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Speaking at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' summit in Indonesia, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said 'greater cooperation' was desperately needed on the climate front.

'We have just learned that this past June, July and August were officially the hottest three-month period on record,' Guterres said. 'The so-called dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting'

• World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution

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Scientists analysing DNA of object that could be an egg from an unknown sea creature or a marine sponge

A mysterious golden orb that may be an egg laid by an unknown sea creature has been discovered on the ocean floor off the Pacific coast of Alaska.

The smooth object with an intriguing hole at the centre was found at a depth of about two miles by a remote-controlled submarine explorer.

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European carbon prices advanced steadily in very light Thursday morning trading, snapping a five-day losing streak as the market absorbed a second day without auction supply while natural gas prices rebounded as efforts to resolve a labour dispute at Australian LNG plants appear to have failed, setting the scene for strikes to start on Friday.

New fund led by former heads of ARENA and AEMO targets solar, wind and storage assets in Australia, and is backed by one of the world's biggest asset managers.

The post Former Australian energy chiefs lead new global fund targeting solar, wind and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An organisation representing eight central banks has issued guidance on how financial institutions can approach nature-related risk.

A major fintech company in India has partnered with an Australian cleantech startup to promote carbon neutrality in the sector.

Up to 180 vehicles can be charged at any one time in as little as 15 minutes at the just-opened Gigahub

The UK’s largest electric vehicle charging hub has opened at Birmingham’s NEC conference centre with the power to charge up to 180 vehicles at a time in as little as 15 minutes.

The multimillion-pound site will provide the UK’s highest concentration of super-fast chargers in one location after the biggest-ever private investment in Britain’s charging infrastructure.

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The world’s largest oil giant, Saudi Aramco, also has the weakest climate pledges of the oil and gas majors, according to a report published Thursday by a think-tank, while European firms have significantly more advanced plans than others regions such as North America and Asia.

Two conservation groups lead an initiative that aims to raise $1 billion in order to protect and restore 1 million hectares of land across Northeast India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

The IT solution arm of Japan's Hitachi group is planning to launch a new business next year that provides comprehensive support for the creation and trading of forest-based carbon credits, making a foray into the domestic offset market.

Study shows resilience workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’

Private equity firms are increasingly profiting from cleaning up climate disasters in the US, while failing to better protect workers and often also investing in the fossil fuels that are causing the climate emergency, new research has found.

The demand for skilled disaster restoration or resilience workers, who are mostly immigrants and refugees from Latin America and Asia, is soaring as greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels heat the planet, provoking more destructive storms, floods and wildfires.

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Tweet viewed millions of times claimed ground temperature was being confused with air temperature

As thermometers creep upwards, it has become harder and harder to deny the reality of the climate crisis. Some, however, are questioning whether temperatures are being measured properly in the first place.

In a tweet seen millions of times, the influencer Robin Monotti said in July that media outlets were repeating a report from the European Space Agency (ESA) that confused air temperature with ground temperature, which is generally higher.

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An academic paper on debt-for-nature swaps published this week found that of 67 highly indebted countries studied, over half could protect all their biodiversity for only a fraction of their debt relief.

Billionaire says renewables will drive Australia’s next commodities boom as his Grok Ventures finalises acquisition

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The tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has renewed plans by the Sun Cable project to develop giant solar farms in inland Australia to supply electricity to Darwin – and to Singapore via an undersea cable.

Grok Ventures, the private investment company of Cannon-Brookes, on Thursday finalised its acquisition of Sun Cable, months after a dispute between its billionaire backers threatened to derail the huge solar project.

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Introducing mandatory natural capital accounting and nature risk disclosure schemes would create the foundation for demand in a New Zealand voluntary biodiversity credit market, according to government-commissioned advice.

Japan's Mitsubishi Electric has teamed up with a Singapore-based software provider to develop and market solutions that support carbon neutrality in the manufacturing sector, it announced Thursday.

UK-based scientists and institutions will have access to the £85bn fund from today.

To mark Threatened Species Day, Perth zoo has shared footage of 13 newborn numbat joeys. With less than 2,000 remaining in the wild, it is hoped these baby marsupials will contribute to the survival of the species. Careers and zookeepers have provided around-the-clock care for the joeys, raising three by hand after one of the mothers was showing signs of mismothering. They are expected to be released into the wild by the end of the year

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• Home of endangered marsupial hit by state-sanctioned logging in NSW, environmentalists say

• Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list

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Secondhand fashion supports many livelihoods, but by nurturing local resources the country can wean itself off the used rag trade

“Stop buying secondhand clothes, these clothes are for dead people.” At the opening ceremony of the Sino-Uganda Mbale industrial park in late August, our president announced an unexpected ban on imported secondhand clothes. The audience responded to Yoweri Museveni’s rhetoric with laughter. A dead white person’s clothes being packed and shipped to Uganda is a compelling image with which to galvanise the masses.

But secondhand clothes don’t come from the dead. That’s not how fast-fashion systems work. People don’t die quickly enough for fast fashion, only trends do.

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