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Nissan announces US pricing for Leaf Plus with boosted range and 62kWh battery.

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Elon Musk to unveil Tesla's fourth electric vehicle model - the Model Y SUV - next week.

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Does it spark joy? Japanese Queen of Clean Marie Kondo could teach the federal government a thing or two about building an effective – and vote-winning – climate policy.

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UN aviation body ICAO’s Council approved broad emissions unit criteria on Tuesday under its CORSIA global offsetting mechanism, placating green groups that had warned the body against making changes that could undermine the programme’s environmental integrity.

Two Indeck RGGI facilities are reportedly in compliance with the northeast programm’s interim compliance deadline after shifting allowances between company-owned accounts, an official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

EUAs hit a fresh one-month high on Tuesday before slipping back into negative territory below €23 to end a seven-session bull streak that had seen carbon add 25%.

Germany is unlikely to cancel EU carbon allowances to fully match the emission reductions caused by its coal phaseout because calculating the impact will be too complex, a member of the country’s coal commission said on Tuesday.

Ministers from nine EU nations backed a net zero 2050 pathway for the bloc on Tuesday, adding pressure for EU leaders to set an ambitious trajectory for EU climate policy later this year.

Workplaces the world over tune their thermostats to 22C, because this supposedly optimises mental performance. But the factors that underpin a productive office are much more complicated. Fan Zhang, Lecturer in Architectural Science, Griffith University Peter Hancock, Professor of Psychology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida Richard de Dear, Director, Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Many emitters in the EU ETS face a rude awakening in the next two years when their compliance borrowing habits catch up with them and they are forced to finally buy the allowances they need, experts have warned.

All power plants regulated under Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) cap-and-trade programme complied at the first annual compliance deadline, a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

Already devastated by a fungus made worse by changing temperatures, Australia’s frogs are at risk because of water availability and lack of refuge

Australia’s frog species, already threatened by habitat destruction and disease, are being put under extra pressure by shifting rainfall and rising temperatures from climate change.

Some of Australia’s leading frog experts are worried that serious impacts could be unfolding out of sight, with one saying climate change could push certain species to extinction before they are documented by science.

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Products may be superficially old or damaged but their basic elements can always be reused, the materials engineer says

Veena Sahajwalla has a solution for the waste crisis. While for most people the ever-growing mountains of rubbish stockpiled around the world seems like an overwhelming problem, the materials scientist and engineer sees the crisis as an opportunity that could help us to rethink the way we make and dispose of everything in our lives.

Take textiles. Australians send around 88% of textiles to landfill, with around 6,000kg of clothing dumped every 10 minutes. Earlier this year, there was a nationwide clearing-out flurry, leading to charity shops being inundated with unwanted goods. Most were destined for landfill.

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New analysis suggests EasyJet is doing a better job of reducing emissions than its airline rivals.

A movie captured by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft shows the moment it touched down on an asteroid.

Alberta could see higher emissions and lower offset demand in some sectors if the poll-leading opposition party alters the Canadian province’s carbon pricing policy for large installations, economists and market participants said.

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China risks failing to cut emissions through its national emissions trading scheme if it opts for rate-based CO2 caps based on production levels, according to an academic paper.