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Norway is a leader in electric vehicles, but also in the extraction and sale of fossil fuels. How do the two conflicting stories add up?

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AEMC approves demand response mechanism for wholesale market, one of the most fundamental changes to NEM design in decades, rejecting calls for delays.

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Creating a job in insulation costs £59,000 compared to £250,000 for a job in road maintenance, a report suggests.

W.A. wind farms dominate list of best performing wind projects in Australia in 2019, but it is the improvements in co-located wind projects that point to technology lift.

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California regulator ARB minted over 115,000 new offsets this week across two protocols, while Quebec’s environmental ministry granted nearly 63,000 credits over seven different projects, according to data released Wednesday.

More than 21,000 tonnes of fuel was released when a fuel reservoir collapsed last month

Officials in Siberia have warned that it will take years to clean up a massive fuel spill in the Arctic Circle, as investigators detained three employees of a power plant where the disaster originated.

More than 21,000 tonnes of fuel was released when a fuel reservoir collapsed last month at a power plant operated by a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel in the city of Norilsk.

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We must stop using biosolids for farmlands immediately, especially when alternative ways to recycle wastewater sludge already exist. Abbas Mohajerani, Associate Professor, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmental groups say Australian government is violating legal obligations to protect reef from global heating and UN committee should hold it to account

Environmental law groups in the US and Australia are pushing Unesco to place the world heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef on an “in danger” list, arguing the Morrison government has violated legal obligations by not doing all it could to protect the natural wonder.

Earthjustice, based in San Francisco, and Environmental Justice Australia say the federal government is failing to live up to an obligation under the World Heritage Convention that member countries do all they can, including dedicating “the utmost” of their resources, to protect and conserve protected sites.

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The Israeli environment ministry is working on a strategy on carbon pricing, with the Bank of Israel recommending the government to set up a carbon tax for power sector, road transport, and cooking gas, according to local reports on Wednesday.

Germany unveiled on Wednesday a €9 billion strategy to expand clean hydrogen capacity at home and abroad to help cut emissions from transport and EU ETS-covered heavy industry, while major companies set out a plan to use the fuel to decarbonise steel.

China’s Tianjin on Wednesday sold all 2 million carbon permits on offer at its annual auction as more than 30 buyers took advantage of getting access to allowances well below current secondary market prices.

EUAs were little changed after sliding towards €22 early on Wednesday, consolidating below this week's three-month high as the market struggled to absorb a bumper UK auction.

Offset demand under the international aviation sector’s CORSIA scheme can be back near levels expected pre-COVID as early as 2023, exchange operator CBL Markets said Wednesday, backing a push to adjust the programme’s baseline to cover only 2019 emissions.

California’s ETS floor price is still set to increase less than 5% in 2021 after year-on-year inflation dropped further as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal data released Wednesday.

China is expected to overcome coronavirus impacts and impose CO2 curbs on coal power stations as planned this year under its national emissions trading scheme, although observers say the market launch itself may well only happen in the very last days of the year.

There was no one 'patient zero' that started the UK epidemic, research shows.

The upcoming trio of presidencies of the Council of EU member states has pledged to ensure the 27-nation bloc submits an updated NDC by end-2020, reaffirming efforts to raise climate ambition despite the coronavirus pandemic’s effects.

South Korea’s monthly KAU auction failed to sell out for the second consecutive time as demand dwindles in line with the coronavirus-driven economic downturn.

With slaughterhouse capacity in crisis due to Covid-19, one farmer believes he has developed a more humane way of ‘depopulating’ animals

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As traumatised US farmers continue to cull their animals in response to the slaughterhouse crisis, an Iowan pig producer has developed an on-farm method which he believes is quicker and more humane than other available options.

The coronavirus crisis has hit US meat plants particularly hard. As a result there is a lack of slaughter capacity, and farmers are being forced to cull or “depopulate” their animals on-farm. 

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