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Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases

The world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.

The researchers say production of coal, oil and gas must fall by 6% a year until 2030 to keep global heating under the 1.5C target agreed in the Paris accord and avoid “severe climate disruption”. But nations are planning production increases of 2% a year and G20 countries are giving 50% more coronavirus recovery funding to fossil fuels than to clean energy.

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The discovery is expected to advance medical research in treating disease.

Industry bodies seek scheme to guarantee provenance of green hydrogen produced in Australia and prevent "green-washing" in the booming new industry.

The post Green hydrogen or green-wash? Industry-led scheme to guarantee origin of supply appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The outlook for Australian sites including the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests has deteriorated, report says

The outlook for five Australian world heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests, has deteriorated, according to a global report that finds climate change is now the number one threat to the planet’s natural world heritage.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the official advisory body on nature to the Unesco world heritage committee, has found in its world heritage outlook that climate change threatens a third of the world’s natural heritage sites. The outlook has been published every three years since 2014.

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Provisional figures indicate that 2020 will be one of the hottest in a record dating back to 1850.

Hubei province will auction off 3 million carbon allowances over two sales on Dec. 9 and 11, with the biggest restricted to ETS-regulated entities that have emitted more than their annual free allocation.

High resolution imagery shows ocean waves are taking their toll on the giant ice block called A68a.

EKI (Enking International) Energy Services Ltd is looking for 3 Sales Managers for the International Carbon Market, located in New York (USA), London (UK), and Sydney (Australia).

Japan is considering a carbon pricing mechanism, but will not propose one ahead of the general election next October, a ruling party lawmaker said Wednesday.

New Zealand carbon allowances rose to a fresh record high on Wednesday after a two-week pause as the market remains bullish on long-term trends.

Communities are being asked to bid to host the plant, which a state-backed project plans to build by 2040

Communities in the UK are being asked to bid to host a prototype nuclear fusion power plant, which a government-backed programme plans to build by 2040.

The site does not need to be near existing nuclear power stations but will need 100 hectares of land and a plentiful water supply. Ministers say the project would bring thousands of skilled jobs and be part of its planned “green industrial revolution” to tackle the climate crisis.

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Cannon-Brookes issues challenge to BP to invest more in clean energy, saying he was personally investing more than the oil and gas giant.

The post “I spent more than that, and I’m not BP”: Cannon-Brookes challenges oil major to do more appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The midnight snapper caught at Rowley Shoals off Western Australia is 20 years older than the previous record holder

When it was born, the second world war was several years away, none of the Beatles were alive and there were about five billion fewer people above the waves than today.

An unnamed 81-year-old midnight snapper, caught by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in 2016, has been revealed as the oldest tropical reef fish known to science.

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Secretary General Antonio Guterres says our "war" on the natural world will come back to haunt us.

Governments to reduce pollution in oceans and end subsidies that contribute to overfishing

Governments responsible for 40% of the world’s coastlines have pledged to end overfishing, restore dwindling fish populations and stop the flow of plastic pollution into the seas in the next 10 years.

The leaders of the 14 countries set out a series of commitments on Wednesday that mark the world’s biggest ocean sustainability initiative, in the absence of a fully fledged UN treaty on marine life.

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Australia's economy is bouncing back, but not thanks to any 'gas-led recovery', with coal and gas sectors contracting in latest quarterly GDP figures.

The post Coal and gas sectors contract as rest of economy bounces back from Covid-19 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW government delivers early Christmas present to Barnaby Joyce, with plans for a new solar farm and big battery in his New England electorate approved for construction.

The post NSW green lights 65MW Tamworth solar farm and big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AusNet Services-led trial will see customer owned assets like rooftop solar compete in the same market as traditional power plants in north-eastern Victoria.

The post Victoria to trial “sophisticated” two-way market for home solar and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers from Western Australia develop database of electron-molecule reactions seen as major step forward in making fusion power a reality.

The post Nuclear fusion edges closer to reality with Curtin University research appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Germany's first auction for decommissioning coal generators results in nearly 5GW of contracted closures, including some plants opened just five years ago.

The post Germany’s first coal plant phase-out auction a success, with 4.8GW to close appeared first on RenewEconomy.