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The core of the Media Associate role is to work with partners and colleagues to source and analyse intelligence, using it to develop strategic communications interventions which push ambition in key countries ahead of the UN climate talks, COP26.

The European cement industry has failed achieve significant emissions cuts under the EU ETS, though decarbonisation is set to move up the corporate agenda with 2018 marking the first year the sector faced an allowance deficit.

My riotous childhood confidante has, in adulthood, become my talisman. All I have to do is follow the pink and grey trail

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One night I had a strange dream. I dreamed the pet pink and grey galah of my childhood gently lifted the little gate on her cage with her beak, and hopped out on to the ground. Her clipped wing forgotten or perhaps no longer relevant, she soared straight up into the subtropical sky over Carnarvon, the tiny town almost 1,000km north of Perth where I grew up, and flew in a giant circle overhead. On her way around, she dipped down to tear a petal from a hibiscus shrub and, with petal in beak, gave me a nod, as if to say thank you, or perhaps just “see you later”, because once she’d made a full circle she flew off into the distance, into freedom.

I woke up in a soulful glow suggesting creativity and alchemy.

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Liberal MP says program is ‘a little blunt’ but Barnaby Joyce says having a small population ‘doesn’t mean it is a small area’

Councils with fewer than 300 people are among those to have received millions of dollars in federal government drought funding, as the Coalition prepares to sign off on new measures to help drought-affected communities.

Cabinet is set to consider further drought assistance on Tuesday, including a proposal from the National Farmers’ Federation for council rate relief, two-year interest free loans, Newstart equivalent wages for farm workers, and top-up payments for isolated school students.

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Scientists say the possible homeland of all humans alive today is an area south of the Zambesi River.

Small compliance entities are seeking out California Carbon Allowances (CCA) ahead of the interim compliance deadline later this week, but traders say the demand is having minimal impact on prices.

The most detailed survey of the cosmos aims to shed light on the mysteries of its creation.

Researchers use specialist technology to trace the outline on the mud flats of a river in Essex.

EUAs lifted above €25 early on Monday as European leaders agreed to extend the UK's Brexit deadline, though the Britain's departure from the bloc remains mired in uncertainty.

The former head of carbon advisory at trading firm Hartree Partners has joined one of the world’s biggest biomass producers.

Trees that help keep soils fertile could slow deforestation in Brazil's "arc of destruction".

Remembering George Seddon, an extraordinary polymath who radically rethought our relationship with the environment.

Critics call Sir David Attenborough's new nature series "breathtaking" and "visually magnificent".

Price reporting agency Argus Media has parted ways with its US emissions markets and policy reporter, who is to join the trading arm of an energy company, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Australian oil and gas producer Woodside is backing the idea that facilities covered by the Safeguard Mechanism should be awarded carbon credits if they beat their baselines, which it said should be set based on industry average emissions intensity.

The Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains how he aims to make the climate emergency resonate with readers on an emotional level

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Some days, I am filled with dread. Some nights, I have trouble sleeping. But I would not swap my job for any other.

As global environment editor for the Guardian, I report from the Amazon to the Arctic on the disappearing wonders of a rapidly deteriorating world. Along with a growing number of colleagues, I investigate who is affected, who is to blame and who is fighting back.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating accumulation of rubbish the size of a continent, has whales and dolphins in its heart. Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Greens say funding could come from sustainability fund, which they say is not being used on green projects

Fortnightly collections of food and garden waste in Victoria would cost the state more than half a billion dollars over the next four years, a parliamentary budget office costing for the Greens has revealed.

As the state searches for ways to tackle an ongoing waste and recycling crisis, the Greens party has called on the state Labor government to consider providing a fortnightly collection service for food and other green waste.

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Risen Energy joins "months-long" grid connection queue after completing construction of 121MW Yarranlea solar farm west of Toowoomba in August.

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