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Eating more plant-based foods, ending waste and improving farming are vital for the future, say scientists

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Project developer and advisory firm Bluesource has hired a carbon market and renewable energy expert to drive its voluntary offset business.

China’s top generators risk losing nearly $400 billion in stranded assets by 2040 if they don’t step up the retirement rate of coal-fired power plants, a report said Wednesday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) average monthly prices retreated in September from all-time highs in August, while the total volume transacted trended in the opposite direction to notch a yearly high.

Observers remained sceptical of the long-term impacts of President Donald Trump's decision Tuesday to order the US EPA to promulgate a regulation mandating the currently banned year-round sales of 15% ethanol blends (E15)

Police in Kathmandu rescue two trafficked chimps after the BBC revealed the smugglers' methods.

EU carbon prices fell sharply for the second straight day on Wednesday, hitting a three-week low and closing below €20 for the first time this month.

On the outskirts of Bangalore, families must piece together drinking water from communal supplies, intermittently available tap water, and "water ATMs". Georgina Drew, Lecturer, University of Adelaide Amalendu Jyotishi, Deepika M G, Associate professor Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An Alaska project is set to be issued nearly 15 million credits on Wednesday by the California Air Resources Board (ARB), which would mark the largest offset project issued in the history of the state’s offset programme if approved by the regulator.

Mandatory environmental labels would change how we produce and consume in three far-reaching ways.

• Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown

If you buy a washing machine, a fridge or a television in Europe, it comes with a sticker. Thanks to a 1992 EU directive, all appliances must be labelled with their energy efficiency.

So why has our food system – which threatens 10,000 species with extinction, emits about 30% of greenhouse gases, and drives 80% of our nitrogen and phosphorus pollution – only ever had voluntary ecolabels?

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Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population

• We label fridges to show their environmental impact – why not food?

Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the food system’s impact on the environment. In western countries, beef consumption needs to fall by 90% and be replaced by five times more beans and pulses.

The research also finds that enormous changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying the planet’s ability to feed the 10 billion people expected to be on the planet in a few decades.

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Two former senior UK ministers from opposing parties on Wednesday urged Britain to install a carbon tax to replace its EU ETS obligations post-Brexit, bolstering support for the option.

The German space agency releases a spectacular 3D map of the Earth's land surfaces.

Top climate adviser says UN warnings will force the government to act in ways that will be controversial and politically fraught

The UK’s obligations in response to this week’s warnings from the UN over global warming will be controversial and politically fraught, taking the country into “uncharted territory” and testing the political consensus on climate change, the its top climate adviser has warned.

The government will have to regulate industry and intervene in the market in ways that will prove controversial in parliament, predicted Chris Stark, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). He is charged with advising ministers on how swift and how deep cuts in emissions should be and how they can be achieved, and his committee will start work on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advice shortly.

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Australia’s rising emissions could add to carbon credit demand from emitters regulated by the Safeguard Mechanism, but a repeat of last year’s price spike is unlikely as the market is better prepared this year, according to observers.

A global poaching epidemic is threatening the existence of countless species including rhinos, tigers, savannah elephants - and the lesser-known pangolin.

Indonesia will next month weigh four carbon pricing options to help meet its Paris obligations, including a full-fledged emissions trading scheme for its power and industry sectors.

Tritium signs up new investor as it ramps up production of ultra fast chargers to meet increasing demand.

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Tesla not only has two different charging plugs for different markets, but they also differ to the ones chosen by the other EV manufacturers. But why?

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