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‘Our future demands it,’ says tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes as Trump and Morrison snub the New York session

Australian tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes will travel to the United Nations summit on climate change in New York to announce that Atlassian will adopt a target of net zero emissions by no later than 2050.

The commitment, offered through UN Global Compact’s Business Ambition for 1.5C and the Science-Based Targets initiative, will see Atlassian become the first major Australian company to join the Business Ambition for 1.5C.

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A snapshot of the latest science, published as politicians gather in New York, says climate change is speeding up.

Paul Ramos was in Borneo to film the work being done to save the orangutan population.

Sunday 22 September is World Car Free Day - but in Ethiopia it happens once a month, in cities across the country.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has warned world leaders the ‘eyes of the world will be on them’ at a key UN summit next week.

‘We are not just some young people skipping school,’ she told thousands of school strikers in Manhattan, on a day when millions around the world demonstrated for action. ‘We are a wave of change. Together, we are unstoppable.’

• Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever

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No Food on a Dying Planet action at Kent port is expected to be mirrored across the Channel by other XR groups

Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion involved in a “blockade” of the busy Dover port are reported to have glued themselves to streets and have been told they could face arrest if they leave a designated area, police have said.

Two main roads out of the port are expected to be blocked for four hours, the environmental group has said.

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Independent review suggests new ideas to "re-ignite" England's protected landscapes.

The image was not taken after a climate strike and was not even taken in Australia

A hoax photo that claims to show rubbish left behind by Australian climate strike protesters is circulating on Facebook, despite being revealed as fake months ago.

Though it lacks any verification, and was debunked in April, the image and false caption have been shared 19,000 times in 12 hours, and thousands of times from copycats.

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A modern powerhouse and hundreds of old seeds are allowing scientists to 'time-travel' and study past climate change.

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Photographer Edward Burtynsky explains his 40-year quest for striking images of our impact on the planet.

Two Brazilian firms with connections to the Trump administration have made gradual steps toward the expansion of agribusiness in the rainforest.

Review also urges parks and beauty spots to increase appeal to minority ethnic visitors

National parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty have not done enough to protect nature or welcome diverse visitors, and extra government funding must help drive radical change, according to a review.

The independent review, commissioned by the former environment secretary Michael Gove, praises the work of England’s 44 “national landscapes”, including the Lake District and Dartmoor, but calls for a new focus to stop declines in nature and welcome working-class and black and minority ethnic visitors.

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Young and old alike took to the streets in an estimated 185 countries to demand action

Millions of people demonstrated across the world yesterday demanding urgent action to tackle global heating, as they united across timezones and cultures to take part in the biggest climate protest in history.

In an explosion of the youth movement started by the Swedish school striker Greta Thunberg just over 12 months ago, people protested from the Pacific islands, through Australia, across-south east Asia and Africa into Europe and onwards to the Americas.

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This week as climate protests take to the world stage, farmers in Australia rally for a national conversation; how regenerative farming could benefit both business and the environment; and what happens when food goes bad?

The phasing out of coal power across the EU could result in up to 2.2 billion unused EUAs that risk weighing on prices unless lawmakers enact further reforms, according to environmental campaigners Carbon Market Watch.

The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism

During the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares the lad for slaughter before God relents and tells him to offer a ram instead.

Owen’s bitter poem rewrites the ending:

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The German government on Friday unveiled a comprehensive new €50 billion climate plan, which centres around a domestic trading scheme for the country’s transportation and heating sectors, and price controls for both EU ETS and non-ETS allowances.

Germany has agreed to France’s urgings to consider an EU carbon border measure, adding to the increasing number of European proponents for a policy to shield the bloc’s industry from foreign rivals not faced with comparable environmental limits.

Lindsay Smith has been tagging seabirds in the deep waters off Wollongong for over thirty years. Commercial fishing practice can have a devastating impact on seabird populations. But science is figuring out how to best mitigate the damage. This program is a re-issue from the Off Track archives while Ann takes a short break.