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A group of councils in Western Sydney last week launched its regional "Turn Down the Heat" program, focussing on how urban design and infrastructure can cool the local environment.

California and Quebec are continuing discussions with New Zealand about potential linkage opportunities after spending more than a year discussing each other’s carbon schemes, according to an ARB official and documents.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices traded at a record $200 on Monday, breaking through a barrier that had proved elusive even as values skyrocketed throughout 2018, market participants said.

Australia is likely to face widespread international disapproval if it goes ahead with a plan identified by observers that involves using more than 300 million surplus units from the Kyoto Protocol era to help meet a massive shortfall in the country's Paris Agreement target.

The mystery hole in a Soyuz capsule docked to the International Space Station caused a pressure leak.

List of waterways land users must obtain permits to pollute to be scaled back, which could also allow pollution in drinking water

The Trump administration is planning to strip Obama-era pollution protections from thousands of US streams and millions of acres of wetlands, in a move environmentalists warn will harm vital wildlife and could allow pollution into drinking water.

Related: Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt used personal email for government work

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• Seismic air guns could harm dolphins and whales
• ‘This action is unlawful and we’re going to stop it’

Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over offshore drilling tests, which could harm hundreds of thousands of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, claims the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued five permits for the use of seismic air guns.

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Minor quake near Cuadrilla site is on par with one in 2011 that led to moratorium

Residents of Blackpool have reported feeling tremors from a minor earthquake from nearby fracking operations that restarted two months ago.

The 1.5-magnitude earthquake occurred 1km underground at around 11.20am on Tuesday, after shale gas company Cuadrilla resumed fracking after a month-long hiatus. The site is about one mile south-east of Blackpool.

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South Korea is planning a number of amendments to trading rules for its emissions trading scheme in a bid to improve market liquidity and make the programme more effective.

Gilet jaunes protests cast shadow as concerns raised over backlash against rapid change

Scientists have laid down the gauntlet for political leaders as the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, wrestles with the challenge of cutting emissions without sparking social tensions like those seen recently in France.

The UN climate talks – known as COP24 and the most important since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015 – aim to set a new rulebook for governments to reduce greenhouse gases and to raise ambitions, after warnings of dire consequences if global warming rises more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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Thieves caused at least 60,000 litres of oil to spill into Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay.

Has President Macron's controversial fuel tax set back carbon taxes globally?

A woman walking near the coast on Lynstone Road in Bude, Cornwall, captures the moment part of a cliff collapses on to the beach

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Researchers at Edinburgh University carry out out the largest genetic study of hair colour to date.

As negotiators at the COP24 Katowice talks are tasked with producing a cleaner version of the Paris Agreement rulebook by Wednesday morning, a clearer picture of the strength of final agreement will soon emerge.

WWF says exemptions undermine landing obligation taking full effect next month

The use of exemptions to EU restrictions on fish discards by EU trawlers has risen by 300% in the last year, according to research released three weeks before a ban is due to take full effect.

The dispensation allowing fishing fleets to discard up to 7% of their catches will continue after January 1 2019, undermining the “landing obligation” on boats to retain and bring to port all seafood catches, according to a report by WWF Europe.

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The Pembina Institute seeks a highly motivated individual to join its Toronto team as an analyst who will research and advocate for solutions to accelerate Canada’s transition to a clean energy economy at the local, regional and national levels. The scope of work may include climate and economic policy, as well as the interaction of transportation systems with the built environment.

Western Australia energy minister launches world-leading active, billed, peer-to-peer trading trial allowing 40 households to buy and sell rooftop solar, across the grid.

The post “Australia first” rooftop solar trading trial kicks off in WA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Three councils in Sydney's eastern suburbs – Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick – join forces to install kerbside EV charging stations.

The post Sydney councils charge up electric vehicle infrastructure appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk happy to be outsold by General Motors, but would also consider buying one of its closed auto factories.

The post Musk welcomes General Motors to EV race – but may also buy its factories appeared first on RenewEconomy.