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Week of strikes and demonstrations is ‘only the beginning’, say organisers

Six million people have taken to the streets over the past week, uniting across timezones, cultures and generations to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency.

A fresh wave of climate strikes swept around the globe on Friday with an estimated 2 million people walking out of schools and workplaces.

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The UK government has fined two large oil companies nearly £300,000 in total for infractions related to the EU ETS.

Quebec is aiming to release a draft forestry protocol for its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme by early next year, with the approach utilising a different accounting mechanism and permanence requirement than is featured in California's own methodology under the ETS.

An award-winning seal in a seaweed garden, a hippo in drought-hit Botswana and a sable

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The Jupiter-like world is unusually large compared with its host star, challenging existing theories.

EUAs slipped back towards €25 early on Friday amid projections of a weakening economy and as the energy complex continued to signal a bearish outlook.

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

At least six sea turtles have been found dead as officials still investigate the source of the oil.

The remains, initially thought to be Roman, were mislaid soon after being found in the 1960s.

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are taking part in the latest wave of climate strikes to demand urgent action on the emergency

• Fresh wave of climate strikes

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China is likely to avoid setting an absolute cap on CO2 when it launches its emissions trading scheme next year, and instead opt for an intensity-based approach, according to a Tsinghua University professor who is advising the government on designing the market.

Half of tree species found only on the European continent face extinction, including the conker tree.

Ash, elm and rowan among trees threatened by pests and pollution, says biodiversity report

More than half of Europe’s endemic trees are threatened with extinction as invasive diseases, pests, pollution and urban development take a growing toll on the landscape, according to a study.

Ash, elm and rowan trees are among those in decline, says the assessment of the continent’s biodiversity, which could complicate efforts to tackle the climate crisis through reforestation.

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With more strikes planned this Friday, we look at readers’ suggestions on how those in power can tackle the climate crisis

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South Korean 2018 allowances on Friday completed two full weeks of daily gains as sellers sought to squeeze every possible won out of the few emitters still short ahead of Monday’s compliance deadline.

Hundreds of thousands hit streets across continents to demand action on climate

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are taking place in the latest wave of climate strikes to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency.

Last week, millions walked out of schools and workplaces, uniting across timezones, cultures and generations in the biggest climate protests in history before a special UN conference in New York.

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The Minister for the Environment has determined the 2019 Finalised Priority Assessment List, which includes 31 species and 2 ecological communities which will be assessed by the TSSC in the assessment period commencing 1 October 2019.

Prime minister says Joyce has done his job as he announces a further $100m in drought funding

Scott Morrison has defended Barnaby Joyce’s performance as his drought envoy, saying he was not asked to “write a book”, but provide “candid feedback” and any criticism was from people caught up in “semantics”.

Morrison, who hopped off the plane from the United States following his official visit and on to another one to visit a drought-stricken Queensland community to announce a further $100m in drought funding, said Joyce had done his job and the issue had been “over-analysed”.

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New guidelines could save councils money and lead to 400bn more wildflowers

Britain could enjoy 400bn more flowers if road verges were cut later and less often according to guidelines drawn up by wildlife charities, highways authorities and contractors.

The national guidance for managing roadside verges for wildflowers calls for just two cuts a year – instead of four or more – and only after flowers have set seed, to restore floral diversity and save councils money. It would also provide grassland habitat the size of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh combined.

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Lobbyists are giving millions to help Trump win in 2020, after reaping a regulatory windfall that benefited their bottom lines

Robert Murray, a coal magnate who forged ties in 2016 with Donald Trump as he championed reviving the beleaguered coal industry, hosted a fundraising dinner this July in West Virginia that hauled in an estimated $2.5m for the president’s re-election coffers.

Texas lobbyist Jeff Miller, who has several big fossil fuel clients and ran energy secretary Rick Perry’s 2016 presidential campaign, raised about $1m in this year’s second quarter for the Trump Victory Committee, campaign filings show.

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