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Carbon allowance prices in the latest Swiss bi-annual auction have crashed to a record low.

Environmental protesters have daubed the windows of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London in an attempt to provoke their arrests. One protester climbed above the revolving doors of the department on Victoria Street, Westminster, and wrote ‘frack off’ in black spray paint. The vandalism came as police started to remove protesters who had superglued themselves to card entry gates inside the staff entrance to the building as part of an anti-fracking protest. The protest is intended to be the first in a series continuing throughout the week and culminating with a mass civil disobedience action on Saturday, which activists are calling ‘rebellion day’.

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Project will trace tortoiseshell products in shops back to where they were poached

Researchers will use DNA technology to try to stop the illegal poaching of hawsksbill turtles for use in tortoiseshell products.

The population of the critically endangered species has declined by more than 75% in the Pacific Ocean in the past century and a key threat to the species’ survival is illegal trade.

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LNG is often touted as a good alternative to coal but the increase in production means increased emissions that will cancel out any recent savings

Australia’s carbon footprint has expanded for the last three years straight – and the coal industry is not to blame. The biggest driver has been liquefied natural gas, known as LNG.

Science and policy institute Climate Analytics found that between 2015 and 2020 the emissions growth from LNG will effectively wipe out the carbon pollution avoided through the 23% renewable energy target.

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Desperate efforts to save the whales – and the Chinook salmon on which they depend – risk fishing communities losing a way of life

Days before the start of the summer fishing season, when guides and outfitters on Canada’s west coast gamble their financial prospects for the year, fishing lodge owner Ryan Chamberland received devastating news.

The coastal waters of Vancouver Island, which he and four generations of his family had fished for salmon, would be out of bounds. The unexpected closure was part of a desperate effort by the Canadian government to save an endangered population of killer whales.

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The chained-together demonstrators say they are willing to go to jail for their cause.

Protest blocks doors of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Protesters have blocked the doors of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the first act of a planned week of mass civil disobedience over environmental breakdown.

Dozens of members of the group Extinction Rebellion locked themselves to the revolving doors of the building on Victoria Street, close to parliament in central London, while others glued themselves to the glass.

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German utility EnBW nudged up its hedging rates over Q3 to leave it close to last year’s levels, but is still lagging recent historical rates, it said in financial results on Monday.

The Philippines is abandoning plans to introduce a carbon tax, a senior official has told a conference, saying it would impose unpopular costs on consumers while doing little to reduce emissions.

The UK government’s climate advisors could recommend deepening Britain’s near-term emission targets as part of their advice on how the country can align with the 1.5C global warming goal, the UK’s climate minister has indicated.

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Show leadership to halt forest loss from agribusiness, Amsterdam Declaration group tells EU

The UK, France and Germany have called on the European commission to launch tough new action to halt deforestation by the end of the year.

A long-delayed EU action plan should be brought forward “as soon as possible”, says a letter to the commission sent by the Amsterdam Declaration group of countries, which also includes Italy, the Netherlands and Norway.

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Environmental lawyers say reliance on local authorities to take action is not working

The government’s plan to tackle air pollution in some of the worst affected cities in the UK is unravelling into a “shambolic and piecemeal mess”, according to environmental lawyers.

ClientEarth, which has successfully defeated the government three times in court, said the emphasis on local authorities taking action was backfiring with no joined-up strategy, delays and poorly researched proposals.

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NZUs remained unchanged just above the NZ$25 fixed price option (FPO) level for the third consecutive day on Monday as emitters weigh compliance strategies amid ongoing uncertainty over the FPO's fate.

At first I kept an open mind about Trump’s interior secretary. But it soon became clear he put the oil, gas and mining industry above our agency’s mission

Back in 2017, the staff at the interior department was not hoping for the best, we were hoping for the competent. A presidential transition can bring dramatic change to the leadership of a federal agency – particularly the agency that manages the conservation and use of one fifth of America’s land area and the seabed of our continental shelf.

Civil servants pledge to continue to serve the American people and the agency mission regardless of whether or not they agree with the political positioning of the president and his cabinet. So we watched the Ryan Zinke confirmation hearings carefully, listening for hints at his management style, his communications style, and his general understanding and respect for public lands and the mission of the agency. These were the qualities that mattered, not his ideology. We were hoping for competence.

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Apparently, it's our most common recycling mistake.

New South Wales Coalition govt unveils grid upgrade plan, to accommodate the “flood” of new renewable energy capacity in the state's development pipeline.

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Campaigners accuse the government of telling "bare faced lies" about the effectiveness of badger culls.

Victoria Coalition proposes support for brown coal generators and a tender for new "24/7" power source. But the numbers don't make sense.

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Clean Energy Council slams federal government plan to underwrite new dispatchable generation, saying it grossly distorts ACCC recommendations in favour of coal-fired generation.

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