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26 local councils, including the City of Sydney, have also recently issued their own climate declarations.

Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's will close its Australian stores for this month's global climate strike and pay staff to attend the protest, telling customers "if it's melted, it's ruined". Ian McGregor, Lecturer in Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Regenerative agriculture has the potential to build production and reducing pollution, but it needs a clearer definition. Troy Baisden, Professor and Chair in Lake and Freshwater Sciences, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Up to 200 world leaders are expected to attend the COP26 at the Scottish Event Campus in 2020.

COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2020 will determine future course of efforts to avert crisis

Britain is to host a crunch climate conference next year at which the future direction of global efforts to avert the climate crisis will be determined, the government has confirmed.

The COP26 meeting, under the auspices of the UN, will take place in Glasgow in December 2020, with about 30,000 delegates expected as well as leaders of most of the world’s governments, making it the biggest international summit to be hosted in the UK.

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The former Liberal leader is championing crossbench bill and argues ‘it was an emergency 30 years ago’

The former Liberal leader John Hewson has called on Scott Morrison to grant government MPs a conscience vote on a new parliamentary motion declaring a climate emergency.

Hewson, who will join MPs on Wednesday to champion the new parliamentary motion which is being pursued by the Greens and is supported by most of the lower house crossbench, told Guardian Australia there was no controversy associated with declaring a climate emergency in 2019, “because my view is it was an emergency 30 years ago”.

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Oregon Democrats intend to finalise revisions to their WCI-modelled ETS proposal for the 2020 legislative session by Thanksgiving (Nov. 28), while also engaging with Washington lawmakers who are hoping to enact their own cap-and-trade scheme.

Readers grapple with farming’s aim to become carbon neutral, tree generation as a way to achieve biodiversity, the fate of heather, the Drax power station, and Tesla moving to third place for UK car sales

It is good news that the National Farmers’ Union has developed a plan for British farming to become carbon neutral by 2040 (UK can meet climate targets without beef cuts, say NFU, 10 September). However, there’s a problem – it’s their plan and not a shared plan.

Irrespective of whether the UK leaves the EU, farmers will remain dependent on public subsidy, so the public need to be on board with any NFU-backed plan on climate change. The big environmental organisations – including the RSPB, WWF, Friends of the Earth, the Wildlife Trusts – mediate large swathes of public opinion. Consequently the NFU needs to get round the table with them and develop a shared plan, centred on land use, to make farming climate-neutral.

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Scientists discover the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.

Union umbrella body gives its backing to next global action taking place on 20 September

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on members to support student climate strikers during the next global action on 20 September.

The original proposal by the University and College Union (UCU) asked the TUC to call for millions of workers to stop work for half an hour, aimed at shifting government complacency over the climate crisis.

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We would like to hear from people taking part in the Global Climate Strike in the UK on 20 September

Millions of young people around the globe are expected to protest on 20 September in a bid to ask politicians take more action on the climate crisis. Climate strikes will take place in every continent, with the movement’s inspiration, environmental activist Greta Thunberg attending the rally in New York City.

In the UK, dozens of protests are set to take place in cities including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Leeds.

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Scientists reconstruct the seconds, minutes and hours following the dino-killing asteroid impact.

European carbon prices surged on Tuesday along with wider energy prices on news that some of France’s nuclear fleet risks closure due to substandard components.

Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appointed Frans Timmermans as one of three deputies and tasked the former Dutch foreign minister to deliver on her “European Green Deal” while overseeing commissioners for agriculture, health, transport, energy, cohesion and reforms, and environment and oceans.

Environmental activists demonstrate outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site

Extinction Rebellion has blocked the entrance to the UK’s only active fracking site in a demonstration against what it called the “burgeoning catastrophe” of global warming.

Protesters from the environmental group gathered outside the shale gas site on Preston New Road, near Blackpool, on Tuesday morning alongside a yellow boat bearing the words: “Planet before profit”.

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On their own communities in the Pacific can’t protect their ocean from overfishing, pollution and coastal erosion. It’s a global problem and doesn’t only affect the environment on a big scale, but also the economy.

South Korean carbon allowances fell back slightly on Tuesday after starting the week at record highs, but demand remains strong as the clock ticks towards the annual compliance deadline at the end of the month.

As bushfires continue to rage across Queensland and New South Wales, a new survey has found 81 per cent of Australians are worried climate change is worsening natural disasters.

As bushfires continue to rage across Queensland and New South Wales, a new survey has found 81% of Australians are worried climate change is worsening natural disasters.

Jackie Tradd spoke to RN Drive after touring evacuation centres around Noosa.