Ontario's Progressive Conservative party and leader Doug Ford won a majority government in Thursday’s provincial election, threatening the future of the province’s cap-and-trade programme and its WCI linkage.
Southern Australia's debate may be exacerbated by climate change, but it's not that simple.
Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne
Anna Ukkola, Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, Australian National University
Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne
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Deloitte financial advisory has appointed renewable energy and clean technology specialist John O’Brien as a renewable energies partner within the firm’s energy, resources & industrials group.
Alesia Communications announced today that it will now accept payments in SolarCoins for the delivery of its services.
GFG Alliance outlines more plans for huge large scale solar and storage investments, including doubling of pumped hydro storage, and more on planned world's biggest battery.
Dan Wenk is being used as an example to undermine culture of conservation, say former park service workers
The superintendent of Yellowstone national park says he has been forced out of his job by the Trump administration over his wildlife advocacy.
“It’s a hell of a way to be treated at the end of four decades spent trying to do my best for the park service and places like Yellowstone, but that’s how these guys are,” said Dan Wenk, referring to the US interior department. “Throughout my career, I’ve not encountered anything like this, ever.”
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Forty years of continuous end-of-summer snowline monitoring of New Zealand's glaciers brings the issue of human-induced climate change into tight focus.
Andrew Lorrey, Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Climate Observations and Processes, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Andrew Mackintosh, Professor & Director of Antarctic Research Centre, expert on glaciers and ice sheets, Victoria University of Wellington
brian.anderson@vuw.ac.nz, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington
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Frydenberg says falling cost of wind, solar, and batteries means renewable investment will continue under proposed National Energy Guarantee.
Whale sharks spend winter in the Ningaloo Reef region on the remote north-western coast of Australia, an area with 500 times less debris than the Port of Melbourne.
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Help create a cleaner, greener Met. The Met is there to fight crime and protect the people of London. But we’re also committed to reducing our impact on the planet. Managing energy use and carbon emissions is a big part of this, which is why we need an Environment Adviser to give us expert guidance.
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The Policy Associate role is crucial to helping understand simply and tangibly the complex, often technical issues that confront forest landowners and stakeholders alike in our rapidly changing world. In particular, the Associate will play a key role in furthering PFT’s goals and objectives to expand the role of forests in meeting state, regional and national targets for reductions of CO2 emissions, both at the compliance offset and the sector level.
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Two contrasting carbon fee proposals between Washington DC lawmakers and environmental coalitions have highlighted the political differences between the groups while delaying the formal introduction of a bill, according to campaigners speaking at a panel on Thursday.
Ground-level ozone can damage wheat, mung and soya bean crops, and is harmful to breathe
We often think of ozone as a stratosphere pollutant, where it does a useful job blocking harmful ultraviolet radiation, but it is harmful to breathe and damages our crops, too. In a typical May, UK air pollution can reach between four and six on the government’s 10-point scale for a week or so. May 2018 was the hottest since records began in 1919. This brought air pollution problems to the whole of the UK except eastern Scotland. Air pollution reached level 4 or above on 30 days during the month and ozone was one of the main culprits.
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A fast-rising number of companies worldwide are using green certificates as part of a strategy to help demonstrate their climate credentials, elevating their efforts to levels sometimes more ambitious than those required by governments under the Paris Agreement.
Methane on the Red Planet waxes and wanes with the seasons - another clue in the search for life.
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