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Large Canadian emitters to be regulated by the federal government’s output-based pricing standard (OBPS) from 2019 will face a compliance unit deficit of nearly 12 million tonnes during the market’s inaugural year, according to a new report released Monday.

Wind and solar now beat coal in China and India, and nearly all major economies, while solar and batteries beat new coal and gas plants in Australia, according to BloombergNEF.

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At an international summit in Egypt this month, nations will hopefully make progress towards recognising the economic value of wildlife and other environmental assets. Michael Vardon, Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University Carl Obst, Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Governments are not expected to offer much clarity on how the CDM will transition into the post-2020 Paris Agreement era as year-end UN talks in Katowice get bogged down in other issues, observers say.

The Oregon Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) in Q2 saw more deficits than credits generated for the first time in the regulation’s history, data showed, while a state agency approved a minor amendment package to expand eligible credit types.

Origin Energy will broaden demand management offering after SA trials deliver "significant savings" on both electricity costs and emissions for C&I customers.

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Corporate contracts are now one of the major drivers for large scale wind and solar projects, with Victoria and manufacturing emerging as the hot-spots.

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An overwhelming majority of Australian business and industry think the government should strengthen its climate ambitions and develop a suite of market-based policies to meet them, a survey has found.

Reserves cover more than five times area of US, says report, but enforcement is often poor

A record surge in the creation of marine protected areas has taken the international community close to its goal of creating nature refuges on 17% of the world’s land and 10% of seas by 2020, according to a new UN report.

Protected regions now cover more than five times the territory of the US, but the authors said this good news was often undermined by poor enforcement. Some reserves are little more than “paper parks” with little value to nature conservation. At least one has been turned into an industrial zone.

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European carbon prices recovered from an early fall and a weak auction on Monday to close near €19 for a third straight session.

America's next robot rover will be sent to a 50km-wide depression that once had water running through it.

George Monbiot and Keith Kahn-Harris are thought-provoking, says Penelope Maclachlan, while Peter Wheeler believes natural climate solutions are the way forward

George Monbiot’s observations (The Earth is in a death spiral. The only hope is radical action, 14 November) are well worth reading and thought-provoking. At one point he writes: “Academics, afraid to upset their funders, have bitten their lips.”

There are exceptions. Keith Kahn-Harris’s book Denial: The Unspeakable Truth ought be compulsory reading for every university student of English, history and moral philosophy. He seems an academic who has definitely not bitten his lip, but sought to penetrate a fog of lies perpetuated by denialists: those who shout down and treat with contempt the historians and scientists who have sought the truth and presented us with their findings.

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Energy company says importing LNG will firm up renewable energy projects but critics say gas is already more expensive than clean alternatives

Controversial plans to import liquefied natural gas into Australia to fill a shortfall as domestic gas is exported to Asia would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions, AGL has conceded.

Energy companies have proposed four LNG import terminals for the east coast to ensure gas supply and ease high prices. The imported natural gas would effectively replace the two-thirds of gas sold overseas from export plants in Queensland.

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Norwegian company to fuel liners with biogas made from leftovers of fish processing

Waste fish parts will be used to power ships in a new initiative to use green energy for polluting cruise liners.

The leftovers of fish processed for food and mixed with other organic waste will be used to generate biogas, which will then be liquefied and used in place of fossil fuels by the expedition cruise line Hurtigruten.

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Scientists discover how the marsupials are the only known species producing cube-shaped faeces.

The CPA 1 will work within the Office of Climate Change to support delivery of mitigation and adaptation programs critical to fulfilling the state’s climate agenda.

Cutting emissions from heavy industry would generate savings and boost economic growth, commission argues.

The Dynasties crew took a rare decision to intervene when a group of stranded emperor penguins faced death.

Canada's Eguana Technologies become third major battery storage company to announce manufacturing facilities in South Australia.

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Sainsbury's is the first UK supermarket to stock edible insects - but just how tasty are they?