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A handful of EU member states doled out another 61.7 million free carbon allowances in the past two weeks, with laggards Italy and Spain making big steps towards completing their 2019 allocations.

The best banners and placards from Friday’s student climate change protests across the world

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The UK government has aligned the country’s 2018 EU ETS compliance deadline with that of the rest of the bloc after the Brexit deadline was pushed back by six months.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing and clean energy at the US state level taken this week, including Washington state’s 100% clean electricity bill, Hawaii carbon tax proposals, New Hampshire legislation to codify the post-2020 RGGI Model Rule, the Maine Public Utilities Commission's decision on a hydroelectric transmission line, and a Maryland Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) proposal.

Preliminary data suggests a technical glitch caused the Beresheet spacecraft to shut down its main engine at the wrong time.

Frogs’ legs, a bee on cowslips and a brown bear with its cub

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Scientists say stream dubbed ‘most polluted in Europe’ is reminder of effects of intensive farming

Winding between green meadows in the west Flanders countryside, the Wulfdambeek stream is fondly remembered as a place local boys would fill up their water bottles before football games.

But research from the University of Exeter has offered a sharp reminder of how intensive farming methods are changing the face of the northern European countryside in ways scientists claim are not being properly understood.

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Young people demand action from politicians at synchronised rallies across Britain

Thousands of students and activists have taken to the streets of more than 50 British towns and cities demanding urgent action on climate change for the third time in as many months.

The organisers of the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement said “sizeable events” took place in London, Sheffield, Manchester and Brighton, among other towns and cities. They mirrored events around the world, as protesters from cities as far apart as Helsinki and Delhi took to the streets.

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Restoration of unnamed tributary of River Chew offers new habitat for rare wildlife

A lost river has returned to the Somerset countryside for the first time in 70 years, and with it a new habitat for several species of rare and threatened wildlife.

The unnamed tributary of the River Chew from the Mendip Hills down to the River Avon was severed by a dam in 1956, when the valley was flooded to form the Chew Valley Lake reservoir that supplies Bristol and Bath.

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Scientists work on the challenging task of tracking pollution from orbit with encouraging results.

Air quality assessment advises that occupants of Lewisham development should shut windows

A south London housing development has been approved in an area where air pollution is so high that residents will be advised to keep their windows closed.

Nitrogen dioxide exceeds legal limits on the busy road where the development is planned, next to the A2 in Lewisham. An air quality assessment carried out on behalf of the developers found levels of 56.3 micrograms per cubic metre in the area – far above the legal limit of 40µg/m3.

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

A study of coyote scat found the animals are attracted to fruit in urban gardens, where they’re also finding cats and small dogs

Doug McIntyre let his cat, Junior, out of the house on a sunny summer morning last June.

As Junior walked down the path and into the world, he paid special attention. “I had a funny feeling ... just an odd sensation that something was off,” McIntyre, a journalist and radio host, recalled in a column at the time.

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Tens of thousands of young people in sites from London to Manchester and Brighton are demonstrating for climate action in the latest wave of strikes

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Sir David Attenborough has shown his support for the youth strikes in an interview with the Washington Post. He was asked about the young people who have been marching all over the world. The Post asked: when you look at that, what do you see, as someone generations ahead of them? Attenborough said:

I mean, strikes are a way of expressing a strong feeling that you have, but they don’t solve it. You don’t solve anything by striking. But you do change opinion, and you do change politicians’ opinions. And that’s why strikes are worthwhile.

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Students across the UK are striking to call for the government to act to tackle the climate change crisis. A further 30 countries across the globe are taking a stand. Below is a list of areas in the UK getting involved:

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China aims to finally launch its emissions trading scheme for its power sector next year, and then expand the market to other major industries over the following five years, multiple sources told Carbon Pulse, citing a draft government plan.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued 393,357 carbon credits this week, data showed on Friday, keeping the agency on track to doubling the amount of issued offsets year-on-year.

Mining major Rio Tinto has threatened to end its membership to any industry organisations that lobby against or try to undermine the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Developers of large scale solar farms under construction warn that new rules in Queensland will blow out costs, cause delays and result in job losses.

The post Large scale solar developers warns of cost blowouts, job losses appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Transition to electric vehicles to cut carbon emissions has dominated climate policy debate in the Australian election campaign

One in two Australians would support shifting all sales of new cars to electric vehicles by 2025, according to polling by the Australia Institute.

The progressive thinktank surveyed a nationally representative sample 0f 1,536 Australians about their attitudes to electric vehicles. It found support was similar across all states and territories, including 52% in Victoria and Western Australia, 49% in Queensland and 48% in New South Wales.

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