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Global traded carbon volumes rose 45% in 2018 to a five-year high of 9.1 billion tonnes as the dominant EU ETS market notched stellar price gains, Refinitiv analysts said in an annual market review on Tuesday.

UK lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected negotiators’ Brexit deal late on Tuesday, triggering a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May and prolonging the uncertainty over Britain’s future relationship with the EU and its carbon market.

The Trump Administration’s proposed Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule may increase emissions for some coal-fired power plants and states by 2030 compared to implementing no emission policy at all, according to a new report.

As a keen writer with a good eye for detail, you will report on climate and energy policies, helping to improve understanding of these complex issues in the context of climate change.

From Western Australia, through to South Australia and the country's southeast states, the Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting record high temperatures will continue today and over the coming days.

Mass fish deaths are a blaring warning sign for the heath of the Murray Darling Basin, but just as worrying is the sight of dry areas in the Darling. Fran Sheldon, Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Summer is here and the chance of blackouts is higher than normal. But the cause is unlikely to be the power station. The problem is usually much closer to home – in the local poles and wires. Guy Dundas, Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute Lucy Percival, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices held steady on Tuesday ahead of a crucial vote by UK lawmakers on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU.

Allocations of free carbon allowances to new and expanding companies in the EU ETS plodded along in the second half of 2018, with some two-thirds of the reserve remaining unneeded.

Five frogs found on Bolivian expedition funded through lonely hearts profile

For 10 years, Romeo, the last known Sehuencas water frog on the planet, led a solitary life in a conservation centre in Bolivia. Now scientists have found him a Juliet.

The adult female was among five frogs found on an expedition into Bolivia’s cloud forest. The $25,000 search was funded by donations gathered after Romeo’s keepers posted a lonely hearts profile on the dating website Match.com on Valentine’s Day last year.

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All discussion of Brexit or any other issue should be in the context of the need for government to enter emergency mode, writes Caro New, campaigns co-ordinator of the Green party

The Guardian is the only newspaper to recognise the seriousness of the threat we face from accelerating climate breakdown. Yet you, like Labour, still treat it as an “add-on” – as a separate subject, not something that, in Naomi Klein’s words, changes everything. Thus Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky (Opinion, 10 January) write about the mental effects of childhood stress, never mentioning how terrifying it is for children to live in an environment of existential threat coupled with denial. Thus Owen Jones (Opinion, 10 January) discusses Labour’s Brexit choices and the need to reverse austerity, with no recognition that redistribution must now be within an economy focused on reducing emissions to net zero by 2030, not on “good” growth. All discussion of Brexit or any other policy issue should now be in the context of the need for central and local government to enter emergency mode.
Caro New
Green party of England and Wales campaigns coordinator (jobshare)

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Study for European parliament ‘explains why EU assessors brushed off warnings of pesticide’s dangers’, says MEP

EU regulators based a decision to relicense the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on an assessment plagiarised from industry reports, according to a report for the European parliament.

A crossparty group of MEPs commissioned an investigation into claims, revealed by the Guardian, that Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) copy-and-pasted tracts from Monsanto studies.

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New Hampshire’s state legislature released a bill Tuesday morning that would install the post-2020 RGGI Model Rule in the northeast US state.

The northeast US RGGI programme will offer nearly 12.9 million carbon allowances for sale on Mar. 13 in the market’s first quarterly auction of 2019, the regulator said on Tuesday.

Carbon trading and project development firm ALLCOT has hired a new boss for its Colombian operations as the existing director departs for a high-level ministry role.

Scientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now

Climate change could be kept in check if a phaseout of all fossil fuel infrastructure were to begin immediately, according to research.

It shows that meeting the internationally agreed aspiration of keeping global warming to less than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is still possible. The scientists say it is therefore the choices being made by global society, not physics, which is the obstacle to meeting the goal.

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Quebec compliance entities received 14.1 million free V19 allowances during the first partial distribution of 2019, according to data released by the provincial government on Monday.

The world's loneliest frog, known as Romeo, finds friends (and a possible date) after water frogs found in the wild.

Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his kind in the world.

The Future Circular Collider could be Europe's £20bn successor to the existing Large Hadron Collider.