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A California agency on Wednesday approved the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) price ceiling and other amendments that will take effect this summer, as credit values continued to increase despite an auction taking place.

The University of Portsmouth identified it as a tapejarid, a flying pterosaur from the Cretaceous period.

EUAs eased to hover around €21 on Thursday, extending their retreat from this week's one-month high as energy markets also dipped.

Suntech's 9.47MW Robinvale solar farm – one of a growing number of 'small but smart' projects pitched at under 10MW – has been completed in Victoria's north west.

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Latest quarterly emissions update shows emissions down thanks to renewables and drought, but increases from the gas sector are hindering faster progress.

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Commission argues it can raise €150bn to fund greener transport, cleaner industry and renovated homes

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Senior officials have pledged that the European Union’s recovery plan will “do no harm” to the bloc’s landmark goals to tackle the climate crisis and threats to the natural world.

Following the unveiling of a €750bn (£671bn) recovery plan to pull EU economies out of the deep economic downturn caused by coronavirus, the European commission announced further details of green spending on Thursday.

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There is no easy route to a greener global economy. But since coronavirus hit, politics and business are thinking again

Timing matters. Early 2020 saw an economic collapse the likes of which have not been seen in living memory. Growth has collapsed, unemployment has soared, poverty has increased.

Yet in different circumstances the past few months would have been dominated by calls for countries to do more to cut carbon emissions. As 2019 drew to an end, everybody from the managing director of the International Monetary Fund to the governor of the Bank of England was warning of the threat of global heating.

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Global carbon markets expanded marginally last year and saw modest growth in revenue for governments, but interest in offset projects is on the rise with forestry leading the way, according to an annual report released Thursday by the World Bank.

If uptake of EVs is to gain hold in Australia, they need to be fit for purpose - here's a list of what we should expect to see in coming years.

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The ‘amazingly cruel’ move by the National Park Service reverses Obama-era regulations which also affect wolves and coyotes

The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs and pups, while they are in their dens.

Related: A proposed mine in Alaska will endanger brown bears – and much more

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Manure from the state’s 80 million farm animals risks overloading its rivers and lakes with nitrogen and phosphorus

Millions of tons of manure from Minnesota’s animal feedlots is a risk to consumer health as it threatens to raise nitrate and phosphorus levels in the state’s rivers, lakes and drinking water, a study has found.

Meat and dairy production in the US is dominated by the use of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised or fattened in close confinement.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator on Thursday set dates for the next Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) auction while proposing changes to prevent gaming of the price the government pays for carbon credits.

NZUs have traded at or above the NZ$25 fixed price option (FPO) level all week as Friday marks the last chance for ETS participants to buy any permits they might still need to ensure compliance for 2019.

The role colonisation has played in the exclusion of Aboriginal people shows why we need economic reform

My dad and his family grew up in a tin humpy on the banks of the Namoi River in Walgett, New South Wales. My grandmother worked on a station, raising the station manager’s children, and never received her pay during her lifetime.

Growing up my father was denied an education and instead given a football; he left school at 15 and later in life was drafted with five other Aboriginal men to play rugby league for the Gundagai Tigers. That year Gundagai saw their first grand final win. Gundagai loved Dad until he retired from football and needed a job. 

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A long-awaited NZ$700 million package to clean up New Zealand's rivers and lakes has disappointed some of the government's expert advisers – especially a delay on setting clear pollution limits. Michael (Mike) Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Climate experts push Britain, as talks host, to work on ‘zero carbon’ route from pandemic

The UK government must urgently set out clear plans on a green recovery from the coronavirus crisis if the delayed UN climate summit is to be a success, say leading experts.

The climate talks known as Cop26 and scheduled to be held in Glasgow, are expected to be postponed by a year from their original date this November, dashing hopes that the summit would be swiftly reconvened. A formal decision on the delay will be taken by the UN Thursday evening.

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Regulator flags new "reliability" rules to affect wind and solar farms, as ESB considers tightening Australia's reliability standard to 99.9995 per cent.

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AEMC sets new rules to open up the option of stand alone power systems to remote and fringe-of-grid communities as network alternative.

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Sun Cable says the $20 billion solar and storage project planned for the Northern Territory likely to be just the first of many.

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Europe unveils $A1.2 trillion Covid-19 recovery plan that has renewables and climate as the centrepiece, casting Australia even more starkly as a backwards-looking global laggard.

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