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California lawmakers on Monday evening advanced to the Senate floor a bill to strengthen the state’s 2030 GHG reduction target, while the Assembly turned down legislation that would have required regulator ARB to review the WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme.

AEMO puts out call for urgent efforts to ramp up construction of wind, solar, storage and new transmission lines to ensure capacity in place before coal exodus.

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Snowy Hydro's owner and its contractor have both said Snowy 2.0 is delayed, but the market operator has not been told. Turns out it won't make much of a difference.

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CEC, engineers and unions says urgent action needed to solve jobs shortages that threaten to throttle Australia's green energy transition.

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Australia can improve the quality of its domestic market and lead the way internationally by setting up a marketplace for tokenised carbon credits, according to the chairman of one of the country’s “big four” banks.

A Berlin-based startup has secured fresh pre-seed funding to build a nature-based carbon credits and impact claims marketplace secured on the blockchain, it announced Tuesday.

The Nigerian government has announced it has started discussions towards the establishment of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) under which carbon output will be capped across certain sectors of Africa's biggest economy.

Aloha Petroleum’s case against AIG could set precedent as to whether firms are protected against climate damage claims

A fossil fuel firm is suing its insurer for refusing to cover a climate lawsuit in a case that could affect the wider industry’s ability to defend itself from litigation.

Aloha Petroleum, a subsidiary of the US-based Sunoco, filed a claim against AIG’s National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh earlier this month, arguing it had failed to protect Aloha from the mounting costs of defending climate-related claims by local governments in Hawaii.

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EUAs tumbled early on Tuesday as the imminent resumption of full auction volumes led to the fewest number of bidders in the daily auction for nearly six years, while energy prices fell as the market awaited details of a Brussels plan to uncouple gas and electricity prices.

Announcement means 11 of agency’s 14 areas in England now in drought status after record dry spell

All of south-west England is in drought after some of the driest conditions in nearly 90 years, the Environment Agency has said.

The Wessex area – which includes Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, south Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire – has been declared in drought status.

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Solar and wind projects to expand in size and provide bulk of total American electricity supply by decade’s end, study shows

Renewable energy is set for an unprecedented boom in the US in the wake of its first ever climate bill, with the capacity of solar and wind projects expected to double by the end of the decade and providing the bulk of total American electricity supply, new analysis has shown.

The passage of the legislation, known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will help propel the US towards the forefront of the clean energy economy, experts predict, helping it compete with China on the manufacturing and installation of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and emerging zero carbon technology.

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Upstream oil and gas companies Equinor and Wintershall Dea have teamed up to pursue the development of an extensive CCS value chain that will connect CO2-emitting establishments in Europe with offshore CCS sites in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), they announced on Tuesday.

A couple has been convicted by a Taiwanese court for running a carbon credit investment scam and defrauding over 70 victims out of more than NT$100 million ($3.3 million).

Despite many challenges, December’s crucial biodiversity talks in Montreal may set a new path for humans to live with nature

• What is Cop15 and why does it matter for all life on Earth?

They are known as “the twins”, born in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro but diplomatically separated and left to develop at different speeds. One is the UN’s climate change convention, or UNFCCC, now a fully fledged global agreement with huge annual summits attended by heads of state and rock stars pledging to reduce emissions.

The other, the UN convention on biological diversity (CBD), aims to protect the world’s 10 million species of animals and plants, but it meets less often, is modest by comparison, and has yet to make its mark with the public in the same way as climate.

John Vidal is a former Guardian environment editor

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Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 1,000 people and affected over 30 million, in a catastrophe that is still unfolding. ‘We are witnessing the worst flooding in the history of the country,’ says Dr Fahad Saeed, a scientist with the Climate Analytics group

• ‘Monster monsoon’: why the floods in Pakistan are so devastating

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Accidents and pollution are making road vehicles untenable. With public transport and ride-sharing, their demise can’t come soon enough

In 1989 a group of Chinese government urban planners came to Europe on a fact-finding mission. They were widely praised for curbing car use – the country of 1 billion people, after all, had just a few million vehicles; the bicycle was king; its city streets were safe and the air mostly clean. How did they manage to have so few cars? asked their hosts, grappling as ever with chaotic British streets, traffic jams and pollution.

“But you don’t understand,” replied one of the delegation. “In 20 years, there will be no bicycles in China.”

John Vidal is a former Guardian environment editor

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Conservationists say auditor general’s report shows offsets must be ‘last resort’ amid calls for overhaul of biodiversity market

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A New South Wales government environmental offsets scheme is failing to protect some of the state’s most endangered species and ecosystems and is riddled with integrity and transparency concerns, according to a review by the state’s auditor general.

The report, described as “utterly damning” by conservationists, prompted opposition and crossbench MPs to call for an overhaul of the scheme.

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Renewables takes back seat at Woodside as profits surge on soaring global gas prices.

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Like Australia, Chile is facing mounting environmental pressures, such as an escalating water crisis. If the constitution is approved in September it’ll deliver profound changes to the country. Ana Estefanía Carballo, Honorary Research Fellow in Mining and Society, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Erin Fitz-Henry, Deputy Coordinator - Anthropology, Development Studies & Social Theory, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.