IPCC report shows the physical dangers of failing to resolve Australia's deep and widespread lack of climate urgency.

The post Australia’s fossil problem is deep: IPCC shows the danger it presents appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A project on family education wins the 2021 Earth Photo competition.

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California approvals of new Compliance Instrument Tracking Service System (CITSS) accounts are taking longer than usual as the state sees an influx of new applications, including from more complicated financial participants hoping to enter the WCI carbon market, traders told Carbon Pulse.

Delegates from 196 countries attending talks offered jabs before event, with rules on self-isolating eased for many

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The government is planning to relax key Covid-19 restrictions for delegates to the UN Cop26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow for two weeks this November.

Delegates from 196 countries are expected to attend the talks, viewed as one of the last chances for the world to agree limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown.

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Standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices surged to new records once again over the past week, as futures volumes spiked amid a groundswell in voluntary carbon market (VCM) activity from new financial players and fossil fuel companies.

The world’s political leaders must heed the dramatic warning that climate scientists have delivered

The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published against a glowing backdrop of orange skies, as vast wildfires sweep through Greece and California. In western Germany, thousands of homes remain without running water or electricity following the devastating floods of July. In Yakutsk in Siberia – the coldest winter city on earth – residents were warned last month to stay inside as forest fires filled the air with toxic smoke, following heatwaves that began in the spring.

Eight years in the making, authored by the world’s leading climate scientists and approved by 195 national governments, the report confirmed the meaning of the evidence before our eyes: the cumulative impact of human activity since the Industrial Revolution is “unequivocally” causing rapid and potentially catastrophic changes to the climate. The future that environmental scientists foresaw with alarm, when the IPCC produced its first report three decades ago, has arrived.

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Privately-owned utility EPH will shut down all of its coal assets by 2030, with the exception of its plants located in Germany, the Czechia-based company announced on Monday.