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How your LinkedIn profile, Twitter engagement and other social media activities are influencing the views of potential employers. And James Walker, from western QLD, has so many work projects he is not even sure which is his 'side' hustle.

Virginia’s cap-and-trade regulations are unlikely to be approved in 2018 due to various regulatory and administrative steps that must take place before final approval can occur, a state official told Carbon Pulse.

Body of Julián Carrillo found with multiple bullet wounds in Chihuahua state on 24 October

Mexico is cementing its reputation as one of the deadliest places in the world for environmental and land defenders, human rights activists have warned after the latest murder of a prominent indigenous rights campaigner.

The body of Julián Carrillo, a member of the Alianza Sierra Madre organisation, was found with multiple bullet wounds in the mountains of Chihuahua state on the evening of 24 October.

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Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil obedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’

• Letter: Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take action

A new group of “concerned citizens” is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience starting next month and promises it has hundreds of people – from teenagers to pensioners – ready to get arrested in an effort to draw attention to the unfolding climate emergency.

The group, called Extinction Rebellion, is today backed by almost 100 senior academics from across the UK, including the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

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Agreement with unions includes early retirement for miners, re-skilling and environmental restoration

Spain is to shut down most of its coal mines by the end of the year after government and unions struck a deal that will mean €250m (£221m) will be invested in mining regions over the next decade.

Pedro Sánchez’s new leftwing administration has moved quickly on environmental policy, abolishing a controversial “sunshine tax” on the solar industry, and announcing the launch of Spain’s long-delayed national climate plan next month.

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Shale gas firm halts work near Blackpool after 17th quake is first over 0.5 magnitude limit

Cuadrilla has been forced to stop fracking after its operations at a well near Blackpool triggered an earthquake that breached the official threshold.

The company said it had paused work for 18 hours after the tremor on Friday morning. It was the 17th quake in the area since fracking began 11 days ago, but the first to be powerful enough to pass a regulatory threshold that requires fracking to stop.

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Claire Perry failed to record meeting with Cuadrilla and others on transparency register

The government wants Britain to export its approach to fracking around the world, the energy minister Claire Perry has told the shale gas industry.

Details of Perry having a private meeting with fracking firms have emerged, as the 13th minor earthquake was recorded since the shale company Cuadrilla began fracking near Blackpool earlier this month.

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

Work begins to exhume thousands of skeletons to make way for HS2 construction.

Argentina’s Gran Chaco forest is being razed for soya, ending up in Europe as animal feed, and on our plates. It’s the backbone of Argentina’s fragile economy, but has come at a price for the indigenous people who live there

The extent of the destruction is painful to see. Flying over the area around the El Corralito indigenous community in a single-propeller plane, only thin strips of green are left between vast fields of pale, newly uncovered earth, pencilled in with parallel white lines of the ashes of bulldozed trees.

Only a few years ago, this stretch of land in Argentina’s northern province of Salta was still forest – home to the Wichí people, and part of the gigantic Gran Chaco forest that spreads across northern Argentina and its neighbouring countries Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. Second only to the Amazon in South America for its size and biodiversity, the Gran Chaco covers 250,000 sq miles of dry forest, which is being cut down faster than scientists can study it.

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Participants in the South Korean carbon market expect volumes to pick up and prices to rise after the government on Friday finalised installation-level allocation for 2018.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued 92,037 carbon credits to three projects this week, all of which are under contract with the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund.

The federal government and Coalition-led states on Friday voted down a push from state Labor governments to include a mechanism to cut carbon emissions as part of Australia’s new energy plan.

The shift to renewables by the giants of industry continues this week, with the news that Coca-Cola Amatil will install 3.5MW of solar, to cut its grid power usage in Australia by 14 per cent and its annual energy costs by up to $1.3 million. The 10,000-panel job, which will be managed by commercial solar...

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WA nickel miner claims "first" solar hybrid plant on an Australian mine primarily funded on commercial basis.

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By rebating the revenue to households, disposable income rises, which can be a boon for the Canadian economy

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Canada will implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax starting in 2019, fulfilling a campaign pledge he made in 2015.

Starting next spring, it’ll no longer be free to pollute in Canada. We’re putting a price on pollution in provinces that don’t yet have a plan to fight climate change. More on our plan to cut pollution, grow the economy & create jobs: https://t.co/VjCNOOKLVB
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Chargefox luanches first 350kW ultra-rapid EV charging station in Victoria. Here's what you need to know about Australia's first open fast-charge network.

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Prototype of Tesla's all-electric SUV crossover, the Model Y, approved for production, but Elon Musk most excited by Tesla Ute.

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Third of coastline cannot be affordably protected, government climate change advisers say, with current plans ‘not fit for purpose’

Rising sea levels will claim homes, roads and fields around the coast of England, the government’s official advisers have warned, and many people are unaware of the risks they face.

The new report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said existing government plans to “hold the line” in many places – building defences to keep shores in their current position – were unaffordable for a third of the country’s coast. Instead, the CCC said, discussions about the “hard choices” needed must be started with communities that will have to move inland.

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The latest version of the Cold Hard Facts report into the refrigeration and air conditioning industry is now available.