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European carbon prices edged higher early on Friday as investors lowered their expectations of a no-deal Brexit, with EUAs poised to end the week some 5% higher on a bullish energy complex.

The UK has lost a third of its natural habitats in the last 50 years. At a bee and pollination festival in Bristol, visitors celebrated public spaces and gardens as increasingly valuable for bees

Photographs by Alex Turner

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Advisors to the Dutch Supreme Court on Friday recommended that a judicial ruling ordering the country’s government to set a deeper emissions reduction target be upheld, in a move that could help establish a global precedent in forcing states to act to prevent climate change.

Fertility experts find that the left testicle is warmer, but only when a man has his clothes on.

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

New Zealand carbon allowances recorded a sixth consecutive session of minor losses on Friday, with buyers taking their feet off the pedal after prices rose back above the NZ$25 fixed price option level last week.

Survey finds many common species of butterfly enjoyed a good summer this year.

One of Europe's largest dolphin populations needs special protection, say scientists measuring marine pollution.

Telethon asking viewers to give £2.4m for forests project to help tackle climate crisis

People in Denmark will be able to “plant trees” from the comfort of their sofa in what is believed to be the world’s first TV fundraiser for forests.

On Saturday the national broadcaster TV2 will air Denmark Plants Trees, a two-and-a-half hour live benefit event which will ask viewers to donate funds to plant 1m trees across the country.

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Foresight Renewable Energy Income Fund to make loans of $5-$30 million, predominantly to smaller-scale wind and solar projects in Australia.

The post New investment fund targets small solar and wind farms in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

In another blow to solar industry, five big solar farms in Victoria and NSW have output slashed in half after AEMO identifies system strength issues.

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Numbers of top five species up on last year while small tortoiseshell moves north

It has been a painted lady summer. Nearly half a million of the migratory creatures were counted in British parks and gardens as part of the biggest butterfly survey in the world.

The painted lady topped the charts of the annual Big Butterfly Count with 420,841 recorded during high summer after their first big influx on British shores in a decade.

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Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US

Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.

In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.

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World Ozone Day, September 16, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. This year we celebrate over three decades of remarkable international cooperation to protect the ozone layer...

World Ozone Day, September 16, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. This year we celebrate over three decades of remarkable international cooperation to protect the ozone layer...

Tesla is one step closer to producing a one million mile battery with applications from "robo-taxis," to vehicle-to-grid, to long haul trucking.

The post Tesla EV battery research breaks one million miles, and the implications are huge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Driven Volvo and its electrifying offshoot Polestar will make a push into Australia in the next year with two electric vehicles (EVs) and a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) in 2020. Swedish-Chinese owned Volvo has confirmed that it will bring the all-electric XC40 SUV by the end of 2020, along with a T5 twin engine PHEV...

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Spark Infrastructure says clean energy transition can lower emissions and prices, but is being held back by lack of policy and out-dated rules.

The post Network giant says renewables transition will deliver lower prices and cut emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Barwon Water – Victoria’s largest regional water corporation – has pledged to achieve 100 per cent of its electricity use from renewable sources by 2025, and slash its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2030.

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The key messages of the presentation given by Professor Will Steffen at the Zero Emissions Byron (ZEB) BIG U TURN AHEAD event last June, have been passed on to more than 72,000 people, thanks to a series of Twitter posts distributed from Cologne, Germany.

The post From Byron Bay, Australia to Cologne, Germany: Collaborating internationally sends climate change message viral appeared first on RenewEconomy.