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Google search histories can be used to reveal how much the public knows about climate change in countries all over the world - and how ready they are to take action to guard against its effects. Carla Archibald, PhD Candidate, Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Nathalie Butt, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

• Obama-era rules targeted climate change gas from oil wells
• EPA: move ‘may degrade air quality and adversely affect health’

The Trump administration moved closer on Tuesday to rolling back Obama-era rules reducing oil and gas industry leaks of methane gas.

Related: Jerry Brown: Trump's 'gross ignorance' main obstacle in climate change fight

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California Governor Jerry Brown publicly ridiculed a Trump administration proposal that could ease regulations on methane emissions leaks in the US, while simultaneously calling on the expansion of carbon pricing mechanisms to other areas of the world.

Retired farmer Sylvia Wilson’s husband died before they could do their dream road trip. She decided to go anyway

Sylvia Wilson drove around Australia in an electric car. It cost her $150.90.

Wilson, 70, a retired farmer from near Biloela in central Queensland, had planned the trip of a lifetime with her husband, Rod. One impulsive evening in mid-2016 they went online and, sight-unseen, bought a Tesla S75 electric car for the journey.

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National Geographic has created the 50 greatest wildlife photographs exhibition. A pop-up, which starts its global debut in Melbourne zoo’s historic Carousel Park, the Air, Land & Sea exhibition showcases the world’s best wildlife photography from the likes of Paul Nicklen, Beverly Joubert and Steve Winter

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Number of Australians concerned about impact of climate change and wanting coal phased out rises

A growing number of Australians are concerned about the impact of climate change, and more than half of a survey of 1,756 voters believe the Morrison government needs to stay in the Paris agreement, despite Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US.

A study tracking voter sentiment for more than a decade, funded first by the Climate Institute and now by the Australia Institute, finds 73% (up from 66% in 2017) of respondents concerned about climate change, and a clear majority, 68%, believes the government should set domestic targets to comply with our Paris commitments.

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EU carbon prices shed more than a euro on Tuesday, giving back over half of the previous session’s massive gains that had seen prices hit a fresh decade-high €25.79.

Offset developer Bluesource has secured an undisclosed investment from private equity firm GEF Capital Partners to help further expand its services in the North America market, the two companies announced Tuesday.

EU carbon traders are mired in doubt about when regulators could meet to discuss market intervention, even as soaring EUA prices close in on a likely trigger point.

A rapid global shift to clean energy is needed to prevent runaway climate change, says António Guterres

United Nations secretary general António Guterres has warned that the world is facing “a direct existential threat” and must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 to prevent “runaway climate change”.

Guterres called the crisis urgent and decried the lack of global leadership to address global warming.

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Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause

Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a leading cause, the UN has warned.

Hunger afflicted 821 million people last year, the third annual rise since 2015, with most regions of Africa and much of South America showing worsening signs of food shortages and malnutrition. More than half a billion of the world’s hungry live in Asia.

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Governments are failing to tackle the crisis that causes 1,000 early deaths a day, says damning EU report

Air pollution is now “the biggest environmental risk” to public health in Europe but governments are failing to adequately deal with the crisis, the EU Court of Auditors has found.

Europe’s air pollution limits are “much weaker” than WHO guidelines – and most EU countries do not comply with them anyway, according to the damning new report.

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WA government says federal nature conservation funding fell from $8m in 2009 to $1m in 2016

The premier of Western Australia has expressed concerns about the lack of federal funding for threatened species protection and government inaction on recovery planning. And the Northern Territory government has said it may have just one threatened species with an adequate monitoring program.

In a letter to a Senate inquiry into Australia’s high rate of fauna extinctions, the WA premier, Mark McGowan, writes that conservation work by the state, including control of predators, had enabled the WA government to downgrade the threatened status of some species, but protecting the country’s endemic wildlife was becoming more challenging because of reduced federal spending.

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The South Korean government has ordered Samsung Electronics to withdraw a CDM project that originally aimed at generating nearly 770,000 carbon credits per year over a decade.

Oregon lawmakers are likely to approve legislation in 2019 that would enable the US state to create a cap-and-trade market to eventually link with the WCI programme, several regulatory sources said.

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Nissan, Delta and CSIRO get grant to pursue off-grid and renewables-based electric vehicle charging systems.

The post Off-grid and solar-based EV charging trial wins Victorian government grant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Swedish luxury carmaker is billing its new 360c concept, not as an electric car, but as a mobile living and workplace.

The post Volvo 360c concept car is electric, autonomous – and you can sleep in it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan talks about his visit to Angus Taylor, and the South Australia subsidies for battery storage. And we take a look at Victoria’s renewable auction results and the discovery of a new power source in Canberra.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

DNV sees "momentous" changes in energy system, with huge investments in the power grid to replace those in oil and gas.

The post DNV signals massive shift of investment from oil and gas into power grids appeared first on RenewEconomy.