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The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the state’s Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) after an industry trade group had argued that a regulatory agency improperly implemented the low-carbon fuel standard several years ago.

France could move to a floating carbon tax linked to oil prices in an attempt to calm unrest and allay consumer concerns, modifying the government's current and highly-divisive approach of fixing a schedule of steep annual rises, President Emmanuel Macron said this week.

NSW Labor says will target at least 50% renewables by 2030, and 100% of state government electricity needs by 2025.

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The first quarterly WCI current vintage auction of 2019 sold out at the higher end of traders' predictions, according to results released Wednesday, despite the absence of embattled California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).

California regulator ARB gave out more than 2.5 million carbon offsets (CCOs) this week, with forestry projects bringing in nearly the entirety of that amount.

European carbon prices surged 8% on Wednesday, extending its recent recovery rally to erase the losses posted over the past two weeks.

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will start formal high level talks in Hanoi today, with denuclearisation at the top of the agenda.

Too much recyclable packaging is still finding its way into landfill - and plastic is the biggest culprit, with two-thirds going unrecovered, according to a new analysis. Ben Madden, Senior Research Consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Nick Florin, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund made further divestments from coal and agricultural businesses in 2018, furthering its climate risk strategy, it said in its annual report on Wednesday.

On Instagram, the congresswoman said millennials are choosing to be childless because of the climate crisis. But that approach risks overlooking systematic factors

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, freshman congresswoman and social media sensation, has taken time out from baiting Donald Trump and establishment members of her own party to raise a profound moral question for us all: in light of the escalating climate emergency, should we still be having children?

During a recent Q&A live-streamed on Instagram, apparently shot while she was pottering in her kitchen, the rising star of the Democratic party – and one of the few frontline politicians to get the scale of the environmental emergency – pulled no punches in telling viewers that unless we take urgent, radical action on emissions, there is no hope for the future. “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult, and it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”

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Move to evict protesters who have squatted site since 2010 comes days before judicial review of third runway plans

Bailiffs have moved in on a community of environmental protesters who have been camping near Heathrow for almost nine years, following an eviction order to remove the men and women occupying part of the land.

Related: Charity calls for court to livestream Heathrow third runway challenge

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Protesters glued themselves to windows of central London hotel hosting industry event

Nine activists from the environmental group Extinction Rebellion have been arrested after they glued themselves to the front of a central London hotel to demand that the petroleum industry end its “deeply immoral” behaviour in driving climate change.

Specialist police officers spent about two hours unsticking the protesters from windows next to the entrance of the InterContinental Park Lane hotel in Mayfair, which was hosting an oil and gas industry conference.

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A standalone UK ETS would be large enough and liquid enough to be viable, UK climate minister Claire Perry said on Wednesday, reiterating that the government’s preferred post-Brexit option remains linking with the EU carbon market.

What is causing the multiple February wildfires and is this the new normal?

John Watson, who has died aged 93, was a first-generation dairy farmer near Dartington, south Devon, driven by the writings of the environmental movement (particularly Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the Club of Rome Limits to Growth report) to resist chemical fertilisers, which he could see were depleting the soil, and become an early convert to organic farming.

He combined a life of the mind with a relentless will to action, believing that examples inspired others far more than words. In 1974 his farm, Riverford, was possibly the first in the country to open for tours, which demystified farming for visitors. Riverford later became a beacon for the organic dairy, meat and vegetable movement, selling direct to customers, as his children developed various sustainable businesses on the farm.

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The board of the Green Climate Fund on Wednesday awarded $96.5 million to a Brazilian REDD+ project, the first time a scheme designed to cut emissions by halting deforestation has won financial backing from the flagship UN-backed climate finance initiative.

Sydney-based Gelion has its eye on the $70bn global battery market with the launch of its zinc bromine gel battery technology that it says will soon undercut lithium-ion on production cost.

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Every year Pakistan produces around 20m tonnes of rubbish, with around half of it is burned or thrown into rivers, causing pollution, disease and flooding. But a recycling hub in Islamabad is getting to grips with the problem

Photographs by Hazel Thompson/Tearfund

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Now in it’s fourth year, the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition attracts thousands of entries from scores of countries. Here are a selection of the 2019 winners

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London, Leeds, Doncaster and Maidstone are among the worst affected

Almost 2,000 locations across the UK have levels of air pollution that exceed safety limits, according to a pollution map released by campaigners.

In 2017, the worst location for nitrogen dioxide pollution was Kensington and Chelsea, followed by Leeds and Doncaster.

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