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Finland will buy 130,000 Gold Standard CERs from developer South Pole to overcompensate for flight emissions during its upcoming six-month term holding the rotating EU Presidency.

As the continent bakes in sweltering temperatures, experts explain what's happening - and why now.

EUAs fell further below €27 early on Friday as quarter-end profit-taking saw carbon give back more of the week’s gains that had pushed prices to a two-month high.

Nasa will fly a $1bn drone helicopter on Saturn's moon, Titan, in the 2030s.

Three leading artists explain the new works they’ve created for tomorrow’s magazine (click on each artwork’s title to download a copy)

I heard some young activists chanting, “Fuck you, CO2” at the school climate strike on 24 May. It wasn’t the most profane chant I heard that day – there were a lot about politicians. But it worked well: it was short, strong – and kids just like swearing, don’t they? So I didn’t come up with this: I nicked it from the air. But by getting it down on paper, I’m giving it more life. I can imagine people putting it in a window at home, like a party-political poster. In 2017, I did something similar with Theresa May’s words in my poster Strong And Stable My Arse [which was posted around London]. Her repetition of the phrase gave it its power. I just took it and turned it into a poster.

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Three EDL-operated coal mine methane power stations earned over 330,000 carbon credits this week as Australia’s weekly offset issuance neared 800,000.

Sussan Ley adds more plants and animals to Australia’s national list of threatened species

The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has added more plants and animals to Australia’s national list of threatened species, including woodlands that had been eligible for protection for years.

Ley announced on Friday afternoon that the Nabarlek, found in the Northern Territory, had been added to Australia’s list of critically endangered mammals.

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White cedar grows across Asia and Australia, as a hardy and resilient deciduous. Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

They’re too young to vote, but schoolchildren across the globe are taking matters into their own hands

In May, for the second time this year, more than 1.5 million young people in more than 125 countries walked out of schools, colleges and universities in the biggest day of global climate action ever. Young people have protested en masse before – millions marched against the Iraq war in 2003 – but this child-led uprising is happening with unprecedented momentum on a global scale.

The urgency of their protests reflects the very narrow window of opportunity left to make positive change. We are already living outside the climate parameters that first gave rise to humans, and the world’s leading climate scientists agree that we have only 12 years to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C. Still, most governments are not doing enough to stay within these limits as set out by the United Nation’s 2015 Paris agreement.

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Renewables creating "unprecedented change" in Victorian energy system, as solar and wind prepare to replace the state's ageing coal fleet according to AEMO.

The post Renewables driving “fundamental change” as Victoria leaves coal behind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alinta Energy wind farm unlikely to go ahead, after Victoria and Civil Administrative Tribunal ruled it a threat to endangered bats and to the safe operation of Cobden Airfield.

The post Victoria wind farm rejected by VCAT over proximity to airstrip appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bonn climate talks marred by obstruction and climate denial by the US and other oil-friendly countries, rather than a sense of urgency.

The post As Europe bakes, Bonn talks marred by US and Saudi-led obstruction of climate science appeared first on RenewEconomy.

More renewable power was generated in the month of April than coal power — something that’s never happened before in the United States.

The post Renewables beat coal in the US for the first time ever appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Citizen scientists have provided a wealth of new data on an insect that makes blobs of spittle on plants.

The Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Sussan Ley MP, has amended the list of threatened species and ecological communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to include 34 species and three ecological...

Australia has told a UN meeting it won't lift its emissions reduction targets, nor introduce new climate policies, while hiding its growing emissions.

The post Australia grilled on emissions at Bonn – fires back with single slide, dodgy accounting appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Just as tier 2 retailers are driving competition in the electricity market – edging out the big three and pushing down prices – a new AEMC report says they will have a crucial role in innovation, and particularly in the next major market disruption: home battery storage uptake.

The post Big 3 energy retailers shaken by market competition – should brace for battery impact appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger kicks off new electric car campaign in hilarious undercover role as an ICE-loving used car salesman.

The post Schwarzenegger video pits electric vehicles against gas guzzlers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New Deakin University research suggests climate change could be leading to the emergence of authoritarian governments in small-island states.

The post How climate change is undermining democracies in small island nations appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The sand dunes where Donald Trump built his golf resort are to lose their special environmental status.