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The comments from the UK's official climate come ahead of a global climate conference in Glasgow.

Climate groups say 10-year ICS plan not urgent enough to cut carbon from ‘dirty’ sector

Shipping companies would have to pay a small levy on every tonne of fuel they use under proposals aimed at developing zero-carbon vessels within 10 years, transforming the high-carbon global shipping business.

Ships running on hydrogen or ammonia as fuel are thought to be technically possible, but more research and development is needed to bring forward the development of prototypes.

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Powerful trends associated with low carbon economy are reframing work, business, politics and daily life.

The post We’re not just shifting to a low carbon energy future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genex lands first-of-its-kind financing for two solar farms, including the 50MW Jemalong project in NSW which will be developed on merchant model.

The post Genex lands “world first” green finance deal for two solar farms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

What's the temperature where you are right now? ANU public health expert Dr Liz Hanna is calling for a national education campaign to help us manage heat stress.

A report suggesting global demand for the fossil fuel will remain steady for the next five years has sparked renewed calls for investment in new coal mines here at home to meet the demand.

State water ministers meeting in Queensland are refusing to cooperate with a proposed review of water-sharing arrangements in the Murray-Darling Basin.

For crop farmers, the risk of low profit years has doubled. Neal Hughes, Senior Economist, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Steve Hatfield-Dodds, Executive Director, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Under the Paris Agreement, countries have registered plans to meet emissions reductions, but the current pledges, if fully realised, would take us to 2℃ by the 2050s. Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) will aim to cut fuel sector emissions by a quarter over a 10-year period, with the 13 US jurisdictions slated to give more details on Tuesday about its proposed cap-and-trade scheme.

Stuart Roberts, vice-president of the NFU, makes the green case for maintaining cattle grazing in the UK, while Simon Fairlie thinks cutting meat production is a distraction

It is too simplistic to say that cutting livestock numbers everywhere is the most efficient way of reducing emissions, as your article suggests (Governments urged to set deadlines for cutting livestock production, 12 December). The world’s livestock systems differ too significantly for them to be generalised, and doing so hinders the countries that are practising sustainable farming methods and which have an ambition to do even more.

Compared with the mass-scale intensive systems in the US or Brazil, our livestock systems are unrecognisable. British farmers do not clear rainforest to make way for beef production. Our meat does not come from the ashes of the Amazon. We value our carbon sinks.

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Ancient DNA extracted from a tooth print in ancient "chewing gum" reveals new clues about our ancestors.

Purussaurus mirandai could grow to 10m in length and was able to move on land, scientists believe.

Ella Kissi-Debrah, nine, who lived near South Circular Road in south London, died in 2013

A fresh inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl who suffered a fatal asthma attack will examine the role of the government as it looks at whether air pollution caused or contributed to her death.

Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after three years of seizures and 27 visits to hospital for breathing problems.

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European carbon prices jumped on Tuesday as the year-end auction pause began, with technical buying building on yesterday’s big gains.

• Fox News host blames immigrants for littering Potomac River
• Potomac Conservancy calls remarks ‘racist plain and simple’

Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host denounced as a white supremacist sympathiser by prominent liberals, is facing the ire of a new set of detractors: water conservationists.

Related: Steve Bannon: 'We’ve turned the Republicans into a working-class party'

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Errors in the Clean Energy Regulator data released last week wrongly suggested some big emitters had had their CO2 caps backdated to 2016, including some that had used carbon credit to meet their targets for that year, according to an agency spokesperson.

Levels high enough to potentially impact human health and trigger regulatory action, which only targets two of 4,700 variants

New data shows that rainwater in some parts of the US contains high enough levels of potentially toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to possibly affect human health and may, if found in drinking water, in some cases be high enough to trigger regulatory action.

PFAS chemicals appear in an array of everyday items, such as food packaging, clothing and carpeting. Chemicals in this family are the subject of the film Dark Water, which chronicles the real-life efforts of a lawyer seeking to hold a polluting factory to account in West Virginia.

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Extreme voter patterns in rural areas of Australia is bringing about some interesting and unexpected results.

Company’s plans for remediating mine surrounded by Kakadu national park amid fears of uranium leakage are in disarray after Singapore-based fund’s complaint

Mining giant Rio Tinto’s plans to clean up the controversial Ranger uranium mine have been thrown into doubt after objections from a Singapore-based hedge fund.

The mine is owned by ASX-listed Energy Resources Australia (ERA), which in turn is 68% owned by Rio Tinto.

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