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The Trump administration is expected to unveil its replacement draft for the US EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) on Tuesday, a proposal that would reportedly result in far fewer GHG reductions than the previous Obama-era iteration and limit the scope of eligible emissions reduction activities.

A free-market approach won’t rescue the world from climate change, argue Richard Vernon and Dave Hunter, while Nicholas Falk says the UK can learn from China. Philip Steadman offers ideas for keeping cities cool

Larry Elliott rightly directs our attention to the impending perils of climate change and to some of the impediments to their avoidance (Capitalism can crack climate change. But it must take risks, 16 August). His suggested solution “that the world needs to wage war against climate change” misses the most important component. Climate change is driven by climate changers: you and me and 7.6 billion fellow humans, increasing by 83 million a year and with effects on much more than climate change.

Benign and non-coercive means to reverse that growth, to achieve something like the 2.5 to 3 billion that experts estimate the planet could sustainably support, are well known. They include the much wider and free provision of reproductive health services, including family planning, to all who need them, and of both general and health education especially to the large number of the world’s girls currently denied them.
Richard Vernon
Oxford

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EU carbon allowances are expected to continue to climb for the rest of the year as speculators keep buying in anticipation of further increases and utilities lend support, analysts said, following several weeks of strong price gains that have already pushed prices to their highest for a decade.

Locals say wildlife charity acting like a ‘corporate monstrosity’ over £5-a-day fee

The RSPB has been accused of acting like a “corporate monstrosity” for attempting to impose parking charges at one of north Wales’ most scenic birdwatching locations.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds plans to charge £5 a day for peak season visits to the South Stack reserve in Anglesey, despite renting the 780 acres of public land for just £7.

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The Senior Consultant / Consultant will be leading the delivery of a key component of the flagship DFID Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme within the Climate Change portfolio, as well as joining a busy team to help to maintain the high quality of existing contracts and support the team in seizing new opportunities for growth.

The Midwest Climate & Energy Policy Advisor promotes highly networked efforts within The Nature Conservancy’s Midwest Division (Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio) to broaden political support in the region for energy and climate policies that lead to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

EDF’s Global Climate team seeks a Senior Analyst to provide critical research and analysis in support of our U.S. focused efforts to advance market-based policy solutions to address climate change.

Climate change is an urgent threat to humanity that demands swift, decisive action. We seek a Global Director to lead WRI’s Global Climate Program and drive positive action toward achieving a zero-carbon future at the national and international level. 

Pedro Jarque Krebs from Peru scoops the top prize of £5,000 for his vibrant image of American Flamingos preening

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Rising arctic temperatures mean we face a future of ‘extreme extremes’ where sunny days become heatwaves and rain becomes floods, study says

Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arctic warming is making heatwaves elsewhere more persistent and dangerous.

Rising temperatures in the Arctic have slowed the circulation of the jet stream and other giant planetary winds, says the paper, which means high and low pressure fronts are getting stuck and weather is less able to moderate itself.

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Australia’s decision Monday to drop the emissions target in the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has left the energy sector concerned that investment certainty might be further away than ever, and that the nation could put itself on track to face international repercussions for missing its Paris obligations.

In her new show, the choreographer Jasmin Vardimon uses the Greek myth of Medusa to explore womanhood and our ecological future. Tristram Kenton photographed the rehearsals in Sitges

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After fighting tooth and nail for changes to the National Energy Guarantee but have ended up faced with a very different policy.

Calls are emerging for the New Zealand government to raise the price ceiling for NZUs immediately to avoid emitters paying the NZ$25 fixed price for 2018 compliance instead of surrendering permits.

Campaigners and doctors set up ‘sick bays’ to highlight diesel emissions health risks

Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace.

Hundreds of staff were prevented from getting into VW’s head office in Milton Keynes by doctors and other medics who, with Greenpeace activists, set up “sick bays” at entrances to highlight the damage VW diesel vehicles are doing to people’s health.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has abandoned the emissions-reduction component of his signature energy policy, in the latest chapter of a brutal decade-long saga for Australian climate policy. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tesla CEO says the company could "maybe ... in about three years" deliver an EV for a price tag of just $US25,000 – but it won't be easy.

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COAG energy council member and ACT climate minister Shane Rattenbury declares the NEG "dead," killed off by Turnbull's complete capitulation on emissions and climate.

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There are many sections of industry and the public that can see the benefits of electric transportation; unfortunately we have a small group of politicians that believe otherwise.

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“Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences.” Those are the challenging words from Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, for twenty years the head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and a...

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