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Companies that exceed their emissions limits set under South Africa’s upcoming climate laws will be forced to pay a penalty of at least five times the country’s carbon tax.

Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment has outlined 25 targets across five areas to complement the province's climate change strategy and reduce the impacts of global warming.

Adani’s plans to get started quickly on a scaled-down version of its Queensland mega-mine still face numerous obstacles

The Indian mining giant Adani could be left in limbo until September – well after the federal election – before learning whether its controversial Carmichael coal project will be allowed to access the Queensland freight rail network.

Adani announced on Thursday it would self-finance the Carmichael mine and that construction would begin “imminently”. But the company still has to gain several regulatory approvals and negotiate access for its coal trains to use the Aurizon network.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected calls from refiners to lower its conventional renewable fuel quota from 15 billion gallons in 2019, while finalising a modest 3% increase to its total biofuels requirement for next year, the agency announced Friday.

European carbon rose further above €20 on Friday, supported by firmer energy prices and the lack of new supply.

Queensland's unprecedented firestorm hit small lot farmers; Cotton grower Anthony Barlow pleads guilty to illegal pumping of Murray Darling water; Dangerously unstable live export ship banned from carrying stock; Serious doubts raised about carp control virus; India's chickpea tariffs likely to stay.

A group of northeast US states will begin the public process next month to design a carbon programme for the region’s transportation sector, sources told Carbon Pulse.

Airgun testing in search for oil and gas could harm hundreds of mammals such as dolphins and whales off the Atlantic coast

The Trump administration is to allow marine creatures such as whales and dolphins to be harmed by companies as they search for potential oil and gas reserves off the Atlantic coast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has granted five operators permission to “incidentally but not intentionally harass marine mammals” while conducting surveys for fossil fuels in the seabed.

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Governments will converge Katowice, Poland over the next two weeks to hammer out how to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, but some countries are set to spurn calls for more urgent action.

Red fody, beached whales and wildlife rescued from an Australian heatwave in this week’s gallery

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Illness, warmer waters and the fact that pilot whales travel in sociable groups could all play a role.

News and analytics firm ICIS has a hired a long-time environmental trader for its North American carbon team, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Trial is notable for highlighting land and nature defender murders that ordinarily go unpunished

The sentencing on Thursday of seven men accused of murdering the Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres is only partial justice, but it should inspire anyone committed to ending the slaughter of land and nature defenders around the globe.

A court in Tegucigalpa handed down guilty verdicts on all but one of the eight accused, including two employees of the hydro-electric dam company that the indigenous Lenca woman had been campaigning against before her assassination on 2 March 2016.

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

Windfarms supplied third of UK’s electricity this week, with output hitting 14.9GW high

Storm Diana brought travel chaos to road, rail and airports, but the clouds did have a silver lining: the strong winds helped set a renewable energy record.

Windfarms supplied about a third of the UK’s electricity between 6pm and 6.30pm on Wednesday, a time of peak energy demand. Output hit a high of 14.9GW, beating a previous record of 14.5GW.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued 71,012 carbon credits to six projects this week, more than last week’s lows but still well below average levels.

Australia’s GHG emissions in FY2017-18 rose to their highest levels in seven years, driven by increased LNG production, mining, and manufacturing, according to government data released on Friday.

They did so, despite calls by the Prime Minister to concentrate on learning rather than activism.

I’m six years out of school, nearly graduated from university, and I’ve never seen a protest like this

The kids couldn’t believe it. The adults couldn’t believe it.

Martin Place hadn’t seen anything like it for years, and Elly and her sister had never seen anything like it – ever.

Elly, 14, and Aidan, 10, had come thinking the strike would be “a small thing”. Elly said she didn’t know many people from her school who were coming. She found a thousand others.

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The mass stranding on Chatham Island means more than 200 whales have died off NZ in the past week.