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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed C$350 million ($256.4 mln) in funding for biodiversity conservation efforts in developing nations as he officially opened COP15 in Montreal Tuesday, though green groups say the amount falls well short of what Canada should contribute.

A mammoth offshore wind auction is underway in the US which will spur at least 4.6GW of floating turbine projects off California's coast.

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Leaders announce partnership to reduce global dependence on Russian energy

Joe Biden has agreed a deal to ramp up gas exports from the US to the UK as part of a joint effort to cut bills and limit Russia’s impact on western energy supplies.

Sunak and Biden announced an “energy security and affordability partnership” and set up a joint action group, led by Westminster and White House officials, with the aim of reducing global dependence on Russian energy.

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The flight takes less than one hour and yet there are few environmentally friendly alternatives

If a flight is so short you don’t have time to finish your complementary cheese and biscuits before having your rubbish whisked away for landing, chances are there’s a more environmentally friendly and convenient way of getting to where you’re going.

The French government’s recent decision to ban short-haul domestic flights between cities that are connected by a train or bus trip of less than two and a half hours has sparked some energetic debate this week about whether Australia could follow the French in moving away from short-haul flights.

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Low-cost airline JetBlue on Tuesday announced it will next year end its strategy to automatically offset emissions from all domestic flights, and instead invest that capital in destination-specific nature-based carbon credits and reducing GHGs from its own operations.

Andrew Forrest's Squadron Energy swoops in to buy CWP Renewables and become dominant player in Australian renewables industry.

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New Zealand on Wednesday sold all the allowances on offer at the final ETS auction of the year, with the sale clearing below NZ$80 ($50.57) amid a slight dip in demand.

Wind and solar set new records for market share in half hour and monthly periods in W.A., and the world's biggest isolated grid.

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California lawmakers on Monday put forth related bills to ramp up the state’s 2030 emissions reduction target, coming after the proposal failed in the most recent legislative session and state regulator ARB’s Scoping Plan aims for deeper climate mitigation.

Traders largely believe the December RGGI auction will clear in line with secondary market pricing, as steady compliance demand runs up against regulatory uncertainty in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and a low capacity for returns scares off speculative participation.

UK-Turkish team think sound of vehicles can interfere with their normal song when trying to warn off nearby rivals

It isn’t just people who get road rage. Robins in the countryside become more aggressive when they hear the sound of traffic, according to a study.

Beloved for their plump appearance, proud bearing and sweet song, European robins are actually fiercely competitive creatures, whose calls and behaviours are part of a struggle for territorial dominance fought daily with their neighbours.

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The government says it will rewrite a planning rule restricting new turbines in England.

A blockchain technology company signed an agreement with a North American commodity exchange to develop a carbon pricing platform, the companies announced Monday.

The environment secretary tells MPs it is ‘not the role of government to provide free food’ or to intervene in markets

The government has ruled out making any intervention in the market to help farmers or consumers with high food prices, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has said.

Food prices have soared in the past year, in part owing to higher input prices such as energy, fertiliser and animal feed. Last month, food price inflation hit a fresh high of 12.4%, with poorer households hit hardest.

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Deal reached that paves way for communities in England to authorise projects without unanimous support

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Rishi Sunak has signalled the end of a moratorium on new onshore wind projects in an attempt to head off a row with Tory MPs, his second U-turn in two days.

The prime minister and the business secretary, Grant Shapps, reached a deal on Tuesday afternoon that will pave the way for communities to be able to authorise such energy developments without unanimous support.

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After a decade of climate wars, Australia is suddenly united – with state, territory and federal goverments aiming for net zero by 2050 for the first time Alison Cleary, Sustainable Economies Lead, Climateworks Centre, Monash University Sarah Fumei, Senior Project Manager, Climateworks Centre, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Industry representatives are piling pressure on European institutions to introduce WTO-compliant ‘export adjustments’ to the proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as talks over the mechanism near closure.

Activists and experts say green light for coal would show UK’s ‘posturing, double standards and broken promises’

For the UK to open a new coalmine would be “hypocritical”, would “send the wrong message”, and makes “a mockery” of climate action, developing country activists and experts involved in global climate negotiations have said.

A decision on whether to go ahead with a new coalmine in Cumbria is expected from the UK government as soon as Wednesday.

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EU co-legislators are meeting late on Tuesday to try to reach agreement on how aviation should be treated in the bloc's carbon market, though one well-placed source expected the talks to need more time.

Just Stop Oil’s Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable’s The Hay Wain

Two climate protesters have been ordered to compensate the National Gallery after they were found guilty of causing more than £1,000 of damage to the Hay Wain, probably John Constable’s best-known painting.

In July Just Stop Oil supporters Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eben Lazarus, 22, taped printed posters of a dystopian reimagining of the landscape over its canvas, before glueing their hands to its gilt frame.

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