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California regulator ARB may not begin the process of updating its WCI forestry protocol until next year as it completes work on various regulatory priorities in the final quarter of 2019, several sources told Carbon Pulse.

This week, how actual straw could replace straws in the war on waste; how one farmer is recovering from the devastating NSW fires; and how debt is crippling parts of rural and regional Australia.

The EU is battling to curb surging illegal imports in potent Chinese-made F-gases, with smugglers set to bring in products this year with more global warming impact than the greenhouse gas emissions of a mid-sized European country.

Drought policy debate stretches on, dam debate kicks on, water meetings hear community concern, new plant burger.

As a week of civil disobedience comes to an end, protesters explain the environmental fears that have driven them to action

As Extinction Rebellion held protests in cities around Australia this week, Guardian journalists tracked down protesters to find out who they were and why they were taking part in acts of civil disobedience. Here, 11 people who took part in protests in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne explain what motivated them to take to the streets.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford violated environmental law when he abruptly cancelled the Canadian jurisdiction’s WCI-linked ETS last summer, a provincial court said in a split ruling on Friday that will not have a material impact on the province’s current climate policy.

Activists say corporation’s ‘silence is deadly’, while Met commissioner faces criticism of police tactics

Camped outside the main entrance of New Broadcasting House on Friday morning, Extinction Rebellion (XR) supporters called on the broadcaster to “tell the full truth” about the climate crisis, as the number of arrests linked to its protests since Monday rose to more than 1,100.

Protesters held a banner stating: “BBC, your silence is deadly”, and chanted: “Whose BBC? Our BBC”, and: “BBC, can’t you see, this is an emergency”.

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The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

The "necklace" injuries, many caused by discarded plastic waste, are becoming more common, says the RSPCA.

A stockpiling squirrel, a lolling black bear, and a greater bilby is returned to the wild

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Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated above the Earth for 12 minutes in 1965.

Eastern barred bandicoots were pushed to extinction on Australia’s mainland by invasive foxes and feral cats

A decades-long fight to save a tiny endangered Australian marsupial – the eastern barred bandicoot – hit a major milestone last night as conservationists released 55 into the dusk of a new island home in Victoria.

Conservationists hope French Island, which is free of the invasive European red fox, will be a perfect spot for the bandicoots, which have never lived on the island before.

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Revealed: divide exacerbated by fossil fuel industry’s record contribution to Republicans

Donald Trump’s presidency has ushered in an era of unprecedented polarisation between Republican and Democrat lawmakers when it comes to voting on measures to tackle the climate crisis, while the fossil fuel industry now almost entirely favours Republicans in campaign contributions.

The two main US political parties regularly voted along the same lines on clean air and clean water provisions in the 1970s but started to diverge in the 1990s. They now occupy opposite ends of the spectrum, according to data collated by the nonpartisan group the League of Conservation Voters (LCV).

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Boris Johnson among dozens of MPs to record worst possible environmental score in Guardian analysis

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Conservative MPs are almost five times more likely to vote against climate action than legislators from other parties, a Guardian analysis of 16 indicative parliamentary divisions over the past decade has revealed.

The Tories also registered many more donations, shares, salaries, gifts and tickets to sporting events from fossil fuel companies, petrostates, aviation companies and climate sceptics, according to declarations made in the parliamentary record of MPs’ interests between 2008 and 2019.

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The Guardian’s analysis is a guide – to provoke debate ahead of the next election

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The Guardian’s analysis of MPs’ climate records relies on two extensive pieces of research.

Politicians were rated from 0% to 100% based on 16 key parliamentary votes that would affect the UK’s carbon emissions.

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A trawl of MPs’ interests shows donations and gifts from fossil fuel firms and climate contrarians

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Oil companies, petrostates and climate contrarian thinktanks, businessmen and unions have given at least £5m to MPs over the past 10 years in the form of donations, expenses-paid trips, salaries and gifts.

A trawl through parliament’s register of interests suggests Conservative politicians are far more likely to accept support from such sources.

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European carbon prices gapped higher on Friday, hitting a six-day high near €24 as oil jumped on news of an Iranian tanker being struck by missiles near Saudi Arabia and as optimism grew over a potential Brexit deal.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is named as the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The UK government policy sees cattle TB incidence fall in two badger cull areas but rise in a third.