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Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee are keeping pressure on EU leaders to use ETS funds to finance the EU’s seven-year budget ahead of a key summit on Friday.

So close... and yet so far. Three Tesla Model Y SUVs – not yet available to order in Australia or New Zealand – arrive in Auckland for reasons unknown.

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Letter also signed by Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to act immediately on global heating

Greta Thunberg and some of the world’s leading climate scientists have written to EU leaders demanding they act immediately to avoid the worst impacts of the unfolding climate and ecological emergency.

The letter, which is being sent before a European council meeting starting on Friday, says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis.

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International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List changes ocean giants’ status to ‘critically endangered’

With their population still struggling to recover from over three centuries of whaling, the North Atlantic right whale is now just “one step from extinction”, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN last week moved the whale’s status on their Red List from “endangered” to “critically endangered” – the last stop before the species is considered extinct in the wild.

The status change reflects the fact that fewer than 250 mature individuals probably remain in a population of roughly 400. While grim, scientists and conservationists expressed hope that this move may help speed up protections for these dwindling giants.

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"Frankly, why should any hospital purchase coal-fired energy when it produces toxic air pollution that harms health?" Anthony Capon, Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Arunima Malik, Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Sydney David Pencheon, Honorary Professor, Exeter UK / Adjunct Professor, Monash Sustainable Development Institute / Visiting Professor, Surrey UK Helga Weisz, Professor of Industrial Ecology and Climate Change, Humboldt University of Berlin Manfred Lenzen, Professor of Sustainability Research, School of Physics, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The NZ government will invest in solar, biomass and heat pump technology as well as electric vehicles as part of a "clean-powered public service" plan.

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Fundamental to our proposal is the idea of net market benefit: Where rooftop solar exports create value greater than their costs, then costs can be recovered from all consumers.

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The first turbine of Goldwind Australia's 312MW Moorabool wind farm has been connected to the Victorian transmission network and is generating electricity.

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New analysis of Australia's Covid-19 economic response finds governments have funnelled four-times more financial support into fossil fuel sector than to clean energy.

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A major US investment firm has bought a minority stake in Australia’s biggest developer of carbon offset projects, seeking to expand the firm’s activities and enter new markets.

Two NGOs have proposed a new rule change to ensure that all solar households have right to export, and that networks are making the appropriate investment to allow this.

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Iberdrola progresses its takeover of Infigen Energy, upping its ownership stake and waiving all outstanding conditions on its $864m offer.

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Increasing numbers of Australian drivers want their next car purchase to be electric but can't afford the few models on offer. There might be a better option.

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Households and businesses in the UK are producing 1.45 million tonnes of electrical waste a year.

Western Power installs W.A.’s 13th community battery, but in this case on the customer connection side as part of a unique five-year trial with the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River.

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Across the world, failure of official advice to provide sustainable, healthy diets is shocking, say scientists

Official dietary advice across the world is harming both the environment and people’s health, according to scientists who have carried out the most comprehensive assessment of national dietary guidelines to date.

Food is responsible for a quarter of the emissions driving the climate crisis and millions of early deaths. The analysis assessed all available dietary guidelines, covering 85 countries and every region of the world. The researchers said governments’ failure to help people eat good diets was “shocking”.

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Colorado could achieve its new 2030 GHG reduction target and drive carbon abatement at a lower cost than sector-specific strategies by implementing an economy-wide cap-and-trade programme, according to a report published Tuesday.