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It might have turned the motor industry upside down and led to to an unstoppable shift to EVs, but Musk says Tesla needs a step change to do the rest.

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Five founders beef is carbon neutral certified

ARENA is seeking applications from energy innovators developing projects for its next A-Lab innovation lab.

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New reconstructions of Earth’s temperature over the past 2,000 years highlight the astonishing rate of the recent widespread warming of our planet.

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India will fly robots to understand what weightlessness and radiation do to the human body in space.

Boris Johnson appoints a pro-fracking environment secretary, and his track record suggesting future climate policy could be as unpredictable as the man himself.

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As solar industry calls for public protest against Victoria solar plan, we talk to Solar Victoria boss Stan Krpan about the scheme’s design.

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Researchers call for urgent action to protect large species in international waters

The world’s shark populations are at increasing risk of becoming bycatch of international fishing fleets, which harvest them in open oceans where no legal protections exist, Australian researchers have said.

Prof Rob Harcourt, from Macquarie University, said large sharks were more vulnerable to longline fishing and called for urgent action to protect them by implementing management strategies on the high seas.

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After Sydney mining investor David Glasheen lost millions in the 1987 stock market crash, he decided to make a drastic change.

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Incoming British Prime Minster Boris Johnson on Wednesday named new minsters in charge of climate change and energy after more than half of the Conservative cabinet resigned or was sacked upon his arrival at Downing Street earlier today.

Victoria's recycling system remains in limbo after a court yesterday granted a major recycling company 10 days to pay its creditors or be dissolved.

The New York Independent System Operator’s (NYISO) planned imposition of a carbon adder in the state’s wholesale electricity market could trigger the northeast US RGGI ETS’ Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) in the next decade as more low-carbon generation come online, analysts said Tuesday.

California regulator ARB issued over 900,000 new offsets (CCOs) this week, while Quebec resumed its issuances with more than 50,000 of its own compliance-grade credits, according to jurisdictional data.

A new study, published in today's Nature journal, gives an insight into the threat sharks face from longline fishing.

The clearest picture yet of the past 2,000 years of global temperatures has shown warming in the last 50-odd years is unprecedented in the last two millennia. Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Queensland Council of Civil Liberties says banning them reporting near Carmichael mine ‘entirely inappropriate’

Bail conditions imposed on four French journalists – banning them from reporting near Adani’s Carmichael mine site – are an “abuse of police power” and “entirely inappropriate”, says the head of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties.

Michael Cope, a lawyer in Queensland for more than 30 years, says he has never heard of the sorts of bail conditions imposed after protests at Adani’s Abbot Point coal terminal on Monday.

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The speed and extent of global heating exceeds any similar event in the past two millennia, researchers say.

The call for corporate bosses to be heroes in the fight against climate change and inequality is misplaced, writes Ian Bretman

Although former Unilever boss Paul Polman is rightly acknowledged as a pioneering champion of corporate sustainability, his call for a team of “heroic chief executives to tackle climate change and inequality” (Report, 22nd July) may be a case of trying to solve problems with the same thinking that created them. The complex and interconnected challenges of building an equitable society and economy that meets the needs of nine billion people while living within our finite planetary resources is likely to require a different kind of leadership in business and politics.

Rather than people who see themselves as the heroes of the story, these challenges call for leaders who can make heroes of others by enabling and empowering them to achieve change.
Ian Bretman
London

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Connecticut is hoping to finalise its RGGI Model Rule update in the next two weeks and send it to a state committee for final approval, after an initial proposal was rejected for regulatory inconsistencies, an official told Carbon Pulse.