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Delta Airlines significantly curtailed buying carbon credits against its 2019 emissions due to the financial impact brought on by the coronavirus outbreak, the carrier said in a report published Friday.

French utility Engie advanced its power hedging over Q2 but still lagged its position of a year earlier while overall generation slipped over the first half, it said in financial results on Friday, unveiling an asset review programme intended to allow the company to focus more strongly on renewables.

The Irish government must take a more ambitious approach to achieve its climate targets, the country’s supreme court said on Friday, the world’s second citizen-led ruling to succeed in forcing more aggressive national emission cuts.

German manufacturer OHB-System signs a €445m contract to build a greenhouse gas monitoring system.

Major EU airlines have seen their passenger capacity and traffic shrink to minimum levels in Q2 as a result of the COVID pandemic, despite signs of timid recovery amid easing restrictions and the start of the summer period.

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As Eid al-Adha begins, a campaign for painless killing is starting to win favour with slaughterhouses and religious leaders

As Turkey gears up for Eid al-Adha, or Qurban Bayram, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, animal rights campaigners are celebrating progress in their efforts to convince religious leaders, butchers and slaughterhouses of the merits of stunning animals before ritual slaughter.

Livestock warehouses across the country were busy on Thursday before the festival began at sunset, with families inspecting sheep and cows to slaughter in honour of Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismael.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week's technology stories.

Friday marked the deadline for South Korean companies to comply with their 2019 targets under the nation’s emissions trading scheme, but minimal demand in the over-supplied market led to prices falling to levels not seen since Dec. 2016.

The waste incinerator sits in one of the poorest areas of the country, where air pollution already breaches legal limits

• UK waste incinerators three times more likely to be in deprived areas

Georgia Elliott-Smith lives near the Edmonton EcoPark waste incinerator in north London. It sits in one of the poorest areas in the country, where 65% of the residents are from ethnic minority backgrounds and air pollution already breaches legal limits.

The waste-to-energy incinerator is run by the North London Waste Authority (NLWA), serves seven London local authorities, and is planning to expand to increase its capacity by 200,000 tonnes.

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Greenpeace data raises concern over air quality and health of vulnerable people

• Edmonton incinerator expansion ‘fundamentally unjust’ say residents

Waste incinerators are three times more likely to be situated in the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas of the UK, it has been revealed, raising fears about the impact on air quality and the health of vulnerable people.

Data obtained by Unearthed, the investigative arm of Greenpeace, found that areas in the top 20% for deprivation host nearly one-third of the waste incinerators in the UK. The richest, least ethnically diverse areas are home to less than 10% of incinerators, which are increasingly being used to deal with the UK’s waste.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has issued a new batch of emission baselines under the Safeguard Mechanism, increasing the amount of CO2 discharges allowed from several large industrial facilities.

The man in his 20s is being flown to a Perth hospital after being bitten on his leg, but the extent of his injuries is not yet known

A man in his 20s is being flown to hospital after he was attacked by a shark at a popular surfing spot about 200km south of Perth.

The man was bitten on the leg at Bunker Bay, near the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, and the extent of his injuries is not yet known, a St John Ambulance WA spokeswoman told the Guardian.

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Australian “hot climate” li-ion energy storage hopeful wins federal government backing for plans to become the nation’s first utility-scale battery manufacturer.

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Victoria Labor delays for a second time its decision on interim emissions reduction targets for the state, citing focus on curbing the spread of Coronavirus.

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Australia's two largest renewable energy export projects, planning 25GW of wind and solar between them, see the growing Asian market as more than big enough for both.

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Covid and rooftop solar take another big bite out of Origin Energy's electricity business, as its main coal generator pushed close to minimum operational limit.

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Western solutions to Pacific Island issues often end in failure. These countries must build their autonomy to survive climate change. Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Roselyn Kumar, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

AEMO's Integrated System Plan is a fine piece of work, but may lack bite in the absence of support from Angus Taylor, and with Australia's backward regulatory regime.

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