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Former US Vice President Al Gore will visit Brisbane next year to conduct climate change leadership training for up to a 1000 people from across Australia and the Pacific.

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Argentinian official says ambiguity over the Paris Agreement is needed to avoid a split with the US, days before critical UN climate talks begin.

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One of the CEFC's first large-scale solar loan customers, Epuron, has secured a new finance facility with specialist fund Infradebt, for its portfolio of NT solar assets.

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RCR Tomlinson collapses hits W.A. solar project as it emerges cash flow problems caused by connection delays that caused milestone payments on major solar contracts to be missed.

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Storm-damaged support ship means Ben Lecomte, 50, has to divert to Hawaii

A French-American plastic pollution campaigner has given up his attempt to swim across the Pacific ocean after a storm broke the mainsail of his support ship, organisers have said.

Ben Lecomte had completed about 2,780km (1,500 nautical miles) of the 9,260km (5,000-nautical mile) journey. The trip was to take him through 1,600km of the “Great Pacific garbage patch”, in an attempt to raise awareness of plastic pollution.

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The probe has already taken its first picture from the surface of the red planet.

Siemens, in partnership with VINCI-Energies/Electrix will design, develop and deliver Australia’s first large synchronous condenser to be installed at a solar farm.

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Specialist power and water consulting firm Entura has been named by Tilt Renewables as the Owner’s Engineer for the Dundonnell Wind Farm in Victoria, Australia.

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Most wind and solar power investment now occurs in developing countries, though highly polluting coal power generation is not being displaced by those sources, analysts found in a comprehensive survey.

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The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has lost its US director of environmental and coal markets to competitor IncubEx, sources told Carbon Pulse.

Donald Trump rejected the central conclusion of a government climate report finding by his own administration

• Trump says he does not believe own administration’s climate report - US politics live

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No California-based forestry projects are believed to have been impacted by the numerous wildfires that have hit the state over the past several months, several registry officials and offset developers said, though the final assessment could still take time.

The Trump administration published a major report on climate change the day after Thanksgiving. We will explore the major findings each day this week

Donald Trump doesn’t believe his own government’s major report on climate change – which the administration tried to bury over the Thanksgiving break. It warns that rising temperatures are already harming America and will cause huge damage globally. The Guardian will explore key findings from the report each day this week.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices rose back toward the $190 mark over the past several days, and traders believe more gains could be possible over the last month of 2018.

"I don't believe it," the president said of his own government's report about global warming.

The touchdown confirmation came through shortly after 19:50 GMT.

The US space agency's robot is the first mission aiming to study the Red Planet's deep interior.

Advocate for Clean Energy is searching for an environmental policy fellow for its Washington DC office.

EU carbon prices slipped below €20 on Monday, continuing their slide from late last week but clawing back from a €1 intraday drop.