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36 MPs respond to a Guardian article analysing the voting record of Tory MPs on bills to tackle the climate crisis

Your article (Tories five times more likely than other MPs to vote against bills to tackle climate crisis, 12 October) insinuates that Conservatives are less supportive of climate action than other political parties. While we welcome the statement that it is “not intended to be a definitive evaluation of an MP’s green credentials”, we feel this article was exceptionally misleading and did not reflect the Conservative record on climate action thus far.

It was a Conservative government that set a world-leading net-zero target, supported record levels of investment in renewables, decarbonised faster than any other major economy, announced the phase-out of coal power stations, doubled international climate funding to £11.6bn, and successfully bid to host the UN climate talks next year in Glasgow. These significant achievements were in large part the result of sustained campaigning by green Conservative MPs. But as none of them was subject to votes, they are not accounted for in your scoring system.

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Landowners found guilty of illegal clearing say Kevin Humphries assured them native vegetation laws were being scrapped

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A former minister in the Berejiklian government is alleged to have told farmers in his north-west rural New South Wales seat that they could clear native vegetation with impunity because the government was planning to change the law and they would not be prosecuted.

At least that is the message farmers say they took away from numerous meetings and conversations with the former member for Barwon, Kevin Humphries.

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The EU ETS is suffering from a lack of information that is making it difficult to assess participant behaviour, though the market’s fundamentals make it “ripe” for new investors, a veteran analyst has said.

Europe’s carbon market is designed to easily accommodate an increase in climate ambition should lawmakers agree to scale up the bloc’s emission goals, a European Commission official said on Thursday.

A yellow organism, which looks like fungus but acts like an animal, has gone on display at a Paris zoo.

As part of the Corporate Risks and Opportunities team within the Advisory & Data Unit, you will focus on the delivery of high quality consultancy advice on climate change mitigation solutions to the corporate sector, and be responsible for the management of project teams.

Extinction Rebellion says it will "take stock" of the reaction to the action for future protests.

As part of the Key Account Management team you will be responsible for new business development at South Pole in the aviation and shipping sectors globally, focusing on compliance and voluntary carbon market offerings.

Disrupting London trains was opposed by 72% of activists in poll, but has boosted coverage

The climate protests during which one activist was dragged from the roof of a London Underground train by angry commuters had been discussed within Extinction Rebellion [XR] for weeks.

But it was not until Wednesday morning, when a note was posted on the group’s website, that a decision appeared to have been taken.

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Trading in EU carbon has become “very tricky” this year compared to last due to Brexit and a reversal in short-term fundamentals, according to one of the market’s most prominent long-term bulls, who predicts prices will top €100 early next decade.

Russia has dropped plans to potentially set up an ETS for major emitters, local media reported Thursday, electing instead to merely measure their carbon output.

As part of her “European Green Deal”, incoming EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised to introduce a carbon border tax to “ensure that European companies can compete on a level playing field”. This is a new wind coming from the executive branch of the European Union and it remains uncertain how von der Leyen plans to turn the idea of a carbon border tax into practice.

Shadow chancellor says third runway ‘cannot stand’ as court of appeal challenges begin

The campaign against the multibillion-pound expansion of Heathrow is on the verge of victory, John McDonnell has claimed, as three court of appeal judges considered fresh legal challenges against a third runway.

The shadow chancellor, who has long been an opponent of expanding the airport in his constituency, said the picture had changed since the previous legal challenge in the spring, as the UK had legislated for a net-zero emissions target by 2050 and declared a climate emergency.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued a record 13.66 million carbon credits in FY2018-19, according to its annual report on Thursday, but data also showed that new project development fell by more than 50% while the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund cancelled contracts for more offsets than it signed.

The British government would aim to complete all EUA free allocations and auctions for 2019 before next year’s compliance deadline should a Brexit deal be reached and the country remains in the ETS, a senior UK official said Thursday.

Guardian environment correspondent Fiona Harvey recalls being heckled at the House of Commons and explains how attitudes to climate have shifted in 10 years

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The shouted words rang out across the packed parliamentary corridor: “Fiona Harvey is the worst journalist there is. She’s the worst journalist of them all, because she should know better.”

They were the words of Lord Lawson, former UK chancellor of the exchequer, turned climate denier and now Brexiter, addressing a crowd of more than 100 people trying to cram into a House of Commons hearing on climate change. As listeners craned their necks to hear better, whispering and nudging, he elaborated at length on my insistence on reporting the work of the 97% of the world’s climate scientists whose work shows human responsibility for global heating, and failure to give equal weight to the tiny number of dissenters.

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Guardian editors from across the organisation explain how they are putting the climate emergency front and centre

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The climate crisis is a story that reaches every corner of the world and on the international news desk our team of correspondents report on it from around the globe.

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Victorian dairy farm looks to cover all its electricity needs with 450kW solar and 80kW/320kWh vanadium redox flow battery.

The post Victorian dairy targets 100% renewables with solar + vanadium flow battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor bill to legislate 50% renewables target passes upper course in Victoria, despite fierce opposition from Coalition.

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