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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.

California and Quebec's final carbon auction of 2019 will include nearly 76.5 million current and future vintage allowances at its Nov. 19 sale, according to an auction notice released Friday.

Numerous carbon pricing bills introduced in the US Congress this year could require further work in order to properly implement a price-ratcheting mechanism tied to GHG goals and a border adjustment for fossil fuel exports and imports, experts said Friday.

Millions of people join a global environmental strike led by schoolchildren.

Europe's space mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy reaches a key milestone.

EU transport ministers supported continuing to include flights in the EU ETS on Friday but will still leave open whether to protect the policy at UN body ICAO's triennial meeting next week, which is expected to seek to shut it down.

Greta Thunberg says she is blown away by the global success of her school climate strike movement. In an interview before she led a climate march in New York City, she said she 'never would have predicted' how quickly the action would spread across the world

• US to stage its largest ever climate strike: 'Somebody must sound the alarm'

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A kangaroo affected by drought, a prize-winning sea lion and a polka-dotted zebra foal

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A Fiorland penguin has spent eight weeks recuperating after a 2,500km swim from New Zealand to Australia. Now the endangered bird is being released by Melbourne zoo back into the wild

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From babies to bagpipers, hundreds of thousands filled the streets in more than 200 rallies

• Global climate protests – live updates

From the small sun-drenched Inner Hebridean island of Iona to the packed streets of central London, parents and grandparents, children and trade unionists have stepped out of their Friday routines to tell their political leaders time is running out to tackle the climate crisis.

Related: Greta Thunberg: face of the Global Climate Strike - in pictures

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The huge influence of the Swedish schoolgirl who first began the Friday’s for Future strikes in 2018 is evident across this week’s global protests

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California regulator ARB should develop automatic supply triggers to manage the volume of ETS compliance instruments in circulation, along with examining whether banked allowances should be discounted based on vintage year, according to a draft watchdog report released Friday.

Sand from Great Yarmouth seabed creates mobile dune defences to protect villages

An artificial dune of nearly 2m cubic metres of sand has been created on the Norfolk coast in an innovative approach to slowing coastal erosion.

In the £20m sandscaping scheme, enough sand to fill one-and-a-half Wembley stadiums has been dredged from existing North Sea seabed extraction sites off Great Yarmouth and ferried to the rapidly eroding coastline beside the large gas terminal at Bacton.

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Speaking on BBC Victoria Derbyshire Drillminister called for the government to act faster with air pollution.

Jeremy Corbyn has called Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from the Paris climate agreement ‘disgraceful’ in a speech to climate strikers in London.

The Labour leader said the climate emergency could only be solved by international action. ‘Destroying nature ultimately destroys all of us’, he added

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Climate striker Parker recited a poem with a powerful message on climate change at the global climate strike in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday. Ten-year-old Parker said he joined the strike ‘to tell the government that climate change is real and they need to act’. An estimated 300,000 people gathered at more than 100 rallies across Australia on Friday, calling for action to guard against climate change

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People around the world have been walking out of school and work to join the latest protests against the climate crisis. The global day of action, calling for a reduction in emissions, is being held in the run-up to a UN summit in New York

• Global climate strike – live updates

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