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Actress Emma Thompson defends her decision to fly to London from the US to attend a climate change protest.

Exclusive: eight in 10 trying to cut plastic waste and 46% feel guilty about it, survey shows

Eight in 10 consumers are trying to reduce their plastic waste and half would be willing to pay higher prices for eco-friendly packaging, according to a survey that highlights the impact of the Blue Planet documentary and the campaign to reduce such rubbish.

The research by YouGov shows 46% of people in the UK feel guilty about the amount of plastic they use, which is motivating them to consider changes in their behaviour, including paying more so companies will find alternatives to single-use plastics.

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

Experiment aims to learn how rainforest copes in levels of CO2 that could be normal by 2050

An ambitious experiment deep in the Amazon rainforest aims to find out how the ecosystem is likely to respond to rising levels of carbon dioxide.

In 2000 a research team at the UK’s Hadley Centre forecast that a combination of reduced rainfall and higher temperatures caused by global warming could decimate the Amazon by the end of the century. But the following decade another Hadley Centre team concluded that this scenario was unlikely.

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Swedish 16-year-old, who is taking campaign to parliament, keen to be part of Extinction Rebellion action

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old founder of the school strikes for action against climate change, has said she hopes to join the Extinction Rebellion protests when she visits London next week.

The Swedish activist will also take the campaign to the UK parliament, where she will speak to dozens of MPs including the Green party co-leader Caroline Lucas, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and the environment secretary, Michael Gove.

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The BBC's Climate Change - The Facts, presented by Sir David Attenborough, is praised by TV critics.

Activists born after 1990 gather at key roundabout to highlight dangers of climate change

• Extinction Rebellion and Attenborough put climate in spotlight
  

Youth activists have taken the Extinction Rebellion protests to Heathrow on the fifth day of action, demonstrating beside the main roundabout on the road to the airport.

The activists, all born after 1990, unfurled a banner asking: “Are we the the last generation?” as dozens of police prevented them from blocking the road.

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Scientists are warning against new legislation to grow Iceland’s fish farming industry, but industry is pressuring for a go-ahead

A five-fold expansion in open net fish farms that scientists believe could decimate Iceland’s wild salmon stocks is pitting Big Aquaculture against ecologists in the country.

Next month, a parliamentary bill is expected to extend farm licenses from 10 to 16 years, while omitting critics from oversight panels and handing primary monitoring powers to industry.

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New bulletins are leading on global warming and the BBC is shedding some of its ‘balance’

With Extinction Rebellion making headlines and Sir David Attenborough broadcasting The Facts on BBC One, climate change has gone mainstream this Easter. A nation has been watching protesters glue themselves to trains, turn London’s roads into gardens and actively invite arrest in their hundreds.

As a media strategy it is working. How did glueing yourself to a train highlight climate change, Radio 4’s Today presenter Nick Robinson asked Dr Gail Bradbrook, an Extinction Rebellion co-founder. “It gets you on the Today programme,” she replied.

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Climate change protesters face charges after railway line blocked near port

One protester is in custody and another was taken to hospital after Extinction Rebellion activists stepped in front of a moving coal train headed for the Port of Brisbane.

The train driver was forced to slam on the emergency brakes after a group of protesters climbed on to the freight tracks in Wynnum on Thursday afternoon, police said.

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There is growing scepticism amongst analysts that Germany will agree to cancel a sufficient number of EU carbon allowances, if any at all, to offset the emissions impact of phasing out its fleet of coal-fired power plants.

Led by wind power, renewable energy sources generated around 33% of Great Britain’s electricity over the first quarter of 2019, while coal power hit a new low.

The post Renewables generate one-third of Britain’s Q1 electricity supply appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chris Skipper has been photographing urban peregrines nesting at Norwich Cathedral for nearly a decade.

The price surge in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) over the last month and a half is not likely to fade any time soon as new speculators bet that the WCI programme will tighten in the coming years, according to analysts.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing and clean energy at the US subnational level taken this week, including the approval of New York City's climate bill featuring offsets and a possible carbon market, the launch of Hawaii’s first forest-based offset project, a planned hearing on a revised California offset bill, and movement on a proposal to increase Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).

Ontario lawyers argued during the second provincial lawsuit against the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ carbon pricing mechanism that Ottawa does not have the authority to impose its CO2 levy and large emitter programme on the jurisdiction.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices declined during the week as many traders were out of the office, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) failed to budge on the secondary market.

EUAs gave back some of the week’s strong gains on Thursday as bulls looked to take pre-long weekend profits after carbon hit an 11-year high this week.

Met comes under pressure to crack down on the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators

Scotland Yard has defended its response to the rolling protests in London that have caused disruption to millions and pushed climate change towards the top of the national news agenda.

The Metropolitan police has come under increasing pressure to crack down on the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators who have blocked transport networks in the capital in recent days; not least from the home secretary, Sajid Javid, who has urged officers to “take a firm stance”.

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