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The planet has gone too far, says CEO Marco Bizzarri, as he outlines greener strategy

As the fashion industry continues to address its role in the climate crisis, Italy’s most valuable luxury brand has said it has become an entirely carbon neutral company.

Gucci outlined its strategy on Thursday, which stretches from its supply chain to its fashion shows and comprises a mixture of reduction, elimination and offsetting what it calls “unavoidable emissions”.

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Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) intends for outside modelling for an economy-wide carbon market to be completed by the first quarter of 2020, a source told Carbon Pulse.

A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation and curbing dangerous carbon dioxide emissions has failed, according to a report.

An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could come from outside our Solar System.

West Africa and Congo basin are hotspots for forest loss but receive lower global attention

• World losing forest the size of UK each year, report finds

The burning of the Amazon has caused alarm around the world, from the Vatican to the G7, and there are fears that unless the fires are stopped swiftly the forests could reach a point of no return in the loss of wildlife and biodiversity.

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Chance of ending deforestation by 2030 seems lower than when pledge was made five years ago

• Deforestation: damage goes far beyond Amazon

An area of forest the size of the UK is being lost every year around the world, the vast majority of it tropical rainforest, with dire effects on the climate emergency and wildlife.

The rate of loss has reached 26m hectares (64m acres) a year, a report has found, having grown rapidly in the past five years despite pledges made by governments in 2014 to reverse deforestation and restore trees.

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European carbon prices rose by almost 2% on Thursday, aided by firmer energy prices and a bullish auction result.

The male skeletons, buried in Roman times, have been holding hands for around 1,500 years.

Government agrees to examine impact of shooting industry’s release of 50m non-native birds

The annual release of more than 50 million non-native game birds into the countryside with no environmental assessment is to be reviewed by the government after campaigners announced they were to mount a legal challenge.

Campaigners Chris Packham, Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay, of the campaign group Wild Justice, argued that the massive and unregulated increase in the number of pheasants and red-legged partridges put into the British countryside for shooting each year – up from 4 million in the early 1970s – contravenes the EU habitats directive.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued fewer than 60,000 carbon credits this week, but delivery to the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund has picked up pace in recent weeks.

David Littleproud’s comments to parliament entirely at odds with earlier statement to Guardian Australia

Australia’s minister responsible for drought and natural disasters, David Littleproud, now says he accepts the science on manmade climate change, and “[I] always have”.

Littleproud’s comments to the House of Representatives on Thursday were entirely at odds with a written statement he made to Guardian Australia on Tuesday. In response to questions, Littleproud said: “I don’t know if climate change is man-made.”

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Plans to restore ecosystems in the countryside will support landowners, its director says.

When it comes to improving Indigenous policies and programs, Indigenous communities should be the ones evaluating government – rather than the other way around. Elizabeth Strakosch, Lecturer in Public Policy and Governance, The University of Queensland Alissa Macoun, Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland Chelsea Bond, Senior Research Fellow, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland David Singh, Senior research fellow, The University of Queensland Zoe Staines, Research fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

South Australian households can get around $2,000 off price of Powerwall 2 home battery – but only for members of the Tesla's VPP program.

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Gamblers wait for the wheel of fortune to stop spinning. Ice creams start to drip. A family photo in mid-burn. What do these shots of the moments inbetween tell us about the world?

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Professor Brendan Mackey, a lead IPCC author, with the latest update on climate science.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Let’s not forget climate science appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Clean Up Britain patron criticises ‘utterly useless’ ministers and ‘even more useless’ Keep Britain Tidy

Britain is a nation of litter louts and government efforts to tackle “the soul-destroying problem” are “utterly useless”, according to Jeremy Paxman, patron of the Clean Up Britain group.

Polluters, such as the makers of chewing gum and cigarettes, should be made to pay for a national campaign to change peoples’ behaviour, he will tell the UK’s largest waste and recycling conference on Thursday. The aim is to make littering as unacceptable as drunk driving, he says.

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Committee says UK should reduce use of plastics rather than replace it with other materials

Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs has warned.

The use of alternatives to plastic are being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.

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New discussion paper from Total Environment Centre and Renew argues small-scale generation, supported by local storage and microgrids can increase network resilience.

The post How local energy can boost Australia’s climate change resilience appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CSIRO partnership with Japan's Piotrek aims to produce Australian-developed high energy, solid-state batteries for the electric vehicle market within five years.

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