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Korea's Hana Financial inks deal to finance 162MW Columboola solar project in Queensland, and says looking for more projects in Australia.

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal Monday evening on the California-Quebec ETS linkage case after a lower federal court ruled earlier this year that the cross-border agreement did not violate the Constitution.

Modified animals could improve sustainable meat production, but safety and ethical issues remain.

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A full-size, crewless research ship is to make one of the world's first autonomous transatlantic voyages.

California will look into moving forward its GHG reduction and clean energy targets after the state registered its largest wildfire season in history this year, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said Friday.

California-registered forestry offset projects moved through regulator ARB’s approval process faster over the past two months after experiencing lengthy timelines at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to registry and state data.

Canada’s proposed Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) will include several cost containment measures with price levels near those of California and British Columbia’s Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS), according to a government presentation.

Watching California’s horrific wildfires spread into many other states in the US, it was tough not to be reminded of Australia’s Black Summer. Watching the ensuing misinformation campaign, and the political stoush playing out right now, one important thing immediately came to mind. As I previously wrote at RenewEconomy, Australia’s government responded to the climate-intensified...

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There are fundamental knowledge gaps around coral in the Great Barrier Reef, including how many species live there and where they're found. Our new study finally starts to fill those gaps. Tom Bridge, Senior Curator - Corals, James Cook University Andrea Quattrini, Researcher, Smithsonian Institution Andrew Baird, ARC Future Fellow, James Cook University Peter Cowman, Research Fellow in Ecosystem Dynamics, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Parliament is likely to agree this week to fast-track the expansion of the EU ETS to include emissions from all ships using the bloc's ports, defying industry warnings that the move risks undermining efforts to regulate the maritime sector at a global level.

EUAs soared by more than 8% to hit a two-month high and notch a record close above €30 on Monday, with the aggressive buying fuelled by the emergence of a draft of a European Commission proposal to raise the bloc's climate targets and cut supply by more than some had expected.

China and the EU have agreed to establish a regular high-level dialogue to further discuss the extent to which Beijing can raise its climate ambition, EU leaders confirmed on Monday after talks with President Xi Jinping.

The US EPA announced Monday that it rejected all “gap filling” compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), confirming media reports last week of the move seen as an attempt to bolster President Donald Trump’s electoral support in agriculture-heavy states.

Leaked proposal includes carbon sinks provided by trees, soils and oceans in target

The EU executive has been accused of “cheating” on its 2030 climate plans by proposing to include carbon sinks provided by trees, soils and oceans in its emissions reduction goal.

The European commission will this week call for an EU emissions reduction target of “at least 55%” by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, according to a leaked draft seen by the Guardian. The proposal sets the stage for an intense political battle over the autumn to agree the target, intended to set the EU on track to meet a landmark pledge of net-zero emissions by the middle of the century.

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With interest in the possibility of life at Venus, there's an imperative to get more spacecraft to the planet.

Telescope observations spy a gas high in the atmosphere of Venus that on Earth is made by microbes.

Instead of closing Australia’s loss-making, high pollution aluminium smelters, these smelters can be rapidly transformed to run on renewable electricity.

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China’s year-to-date total power consumption at the end of August stood 0.5% above the same period in 2019, government data showed Monday, the first time this year the nation has posted positive numbers as the world’s biggest-emitting economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some of 101 crew left stranded off Brazil amid Covid-19 crisis protested to demand repatriation

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Dozens of Mauritian cruise ship workers who were stranded off the coast of Brazil throughout the pandemic have finally started their journey home after desperate appeals to return.

A crew member representing the 101 workers, who have been at anchor on three ships off Santos in southern Brazil, said they had not been paid for over six months by the cruise line MSC, one of the companies leading the industry’s return to operations.

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