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Environmentalists are worried the shift to green energy means damage from more mines. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Principal Research Fellow/ Group Leader- MIWATCH, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU leaders gathered on Monday aiming to strike a partial deal banning Russian oil imports amid resistance from Hungary, while sources said as many as nine member states could already oppose MSR sale plans that are due to be discussed Tuesday. 

Ministers are running out of time to persuade EDF to apply for postponement of shutdown, say industry insiders

Ministers have just weeks to intervene to extend the life of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, industry sources have warned, as officials raise concerns over the danger of blackouts this winter.

The two reactors of the Somerset nuclear power station are due to be shut down on 8 July and 1 August, removing nearly a gigawatt of power generation capacity from the UK’s system – enough to power 1.5m homes – and as the nights draw in, the war in Ukraine is expected to weigh heavily on electricity supplies.

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Key standardised prices for technology voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) failed to gain for an eighth consecutive week, while nature credits moved sideways amid a dearth of buyers, as participants dismissed the potential for Verra's ban on tokenising retired units to significantly shift prices.

Queen’s Green Canopy scheme’s ‘platinum supporters’ include firms that have been connected to environmental harm, say campaigners

The Queen’s jubilee tree planting scheme has been sponsored by companies with links to deforestation, say campaigners.

Across the country, people have been asked to “plant a tree for the jubilee” in honour of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.

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There are likely no Norwegian companies with significant CO2 emissions that are climate neutral currently, although the firms have not been deliberately greenwashing, a report claimed Monday in findings that reflect the uncertainty faced by companies worldwide in implementing climate strategies.

An industry group representing Australian’s carbon market industry on Tuesday outlined its list of priorities for the newly elected Labor government, including opening up to exporting ACCUs and reconsidering the need for introducing a new credit type for Safeguard Mechanism companies.

UK scientists say carbon capture is ‘hard and expensive’ and focus must be on reducing emissions

Many of the UK’s top scientists working on carbon capture technologies do not believe they will be developed and scaled up in time to reach net zero and limit global heating to 1.5C.

Experts speaking at a Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub event in London warned that these techniques, including direct air capture, biofuels, biochar, afforestation and advanced weathering, are not a silver bullet and should make up just a fraction of the efforts to decarbonise.

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Malaysia’s stock exchange has teamed up with carbon credit standard manager Verra ahead of the launch of a domestic voluntary carbon market in the Southeast Asian nation later this year.

Terminally ill and disorientated orca believed to have been suffering from disease not before seen in Europe

An ailing orca adrift in the River Seine has been found dead after a plan to guide it back to sea failed and scientists concluded it was in agonising pain and terminally ill.

The local French prefecture had said the orca, also known as a killer whale, would be euthanised to end its suffering.

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EU carbon was little changed in very thin trade on Monday morning as traders dialled down activity amid holidays and an EU summit where leaders were expected to discuss energy and a proposal to auction EUAs from the market stability reserve.

China’s central government will support the use of carbon credits from “qualified” new energy projects in its emissions trading scheme, it said on Monday, though without clarifying exactly which projects would qualify.

Researchers say bacteria such as E. coli stays attached to plastic longer than natural material.

Ministers from world’s biggest economies reach agreement that could shift estimated $33bn a year to clean energy sources

The world’s biggest economies are to stop funding any overseas fossil fuel development from the end of this year, in a move likely to choke off some of the investment in “carbon bombs” that are imperilling efforts to meet the world’s climate targets.

The agreement could shift about $33bn (£26bn) a year from fossil fuels to clean energy sources, according to analysts’ estimates.

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The New Zealand government has announced a NZ$10 million ($6.5 mln) Maori landholder development fund, but some observers have described it as a weak bid to make up for the proposal to ban exotic plantings from the country’s ETS, which would largely affect Maori landholders.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has finalised a benefit sharing framework between landholders and project developers who choose to exit their contractual obligations with the government.

Tiny island nation with no navy sets out bold ambition to protect 100% of its ocean, an area the size of Vietnam, from illegal fishing

The Pacific island state of Niue has announced that it will protect 100% of the ocean in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which spans 317,500 sq km (122,000 sq miles), roughly the area of Vietnam.

The water that surrounds one of the world’s largest raised coral atolls is the only place where the katuali is found – a sea snake that lives in the island’s honeycomb of underwater caves. Humpback whales migrate to Niue from Antarctica to give birth, spinner dolphins swim near the coast and Niue boasts the world’s highest density of grey reef sharks.

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New video shows the first of many massive wind turbine blades arriving at the 180MW Dulacca wind farm in Queensland's south-east.

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Cannon-Brookes' stunning victory over AGL is probably the biggest story yet in Australia's still fledgling green energy transition.

The post Cannon-Brookes has achieved a stunning victory at AGL: Now for the hard part appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cannon-Brookes' investment arm, Grok Ventures, welcomes AGL's demerger backdown and will seek input into 'strategic review' and board renewal.

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