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EUAs climbed back towards €26 on Monday to leap back from last Friday’s nine-week low, albeit on thin trade affected by a UK public holiday.

Sydney Catholic Schools spokesman says ‘the best way for young people to really make a difference is to receive a quality education’

Sydney Catholic and Anglican churches say they will not follow the example of the Uniting church, which has granted support to the school climate strike movement and given students support to attend the marches.

Students across the country are planning to walk out of school on Friday 20 September, to protest government inaction on the climate crisis. Thousands of Australian students participated in two previous strikes, which have since grown into a global movement of millions.

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Two species to be classed as most at risk after ownership craze fuelled by social media

A trade ban is looming for two endangered otter species after 100 countries voted to increase protections following a social media-fuelled craze for acquiring the mammals as pets.

A majority of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) voted to place the smooth-coated otter on the treaty’s most endangered list on Sunday. On Monday, they voted to do the same for the Asian small-clawed otter.

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The mass of pumice, the size of Manhattan, is believed to come from an underwater volcano near Tonga.

Scheme to pipe ‘waste heat’ from tube into hundreds of Islington homes and businesses

The sweltering temperatures on the tube’s Northern line will soon begin keeping homes in Islington, north London, cosy through the colder months, under a scheme to harness the heat from the underground.

By the end of the year the project will pipe heat from the underground into hundreds of homes and businesses that are part of a heating scheme in the borough.

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Two sailors recall their encounter with a vast sea of floating volcanic rocks in the Pacific Ocean.

That annoying buzz we all recognise from summer evenings is actually a love song for a mosquito.

John Laing writes down $120 million from value of renewable energy projects due to transmission constraints, and puts a halt to new investments in Australia as a result.

The post John Laing takes $120m hit on renewable projects from marginal loss factors appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Houses shake as 2.9-magnitude quake recorded near Cuadrilla’s site near Blackpool on Monday

A large tremor that caused houses to shake has been triggered by the UK’s only active fracking site, amid rising alarm about the controversial practice.

The 2.9-magnitude quake, recorded near Cuadrilla’s site near Blackpool on Monday morning, is believed to be the biggest fracking-related tremor seen in Britain.

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Climate crisis group says Scottish government urgently needs to speed up response

A coalition of climate campaigners and business groups have called for a ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles in Scottish cities as part of a multibillion-pound strategy to cut carbon emissions.

The climate emergency response group, a coalition of 19 environment groups, civic institutions, companies and business groups, said the Scottish government had to significantly speed up and strengthen its responses to the threats posed by global heating.

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The UK will contribute a further £720 million ($881 mln) to the Green Climate Fund, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced at the ongoing G7 summit on Monday, doubling the country’s total contribution to the fund.

President Donald Trump reportedly suggested bombing hurricanes before they made landfall.

Data gleaned by ClimateWorks with Victorian councils shows there are already EVs that are within or below normal council operating costs.

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BloombergNEF report suggests that rather than lithium being in short supply, there is a glut which will force prices down. But it may be short lived.

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A Canberra-bound car carrier was spotted on Saturday full to the brim with some of the first Model 3s destined for Australian customers.

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Reforms will oblige Cuba to work more closely with its US neighbours – in spite of US President Trump’s frosty attitude

Cuba has introduced sweeping reforms of its fishing laws in a move seen as smoothing the way for possible collaboration with the US on protecting their shared ocean, despite Donald Trump’s policy of reversing a thaw in relations.

The move is the first time the text of an environmental law in Cuba specifies the need for scientific research, which experts say will mean greater reliance on state-of-the-art US technology.

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Australia's slow uptake of electric vehicles could blow out the carbon budget, and a target of 50% EV sales 2030 was needed to keep the country on track.

The post Australia’s carbon budget at risk from slow shift to EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

G7 leaders stepped up presure on president Jair Bolsonaro to tackle destruction of precious rainforest

Brazilian warplanes have begun dumping water on burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to an outcry over the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rain forest.

President Jair Bolsonaro authorised military operations in seven states on Sunday to combat raging fires in the Amazon, responding to requests for assistance from their local governments, a spokeswoman for his office said.

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To IEEFA’s contrarian perspective, Indian investors in the main are not looking to replicate the Australian thermal coal graveyard.

The post Coalition report on coal exports to India is missing the backstory appeared first on RenewEconomy.