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The GHG removal trading platform led by Finnish utility Fortum foresees holding auctions every other month this year as its first voluntary market sale of 2020 saw prices climb back above €20/tonne.

But the UN health body says the coronavirus outbreak does not yet meet the criteria for a pandemic.

Boris Johnson is hiding from this defining issue. Labour will win if it sets the agenda

Where is Boris Johnson? As flooding devastates large parts of the north, the Midlands and Wales, the prime minister’s strategy is to hide from public scrutiny and hope the whole thing blows over. It’s now 11 days and counting since his last public appearance.

This is a huge miscalculation. Because for all of Dominic Cummings’ talk of “superforecasting”, the government is ignoring the issue that will define politics for decades to come: our response to the climate crisis. From wildfires in Australia and the Amazon, to extreme heat in India, to drought in east Africa, climate-induced extreme weather is already reshaping our planet in disastrous ways.

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Environmental group’s lawyers said they knew boarding North Sea rig was in contempt of court

Greenpeace faces a heavy fine after admitting its climate activists boarded a North Sea oil rig in defiance of a court order last year.

Transocean, the US-based drilling contractor, has asked the court of session in Edinburgh to impose unlimited fines on Greenpeace UK and consider jailing its executive director, John Sauven, for contempt of court.

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The US space agency's InSight probe detects over 450 significant seismic events since landing in 2018.

Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.

The 'breathtaking scale' of the Australian bushfires were way beyond anything climate science predicted, say scientists.

The Rosalind Franklin robot will be moved from Cannes to Turin to fix a fault on its solar panels.

EUAs tumbled almost a euro to well below €25 early on Monday, as the rapid spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus beyond China sent financial markets reeling.

A panel of experts from UNSW and overseas discuss the potential of solar paint and its ability to power electric cars.

The post The Driven Podcast: How close are we to solar cars? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists say charismatic but lesser-known "flagship species" are key to raising money for conservation.

EnergyAustralia reports big slump in earnings but says technologies needed for reliable, low cost and low carbon grid - wind, solar, batteries, demand management - exists.

The post Yallourn owner says technology exists for low-cost, low-carbon grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A New Zealand carbon forestry firm says it can make 20% of the emission cuts required for the country to meet its Paris target if the government makes offsetting rules under the ETS more flexible.

Farmland, abandoned seaside resorts and salt fields are slowly being claimed by the rising waters, with 100 million people predicted to be affected in China by 2050

All photographs by Sean Gallagher for the Guardian

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Negotiations over a 10-year agenda for nature are about to begin. Our ecological future depends on the engagement of every global citizen

The year 2020 has been designated a “super year for nature”, when the global community will rededicate itself to halting biodiversity loss with a 10-year action agenda, scheduled for agreement at the conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Kunming in China in October.

On 13 January we published an initial “zero” draft of an action framework, which will be considered at negotiations being held in Rome from 24 February.

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Senate debates Greens legislation that would ban new coal mines in Galilee basin, as Albanese says Australia could still be exporting coal in 2050.

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It's important to remember that most of this greening is due to growth of grasses, which respond more rapidly after rain. Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Nothing will end the climate and energy policy crisis in Australia unless you change the toxic culture of its main political parties.

The post The toxic political culture that makes good policy impossible in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New Morgan Stanley report claims nearly 50GW of US coal-fired power capacity will be unable to compete against renewables by 2024.

The post Morgan Stanley says 47GW of US coal capacity could be uneconomic by 2024 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Windlab flags big write-down of its wind, solar and battery Kennedy energy project, but it won't derail a potential $68 million acquisition offer.

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