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Australian companies committed to 100% renewables now represent almost 25% of the value of the ASX, but there's plenty of room for improvement.

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Mick Keelty, the interim inspector-general of Murray-Darling Basin Water Resources, discusses his four-month inquiry into water sharing.

In the lead-up to next week's UN Climate Summit, Kylie Porter, the executive director of Global Compact Network Australia, discusses how Australian businesses are tackling climate change.

Eastern Australia is on high alert this morning, with total fire bans in place for nine regions across NSW and with firefighters battling a dangerous blaze on Queensland's Darling Downs. Public health experts are warning that people need to prepare for more severe and longer-lasting episodes of air pollution.

EUAs rose sharply on Wednesday on a much stronger auction result and a pause in energy market losses.

A newly discovered planet offers insights into the Sun's demise in 5-6 billion years.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government will not meet its emission goals through its suite of environmental policies revealed last year, with the jurisdiction’s proposed output-based pricing system (OBPS) revealed to be even weaker than previously expected, the Canadian province’s watchdog said Wednesday.

Insects are vital to sustaining life on Earth – and their numbers are falling fast. So consider ditching the fly spray and see what you can do to help. David Yeates, Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Katja Hogendoorn, University of Adelaide Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Shanxi has become the latest Chinese province to launch a programme for generating forest carbon credits, local media reported, a move that could see its offsets gain eligibility in the nation’s ETS and even eventually in ICAO’s CORSIA as part of China’s voluntary carbon programme.

The Russian leader says the US "militarisation" of space means Moscow has to respond.

In the 'largest study of its kind' researchers studied 70,000 bird specimens over a 40-year period.

Former Greens leader and four other life members express ‘profound concern’ for 43-year-old organisation after staff sacked

A group of Wilderness Society life members led by the former Greens leader Bob Brown are calling for an independent review into the conservation group after it recorded a $1.7m deficit last financial year, forcing it to sack campaign and other staff.

In a letter to the organisation’s directors, Brown and four other life members expressed “profound concern” for the 43-year-old organisation, which they say is “one of the world’s most important defenders of wild and natural country”.

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Findings confirm reliability of projections of temperature changes over last 50 years

Climate models have accurately predicted global heating for the past 50 years, a study has found.

The findings confirm that since as early as 1970, climate scientists have had a solid fundamental understanding of the Earth’s climate system and the ability to project how it will respond to continued increases in the greenhouse effect. Since climate models have accurately anticipated global temperature changes so far, we can expect projections of future warming to be reliable as well.

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A group of Extinction Rebellion activists dressed as bees ‘swarmed’ the electric-powered Lib Dem battlebus in south London and quizzed the Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson, about her party’s approach to the climate crisis.

The said they were ‘buzzing around’ political parties’ campaign battlebuses ‘demanding the climate and ecological emergency is top of the agenda this election’

• Extinction Rebellion protester glues himself to Lib Dem battlebus

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Scotland court ruling comes after climate protesters boarded two oil rigs in October

Greenpeace has been banned from carrying out climate protests on North Sea oil rigs after the oil giant Shell won a Scottish court order.

A judge in Edinburgh granted Shell an interim interdict, similar to an injunction, banning Greenpeace from occupying four of its rigs in the Brent field 85 miles north-east of Shetland, after its activists boarded two decommissioned rigs in October.

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Nikki Henderson, who helped Greta Thunberg get to Madrid, reveals what happened on their 19 day journey.

Activist dressed as insect targets battlebus as XR tries to push environment up agenda

An Extinction Rebellion protester dressed as a bee has glued himself to the Liberal Democrats’ battlebus, as the environmental group intervenes in the general election.

The group said it was “buzzing around” political parties’ campaign battlebuses on Wednesday “demanding the climate and ecological emergency is top of the agenda this election”.

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UN officials produced a slightly thinner new version of text for an international emissions trade rulebook under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 on Wednesday, though negotiators showed few signs of compromise in initial exchanges.

Rangers on the Farne Islands in Northumberland use drones to keep track of the growing grey seal population.

Cleveland magistrates court decision described as ‘a Queensland first’ and out of step with other similar cases

Three Extinction Rebellion members will remain in custody for more than two weeks, after they were denied bail by a Queensland magistrate.

Members of the activist group said they believed the decision in the Cleveland magistrates court to refuse bail was “a Queensland first” and out of step with other similar cases.

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