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Things are not under control when it comes to Australia meeting our Paris target, even if Scott Morrison wants us to believe that

We’ll get to climate, and the rumble in the Pacific, but I want to begin closer to home. It’s been a busy news week, so you might have missed an excellent story from my colleague Adam Morton on Tuesday revealing that a coalmine in Queensland has nearly doubled its greenhouse gas emissions in two years without penalty under a Morrison government mechanism that is supposed to impose limits on industrial pollution.

According to documents released under freedom of information laws, mining company Anglo American was given the green light under the safeguards mechanism to increase its emissions by about 1m tonnes at its Moranbah North mine, in central Queensland. The case study matters, because it helps us separate spin from substance.

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Activists vow to keep on after council votes to authorise only one day’s school absence

Young activists have vowed to keep protesting in Edinburgh despite the city council saying it will only authorise pupils to miss school once a year to attend climate strikes.

Pupils have been attending protests on Fridays outside the Scottish parliament on an ad hoc basis after the council granted permission in March.

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London’s Smithfield Market part of next wave of Extinction Rebellion climate protests

Thousands of animal rights and environment activists are planning to blockade Smithfield Market – the largest wholesale meat market in the UK – in the next wave of Extinction Rebellion climate protests.

A new group calling itself Animal Rebellion says it has almost 2,000 volunteers signed up to take part in a two-week blockade of the central London market from 7 October.

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Endangered bonobo, migrating storks and one of the world’s biggest raptors

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EUAs climbed back above €26 early on Friday after briefly extending a five-week low amid signs of some profit-taking by short-sellers to cap a week of sliding prices.

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

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued just over 190,000 carbon credits this week, just a third of last week’s volume but close to the long-term average.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken a keen interest in the Pacific Islands Forum talks in Tuvalu, tweeting that climate action was a key priority of Australia's Pacific Step Up plan which he launched in 2016.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions is looking for a full-time Senior Policy Advisor to work with the ACTU leadership and affiliated unions to deliver the ACTU Policy on Climate, Energy, & Just Transitions.

High up in the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days on the rocks and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are crumbling around them

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As UK rents rise and online retailers eat into their margins, shops struggle to survive

In the early 1930s a young William Laker would cycle the 50-odd miles from his home in Kent to Crystal Palace in south London to visit the woman who would, half a century later, become my grandmother.

There is every chance Grandpa would have popped into the small bike shop at 3&5 Central Hill in Crystal Palace. That very shop remained open for about 97 years, serving generations of cyclists, but in July the current custodian of what is now called Blue Door Bicycles, David Hibbs, announced it is to close its door for good.

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One keeper says he spotted the signs and had to burn an entire hive to protect others.

Tesla Model 3 customers believe their delivery ship has finally come in, and docked at Port Botany.

The post First Tesla Model 3 EVs arrive in Australia for delivery to customers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 16 September 2019.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 16 September 2019.

Pressure builds on Victorian government to amend "botched" rooftop solar rebate, as opposition push for parliamentary inquiry fails to muster enough votes.

The post Victoria solar “mess” continues, as Coalition push for inquiry falls flat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction crews at Granville Harbour Wind Farm successfully complete first concrete pour for one of the site’s 31 wind turbine foundations.

The post ‘Solid’ milestone achieved at Granville Harbour Wind Farm with first wind turbine foundation complete appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The blotched butterfly orchid (Sarcochilus weinthalii) looks fairly unremarkable when it’s not flowering, generally resembling the far more common orange blossom orchid. But when it flowers, it is exquisite… John Dearnaley, Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 17 September 2019.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 17 September 2019.