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Countries have agreed to limit carbon from shipping by 2050 but green groups say the pact is flawed.

Rising temperatures are leaving governments scrambling to prepare – a federal body could help them share best practices, experts say

Record-breaking temperatures. Millions under heat alerts. Hikers dying on hot trails.

As large swaths of the US bake under sweltering heat, some advocates and officials say the Biden administration should consider appointing a “heat tsar” to manage a response.

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One group of scientists reported a third global high calculated with satellites and computer models.

A major telecommunication company in Japan has launched an emission reduction project that it says will generate carbon credits under the national offset programme, targeting electric vehicle (EV) customers.

Loopholes in proposed post-Brexit laws could allow preventive use to continue, raising risk of resistance, says coalition of groups

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug-resistant bacteria, campaigners say, adding that they were drafted after closed-door meetings with industry.

The government published the draft legislation, designed to replace EU rules post-Brexit, after consultations with pharmaceutical, veterinary medicine and farming lobby groups, according to freedom of information requests filed by the investigative journalism site DeSmog.

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The Australian Labor government has removed the ‘water rule’ from its carbon credit scheme to reduce its complexity, while also providing A$73.8 million in grant funding to support new plantation forests.

German sports brand Puma has joined the Deforestation-free Call to Action for Leather, launched last month by the Textile Exchange and the Leather Working Group seeking to end deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems in leather sourcing.

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including a spectacled bear, roaming goats and marine iguanas

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Many of those who drowned near Greece last month were escaping environmental crises in Pakistan. Across the world there is far worse to come

Before the Adriana, an overcrowded fishing trawler, left Libya on 9 June, Sajjad Yousef spoke to his father. His family had begged him not to make the treacherous journey from Pakistan to Europe. But Yousef wouldn’t listen. He wanted to leave the desolation of life in Pakistan far, far behind. It was hard, the journey would be rough, he knew that. His family had taken out loans in the millions of rupees to buy him space on that teeming trawler, and Yousef was ready to take his chance.

Most of the 750 people on board the trawler were Pakistani. They were migrants, fleeing poverty and lack of opportunity but also the ravages of the climate emergency, which is felt acutely in Pakistan. The men and women who risked their lives on the Mediterranean were escaping floods, droughts, glacial melt, crop damage and locust plagues, all of which Pakistan has suffered in recent years. It is a cruel fate to endure disaster after disaster; they were once described as “biblical” but have since become mundane, everyday occurrences.

Fatima Bhutto, the author of books including The Runaways and New Kings of the World, is currently teaching a class on how to write about climate issues

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Kimberley Reid from Monash Uni talks about the temperature records being smashed this past week. Plus: Project delays and a new hydrogen strategy.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Hottest day, hottest week, hottest month appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How to get data about household solar, storage and EVs out of distributors' black boxes and in the hands of the agencies in charge of planning and managing the grid. 

The post What’s really behind that meter? New study to unlock hidden network secrets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Australian government is consulting on it’s A$2 billion ($1.3 bln) Hydrogen Headstart programme, proposing a number of eligibility requirements for project proponents to receive funding, which includes a crediting mechanism.

In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. So what’s going on with the climate, and why are we seeing all these records tumbling at once?

The post Why are so many climate records breaking all at once? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chris Bowen says Peter Dutton is worse for climate than his predecessor, the man who brought a lump of coal into parliament.

The post Bowen: “Australia will be renewable energy superpower, not a nuclear backwater” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The stockpile of privately held NZUs has shrunk by nearly 10 million due to a combination of the May surrender deadline and new issuance averaging rules, according to analysis.

NSW planning department defends record on wind and solar planning approvals, but industry points to fact that only one wind farm has been approved in each of last few years.

The post NSW Planning defends record on wind, solar, battery and transmission approvals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It would be insanity to do what the Coalition wants Australia to do - keep coal burning, slow down renewables and EVs, and wait for nuclear.

The post Nuclear: Coalition remains trapped by climate and technology denial appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The new focus on green hydrogen is on how to build a domestic industry, with the previous focus on exports relegated to a few paragraphs.

The post Bowen sets 1,000MW electrolyser target as hydrogen strategy gets revamp appeared first on RenewEconomy.

After record breaking days on Monday and Tuesday, unofficial analysis shows the world may have seen its hottest seven days in a row

The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.

“If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into a catastrophic situation, as the last two records in temperature demonstrates,” António Guterres said, referring to the world temperature records broken on Monday and Tuesday.

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Record temperatures and smoke-filled skies have shown that the threat of wildfires can impact millions of people.