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The world’s first solar powered direct air capture (DAC) project is looking to sell forward offset credits for €900/tonne ($904) as it eventually seeks to compress, transport and store CO2 for under $20 per tonne.

Temperatures of over 40C cause red alert in the city and test records as heatwave ravages parts of Europe

China’s most populous city, Shanghai, has issued its highest alert for extreme heat for the third time this summer as sweltering temperatures repeatedly tested records this week.

The commercial and industrial hub of 25 million people declared a red alert on Thursday, warning of expected temperatures of at least 40C (104F) in the next 24 hours. Temperatures soared as high as 40.6 C in the afternoon but fell short of Wednesday’s 40.9 C, which matched a 2017 record.

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The EU's mammoth Fit for 55 climate policy package can become law by year-end, the European Commission's climate chief Frans Timmermans said on Thursday as the bloc's environment ministers discuss their negotiating stance for November's COP27 UN climate negotiations.

EUAs traded in a very narrow range on Thursday morning amid widespread opposition among EU legislators to a plan to sell €20 billion worth of carbon units to help fund the bloc's transition away from Russian fossil fuels.

Photographs capture the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year lighting up England's skies.

Report shows English water and sewage firms’ performance on pollution has declined to worst in years

Water company bosses must be jailed for serious pollution, the Environment Agency (EA) has said, as it revealed English water firms have overseen shocking levels of pollution in the last year.

The agency said water firms’ performance on pollution had declined to the worst seen in years. It is calling for chief executives and board members to be jailed if they oversee serious, repeated pollution because they seemed undeterred by enforcement action and court fines for breaching environmental laws.

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The Australian government has accepted the resignations of three of its Emissions Reduction Oversight Committee (ERAC) members, including its chair, in a shocking move that leaves the development of anticipated new methodologies in limbo.

Britain’s first 40C day will happen sooner or later, but there is still time to stop such temperatures becoming regular events

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s feeling pretty hot in the UK. The Met Office has issued a rare, amber, extreme heat warning and we have a level 3 heat-health alert in place – just one level below a national emergency. Extreme heat is often referred to as a silent killer. Its impact is not as immediately obvious as after storms or floods, yet in the UK approximately 2,500 people died due to heat-related illness in 2020, a worrying figure as extreme heat becomes increasingly common. Earlier this year, the Met Office raised the threshold for what counts as a heatwave in some parts of the UK – and yet these events continue to happen with increasing frequency.

The problem isn’t isolated to the UK. Mainland Europe is experiencing its third major heatwave this year, with temperatures hitting a blistering 47C in parts of Spain. Many parts of Europe suffered an unusually dry spring, leading to widespread drought conditions, and increasing the chances of wildfires during periods of extreme heat – as Portugal is now experiencing.

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A government-run think-tank is preparing the ground for better regulation and management of Chinese carbon sequestration projects as it urges a speedy relaunch of the national offsetting scheme.

For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged. Flooding is also affecting nature reserves and destroying important habitats for endangered species. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores why the human and ecological disaster is happening – and why the Kenyan government is so slow to act

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Australia National University has published two more studies attacking the human induced regeneration (HIR) offset methodology and the way in which it has been defended by the Clean Energy Regulator and the government’s carbon credit oversight committee.

Campaigners hail step towards end of practice in French territorial waters that has had ‘devastating’ effect on local fishers

The European parliament has voted to ban “fly shooting” fishing in French territorial waters in the Channel, following reports that the technique, also known as demersal seining, was having a “devastating” effect on local fishers.

Campaigners described the result as a victory for small-scale fishers. Organisations representing coastal fishing communities on both sides of the Channel have warned that industrial trawling methods, including fly-shooting, are decimating their livelihoods and the marine ecosystem.

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The River Wye flows through Herefordshire where bird numbers – and their waste – surged in the year after the supermarket signed a deal with a local processor, Guardian investigation shows

A major deal to supply chicken to Tesco from nearly a decade ago may be linked to the ecological demise of one of the UK’s favourite rivers, according to a Guardian investigation.

As the River Wye flows through mid-Wales to the Severn estuary, it passes through the so-called chicken capital of the UK, where an estimated 20 million birds are farmed in the river’s catchment.

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Queensland to roll out another 12 batteries at regional centres, targeting areas with high levels of rooftop solar.

The post Queensland to add more than a dozen new regional batteries to soak up solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bowen and Albanese hope to win friends at home and overseas for new climate ambitions, as draft climate legislation leaks.

The post Labor in diplomatic climate flurry, at home and overseas, before parliament sits appeared first on RenewEconomy.

From trade unions to a bishop, activists are uniting to keep the UK government to its North Sea climate commitments

When the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, tweeted on the eve of the long jubilee weekend that the government was giving the go-ahead to a new oil and gas project in the North Sea, ministers probably hoped the news would slip out without much fuss.

But less than 24 hours later hundreds of protesters, furious that the government was planning to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in the midst of a climate crisis, took to the streets across the UK to voice their objections.

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The potential for agrivoltaics is huge – particularly in a changing climate, where both food security and energy security are at a premium.

The post Photo of the Day: Agrisolar is making Berry nice progress appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Partial production at wind farm host to turbine collapse resumes after a month off line, but cause of the incident yet to be identified.

The post Walkaway wind farm resumes some production after turbine collapse appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The idea that the US government would subsidise the feeding of supersonic jets, rather than people, beggars belief.

The post The madness of cutting down forests to grow food crops for supersonic aircraft biofuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Official advice suggests warming your house to 18℃. But it’s perfectly possible to live in an unheated house with personal warming devices and better clothing. Robert Nelson, Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.