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Macquarie Group subsidiary the Green Investment Group will expand its European clean energy portfolio after securing a deal with Vestas for the supply 80MW of new wind turbines, which are destined to be installed at a project in Norway. The Green Investment Group will receive 19 of Vesta’s 4.2MW wind turbine model, which features the...

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Swedish company SeaTwirl inks deal with Crest Consultants to target the Brazilian offshore wind energy market with its vertical axis floating turbine technology.

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Six-month trial using new two-in-one solar inverter and EV charger shows massive savings of $7,000 to be had from driving on sunshine.

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Massachusetts power plants complied with the state’s annual CO2 limit under the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) cap-and-trade programme, an official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

A new report by the NGO Tearfund calls out four of the biggest single-use plastic polluters, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi-Co and Unilever. Photographs from Tanzania show the scale of the problem

Story: Drink firms’ massive footprint

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Chimbu is a baby tree kangaroo, and he is the latest success in a complex web of international conservation. Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ESMRC seeks a Project Manager to ensure consistency and coordination across the interrelated roles of protocol adaptation and refinement; pilot project oversight, planning and execution; and certification of ESMC protocols and credits, as well as programmatic certification.

ESMRC seeks a Research Director (FTE contractor) to ensure consistency and coordination across Working groups, R&D projects, and pilots/field demonstrations, and to provide the needed technical support for Working Groups and proposal development, monitoring and reporting of outcomes.

Ground monitoring stations in major British cities detect clear reductions in two major pollutants.

Extending the scope of the EU ETS to cover road transportation may not be the most suitable idea to tackle pollution from cars, a former EU top climate official said on Tuesday.

Verified emissions in the EU ETS fell by around 8% in 2019, a team of analysts predicted on Tuesday, adding to estimates that the bloc's carbon market saw the largest drop in greenhouse gas output in a decade.

The US Transportation and Climate Initiative’s (TCI) final Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) remains on track for completion this spring, but the coronavirus pandemic is likely to postpone the future approval of the proposed regional fuel sector cap-and-trade programme, regulatory sources said.

Exclusive: Mass bleaching seen along Great Barrier Reef could mark start of global-scale event, expert warns

Rising ocean temperatures could have pushed the world’s tropical coral reefs over a tipping point where they are hit by bleaching on a “near-annual” basis, according to the head of a US government agency program that monitors the globe’s coral reefs.

Dr Mark Eakin, coordinator of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told Guardian Australia there was a risk that mass bleaching seen along the length of the Great Barrier Reef in 2020 could mark the start of another global-scale bleaching event.

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The US federal government released its final rule for vehicle fuel economy and emission standards on Tuesday for the next six years, a move that is estimated to increase transportation sector CO2 emissions by nearly one billion more tonnes compared to Obama-era regulations and setting up a legal showdown with Democrat-led states.

Germany has asked the EU’s top court to decide whether installations with adjoining facilities covered by the country’s anti-pollution laws should also be included in the EU carbon market.

Ottawa will go ahead with Wednesday's scheduled rise of its federal carbon levy, maintaining the revenue-neutral tax will financially benefit most Canadians at a time of economic turmoil due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Scientists have been amazed at the public's response to help digitise the UK's old rainfall records.

• Announcement will allow vehicles to emit 1bn more tons of CO2
• Experts say move will lead to more life-threatening air pollution

The Trump administration is rolling back the US government’s strongest attempt to combat the climate crisis, weakening rules which compel auto companies to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles. Critics say the move will lead to more life-threatening air pollution and force Americans to spend more on gasoline.

Related: New US measures threaten civil rights amid coronavirus pandemic

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