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Renewable energy's long supply chains are being linked to modern slavery – it is an issue that the industry must take seriously.

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Global emissions from energy generation stalled in the first half, and 2023 could be the first year of a structural decline in pollution.

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The Australian government has decided to rejoin the Green Climate Fund and will make a “modest” contribution toward it, which will be announced at the end of the year, an official told Carbon Pulse.

A selection of finalists in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023.

Thinktank says rapid growth of wind and solar is near rate required if world is to hit 2030 target as part of 1.5C pathway

Carbon emissions from the global electricity sector may peak this year, after plateauing in the first half of 2023, because of a surge in wind and solar power, according to a climate thinktank.

A new report on global electricity generation found that the growth of renewables was so rapid that it was close to the incredibly fast rate required if the world is to hit the tripling of capacity by the end of the decade that experts believe is necessary to stay on the 1.5C pathway.

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His bodyweight has risen nearly 7,000%, but does "806 Jr" have what it takes to win Fat Bear Week?

A Brazil Senate committee on Wednesday by a unanimous vote approved cap-and-trade legislation supported by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and in the process incorporated a number of amendments to secure agricultural sector support and enshrine a timeline for compliance obligations to begin.

Social media posts are full of hot air in claiming wind turbines take years of operation to make up for the energy needed to manufacture them. This is false.

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Five arrested after group members storm production, unveiling banners and locking themselves to stage

Five people have been arrested after Just Stop Oil protesters disrupted a performance of Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre in London’s West End.

During a performance of the song Do You Hear the People Sing? members of the Just Stop Oil group stormed the stage with banners. In a video of the protest posted online, the performance came to a halt as one member shouted “just stop oil”, to boos from the audience.

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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat on Wednesday published a new synthesis report as stakeholders called to accelerate climate action through submissions that spanned almost 800 pages ahead of the conclusion of the first-ever global stocktake at COP28.

A non-profit is urging the EU to more than double its yearly deployment of wind energy by 2030 in order to achieve the bloc’s 42.5% renewable energy target, while also advocating for the bloc to strengthen that goal to as much as 50% to better align with the Paris Agreement, according to a report released on Thursday that comes as the bloc is increasingly beset with issues that could hinder those ambitions.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) increased its yearly allocation of no-cost allowances to electrical utilities under the state’s cap-and-trade programme by as much as 23% through 2026, as seen in its revised mid-year figures released Tuesday.

Researchers have announced what they call an "important milestone" in the development of direct air capture (DAC) technology, operating their energy-efficient CO2 absorption system for 10,000 hours.

The surplus of allowances and offsets in the linked California-Quebec carbon market came closer to reaching 400 mln during the third quarter, while entities shifted more units into compliance accounts, according to data published Wednesday.

It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster

“Absolutely gobsmackingly bananas” is not standard scientific language, but these are not standard times, scientifically.

New data shows average global temperatures in September were not just the hottest ever recorded, but 0.5C above the previous record for the month. They were about 1.8C above temperatures in pre-industrial times, before humans started pumping vast amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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The Biden Administration’s signature climate legislation is unleashing a wave of clean energy investment, along with some opportunities and risks for countries like Australia. Alan Finkel, Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

One night, someone cut down a tree. It wasn’t just any tree. The loss of the Sycamore Gap tree sent a nation into grief. But why? Rebecca Banham, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Northeast US will face mild temperatures this winter, lessening heating demand in the RGGI cap-and-trade programme region, a weather forecasting service said Wednesday.

While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set policy and funding precedence for US decarbonisation, additional measures are necessary across three domains to cut GHG emissions by more than 40% by 2030 and nearly 90% by 2050 relative to 2005 levels, a report said Wednesday.