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The UK's carbon tax under a 'no deal' Brexit will not be related to the current EU ETS design, the government said Tuesday, confirming that while the levy's sectoral coverage remains unclear, UK emitters are unlikely to be able to use surplus EUAs to comply with it.

President Donald Trump goes on the attack after the Cherokee nation dismisses Elizabeth Warren's claim.

ALLCOT is looking for a screen trader for compliance carbon market. The position will be based in the company's Madrid office.

ALLCOT is looking for an EU ETS business development manager for its Madrid office.

New independent panel may allocate funding based on more varied factors than EU CAP

Farming conditions across the UK’s regions are to be assessed for the first time with a view to allocating financial assistance after EU subsidies are withdrawn, the government has said.

A new independent advisory panel will consider what factors should determine how future funding is divided among England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a remit to look at farm sizes and farm numbers, as well as environmental and socio-economic issues.

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Leaked letter shows advisory council recommended the Lake Malbena project not be approved

One of the first acts of the Morrison government was to greenlight a private tourism development with helicopter access in Tasmanian world heritage wilderness against the recommendation of an expert advisory body.

The decision, signed by an environment department assistant secretary on 31 August on behalf of the environment minister, Melissa Price, signalled the luxury camp on remote Halls Island in Lake Malbena was not a threat to matters of national environmental significance and did not need approval under federal laws.

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Ontario’s cancellation of its cap-and-trade programme this summer will cost the Canadian province C$3 billion over the next four years, the government's financial watchdog announced in a report on Tuesday.

Ministers of island states call for help in tackling organised crime in the fishing industry, which they say is harming both the environment and human rights

Ministers from tiny island states including Palau, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are calling for help over the “devastating” impacts of criminal networks in the fishing industry.

Fishermen, unable to work because stocks are so low, are being lured into gun-running and drug trafficking by international organised crime, the nations’ officials told an industry conference in Copenhagen this week.

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The manufacturer says the bags once disposed have a six-month lifespan.

Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, 79 AD - or at least, that's what historians thought until now.

Far more must be invested in adapting to warming, says new global commission that aims to rebuild political will after US withdrawal from Paris agreement

Far too little is being done to protect people from the heatwaves, storms and floods being supercharged by climate change, according to a high-level international commission. It aims to rebuild the political will to act that was damaged when US president, Donald Trump, rejected the global Paris agreement.

The Global Commission on Adaptation is being led by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank. It involves 17 countries including China, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Canada and the UK.

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Almost 900,000 unsold meals are chucked out a day, according to food waste app Too Good To Go

Almost 900,000 perfectly edible, freshly prepared meals end up in the bin in the UK every day, new figures reveal, because they haven’t been sold in time by restaurants and cafes.

This means that more than 320m meals are thrown away by British food establishments every year – enough meals for everyone in the UK five times over, according to food waste app Too Good To Go.

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Australia should speed up deciding whether emitters can use foreign carbon credits to help meet domestic targets to deal with a potential offset shortage, an influential industry group has said.

The hefty wood pigeon has emerged victorious in New Zealand's nation-wide competition.

Daimler expects some 25% of car sales by 2025 will consist of battery-electric vehicles. But ICE here for a "long time."

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As Europeans embrace the shift to electric vehicles, with sales of plug-in vehicles reaching 1 million after soaring by 40 per cent in the first half of 2018, according to figures from EV Volumes, the European Union is looking to ignite its own EV battery industry. The EU currently has no large scale EV battery...

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Newly revealed documents show the Commonwealth government approved a controversial tourism plan for Tasmania's World Heritage wilderness without assessing it against federal conservation legislation. Brendan Gogarty, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania Nick Fitzgerald, PhD candidate, University of Tasmania Phillipa C. McCormack, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Malaria can be transmitted from humans to gorillas, with devastating effects. Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Beekeepers are sounding the alarm about the latest developments in genetically modified pollinators. By Bernhard Warner

The spring of 2008 was brutal for Europe’s honeybees. In late April and early May, during the corn-planting season, dismayed beekeepers in Germany’s upper Rhine valley looked on as whole colonies perished. Millions of bees died. France, the Netherlands and Italy reported big losses, but in Germany the incident took on the urgency of a national crisis. “It was a disaster,” recalled Walter Haefeker, German president of the European Professional Beekeepers Association. “The government had to set up containers along the autobahn where beekeepers could dump their hives.”

An investigation in July of that year concluded that the bees in Germany died of mass poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin, which can be 10,000 times more potent than DDT. In the months leading up to the bee crisis, clothianidin, developed by Bayer Crop Science from a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, had been used up and down the Rhine following an outbreak of corn rootworm. The pesticide is designed to attack the nervous system of crop-munching pests, but studies have shown it can be harmful to insects such as the European honeybee. It muddles the bees’ super-acute sense of direction and upsets their feeding habits, while it can also alter the queen’s reproductive anatomy and sterilise males. As contaminated beehives piled up, Bayer paid €2m (£1.76m) into a compensation fund for beekeepers in the affected area, but offered no admission of guilt.

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Battery storage has stolen the limelight as Australia focuses on its storage needs for a renewables-dominated grid. But pumped hydro is about to make an even bigger splash.

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