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APRA says switch to technologies like batteries, electric vehicles and solar will have largely played out by 2030, and warned of financial risk of ignoring climate change.

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New analysis revealed less than half the extra pumped hydro capacity promised by Snowy 2.0 can be delivered. There is now overwhelming evidence the project should be put on hold. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The objective is to work on a methodology to assess whether “negative emissions” are really negative emissions in the global sense (physical negative net emissions). 

Insects are being touted as an eco-friendly protein source, but do bug burgers pass the taste test?

John Bird outlines his new bill to tackle the climate crisis, academics call for protection of tropical habitats and Ahmad O Al-Khowaiter defends Saudi Aramco’s record. Plus letters from Wiebina Heesterman, Paul Donovan, Sarah Williamson and Siobhan Benita

The protests led by Extinction Rebellion remind us that there are more pressing problems than Britain’s withdrawal from the EU (Of course these protests are inconvenient. They are designed to disrupt us, Editorial, 11 October).

Exploitative capitalism has sacrificed our wellbeing – and much of the planet’s resources – on the altar of unlimited growth, binding the hands of those yet to be born.

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Green campaigners cheered removal of drilling equipment at weekend but firm to press on

Cuadrilla is not abandoning its fracking ambitions in Lancashire and still plans to apply for an extension to its shale gas campaign, the company has said.

The company hopes to apply to Lancashire county council to extend drilling at the Preston New Road site beyond a 30 November cut-off point. Work had been suspended in August after the location recorded its largest ever tremor and Cuadrilla hopes to lodge its appeal once a review of the quake is completed.

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Individual action alone won’t solve the climate crisis. So what political changes might help?

• Renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think

Individual actions, such as flying less or buying electric cars, are helpful, but they will be futile without collective political action to slash emissions on a corporate, national and global scale. Politicians need to feel this is a priority for the electorate. That means keeping the subject high on the agenda for MPs with questions, protests, emails, social media posts, lobbying by NGOs and most of all through voting choices. Politicians need to know the public is behind them if they are to take on the petrochemical industry.

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Pace of progress raises hope that fossil fuel companies could lose their domination

• Eight ideas for reining in the fossil fuel industry

The world’s rising reliance on fossil fuels may come to an end decades earlier than the most polluting companies predict, offering early signs of hope in the global battle to tackle the climate crisis.

The climate green shoots have emerged amid a renewable energy revolution that promises an end to the rising demand for oil and coal in the 2020s, before the fossil fuels face a terminal decline.

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California’s transportation and electricity sectors will have to cut emissions faster in the post-2020 period to ensure the state reaches its 2030 goal, potentially putting bullish pressure on California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices, according to analysis from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML).

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits continued to set record highs through Friday as short covering drove values towards the pending price cap.

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About 100 climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protested on Monday in the City of London, sitting in the road outside the Bank of England from 7am. Police arrested a number of people, including Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, of the Finchley Reform Synagogue. 'We are in a period of enormous catastrophic breakdown and, if it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanise public opinion, then it is certainly worth being arrested,'  he said before being taken away.

• Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest at Bank of England

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Alexei Leonov, who died on Friday, could have been the first human to land on the Moon.

European carbon prices fell by almost a euro early on Monday, giving back some of last Friday's 5% gains as weekend Brexit talks failed to yield a major breakthrough.

Guangdong province has begun consultation on its planned futures exchange, which will focus on CO2 permits initially, and expects to get central government approval before the end of the year, a senior provincial official said, according to local media.

Cornwall council and EU will fund scheme to tap into ‘hot rocks’ beneath attraction

A plan to heat the giant biomes of the Eden Project and, eventually, neighbouring communities by tapping into the “hot rocks” beneath the Cornish attraction has moved a step closer.

The Eden Project announced on Monday that it had secured the funding to begin drilling for clean energy next summer.

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‘Day of disruption’ in City of London targets financial firms profiting from climate crisis

Extinction Rebellion activists have blocked a major junction in London’s financial district, as the movement switched its focus towards companies funding and profiting from the climate emergency.

About 100 demonstrators walked into the roundabout outside the Bank of England in the City and sat down in the road at 7am on Monday.

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As the backbone of the river ecosystem because they control silt levels and filter water, mussels are facing a mysterious affliction

Each fall since 2016, wildlife biologist Jordan Richard has returned to the same portion of the Clinch River in Tennessee, braced for the worst – tens of thousands of newly dead mussel shells gleaming from the surface of the water.

The mass die-off isn’t recognizable at first. But once Richard sees the first freshwater mussel, which look quite different to their marine cousins of moules frite fame, he scans the river and finds another every five to 10 seconds.

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Community tell of devastating environmental impact on land where their animals grazed

The roar of the burning gas well could be heard almost a mile and a half away, from atop the high plateau where Albino Campo Maripe stood, looking down at the orange flames lapping the earth in the distance.

When he was a child, the 60-year-old Mapuche chief used to ride there bareback. Those days are gone for ever. The once-pristine landscape is now dotted with fracking wells and the white patches of land cleared for even more.

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