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A standoff over sacred trees in Victoria could derail an ongoing treaty process. RN Breakfast speaks with former Greens MP Lidia Thorpe and Vic Transport Minister Jacinta Allan.

Connecticut sent its revised RGGI regulation to install numerous post-2020 changes to a legislative committee on Monday after the state’s Attorney General’s office found the proposal legally sufficient, a state official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

The French President has hit back at the Brazilian President for mocking Mr Macron's wife, following a dispute over Mr Bolsonaro's alleged role in the Amazon fires.

The NSW Government is warning of "a potential fish Armageddon", saying low rainfall and high temperatures could make this year's carnage even worse than last summer's.

In Korea they are eaten steamed, but in Britain, where they arrived in 1952, they are seen as a menace

Seaside trippers gazing into harbours over the bank holiday might have wondered about the rather ugly creatures, about 16cm long, commonly seen attached to rocks, ropes and the hulls of boats. This is an invasive species known as the leathery sea squirt, Styela clava.

Styela clava arrived in Southampton in 1952 on the hulls of warships returning from the Korean war and from there, they spread around the UK’s coasts.

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Traditional market transactions ignore the costs of greenhouse gas emissions. An emissions trading scheme is a tool to put a price on emissions and to influence us to choose lower-emission options. Catherine Leining, Policy Fellow, Climate Change, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The California-Quebec current vintage auction settlement dipped from the WCI programme’s all-time high in May as entities sought additional discounts from lower secondary market prices this summer, results showed Tuesday.

Open letter calls for changes to policies sector says threatens to hold green economy back

Boris Johnson’s support for Britain’s “world leading” battery sector risks being undermined by government policy, according to the industry.

A coalition of trade groups and technology firms have written an open letter to the Guardian that calls for urgent changes to policies they say threaten to hold the sector back.

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We grow things, invest, make decisions today to benefit the future. But has the climate emergency put an end to that?

There is an apple in my imagination, a memory. I can still picture the first moment I saw it in the scorching dusk, the first fruit of a tree my partner and I had planted just two years before. The sapling had taken root in the loamy clay of our garden and grown upwards over two hot summers and two dry winters. Now, it was bearing fruit, not yet ripe, and rough to the touch, but an apple nonetheless. The first of many.

We had planted the tree for the children we didn’t yet have, knowing it could come to bear fruit as they grew. It was an investment in our environment for the good of our children, an investment in their future, but we found that apple among the stones of the garden bed not long after. It had fallen, burned on the branch, scorched on one side.

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Panel head Ian Chubb compares ‘roadshow of Dr Ridd’ to tobacco industry strategy defending smoking

An expert panel led by the former chief scientist Ian Chubb has warned ministers that controversial scientist Peter Ridd is misrepresenting robust science about the plight of the Great Barrier Reef, and compared his claims to the strategy used by the tobacco industry to raise doubt about the impact of smoking.

The warning, in a letter to the federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, and the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, follows Ridd launching a lecture tour in which he has repeated his claim that farmland pollution does not significantly damage the natural wonder.

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Cites, the global wildlife trade regulator, approves ‘momentous’ decision after EU adds loophole

The regulator of global wildlife trade has decided to impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos.

After a heated debate at a meeting of parties to the convention on international trade in endangered species (Cites) in Geneva on Tuesday, the member countries approved a proposed text after a revision by the European Union included some exceptions to the ban.

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Clearer targets and a more consistent approach will help Britain achieve its ambitions, writes Dr Nina Skorupska and seven others

Innovation is transforming the way we generate and consume power, with future energy needs being met through subsidy-free renewables balanced by on-site battery storage.

The government has set out strong ambitions for the UK to be a world leader in flexible generation, most recently through the plans for a new Smart Export Guarantee.

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President Bolsonaro demands an apology from his French counterpart for calling him a liar.

1,114.8 sq km cut down this month, the same area as Hong Kong – on top of damage from fires

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest August level since the current monitoring system began in 2015, underscoring concerns about the weakening of forest protection under President Jair Bolsonaro.

The world’s biggest terrestrial carbon sink lost 1,114.8 sq km (430 sq miles) – equivalent to the area of Hong Kong – in the first 26 days of this month, according to preliminary data from the government’s satellite monitoring agency. The data does not include damage caused by fires currently sweeping parts of the Amazon.

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The international wildlife regulator bans the capture and export of baby African elephants.

Insect-based foods may be better for pets than prime steak, according to the British Veterinary Association.

Japan and the World Bank have signed an MoU on the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), aiming to use the offset programme to pilot the emerging international carbon market under the Paris Agreement.

Energy regulator sues owner of gas plant for role in February 2017 blackouts in South Australia that conservatives had sought to pin on renewables.

The post Regulator sues South Australia’s biggest gas unit over role in blackouts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EUAs dipped early on Tuesday as a weak economic outlook weighed on the energy complex to push prices back towards last week's non-week low.

We want to hear from people living or working on the frontline of the fires destroying forests in Brazil, Bolivia and across the region

Smoke from wildfires burning in the Amazon shrouded São Paulo in darkness earlier this month. The clouds covering the megacity, almost 2,000 miles from the fires, made it impossible for residents and the rest of the world to ignore the destruction taking place.

As international leaders, environmental groups and activists condemn Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro for weakening rainforest protections, we want to hear from those who have witnessed and been directly affected by these fires – in the Amazon and across the region.

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