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Battery storage companies fear for future in Australia after CEC decides to support strict new standards that will send price of installation rocketing.

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FRV lands finance for Goonumbla solar farm, as first of "landmark" pricing solar projects from Snowy Hydro tender gets under way.

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Experts say the UK looks to be experiencing the arrival of millions of painted lady butterflies.

Union membership is a fraction of what it was but people power is finding a voice through new platforms and movements. People power has given us revolutions, political parties and unions. In part four we look at how people power is now helping to put a range of issues on the political agenda through new platforms, movements and voices in Parliament. We also hear how Parliament itself could be changed.

You are environmentally aware but your boss, who is also your brother-in-law, is extremely wasteful. Do you follow your conscience and leave your job? Or suck it up and carry on? Lizzie Mack and ex-red Wiggle Murray Cook muse on this one.

The motor industry is trying to reduce its carbon footprint in a number of innovative ways.

Fifty years ago, James Burke was one of the presenters leading the BBC's live coverage of the Moon landing.

About 600 million were watching in 1969 - thanks largely to an unlikely outpost in rural Australia.

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AEMO outlines preferred network plan to unlock $10 billion of wind and solar farms, but Taylor jumps in to spark another rift with state government.

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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the average temperature was 61.6F (16.4C).

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced the selection of two offshore wind power projects on Thursday to meet the state’s enhanced zero-carbon electricity goals, a move that could reduce future compliance obligations from the state in the northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme.

The northeast US RGGI scheme plans to hold training courses and release guidance documents to help onboard New Jersey compliance entities prior to the state’s entrance into the regional power sector ETS next year, an official said.

Not only carbon dioxide but also soot released from fires has impact on global warming, study finds

The focus on plastics in our oceans has highlighted the global problem of waste disposal. Household bin collection and the recycling, composting, burying or incinerating of our rubbish are key functions of a modern city. But in low-income countries about 90% of waste ends up in open dumps or is burned in the open air.

Obviously, burning waste creates carbon dioxide and the smoke contains health-harmful particles, but it also contains tiny black particles of soot which have a huge short-term climate impact. Researchers from London’s King’s and Imperial colleges burned small samples of rubbish and measured the smoke. Soot amounts were greatest when the rubbish contained two plastics: polystyrene and polyethylene terephthalate (more commonly abbreviated to PET and often used to make drinks bottles). Burning waste containing textiles, many of these being plastic, also contributed to high soot releases.

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says ‘further loss of coral is inevitable’

The federal agency that manages the Great Barrier Reef has made an unprecedented call for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, warning only the “strongest and fastest possible action” will reduce the risks to the natural wonder.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has published a climate position statement that says the reef is already damaged from warming oceans and it is “critical” global temperature rises remain within 1.5 degrees.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices fell for the second consecutive week as new speculators remained on the sidelines, while RGGI allowances (RGA) rose slightly on higher transacted volume in the northeast US carbon market.

The UK has launched a consultation looking into mandating all transport providers to offer passengers the chance to offset their journeys over land, air, and sea to help bring down the sector’s carbon emissions.

Only 10,000 upgrades such as loft insulation happen each month compared with 65,000 in 2014, report shows

Efforts to end fuel poverty and energy waste by making the UK’s draughty homes more efficient have collapsed by almost 85%, according to new government data.

The report, published on Thursday, shows that the number of energy efficiency upgrades undertaken each month has fallen to 10,000 on average for the six months to the end of May. This compares with an average of 65,000 a month in 2014.

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Met says it is working with CPS on more than 900 cases from environmental protests

Police have accused Extinction Rebellion of causing “high level” disruption and called for courts to pass sentences big enough to deter them from causing fresh chaos, as the environmental group braces itself for mass prosecutions of its activists.

Laurence Taylor, the deputy assistant commissioner in charge of protest policing for the Metropolitan force, said last April’s mass civil disobedience, when thousands of activists occupied four sites across London, saw 90 of the people being arrested only to be released and rejoin the protests. Taylor said police were talking to the government about tougher and clearer powers.

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A global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental challenges, Verra seeks a Regional Manager, Latin America to support the implementation of current and future climate change mitigation projects under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate Community & Biodiversity (CCB) programs in the dynamic Latin American carbon markets.