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Coalition has refused to act on emissions, has tried to kill renewables targets, expressed its love for coal and its hatred of new technologies.

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Alberta compliance offset traders and developers are taking a wait-and-see approach to making long-term investments as they await more details on how the new UCP government intends to overhaul the Canadian province’s large emitter programme.

Tesla big battery delivered a $22 million profit for its owners in its first full year of operation.

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Last week, Brazil’s top security adviser said that the Amazon forest was his country’s to exploit, regardless of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions. “I don’t accept this idea that the Amazon is world heritage, this is nonsense,” General Augusto Heleno Pereira said. “The Amazon is Brazilian, the heritage of Brazil and should be dealt with by Brazil for the benefit of Brazil.”

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Taxing aviation fuel in the EU would cut the sector’s emissions by 11% while having only a “negligible” impact on GDP and jobs, according to a European Commission report leaked on Monday.

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Report says plastics adding to death tolls in the developing world from easily prevented diseases

Mismanaged waste is causing hundreds of thousands of people to die each year in the developing world from easily preventable causes, and plastic waste is adding a new and dangerous dimension to the problem, a report has found.

Municipal waste frequently goes uncollected in poorer countries and its buildup fuels the spread of disease. Between 400,000 and 1 million people are dying as a result of such mismanaged waste, according to the charity Tearfund.

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Norway and the UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO) announced a joint project on Monday to help the shipping industry cut emissions by at least 50% from 2008 levels by 2050.

Both sides of politics promise to underwrite multi-billion dollar gas pipeline development in northern Australia but experts say it will have big implications for Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada’s existing GHG reduction goal under its proposed Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) will likely fall short of lowering emissions from its baseline level, a conference heard on Monday.

UN Chief Antonio Guterres will begin a historic trip to the Pacific intended to focus on the looming threat of climate change.

EUAs crumpled below €25 in the final hour of Monday after breaching technical support as investors were rattled by the heightened US-China trade dispute.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill last week that would install the northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme’s post-2020 Model Rule, pending final governor approval.

A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for "netting" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.

Europe's Aeolus spacecraft is gathering fantastic new data on global winds - but it's also got a problem.

Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.