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EU ETS auction revenues are almost certain to form part of the next EU budget after European Council President Charles Michel included them in preparations for next week’s testing talks among the bloc’s leaders.

Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.

US-based Delta Air Lines announced Friday that it will achieve carbon neutrality from its global business starting in March, but the company said it would limit its reliance on offsets in the long-run.

Communities on the coast face "serious questions" against the background of climate change.

As sea levels rise, difficult decisions are being made about which communities to save.

Delhi-based sustainability advisory firm cKinetics has acquired carbon market news and data platform CaliforniaCarbon.info, Carbon Pulse has learned.

In UK, students march on first anniversary of nationwide protests by young people

• Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes

Striking students have joined Valentine’s Day rallies across the world as the protest movement attempts to ratchet up pressure on governments and companies before crunch UN climate talks in Glasgow later this year.

In London, the young demonstrators held banners proclaiming “Roses are red, violets are blue, our Earth is burning and soon we will too” and “Climate change is worse than homework” as they marched through Parliament Square on Friday to mark the first anniversary of nationwide climate strikes in the UK.

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Oregon Democrats approved the state’s controversial ETS bill out of committee on Thursday evening after making amendments to the fuel sector phase-in and other areas to appease critics.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane transfers to New Mexico for final testing.

EUAs lifted to their highest so far this month early on Friday, poised for a 5% weekly gain amid healthy auction demand and optimism about China's ability to tackle the coronavirus.

Campaigns to promote consumption of pork and veal labelled ‘indefensible’ in light of health and climate concerns

The EU has been accused of an “indefensible” approach to human health and the climate crisis in spending tens of millions of euros each year on campaigns to reverse the decline in meat eating and trying to rebut so-called “fake news” on the mistreatment of animals bred for food.

Campaigns range from those designed to counter official warnings about the risk of cancer from eating red meat, to improving the public image of veal products said to be crucial in “deriving value from young male calves” superfluous to the dairy industry.

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The government wants to collect 35,000kg of waste - along with bodies - from six Himalayan peaks.

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

New Zealand carbon allowances suffered their fifth consecutive day of losses on Friday, as the spread between the fixed price option and current spot prices continued to tempt emitters to offload NZUs.

The temperature was recorded on an island off the Antarctic continent's northern tip.

Outgoing charity chief Craig Bennett says next generation ‘could not be more exciting’

The school strikes movement will ensure an exciting and dynamic future for environmental activism for decades to come, the outgoing head of Friends of the Earth has said, as students across the globe leave classrooms on Friday to demand political action on the climate crisis.

Speaking on the first anniversary of the movement in the UK, Craig Bennett said it was grassroots activism, not centralised politics, that was leading to change.

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The Ai Group is looking for an adviser on policy areas impacting industry, including climate, energy, and environment.

South Australia, and its growing wind, solar and battery resources, pass key test after storms tear down power lines and leave renewable-dominated grid operating as an island.

The post Wind and batteries saved the day when storm cut South Australia adrift appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Environmentalist was in charge when UN climate change panel shared 2007 Nobel peace prize but career was marred by harassment claims

The Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a UN climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize, has died after recent heart surgery. He was 79.

Pachauri’s death was announced late on Thursday by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a research group he headed until 2016 in New Delhi.

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Smart Energy Council vows "ruthless and pointed” campaign, as maelstrom of grid constraints, connection delays and policy vacuum threatens to send big solar and wind investment over a cliff.

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