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The government has pledged to review its long-term climate targets. Renewable energy, housing and and transport are just some areas where new policies could cut emissions fast

More wind farms, solar power and electric cars: these are likely to be the future of the UK, under government plans announced this week to seek a zero-carbon economy in the next 30 years.

Some of the less obvious effects could be just as transformative, however, involving innovations such as smart houses and smart roads, widespread changes to the countryside wrought by new tree-planting and new farming practices designed to conserve soils.

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The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox

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California faces many challenges in guaranteeing a carbon price to help livestock and dairy farmers struggling to cut emissions despite having access to buyers willing to pay over $100/tCO2e for credits.

Ensuring that a change in the Ontario government this June will not lead to the province’s exit from the WCI carbon market will require separating the political elements of cap-and-trade from the pragmatic need to act on climate change, according to stakeholders.

A newly hatched turtle, a roaming peacock and egrets in China are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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An international team found that a protein causes brain cells to die when it is in the jelly phase.

Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

Engineers finish assembly of the test model for Europe's ExoMars rover mission.

Former pro-cyclist Doug Petty has been bringing cyclists to the Balearic island for more than 50 years to ride the famous hairpin bends on its spectacular mountain roads

Mallorca attracts more than 200,000 roadies a year. Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome are usually credited for popularising winter riding on this Spanish Balearic island, but it’s two others who really put the island on the cycling map, one of them quite literally.

1950s pro cyclist Doug Petty has been bringing cyclists to Mallorca every year for 51 years, and he’s been able to keep them coming because of the lure of two twisting roads built in the late-1920s by local engineer Antoni Parietti, who built the snaking carreteres to attract motor tourists. Sports car drivers still head to the Coll dels Reis and the Cap de Formentor mountain road, but the majority of those now skimming Parietti’s curves are pedal powered.

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The energy friendly agenda inside Trump’s interior department is revealed in records obtained by the Guardian and the watchdog groups Documented and the Western Values Project

The Texas hornshell is a sleek green-grey mussel that once thrived in the Rio Grande watershed, its habitat stretching from southern New Mexico down into the arid Texas borderlands. Some of its habitat happens to overlap with rich deposits of oil and gas.

Amid a long-term decline in its range, the Obama administration in 2016 proposed to declare the mussel an endangered species. Upon taking office, however, the Trump administration changed tack.

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State energy ministers in Australia on Friday agreed to let the Energy Security Board continue work on the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), which would introduce a carbon price signal in the electricity sector, but remained concerned over the scheme’s weak climate ambition.

Designer Stella McCartney says fashion is a medieval industry, which produces a huge amount of waste.

Return of Great Caledonian forest speeded up with fungi spores to help saplings flourish

The return of the Great Caledonian forest that once covered much of Scotland’s highlands is being boosted with a special mix of mushroom spores that should help saplings survive better on the hills.

Fungi living on the roots of trees play a vital role in the ecology, helping to break down nutrients in the soil. But trees were lost in much of the Highlands many years ago so the fungi vanished too.

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The Department, in consultation with a working group representing the states, territories and local government, is developing a strategic national approach to product stewardship action on the environmental impacts of products.

The Department, in consultation with a working group representing the states, territories and local government, is developing a strategic national approach to product stewardship action on the environmental impacts of products.

The Department, in consultation with a working group representing the states, territories and local government, is developing a strategic national approach to product stewardship action on the environmental impacts of products.

The Department, in consultation with a working group representing the states, territories and local government, is developing a strategic national approach to product stewardship action on the environmental impacts of products.

Organisations with voluntary product stewardship arrangements can now apply to become accredited by the Australian Government. Applications open on 26 March and close on 18 May 2018.

Organisations with voluntary product stewardship arrangements can now apply to become accredited by the Australian Government. Applications open on 26 March and close on 18 May 2018.

Organisations with voluntary product stewardship arrangements can now apply to become accredited by the Australian Government. Applications open on 26 March and close on 18 May 2018.