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Five years after the Paris climate deal was agreed, we look at the promises made by key countries.

Taylor says Technology Roadmap will deliver cuts needed to hit 2030 emissions target - but the projections predict doom for large-scale wind and solar investment.

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Last turbine completed at Stockyard Hill, but Australia's biggest wind project still not producing a year after original timetable.

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The US entrepreneur's latest Starship rocket prototype impresses in flight, but crashes on landing.

Market operator dramatically cuts forecast of gas use in electricity generation in Western Australia, the country's biggest consumer of gas.

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California issued more than 3.5 million new compliance offsets this week, as analysts revised their 2030 outlook for credits with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs) in light of greater projected supply. 

Nasa has announced 18 astronauts who will travel to the Moon under the agency's Artemis programme.

European carbon prices briefly rose above €30 again on Wednesday, but failed to close above this key level despite today's EUA options expiry and data showing a record build in investor interest in the market.

EU envoys reached an agreement on Wednesday over the bloc’s €17.5 billion fund to support coal regions in transition, in a compromise that excludes all financing for fossil fuel investments.

The official advisor to UNESCO rated the site as being of 'significant concern', a drop from 'good with some concerns'. It's now in the second lowest category. Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Anthony Capon, Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Leo Robba, Lecturer, Visual Communications / Social Design, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia's biggest states are taking back control of their electricity systems, because the way we make power is changing. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Newly discovered strategy in Asian bees repels killer hornets that can massacre whole hives

Asian honey bees paste pellets of animal poo on to their nests to repel attacks by giant killer hornets, scientists have revealed.

The attacks can involve dozens of the heavily armoured hornets and lead to the “mass slaughter” of thousands of bees, the researchers said, after which the hornets carry off the bee larvae to feed their own offspring. But in a continuing evolutionary arms race, the bees have developed defence mechanisms such as hissing at them or mobbing the hornets to suffocate them.

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Group suggests 10 policies to reduce ‘night blight’, including commission to regulate excess lighting

MPs have called for urgent action to reduce light pollution, promote “dark towns” and restore a sense of wonder in the night sky.

Supported by the astronomer royal, a cross-party group urged the government to designate a “minister for the dark sky” and to establish a statutory commission to regulate excess lighting.

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Nova Scotia’s Dec. 2 cap-and-trade auction settled significantly above the programme’s annual floor price for the second straight sale, according to results published Wednesday.

EU capitals will need to resolve outstanding issues on the bloc’s seven-year budget and coronavirus recovery plan ahead of a key summit starting Thursday afternoon if they want to agree on a higher 2030 emissions reduction target, although signs of a preliminary compromise is building optimism. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has selected California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Commissioner Liane Randolph to replace ARB Chair Mary Nichols, while naming three new appointees to the environmental agency's board ahead of the 2022 Scoping Plan process.

Expert says Ella Kissi-Debrah, nine, faced ‘exquisite’ risk and criticises lack of efforts to tackle toxic air

A young girl who suffered a fatal asthma attack thought to have been triggered by dangerous levels of air pollutants was a “canary” signalling the risk to other Londoners, an inquest has heard.

Ella Kissi-Debrah died aged nine in February 2013 having suffered numerous seizures and being taken to hospital almost 30 times in the previous three years.

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This year’s spring temperatures would be ‘virtually impossible’ without human greenhouse emissions, according to new report

Australia’s hottest spring on record, which saw temperatures more than 2C above average, would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, new analysis has found.

A spring as hot as the one Australians just experienced would come along only once every half a million years without the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, climate scientist Dr David Karoly told the Guardian.

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The mass of human-made objects will for the first time likely exceed that of living things in 2020.