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Russian financial services company VTB Group is launching a division that will focus on carbon finance and trading, it announced Wednesday, four months after unveiling a partnership to develop an emissions marketplace.

A team of people in the north of England are now making clothes, from seeds to finished garments.

BHP signs deal with Australia's largest hybrid wind and solar project to supply much of the power needs of its giant Olympic Dam mine.

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Exclusive: ‘Red list’ report finds 30% of native species in decline due to loss of habitat, intensive farming and climate crisis

The common swift, common snipe and rook are among species slipping towards extinction in Europe, according to the continent’s latest “red list” report, which finds that one in five bird species is now at risk.

From the Azores in the west to the Ural mountains in the east, birds that have been the cornerstones of European ecosystems are disappearing, according to the BirdLife International analysis, which is based on observations of 544 native bird species. Three species have become regionally extinct in Europe since the last report in 2015 – Pallas’s sandgrouse, common buttonquail and pine bunting.

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From attacking people who are anti-nuclear to blaming Greens for lack of climate action, what was that about no partisan sniping or politicising?

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News Corp Australia has launched its Mission Zero series of articles with the kinds of stories on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the risks of climate change that other outlets have been running for an age.

This campaign across the Murdoch-owned metropolitan tabloids is news because they have been a major conduit for climate science denial and carping about emissions reductions and “greenies” for decades.

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India's ironing vendors use charcoal as fuel, but Vinisha Umashankar's cart harnesses the Sun's energy.

Forrest attacks federal Coalition for fear mongering over switch to green energy, and its focus on fossil fuels in its hydrogen and CCS strategy.

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Governments met virtually this week for the first part of a UN summit tasked with developing a global framework to protect biodiversity, with implications on how forest and land protection plays into climate mitigation and how funders can claim credit.

California regulator ARB distributed the largest number of offsets since December this week in the penultimate issuance before the third full compliance deadline of the WCI cap-and-trade programme, state data showed Wednesday.

The California Air Resources Board is seeking motivated and experienced applicants to work on a flagship greenhouse gas reduction program—the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

The Fuels Section of the Industrial Strategies Division (ISD) is responsible for supporting the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) by developing and maintaining the LCFS Reporting Tool (LRT), Credit Banking and Transfer System (CBTS), and Alternative Fuels Portal (AFP). ISD is seeking an Air Resources Engineer to manage the LCFS data management system contract and coordinate the preparation and evaluation of data management system changes to ensure proper operation and maintenance of the system.

Japan, South Korea and China are all moving away from overseas coal financing. For Australia, the writing is on the wall – the clean energy transition is inevitable. Christian Downie, Associate Professor, Australian National University Llewelyn Hughes, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Switzerland has approved bilateral agreements with Georgia and Dominica, enabling the two nations to sell it carbon credits to help meet its Paris Agreement emissions pledge.

Bush Heritage Australia has renamed one of its largest nature reserves to recognise the enduring connection to country held by the Wangkamadla traditional owners.

The 233,000 hectare Cravens Peak Reserve near Boulia, in far western Queensland, has been renamed Pilungah after a culturally significant spring on the property.

The spring had been destroyed by a previous owner, but its significance will now be honoured through the newly named reserve

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Carbon Pulse has hired a new Climate and Energy Correspondent to cover what is a crucial time in Brussels.

The government faces pressure to get the bill passed ahead of the COP 26 climate conference.

Prime minister under pressure to increase country’s 2030 emissions reduction goal but faces challenges from openly hostile Nationals

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State government commitments for 2030 have put Australia within reach of meeting global expectations on tackling the climate crisis, but it will fall short unless the Morrison government steps up, a new analysis has found.

Guardian Australia understands prime minister Scott Morrison has told colleagues he wants to increase Australia’s existing 2030 emissions reduction target as part of his current negotiations with the Nationals about new climate policies to be unveiled ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.

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Bernard Matthews and 2 Sisters owner: ‘Food is too cheap’ and price needs to reflect true cost of production

The owner of the UK’s biggest poultry supplier has warned that the cost of chicken is expected to rise by more than 10%, adding that food in Britain is “too cheap.”

In a strongly worded intervention, Ranjit Singh Boparan, the owner of Bernard Matthews and 2 Sisters Food Group, called for a “reset” on pricing to reflect the true cost of producing food.

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MPs challenge heads of five water companies over ‘routine’ discharges into English waterways

A water company boss has told MPs he would swim in the rivers and sea in the area where he lives, as he and others were challenged over “routine” dumping of raw sewage.

The heads of the five largest privatised companies – Southern Water, South West Water, Northumbrian, Severn Trent and Thames Water – were questioned on Wednesday over discharges of raw effluent into rivers.

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Ed Miliband joins climate experts in expressing deep concern over Beijing’s plans to step up coal output

China’s “deeply concerning” plan to burn more coal threatens to derail the UK’s efforts to coordinate tougher global commitments to reduce carbon emissions at next month’s Cop26 summit in Glasgow, according to climate experts and Labour.

Beijing has ordered its major coal-producing regions to step up output, after large parts of the country were hit by rolling blackouts affecting factories and homes.

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