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US Energy Information Administration says energy-related CO2 emissions will decline by 11% in 2020 – its largest decline since 1949.

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Hawaiian Electric selects 459MW of solar generation and nearly 3GWh of power storage projects as part of plans to meet the island state's 100% renewable energy target.

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Young Queenslanders launch first-of-its-kind legal challenge to stop billionaire coal miner Clive Palmer's plans to build massive new coal mine in Galilee Basin.

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‘They are the living dead,’ researcher says of last trees in the wild to have escaped fungal disease myrtle rust

An invasive plant disease may be ready to claim its first victim in the wild with Australia’s native guava now almost extinct, a study has found.

Monitoring of 66 populations of native guava in Queensland and New South Wales has found 23% “could not be located” with another 61% reduced only to root suckers below a dead canopy.

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The pandemic could have an impact on conservation efforts for years to come, say conservation experts.

Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.

A Canadian mineral exploration company has agreed to develop an Ontario-based forestry project with a North American offset developer and a First Nations group, with most of the credit revenue earmarked for the indigenous community.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is working through disagreements on its final Memorandum of Understand (MOU) that could extend the current timeline for publication, but others believe the framework to regulate fuel sector emissions across two US regions is nearing completion.

California regulator ARB minted 11.2 million new credits this week in its highest single issuance since fall 2018, as Quebec's environment ministry handed out its first compliance offsets in 10 months, according to data posted Wednesday afternoon.

Carbon prices must exceed €200/tCO2e if the EU is to meet its net zero 2050 emission goal, oil major Shell said Wednesday.

Roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia. Most of the animals are native to Australia. Jaana Dielenberg, Science Communication Manager, The University of Queensland Brett Murphy, Associate Professor / ARC Future Fellow, Charles Darwin University Chris Dickman, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Leigh-Ann Woolley, Adjunct Research Associate, Charles Darwin University Mike Calver, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, Murdoch University Sarah Legge, Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Wildlife groups welcome ruling as high court dismisses judicial review by NFU on all grounds

Farmers have lost a challenge to the government’s cancellation of the badger cull in Derbyshire in a high court ruling that has been welcomed by wildlife groups.

A judicial review of the environment secretary’s decision to halt a planned expansion of the cull to Derbyshire last September brought by the National Farmers’ Union was dismissed on all grounds.

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Airlines could avoid buying CORSIA units through the mid-2020s if nations alter the emissions baseline for the international aviation offset system, but the EU made no mention of changing that provision in its proposal to implement the ICAO programme’s pilot phase on Wednesday.

A carbon market investment fund in April handed back most of the gains made the previous month after a bet on volatility went sour.

Climate change could leave the 1,000-year-old conifers too stressed to seed, but a two-person cone-gathering operation aims to safeguard their survival

Hunched against the wind in Tasmania’s central highlands are the floral relics of the last ice age. Walking among them, armed with a large pole and a cloth bag, is James Wood, the coordinator of the Tasmanian seed bank. It is the first time in five years that Tasmania’s 1,000-year-old conifers have seeded, and he is determined not to miss it.

It is the third week of April. A coronavirus outbreak has occurred in Tasmania’s north-west, causing the premier to close two regional hospitals and place 5,000 health workers and their families in quarantine. And Wood is walking a deserted stretch of the Overland Track, alone but for Justin Dyer, his guide from the Tasmanian Walking Company, in search of stands of pencil pines, or Athrotaxis cupressoides.

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Environmentalists call for crackdown on ‘destructive’ vessels after fleet spotted

A fleet of Russian supertrawlers has been spotted fishing off the coast of Scotland in a protected area, raising concerns by environmentalists over the impact of industrial vessels on marine life in UK waters.

The 11 vessels, among the largest trawlers in the world, have spent “significant time” fishing in the Wyville-Thomson Ridge, a British special area of conservation (SAC), according to data analysed by Greenpeace.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek to review the EU's non-ETS Effort-Sharing Regulation (ESR) should the 27-nation bloc agree to increase its 2030 emission target, she said Wednesday following pressure from her own political party.

AEMC seeks views on proposed introduction of five-minute settlement rule change, as regulators focus on Covid-19 response.

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EUAs extended a five-week low early on Wednesday but then ticked higher despite struggling to absorb the UK's bumper auction and several bearish technical and fundamental signals.