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Head of biggest utility in US says renewables and batteries win on costs, wind and solar will replace coal by 2030, and batteries can do most of the required balancing.

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Brussels' incoming climate boss said he would be “extremely surprised” if the EU doesn’t move towards raising its 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55% below 1990 levels, though such a proposal will not come within the new Commission's first 100 days in office.

People are more likely to deny climate change if they're inclined toward hierarchy, have lower levels of education or are more religious. But the strongest predictor of denial is a person's politics. David Hall, Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Public opposition to kangaroo culls shouldn't overrule the needs of thousands of other native species in national parks. Patrick O'Connor, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide Stuart Collard, Research Fellow, The Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide Thomas Prowse, Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Arrests made under section 14 order as officers in Whitehall begin removing tents

Police have begun attempting to clear Extinction Rebellion protest camps from around Westminster as they imposed a section 14 order banning demonstrations across central London.

Arrests were made under the order from early on Tuesday morning, beginning at the movement’s westernmost encampments on Millbank and moving into Whitehall in the late afternoon, where hundreds of tents had been pitched outside Downing Street.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits have remained near historic highs above $200 over the past month despite state regulator ARB announcing it would seek to finalise a “firm maximum” price in the programme.

Members of California’s Compliance Offset Protocol Task Force (OPTF) will be announced later this month ahead of the committee’s first meeting in November, regulatory sources told Carbon Pulse.

The humpback appears to have arrived just in time to join the Extinction Rebellion protests. And to highlight how these mighty mammals could help us fight climate change

Reports of an apparently healthy-looking young humpback in the Thames suggests that it is not only humans who are intent on an environmental uprising. As the founding emblem of the modern green movements, it seems apt that this leviathan appears just in time to join this week’s Extinction Rebellion demonstrations.

Not only that, but in what may be the biggest goodwill gesture yet from the largest animals on our benighted planet, the whales may be about to help us out. If we give them the chance. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a report detailing how great whales could sequester billions of tonnes of climate-threatening carbon from the atmosphere.

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The Northeast US RGGI carbon market will offer over 13.1 million allowances at its final quarterly sale on Dec. 4, the programme announced Tuesday.

A London-based investment management firm has appointed a cast of carbon trading industry veterans as staff and advisors as it prepares to launch a global environmental markets fund.

A slipper-shod Lord Fraser emerges from his Westminster home to berate climate campaigners

A Tory peer has confronted Extinction Rebellion protesters in his dressing gown as they marched past his home in central London.

Andrew Fraser, who was made a life peer by David Cameron in 2016, emerged from his Westminster home on Lord North Street on Tuesday morning. He was pictured wearing a white dressing gown and slippers as he confronted protesters, who were were banging drums and waving banners as part of the second day of Extinction Rebellion’s planned two-week shutdown of the heart of the capital. While the nature of the exchange between the peer and the protesters is unknown, one activist did try to hand him a flyer.

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Boris Johnson’s description of XR protesters is met with anger and disgust at Whitehall campsite

Boris Johnson described protesters from Extinction Rebellion on Monday night as “uncooperative crusties” occupying “heaving hemp bivouacs” on the streets of Westminster.

At the Extinction Rebellion protest site on Trafalgar Square on Tuesday morning, Nicola Hargreaves snorted as she considered the prime minister’s remarks. “I’m a solicitor,” she said. “And I’m dressed in clothes from Whistles that I’m pretty sure don’t have any hemp in them at all. So Boris can shove his comments up his arse.”

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The RSB has released the shortlisted entries for their 2019 photographer of the year and young photographer of the year competition. The photos showcase stunning images captured across the globe, including Canada, India and Kenya, and feature a variety of species in motion, with fluttering birds, jumping insects and territorial showdowns.

The winners of the competition will be announced at the RSB annual awards ceremony on 10 October at the Francis Crick Institute in London as part of this year’s Biology Week.

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EUAs sank back to €23 early on Tuesday, heading back towards the previous session’s six-month low amid pessimism over Brexit and US-China trade talks.

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

Hundreds of Dutch farmers have been protesting against calls to curtail nitrogen emissions from the farming sector. The government is being urged by MPs and NGOs to come up with a more radical plan for reducing emissions, including halving the country’s livestock population. WWF has previously called for a 40% cut in cow numbers in the Netherlands, saying the sector had outgrown its ability to safely dispose of its waste. Meanwhile, outgoing EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan has said farmers should be paid to cut carbon emissions.

The EU is to impose hen welfare standards on egg imports from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay under the new EU-Mercosur trade agreement. It is the first time the elimination of tariffs have been conditional upon particular animal welfare standards being upheld.

The US is eliminating production line speed limits at pig slaughterhouses despite fears it will worsen the already high number of serious injuries suffered by US meat plant workers. Amputations, fractured fingers, second-degree burns and head trauma are just some of the serious injuries suffered by US meat plant workers every week, according to an investigation last year by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

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Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the Universe.

Dogs and cats need a high-energy diet and producing pet food generates millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases. The choices we make when we feed our pets affect other animals, the environment and even our own well-being. Should we stop keeping meat-eating pets?

South Korea sold all 550,000 KAU19s on offer at Tuesday’s monthly auction, which settled a touch below the secondary market but at the highest level yet since the government sales began in January.

Liberal MP Tim Wilson and Labor MP Ed Husic join RN Drive to talk about the politics of the day.

The Russian circus polar bear brought to live at Bristol Zoo who helped change zoos.