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After sacking Britain's COP26 team president, UK PM takes the wheel on climate action, calls on all countries to commit to net zero carbon by 2050 at Glasgow meeting.

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Fraunhofer says Germany's brown coal mining pits could host up to 56 GW of floating solar PV, but a more realistic economic potential of 2.74 GW.

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Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem has published its Decarbonisation Action Plan which sets out nine actions to ensure the country’s energy networks are ready to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 – in line with the government’s decision to enshrine such a goal into law last year. While Ofgem’s Decarbonisation Action Plan is built around nine...

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The former PM thought the job of heading the COP26 summit should go to a government minister.

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The UK's advertising watchdog says Europe's biggest airline misled consumers about its carbon footprint.

Washington state’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade legislation will likely stand a greater chance of passage next year as lawmakers continue engaging with multiple stakeholders on an economy-wide approach to reducing GHGs, a committee heard Tuesday.

Victoria’s major electricity distribution companies want to invest tens of millions of dollars to pave the way for a future where solar is on almost every household rooftop.

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PM reaffirms 2050 net-zero pledge but provides few details on how it will be achieved

Boris Johnson has set out his vision for forging a new global consensus on the climate crisis promising “we will crack it”, though providing few details on how his government intends to do so.

The prime minister has brought forward the UK’s phaseout of diesel and petrol vehicles by five years to 2035, and hastened the phaseout of coal-fired power by a year to 2024. He reaffirmed the UK’s pledge to switch to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, and urged other nations – without naming any – to do the same.

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We examine the claims by O’Neill, who was fired as president of the COP 26 climate negotiations on Friday

Claire O’Neill, the former energy minister who had been appointed to lead the UN climate talks in November this year, was fired on Friday afternoon. On Monday she wrote a letter to the prime minister, Boris Johnson, saying the UK is “miles off track” and accusing Johnson of showing a lack of leadership.

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The EU is proposing to link its ETS to a separate British carbon market under a post-2020 trade deal, but the idea faces headwinds as Britain has rejected applying similar rules in its opening salvo of post-Brexit talks.

California officials asked a federal district court judge on Monday to postpone the timeline for a US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit challenging the state's cap-and-trade linkage with Quebec, arguing two pending motions could substantially alter the case.

Levy would help offset impact of farming by raising price of steak in UK by 25%, says report

A “sustainability charge” on meat to cover its environmental damage could raise billions to help farmers and consumers produce and eat better food, according to a report.

The levy, which would increase the price of a steak by about 25%, would be phased in over the next decade. The report focuses on EU countries and was produced for the Tapp Coalition of health, environment and animal welfare organisations. It says “fair pricing” for meat should be included in the forthcoming European “green new deal” and so-called farm to fork strategy.

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Scottish government accused of behaving disgracefully over use of Glasgow science centre

Preparations for this year’s climate summit in Glasgow are being overshadowed by a bitter row between the UK and Scottish governments over a key building near the venue.

UK government sources have accused Scottish ministers of refusing to hand over a building the Scottish government wants to use as its base for the COP 26 climate talks in November.

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Oregon would regulate transportation sector emissions across eighteen geographic areas in 2025, as Democrats made a variety of other proposed changes to the state's carbon market bill in the hopes of bolstering GOP support for the controversial legislation.

A desperate rescue mission to the only known habitat of the stocky galaxias, in Kosciuszko national park, may be the last hope for the species

A little more than two weeks ago, Mark Lintermans headed into the high country to give some fish electric shocks and save them from extinction.

The fish in question was the stocky galaxias (Galaxias tantangara), an endemic freshwater species that grows to about 10cm and is known to live wild only in a three-kilometre stretch of Tantangara Creek, in the Kosciuszko national park.

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The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) price ceiling will take effect on June 1 and increase annually on that date, according to a revised rulemaking package released by state regulator ARB on Monday.

Sewage used as fertiliser could harm agricultural land, says a report for the Environment Agency.