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China’s Guangdong province will hold the first of two planned auctions for the 2019 compliance year under its emissions trading scheme on Apr. 27, the local emissions exchange said Tuesday.

The Beijing municipal government has pushed back the 2019 compliance deadline for its emissions trading scheme to October, while holding off on putting obligations for its aviation sector.

BZE are now seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to bring its technical roadmaps to life, open doors to new audiences and lift the profile of BZE to new heights as the urgency to respond to climate change surges.

Octopus-hunting freedivers, mounds of shark fins, and a close encounter with a leopard seal are among the judges’ selections for Oceanographic Magazine’s ocean photography awards, open for entries until June 30

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Scientists at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) produce innovative solar cell that converts light into electricity with almost 50 per cent efficiency.

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Neoen says network connection completed for expansion of Tesla big battery in South Australia.

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Survival of five shore plovers – or tūturuatu – was at risk unless operation went ahead to take them to a predator-free island

A rare New Zealand bird has been evacuated to a remote island despite the strict coronavirus lockdown, with the high-risk mission “essential” to the survival of the species, conservationists say.

Despite stringent lockdown orders in place country-wide, as New Zealand battles Covid-19, five juvenile shore plovers – or tūturuatu – were flown from captivity in Christchurch to the remote, predator-free Mana Island off the coast of Wellington on Saturday.

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Angus Taylor tells meeting of global energy ministers that Australia will buy more oil to help arrest price falls, but there is no mention of clean energy alternatives.

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Coronavirus forecast to deliver world's biggest annual emissions reduction ever – but zero breathing room on Paris targets; Japan warns Covid-19 could kill Paris accord.

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The Covid-19 pandemic is a harbinger of climate disasters to come and the resilience we need to build into our systems

Recovery from coronavirus must reckon with climate change. The current and urgent focus properly needs to be flattening the curve and saving lives.

Yet even as this overriding priority absorbs us, governments now need to be thinking how to support the strongest possible recovery as we emerge from this crisis.

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Largest solar farm in Europe commissioned, as Covid-19 takes big bite out of planned projects for 2020.

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Covid-19 could trigger largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions in 2020 – but even this would not come close to bringing the 1.5°C global temperature limit within reach.

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With only two northern white rhinos left in the world - both female - extinction seems a certainty.

Australia consumers face solid rise in prices for Tesla electric cars thanks to falling dollar, as Musk battens down the hatches in face of Covid-19 pandemic.

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New "super-peak" contract hailed as a landmark deal that will open up market for renewable supporting technologies such as batteries and hydro.

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Witnesses accuse government of covering up severity of blaze near site of nuclear disaster

Wildfires in Ukraine have spread to just over a mile from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and a disposal site for radioactive waste, according to activists, as more than 300 firefighters work to contain the blaze.

A video posted by a Chernobyl tour operator showed flames and a cloud of smoke rising within sight of the protective shelter over the carcass of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 nuclear reactor, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

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Knee-jerk responses to water insecurity won't fix the basin. The harder and longer path is delivering real water reform, including transparent water planning enshrined in law. Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A deadly pathogen affecting Europe's olive trees could cost over 20 billion euros.

The blazes, burning for several days, also threaten the storage depot for the most dangerous waste.

Speculators cut California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings for a fourth straight week amid further volatile trading, with compliance entities growing their position, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed Friday.