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NSW Coalition energy minister says he's prepared to legislate to “embrace new coal mines” to keep the state’s coal power stations burning for as long as possible.

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Australian drivers will have more electric vehicle choice come mid-2020, with the all-electric Mini Cooper SE hatchback confirmed for release in mid-2020.

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The premise of Australian inquiry is that "new technologies in the field are leading to cleaner, safer and more efficient energy production." They are not.

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Two new campaigns have taken big next steps in the UK to deliver zero-carbon cities and clusters.

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German carmaker Volkswagen breaks cover on its all-electric ID.3 hatchback at the opening of the Frankfurt International Motor Show.

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Clean Energy Council report shows collapse in quarterly financial commitments in new renewables as investors stare into federal policy void in wake of the RET.

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Neoen unveils massive wind, solar and battery project, taking total pipeline in South Australia to $16bn, and keeping state on track for Liberal government's "net 100%" renewables target.

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More Australians are ditching the cities in search of a tree change. But those moving beyond the urban fringe face new risks, thanks to bush fires and grass fires. We visit one community dealing with these issues.

The falling cost of solar power is helping it to disrupt the global energy market.

ARENA to focus investment on green hydrogen R&D, as well as grid integration technologies and industrial emissions reduction, in new plan for remaining funds.

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China and Russia have blasted the ICAO’s CORSIA aviation offsetting mechanism as unfairly burdening emerging economies, setting up a testing triennial Assembly of the UN aviation body that also threatens the EU's inclusion of flights in its carbon market.

26 local councils, including the City of Sydney, have also recently issued their own climate declarations.

Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's will close its Australian stores for this month's global climate strike and pay staff to attend the protest, telling customers "if it's melted, it's ruined". Ian McGregor, Lecturer in Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Regenerative agriculture has the potential to build production and reducing pollution, but it needs a clearer definition. Troy Baisden, Professor and Chair in Lake and Freshwater Sciences, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Up to 200 world leaders are expected to attend the COP26 at the Scottish Event Campus in 2020.

COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2020 will determine future course of efforts to avert crisis

Britain is to host a crunch climate conference next year at which the future direction of global efforts to avert the climate crisis will be determined, the government has confirmed.

The COP26 meeting, under the auspices of the UN, will take place in Glasgow in December 2020, with about 30,000 delegates expected as well as leaders of most of the world’s governments, making it the biggest international summit to be hosted in the UK.

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The former Liberal leader is championing crossbench bill and argues ‘it was an emergency 30 years ago’

The former Liberal leader John Hewson has called on Scott Morrison to grant government MPs a conscience vote on a new parliamentary motion declaring a climate emergency.

Hewson, who will join MPs on Wednesday to champion the new parliamentary motion which is being pursued by the Greens and is supported by most of the lower house crossbench, told Guardian Australia there was no controversy associated with declaring a climate emergency in 2019, “because my view is it was an emergency 30 years ago”.

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Oregon Democrats intend to finalise revisions to their WCI-modelled ETS proposal for the 2020 legislative session by Thanksgiving (Nov. 28), while also engaging with Washington lawmakers who are hoping to enact their own cap-and-trade scheme.

Readers grapple with farming’s aim to become carbon neutral, tree generation as a way to achieve biodiversity, the fate of heather, the Drax power station, and Tesla moving to third place for UK car sales

It is good news that the National Farmers’ Union has developed a plan for British farming to become carbon neutral by 2040 (UK can meet climate targets without beef cuts, say NFU, 10 September). However, there’s a problem – it’s their plan and not a shared plan.

Irrespective of whether the UK leaves the EU, farmers will remain dependent on public subsidy, so the public need to be on board with any NFU-backed plan on climate change. The big environmental organisations – including the RSPB, WWF, Friends of the Earth, the Wildlife Trusts – mediate large swathes of public opinion. Consequently the NFU needs to get round the table with them and develop a shared plan, centred on land use, to make farming climate-neutral.

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