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Floth Sustainable Building Consultants have certified their office space carbon neutral

Frasers Property has another carbon neutral certified building

The 100MW Kathu solar park, with five hours of storage, joins a South African plagued by blackouts and the failure of newly added and expensive coal units.

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The UK’s 1.2 GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm could step in to fill the gap left open by the country’s failing nuclear industry.

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Scientists release rare footage of the secretive giant pangolin to highlight the scaly mammal's plight.

One small town has become a dumping ground for the world's waste and it's causing a stink.

The winning pictures in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

When a Malaysian town was inundated with foreign plastic waste, a group of villagers decided to fight back.

Yvo de Boer values his solitude and his garden – both of which he neglected while serving as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from mid-2006 to mid-2010.

Emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) industries are seeking greater free allowance allocations than currently proposed under Oregon’s possible cap-and-trade programme, while the agricultural sector is advocating for more cost protections and less onerous offset restrictions, according to written comments.

Proposal for new transmission link from South Australia to NSW signals decline of coal and gas and replacement by cheaper wind, solar and storage.

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The Ontario environment ministry on Tuesday released draft regulations for its climate plan for large emitters, aligning with the federal government’s mandate through a rising carbon price and possible credit trading.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) will phase out three natural gas-fired power plants by the end of the next decade as the city works toward its 100% renewable energy goal, city officials announced Tuesday.

The Kimberley Toad Busters group was established 15-years-ago in a bid to halt the invasion of cane toads into the biodiverse rich region.

European carbon fell by nearly €2 on Tuesday to their lowest so far this year, plummeting late in the day as prices crashed below a major support level that had held up since late 2018.

Communities secretary James Brokenshire cited traffic issues in rejecting plans for four wells

Campaigners have welcomed the government’s decision to reject a planning appeal by shale gas firm Cuadrilla to frack at a second site in Lancashire, capping a week of bad news for the industry.

James Brokenshire, the communities secretary, said he was turning down the appeal for planning permission to develop four fracking wells in the Fylde area because of traffic concerns.

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Two African nations will receive over $100 million for protecting some of their forests under the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), the agency announced on Tuesday, jump-starting the first REDD payouts from the facility's Carbon Fund since it launched at the beginning of the decade.

A radical plan to tackle climate change pushed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn scorn from Trump.

EU rules passed into law on Tuesday would transfer responsibility away from Britain for managing the ETS requirements for hundreds of airlines in the event of a no-deal Brexit, with Germany taking on many of the major carriers.

There are now more than 2 million sq miles of extra leaf area per year, compared with the early 2000s.