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Labor has refused to reveal Australia's 2035 emissions reduction target before the election, despite it being the subject of cabinet debate for more than a year.

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New report finds wind, solar and battery storage has shielded Australian households and businesses from much higher power bills than they would otherwise be paying.

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The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne Linden Ashcroft, Lecturer in climate science and science communication, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Washington's senate committee on Wednesday will consider a bill that aims to adjust carbon intensity (CI) reduction targets under the state's Clean Fuel Standard (WCFS).

The potential layoffs listed in documents reviewed by Democrats are part of the White House'’s broader push to shrink the federal government

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.

As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists – 75% of the research programme’s staff – could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the house committee on science, space and technology.

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The BC Ministry of Forests did not use defined methodologies to calculate consistent and transparent forest carbon projections, a government watchdog said in an audit published Tuesday.

Power sector emissions reductions will double by 2040 if the Trump administration maintains the Biden-era power plant regulations, according to a new study.

A number of state lawmakers have proposed clean fuel standards in the 2025-26 legislative session, including one that contains language for policymakers to consider linkage with jurisdictions such as California, Oregon, and Washington.

The National Confederation of Insurance Companies (CNseg) has challenged Brazil’s new carbon credit investment mandate in the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

One of Canada's largest banks traded $17 billion worth of allowances in North American and European compliance carbon markets last year, according to a new report, almost double the value of its trading in 2023.

Australia's biggest solar project delivered a three fold lift in earnings in 2024, boosted by increased output and higher prices, and despite grid constraints.

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Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of Florida.

The 300MW wind farm was rejected by an independent panel, leading to outrage and a threat to dig up coal from right-leaning regional development minister.

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Northern Ireland will have to tackle its highest-emitting sector — agriculture — by providing incentives for farmers to decarbonise, in order to achieve a 77% emissions reduction by 2040 and reach net zero by 2050, the UK's independent climate advisor said on Wednesday.

Commission launched in 2022 says lagoon project, not full barrage, should be backed by UK and Welsh governments

Urgent action is needed to harness the UK’s potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued over a larger dam-like barrage, a panel of experts has said.

The Severn Estuary Commission said that harnessing the energy of the tides in the estuary could deliver predictable, renewable electricity that would work independent of weather conditions.

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Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.

The WMO’s report on 2024, the hottest year on record, sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008.

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The German Bundestag voted through a historic finance package on Tuesday that introduced a reference to the country’s net zero by 2045 goal into its constitution.

Sea foam is a health hazard. These bacterial smoothies can contain more harmful pathogens than a sewage treatment plant – and you wouldn’t go swimming in sewage. Ipek Kurtböke, Associate Professor in Microbiology, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The first New Zealand ETS auction for 2025 has failed to clear, with no one showing up to bid, in line with market expectations.

A multilateral investment fund unveiled recently a $85 million investment plan aimed at transforming the energy infrastructure of the Dominican Republican and generating transition carbon credits.