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The King's College study also says the UK public underestimates how much scientists agree on the link between human activity and climate change.

Committee on Climate Change report paints a dire picture of Britain’s progress in reducing farm emissions and homes insulation

There are currently no credible plans to help the majority of households to improve their energy efficiency, the progress report from the Committee on Climate Change concludes: a gaping policy hole that is costing the UK dear, not just in climate terms but in unnecessarily high energy bills for our leaky homes. Insulating buildings would be the quickest and most effective way to counter soaring gas prices, but has been largely ignored by the government after the botched “green homes grant” was scrapped last year. Even our new homes are not efficient: at least 1.5m homes have been built in recent years that will require expensive retrofitting. “It’s a complete tale of woe,” said Chris Stark, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change.

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Progress report from the Climate Change Committee suggests ministers could renege on greenhouse gas emissions commitment

• Five things we have learned about the UK’s path to net zero

The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers have said, in a damning progress report to parliament.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) voiced fears that ministers may renege on the legally binding commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, noting “major policy failures” and “scant evidence of delivery”.

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The UK's legislative framework is insufficient to meet its emissions targets and has "shocking" shortcomings on energy efficiency, the government's expert advisors said in a report published Wednesday.

AEMO revealed new generation and project proposals now total more than 150GW, as it prepares to release latest 20-blueprint of how to connect it all to the grid.

The post New generation and storage pipeline reaches 150GW as AEMO prepares its plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Spanish police have arrested 27 people and seized €11 million worth of smuggled F-gases in a major bust of a criminal network.

With half the sector now in its sights Ofwat is right to start talking tough

Has Ofwat woken from its slumbers? There are encouraging signs. On the troubled issue of sewage – specifically, the vast quantities of the stuff pumped into rivers – the water regulator in England and Wales is suddenly talking as if it means business.

“From what we have seen so far, the scale of the issue here is shocking,” said David Black, chief executive, in unusually strong language as he added South West Water, owned by quoted group Pennon, to the list of firms targeted with enforcement cases connected to the management of treatment works.

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A carbon credit rating agency has downgraded a REDD forest protection project in its latest update, but also left the activity open for further review.

CME Group is adding two new voluntary carbon market futures contracts to cover vintages no longer eligible for delivery on its existing rolling contracts, the exchange operator announced Tuesday.

A firm specialising in building and operating direct air capture (DAC) facilities has said it will build its largest plant following a large equity raise earlier this year, as it targets multi-million tonnes of carbon removal capacity by 2030.

Labor will rely on Abbott-era climate policy to deliver the bulk of emissions cuts to hit its 2030 target. It must avoid making the same policy mistakes.

The post How Labor might transform Abbott’s climate policy and actually cut industrial emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

G7 leaders wrapped up their three-day summit on Tuesday with German ​​Chancellor Olaf Scholz touting an agreement on a new international climate club, while leaders also noted the requirement for greater fossil investment in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A comeback in coal demand last year pushed global CO2 emissions from energy perilously close to 2019 levels, even though there was a surge in renewable power and economies were still battered by the Covid catastrophe, oil major BP said in its annual statistical review on Tuesday.

EUAs rallied after a weak opening on Tuesday morning as the market awaited a united position among member states on ETS reforms, while energy prices sagged as the EU sought more ways to cut gas consumption.

EU environment ministers were bracing for talks to run late into Tuesday evening to reach a united position on several Fit for 55 (FF55) climate policy reform proposals, with opening exchanges suggesting that several thorny issues are outstanding.

Nairobi biodiversity talks end in stalemate, prompting open letter to world leaders calling for action before Montreal conference

UN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing.

Last week, countries met in Nairobi for an extra round of talks on an agreement to halt the human-driven destruction of the natural world, with the final targets set to be agreed at Cop15 in Montreal. Governments have never met a target they have set for themselves on halting the destruction of nature despite scientists warning in 2019 that one million species face extinction, and that nature is declining at rates unprecedented in human history.

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The world’s publicly listed companies must reduce their carbon intensity by an annual average of 8-10% every year until 2050 if the target to limit warming to 1.5C is to be met, although only 39% of companies have managed to reduce their emissions intensity at that rate over 2019-20, research has found.

Regulator expands investigation after suggestions water firm was not complying with legal obligations

The regulator Ofwat has expanded its investigation into the dumping of raw sewage to include South West Water after finding “shocking” failures in the way the majority of water companies run their waste treatment works.

Ofwat said on Tuesday it had extended its inquiry after heightened concerns about South West Water’s environmental performance and suggestions it was not complying with its legal obligations.

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Members of the public often report seeing condoms and toilet paper in England and Wales's waterways.