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Australia is mourning the loss of a trailblazing climate activist and strategist, who made the case for emergency action more than a decade ago in Climate Code Red.

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Byron Bay based Enova Energy has entered into voluntary administration, the highest profile victim of the fossil fuelled crisis in the National Electricity Market.

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Lawmakers from a California Assembly committee on Monday advanced a bill that would bring in more regular reviews of the state's cap-and-trade scheme.

To foster climate politics based on integrity, first we need an honest conversation about the extent to which the fossil fuel industry has captured Australian politics.

The post Australia has a once in a lifetime chance to break stranglehold fossil fuels have on politics appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction of a 414MW wind farm in central western NSW to go ahead later this year after signing a PPA with gen-tailer Snowy Hydro.

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Since 1995, worldwide agricultural and food trade has more than doubled. It’s never been clearer that eating local produce is a powerful way to take action on climate change. Arunima Malik, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Sydney Mengyu Li, Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Engineers are developing mobile, floating nuclear desalination plants to help solve water shortages.

A Stockholm-based startup building a vertically-integrated web3 platform to finance and sell carbon credits has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round.

A Canadian former mining company is pivoting into the carbon credit space, with three nature-based projects in the developing world in the early stages of design.

Legislation to create a compliance carbon market in Brazil has been "completely disfigured" to exclude cap-and-trade amid pressure from allies of President Jair Bolsonaro, according to the elected representative who introduced the bill.

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has joined forces with the city-state’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) to establish a committee to guide Singaporean companies on their sustainability reporting, it was announced on Tuesday.

The world's largest ever freshwater fish has been caught in Cambodia's Mekong River, according to US and Cambodian scientists. The giant stingray measured almost 4 metres from snout to tail, and weighed in at just under 300kg (660lb). The previous world record was a 293kg (646lb) Mekong giant catfish, caught in Thailand in 2005.

The stingray was snagged by a local fisher on the night of 13 June, south of the town of Stung Treng

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Migaloo, where are you? How searching for the iconic white humpback whale connects us all with the ocean. Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia has only scratched the surface of what’s possible when it comes to better managing energy demand. Anna Malos, Australia - Country Lead, Climateworks Centre Emi Minghui Gui, Climateworks Energy System Lead, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The chances of a European Parliament compromise on EU ETS reforms appear to have improved as a crunch vote looms this week, amid few fresh submissions and as one well-placed source suggested to Carbon Pulse that a fourth political group may also support the move.

Ohio State University researchers gauged responses to climate science versus scepticism and suggest facts bear repeating

People’s views of the climate crisis can be influenced by the media, according to new research. But accurate scientific reporting only has limited impact on people who already have a fixed political viewpoint, particularly if that is opposed to climate action.

Scientists ran an experiment in the US to find out how people responded to media reporting on the climate and found that people’s views of climate science really were shifted by reading reporting that accurately reflected scientific findings on the climate. They were also more willing to back policies that would tackle the problem.

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Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla rebel who spent two years in jail, has won Colombia’s presidency, promising substantial changes including oil & gas policy reform and climate justice.

Switzerland's latest carbon permit auction has cleared at a new record high.

Researchers estimate that carbon emissions from transporting food are about 6% of the global total, with fruit and vegetables the largest contributor

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Transporting food from where it is produced to our dinner plates creates at least triple the amount of greenhouse gas emissions as previously estimated, a new study suggests.

So called “food miles” are likely responsible for about 6% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the authors of the study found after calculating that 3bn tonnes of CO2-equivalent was produced in transporting food for human consumption each year.

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