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Luxembourg will introduce a domestic tax on fossil fuels to help meet its climate targets, the government announced Friday, making the landlocked microstate the latest European nation to implement carbon pricing beyond the reach of the EU ETS.

Australia has released new emission projections with revised historical GHG data, increasing the amount of AAU carryovers it might use for its Paris Agreement target and putting it on track to exceed its international commitments.

A recent study challenging the carbon credit standards that have applied for the global CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme made questionable interpretations of the programme’s environmental criteria, and also ran counter to UN body ICAO’s own guidance in the process, developers and brokers said Friday.

The British Embassy in Vienna is part of the United Kingdom’s world-wide diplomatic network, and represents British political, economic and consular interests in Vienna and is now looking to recruit a Climate Change Policy Adviser.

A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.

Photographer Judah Passow has documented those were affected by the Bhopal disaster 35 years ago, which killed an estimated 25,000 people ad has left more than 150,000 suffering from chronic medical conditions

Judah Passow has waived his fee for this work. Contributions to the Bhopal Medical Appeal can be made at www.bhopal.org

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Sharks, tuna, marlin and other large fish at risk from spread of ‘dead zones’, say scientists

Oxygen in the oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with “dead zones” proliferating and hundreds more areas showing oxygen dangerously depleted, as a result of the climate emergency and intensive farming, experts have warned.

Sharks, tuna, marlin and other large fish species were at particular risk, scientists said, with many vital ecosystems in danger of collapse. Dead zones – where oxygen is effectively absent – have quadrupled in extent in the last half-century, and there are also at least 700 areas where oxygen is at dangerously low levels, up from 45 when research was undertaken in the 1960s.

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Friends of the Earth rates the party above the Greens and Lib Dems in its environment policy survey.

The Mercedes-Benz electric EQC 400 delights on a test drive day, with plenty of zip, tech and comfort. Just don't go too heavy on the pedal.

The post Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 test drive: No holding back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers from Sweden trace the source of climate denial and discuss proposals for new laws allowing nature to bring legal actions against those who harm it.

If a forest experiences a natural fire every 80 years, there is no chance for the ecosystem to re-establish when that frequency becomes a prescribed burn every five years says biologist Kingsley Dixon.

As bushfires raged in 6 states, school students held sit-down strikes at almost 60 locations across Australia on Friday 29th November 2019. This followed an international day of protest by students two months earlier calling for more action on climate change.

A climate system in the Indian Ocean, known as the dipole, is behind extreme weather events in East Africa and Australia.

With insect populations in decline, a study shows how gardens can support beetles, spiders and the like.

Emissions expected to be 13% lower than 2005 by 2030 but government plans to use ‘carryover credits’ from Kyoto protocol

The federal government has released new data that suggests the Morrison government is on track to meet the emissions reduction target it set at the Paris climate conference, but only by including an accounting loophole.

The emissions projections report suggests Australia will better its 2030 emissions target, a 26%-28% cut below 2005 levels, by 16 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Industrial allowance allocation for California facilities regulated under state’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme rose by roughly 15 million in 2020, as the number of those permits eligible for past compliance obligations more than doubled, according to data published Friday.

From renting your tree, to sponsoring a turkey, a growing number of people are having a greener Christmas.

Land speed record holder Andy Green describes his final high-speed test run in the Bloodhound car.

This week we slurp some stinky ice-cream, and head to the new-look scruffy bush vineyards as they embrace a more natural look to fight pests and combat climate change.