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Consumers need to demand electronic devices that use recycled plastic, campaigners say.

Wind energy could supply more than one third of global electric power demand by 2040 and save up to four million lives a year, according to new study from Siemens Gamesa.

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Climate expert Michael E. Mann slams climate science deniers and expresses optimism that student strikes have shifted the conversation on climate change.

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The UK will not meet its climate change targets without a revolution in home heating, a think tank says.

In the third quarter of 2019, the UK’s windfarms, solar panels, biomass and hydro plants generated more electricity than the combined output from power stations fired by coal, oil and gas, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. During the three months of July, August and September, renewables generated an estimated total of 29.5 terawatt hours (TWh), compared...

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The new Nissan Leaf offers us the opportunity to go electric on much longer trips and I was really excited to test out our new EV on a weekend away.

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The senior environmental management specialist for climate change provides analysis and support for the Port of Seattle’s (POS) projects and programs focused on carbon reduction and air quality improvements as directed by the Port’s Century Agenda and associated sustainability strategies.

The Oregon Transportation Policy Manager will further Climate Solutions’ mission through concrete program and policy work, including legislative and administrative advocacy at the local, state, and national levels, with a principal focus on a range of policy goals including equitable strategies for transportation electrification, clean fuels, clean mobility, and reducing the need to drive.

APRA says switch to technologies like batteries, electric vehicles and solar will have largely played out by 2030, and warned of financial risk of ignoring climate change.

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New analysis revealed less than half the extra pumped hydro capacity promised by Snowy 2.0 can be delivered. There is now overwhelming evidence the project should be put on hold. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The objective is to work on a methodology to assess whether “negative emissions” are really negative emissions in the global sense (physical negative net emissions). 

Insects are being touted as an eco-friendly protein source, but do bug burgers pass the taste test?

John Bird outlines his new bill to tackle the climate crisis, academics call for protection of tropical habitats and Ahmad O Al-Khowaiter defends Saudi Aramco’s record. Plus letters from Wiebina Heesterman, Paul Donovan, Sarah Williamson and Siobhan Benita

The protests led by Extinction Rebellion remind us that there are more pressing problems than Britain’s withdrawal from the EU (Of course these protests are inconvenient. They are designed to disrupt us, Editorial, 11 October).

Exploitative capitalism has sacrificed our wellbeing – and much of the planet’s resources – on the altar of unlimited growth, binding the hands of those yet to be born.

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Green campaigners cheered removal of drilling equipment at weekend but firm to press on

Cuadrilla is not abandoning its fracking ambitions in Lancashire and still plans to apply for an extension to its shale gas campaign, the company has said.

The company hopes to apply to Lancashire county council to extend drilling at the Preston New Road site beyond a 30 November cut-off point. Work had been suspended in August after the location recorded its largest ever tremor and Cuadrilla hopes to lodge its appeal once a review of the quake is completed.

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Individual action alone won’t solve the climate crisis. So what political changes might help?

• Renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think

Individual actions, such as flying less or buying electric cars, are helpful, but they will be futile without collective political action to slash emissions on a corporate, national and global scale. Politicians need to feel this is a priority for the electorate. That means keeping the subject high on the agenda for MPs with questions, protests, emails, social media posts, lobbying by NGOs and most of all through voting choices. Politicians need to know the public is behind them if they are to take on the petrochemical industry.

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Pace of progress raises hope that fossil fuel companies could lose their domination

• Eight ideas for reining in the fossil fuel industry

The world’s rising reliance on fossil fuels may come to an end decades earlier than the most polluting companies predict, offering early signs of hope in the global battle to tackle the climate crisis.

The climate green shoots have emerged amid a renewable energy revolution that promises an end to the rising demand for oil and coal in the 2020s, before the fossil fuels face a terminal decline.

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California’s transportation and electricity sectors will have to cut emissions faster in the post-2020 period to ensure the state reaches its 2030 goal, potentially putting bullish pressure on California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices, according to analysis from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML).

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits continued to set record highs through Friday as short covering drove values towards the pending price cap.

Crime and health take centre stage, but opposition parties dismiss the programme as "election manifesto".