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Australian Energy Market Operator announces major shift in executive ranks, with resignation of chief operations officer Damien Sanford after 10 years of service.

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Taylor survives a shocking last week of parliament, but the emissions reduction minister is set to face more heat in Madrid over Australia's lack of climate ambition.

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Twiggy Forrest reportedly backs big solar project in W.A's wheatbelt, confirming his growing interest in solar technologies.

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New generator performance standards - dubbed the strictest in the world - may make solar farm projects unviable and put Northern Territory 50% renewables target at risk.

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Coalition MP Craig Kelly urges attendees at oil and gas lobby group's event to burn as much fossil fuels as they can this summer.

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A Morrison-government sponsored report finds Australia's reef tourism industry could shrink by 94% due to climate change by 2100.

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More clean fuel standard programmes could develop across the United States as states look to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector and incentivise additional supply of less-carbon emitting fuel sources, experts told the OPIS Carbon & LCFS conference.

As the annual COP25 climate change summit continues in Madrid, we asked delegates from all over the world how they were adapting their lives for the sake of the environment.

The Canadian federal government is to announce an agreement with Alberta on the province’s carbon pricing mechanism for stationary installations, national media reported Thursday.

Campaigners say regulations are overlooking the health impacts of these tiny toxic materials

More than 30 of Europe’s air pollution and health experts have teamed up with clean air campaigners to highlight a pollutant that is being overlooked in environmental regulations.

The health impacts of air pollution have been linked to the mass of particles in the air around the world, but by only weighing them we miss the tiny, ultrafine particles, less than 100 nanometres across. They have little mass but are very numerous.

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The credit balance under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is likely to tighten early in the next decade, but the accelerated adoption of electric vehicles will likely ensure the programme reaches its 2030 goal, an analyst said Thursday.

EUAs recovered from a midday dive towards €24 on Thursday, with buyers stepping in at levels that have consistently found support over the past two weeks.

It's been 10 years since the landmark Henry Tax Review was handed down, but a decade later, almost none of its recommendations have actually been implemented.

Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.

In all of the shouting this week over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, there's one voice that hasn't been heard — that of Indigenous people.

Businesses and governments on the sidelines of the Madrid climate talks are busy building the foundations for a Paris era international carbon market and carving out a role for themselves, even as delegates remain gridlocked in negotiations over the rules.

California Carbon Allowance (CCAs) prices fell this week to counter an initially bullish reaction to last week’s Q4 WCI auction, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) slid heading into the Northeast US carbon market’s final sale of 2019.

Britain’s once-esteemed agencies are being starved of management funding, writes Jean Tither

Caroline Lucas (Journal, 5 December) is right to say that nature and wildlife should be issues for voters and points to the need for a national policy. Our statutory conservation agencies are not mentioned.

For many years after the creation of the Nature Conservancy in 1949, Britain led the world in its nature conservation policy. Our 334 reserves were a model for other countries and our experts were held in high esteem.

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Report also recommends protections for front gardens and rewilding hospital grounds

An hour a day of outdoor learning for primary school children and tighter restrictions on paving over front gardens are two of 80 nature policies proposed in a report commissioned by the Green party.

The recommendations set out in A New Deal for Nature are designed to protect wildlife and put biodiversity at the centre of government policy. Other suggestions include turning 20% of Britain into national parks and helping farmers devote 15% of their land to nature.

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