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The best of the week’s wildlife pictures from around the world, including a Sumatran tiger and rare storks

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European carbon prices entered new territory on Friday, leaping above the €31.00 mark that had stood as the all-time high since 2006 as EU leaders agreed to tougher 2030 emissions targets.

Spread of fatal illness has slowed, new research shows, leading to new optimism about chances of survival

The spread of a facial cancer that ravaged the Tasmanian devil population has slowed due to the animal’s “amazing evolutionary response”, increasing its chance of survival, new research suggests.

An international team of scientists used a genomic tool typically used to track viruses such as Covid-19 to monitor the spread of the transmissable cancer that has led to devil numbers crashing by more than 80% over the past two decades.

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Campaigners who helped end logging and mining in the spectacular paradise of lakes, rainforests and beaches now fear global heating

Before he died in February 2019, John Sinclair had been fighting for Fraser Island off the Queensland coast for the best part of 50 years.

In the early 1970s the world’s biggest sand island – an ethereal paradise of lakes, towering rainforests and ancient dunes – was under pressure from sand mining and more than a century of logging.

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Official modelling could give you the impression the Morrison government has achieved something meaningful. But you would be wrong

Great news! The government says Australia is on track to meet the greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030 it set as part of the global Paris climate agreement. Cue the page one headlines, the fireworks, the “mission accomplished” banner on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln.

Or something like that. You could certainly be left with the impression the Morrison government had achieved something meaningful following the release of the annual official emissions projections data on Thursday.

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Canada will hike the CO2 price under its ‘backstop’ carbon pricing regime by C$15/tonne annually between 2023 and 2030, hitting C$170 ($133) by the end of the decade as the country rolls out new measures to overachieve on its Paris Agreement target, the government announced Friday.

Covid hasn’t stopped the climate emergency. As a nation, we can encourage others to take ever more ambitious action

• Dominic Raab is the foreign secretary

On Saturday the UK, UN and France will co-host the climate ambition summit alongside partners Italy and Chile, on the fifth anniversary of the UN’s landmark Paris agreement. The summit brings together the world’s most ambitious climate leaders from government, business and civil society, all seeking to ramp up action and ensure the Paris agreement is delivered.

Related: EU member states agree 55% cut in carbon emissions by 2030

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With the Green Deal, the EU is producing a regulatory storm that will stretch far into the future, deep into today’s profit models, and way beyond Europe’s borders. Companies should bring the Green Deal into the heart of their business in order to secure the competitive advantage of regulatory pre-alignment, argues Christiaan Gevers Deynoot of South Pole. 

The Bureau of Land Management is moving from Washington to Colorado – but some see it as an attempt to undermine the agency

In November 2017, less than a year after Donald Trump took office, Ryan Zinke proposed ejecting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a federal agency that oversees 250 million acres of federal land, from its longtime headquarters in Washington DC.

The BLM’s key responsibilities include administering grazing permits for ranchers, mining, and oil and gas extraction permits; since the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, it has also had a mandate to oversee recreation and conservation on its lands.

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Inquest is considering whether London air pollution contributed to nine-year-old’s asthma death

The mother of a girl who suffered a fatal asthma attack thought to have been triggered by air pollution has said she wants “justice” for her daughter.

Nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 having suffered numerous seizures and made almost 30 hospital visits over the previous three years.

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China’s Hubei province sold just over a third of the CO2 allowances on offer at its second auction this week, despite bidding being open to both emitters and financials.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

A group of 30 global investors with over $9 trillion worth of assets under management on Friday vowed to support a reduction of GHG emissions to net zero by 2050 or sooner through their portfolios.

EU heads of state and government early on Friday adopted the 27-nation bloc's upgraded 2030 emissions reduction target of at least 55% below 1990 levels, after a whole night of negotiations at the European Council to persuade Poland.

Lake sediments on remote Marion Island tell the story of the Southern Hemisphere's westerlies.

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On Friday it was confirmed that Australia has not been offered a speaking slot at the Climate United Nations’ Ambition Summit. This should not come as a surprise. The Climate Ambition Summit is, as the name would suggest, all about climate ambition – where Australia is decidedly lacking. Earlier this week, Australia was ranked second last...

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Queensland government says interest in building out the state's renewable energy zones "shattered expectations," with 192 projects put forward.

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Angus Taylor's emissions projections report predicts every rooftop solar system will be effectively shut down for an average of two months a year. Seriously?

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