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Cape Town, on South Africa's coast, was the first global city to come close to running out of water.

Negotiators working on rules to govern international emissions trade under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement are considering a fresh compromise to help break a deadlock over double counting safeguards that has lasted for nearly six years.

A Silicon Valley-backed 'robo-advisor' for high-quality offsets has raised $3 million in a fund raise to help scale its procurement platform for corporates seeking to neutralise their carbon footprint.

Czech utility CEZ saw its coal power output drop 18% over the first nine months of 2021 amid asset divestments, the company said on Tuesday, though it halted the sale of its Polish assets.

Evolution Environmental Asset Management (EEAM) on Tuesday announced the appointment of an advisory board made up of green investment experts, while also naming a carbon offset veteran to its team of founding partners.

The Morrison government will again try to open up a key clean energy fund to CCS projects, in attempt to establish $500 million fund.

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There is a way the Coalition can claim its climate policy is all about technology not taxes and still show it is serious about net zero

Supporters of fossil fuels in Australia’s media and political classes have been gleefully echoing Greta Thunberg’s claims that the Glasgow climate summit has been a failure. Yet both European and American politicians have been busily working on other plans to discipline climate change bludgers. These involve measures such as taxing carbon intensive goods imported from countries without equivalent emission control policies, and also choking off finance to high-polluting industries.

The Morrison government’s recently released long-term emissions reduction plan claims that it will protect us from such actions, stating the plan will “ensure Australian exporters are not targeted by trade action, and Australian businesses do not face cost of capital premiums”. While Scott Morrison might be able to fool voters, there is little chance the US and European governments will fail to notice this is a plan to freeload off their hard work.

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In a decision made by Trump’s interior secretary days before leaving office, critical land for the northern spotted owl would have been logged

In a victory for the northern spotted owl, the Biden administration has struck down a Trump-era plan that would have removed more than 3.4m acres of critical habitat for the imperiled bird and opened the old-growth forests where it lives to logging.

The population of the small chocolate brown owl, which lives in forested areas in Washington, Oregon, and northern California, has been in decline for decades and has already lost roughly 70% of its habitat. Its numbers have plummeted 77% in Washington state, 68% in Oregon, and close to half in California, according to studies by the US Geological Survey, and biologists fear that further habitat reduction would put them on the path to extinction.

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A sudden global $100/tonne carbon tax would lower GDP by only 1-2% in most middle-to-high-income nations, but the effects would be more pronounced in carbon-intensive emerging economies such as Russia, South Africa, and India, according to new research.

AirCarbon Exchange (ACX) and the Rio de Janeiro government on Tuesday announced plans to launch a voluntary emissions reduction (VER) marketplace in Brazil next year as the country appears set to ramp up its carbon market activity.

A collection of Democratic lawmakers, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arrived at the COP26 talks on Tuesday to rekindle trust in US climate leadership, but a bleak legislative and policy landscape at home and poor track record in global cooperation are raising doubts.

The voluntary carbon market has varied views over demand for correspondingly adjusted carbon credits, though many only expect limited take-up from a minority of corporate buyers seeking high quality units.

Speaking on stage alongside the puppet 'Little Amal’, leaders and campaigners have said the climate crisis cannot be ended without the empowerment of women. Indigenous women and politicians including Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, demanded increased investment.

The 3.5-metre puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee started her journey in Turkey on 27 July and has travelled nearly 5,000 miles across Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France, symbolising millions of displaced children

• ‘World designed by men has destroyed many things,’ Cop26 warned

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Australia ranked last for climate policies, gets another 'fossil' award for EV "inaction" plan, as new report finds COP26 pledges would push world beyond 2°C.

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Dominic Raab defended ex-attorney general for working from Caribbean in lockdown – but do Tories really see the problem?

Geoffrey Cox: (reaching for the phone) Yes?

Dominic Raab: Thank God I’ve managed to track you down.

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Despite vastly different political systems, we can draw some interesting parallels between Russia and Australia on the climate front. Ellie Martus, Lecturer in Public Policy, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Rising ocean temperatures are having 'worrying' impacts on the deep ocean's ability to lock away our carbon emissions.

California, Quebec, and New Zealand on Tuesday signed a declaration promising closer collaboration on climate policy, with the WCI jurisdictions looking into greater alignment with the Pacific Island nation on their respective cap-and-trade programmes.

The true Australian Way would be to harness clean transport technology to lower costs, improve the air we breathe and create new jobs, all while supporting net zero emissions

The Morrison government on Tuesday announced its future fuels and vehicles strategy. Overall it’s a missed opportunity.

Electric vehicles should not be seen as an environmental issue. The transition to electric vehicles is a major economic opportunity for Australia – if we can get coherent and strategic national policy to capitalise on the benefits of this transformative change.

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Nuclear power is being promoted as a source of 'clean' energy, but is it safe?