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Remember when you would take your TV to get repaired if it was broken? Now, most people just buy a new one. When a new phone comes out, we ditch the old one. Each time we do this we're eating into a finite supply of resources and creating mountains of waste. A circular economy – also known as closing the loop – is when used items don't end up in landfill, but instead become the building blocks for new products. There's a whole industry waiting to be developed in Australia, if governments would get on board.

• This man turns discarded coffee cups into roads

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The California Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (IEMAC) will publish its annual report this fall that is likely to provide state regulator ARB with additional suggestions on how to grapple with the allowance glut in its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme.

EUAs rose towards €27 early on Wednesday on strong demand at the bumper UK auction, but failed to hold on to the gains amid news of a bloc-wide emissions registry outage.

The UK has financed 39 climate projects in developing countries that resulted in 31 Mt of CO2e reduced or avoided over 2011-2020, the government said in a report on Wednesday, a rate of abatement eclipsed by emissions growth that campaigners say is a result of its fossil fuel funding.

US biofuel credits (RINs) briefly rallied on Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump said he will speak to EPA officials regarding refiners’ applications for retroactive “gap filling” compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Huge dam projects that came on stream in the 1970s substantially slowed the rate of sea level rise.

AEMC seeks feedback on proposed reforms, that would establish big batteries as their own kind of market participant in the National Electricity Market.

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The EU’s carbon market has been hit by technical issues this week, including a server outage on Wednesday that was preventing participants from accessing their registry accounts or processing allowance transactions.

A new UK target will be set to protect people from the effects of breathing in tiny particles.

Government is consulting industry on technology which can take control of a vehicle at up to 70mph.

Satellite images capture tug boats trying to remove the broken vessel, which spilled tonnes of oil.

The project promotes linking of carbon market activities with national climate change policies and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). GIZ is recruiting advisor on Global Carbon Markets Project to support in the implementation of its programmes.

Campaigners ask authors of two reviews of TfL finances to look again at scheme

Plans to build a four-lane road tunnel under the Thames in London should be dropped as part of an overhaul of transport spending in the capital, campaigners say.

Opponents of the proposed £1.2bn Silvertown tunnel scheme have written to the authors of two separate reviews of Transport for London finances asking them to look again at the project.

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Campaigners say Sir James Bevan is trying to ‘rig system’ and cover up decades of failure

The head of the Environment Agency has endorsed a proposal to water down laws on cleanliness of polluted rivers, lakes and coastlines after Brexit.

Campaigners say Sir James Bevan is trying to “rig the system” to cover up decades of failure by the agency.

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Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. A new campaign seeks to decolonise the countryside

Boris Johnson’s attack on English planning laws is both very new and very old. It is new because it scraps the system for deciding how land should be used, replacing it with something closer to the US model. It is old because it represents yet another transfer of power from the rest of us to the lords of the land, a process that has been happening, with occasional reversals, since 1066.

A power that in 1947 was secured for the public – the democratic right to influence the building that affects our lives – is now being retrieved by building companies, developers and the people who profit most from development, the landowners. This is part of England’s long tradition of enclosure: seizing a common good and giving it to the rich and powerful. Democracy is replaced with the power of money.

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New analysis from Green Energy Markets finds Queensland on track to meet just 37.5% renewables by 2030, falling well short of state government's 50% goal.

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Tilt - stung by delays at its new Victoria wind farm - warns that lack of clarity over connection issues puts future investment in Australia's main grid at risk.

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Two years on from her first school strike, activist attacks ‘ignorance and unawareness’

• Greta Thunberg: the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial

Two years on from Greta Thunberg’s first solo school strike for the climate, she says the world has wasted the time by failing to take the necessary action on the crisis.

Thunberg’s strike inspired a global movement, and on Thursday she and other leading school strikers will meet Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, which holds the rotating presidency of the European council. They will demand a halt to all fossil fuel investments and subsidies and the establishment of annual, binding carbon budgets based on the best science.

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We can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight. Society must start treating this as a crisis

On Thursday 20 August, it will be exactly two years since the first school strike for the climate took place. Looking back, a lot has happened. Many millions have taken to the streets to join the decades-long fight for climate and environmental justice. And on 28 November 2019, the European parliament declared a “climate and environmental emergency”.

But over these past two years, the world has also emitted more than 80 gigatonnes of CO2. We have seen continuous natural disasters taking place across the globe: wildfires, heatwaves, flooding, hurricanes, storms, thawing of permafrost and collapsing of glaciers and whole ecosystems. Many lives and livelihoods have been lost. And this is only the very beginning.

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The last major components have been delivered to the 530MW Stockyard Hill wind farm, set to be one of Australia's largest.

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