19 May, 00:30 - euractiv - In order to re-establish confidence in Europe’s power sector as an actor in the European quest to cut carbon emissions, a few conditions need to be met. These include concrete intermediate reduction targets and an emissions trading scheme capable of delivering a clear CO2 price signal, writes Giuseppe Montesano. »

France plans to revive EU carbon tariff

18 May, 19:31 - guardian - Minister of Industrial Renewal weighs up long-standing idea of carbon tax on goods imported from outside Europe. »

Flash floods are on the rise, while the budget to tackle them sinks | Bob Ward

18 May, 16:20 - guardian - The Environment Agency has warned the UK to expect more floods but its advice seems to be falling on deaf ears. A moving new exhibition of photographs at Somerset House shows the human impact of flooding around the world over the past five years and provides an insight into how climate change may already be disrupting lives and livelihoods. »

How much impact did the North Sea gas leak have on the environment? | Erin Hale

18 May, 13:10 - guardian - Greenhouse gas emissions and hydrocarbon contamination lower than expected, while Total incurs huge financial losses. While the Elgin North Sea natural gas leak that was plugged on Wednesday was a massive financial blow for its operator Total, it appears the incident had little impact on the environment in terms of global warming and local marine life. »

UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal

18 May, 00:10 - physorg - UN members on Thursday took their first steps in a marathon to negotiate a new global pact by 2015 that for the first time will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change. »

Canada axes green advisory body

17 May, 21:20 - guardian - The Canadian government is to mark the 25th anniversary of its green business advisers by shutting the agency down. The Canadian government is to mark the 25th anniversary of its green business advisers by closing the agency down. »

Transforming Geneva into an environmental hub

17 May, 16:30 - swissinfo - Newly installed in a 19th-century mansion in the leafy suburb of Versoix, a short hop from the city centre, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s non-profit environmental group R20 is the latest addition to International Geneva ’s burgeoning green hub. »

Geoengineering: Implicit promises

17 May, 16:20 - economist - For the past few years, a European collaboration called IMPLICC (Implications and Risks of Novel Options to Limit Climate Change) has been looking at what it might mean to engineer the climate, by reducing the amount of sunshine that reaches the Earth’s surface. A lot of IMPLICC’s work, like much else in climate science, has taken the form of computer modelling. »

Australasia has hottest 60 years in a millennium, scientists find

17 May, 11:50 - guardian - Study of tree rings, corals and ice cores find unnatural spike in temperatures that lines up with manmade climate change. The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for a reduction in manmade carbon emissions. »

UK carbon targets at risk over local authority funding cuts

17 May, 08:40 - guardian - Committee on Climate Change has called for local authorities to have national funding to cut carbon emissions. Funding cuts to squeezed local authorities are putting the UK's carbon targets at risk, the government's climate advisers warned in a report published on Thursday. »

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