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Within moments of Labor's unveiling of its 50% electric vehicle target, commentators on Sky News immediately started competing to make the silliest and most ill-informed comment.

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The Adaptation Fund Secretariat is recruiting a Senior Climate Change Specialist to coordinate the Fund’s work on portfolio management and results including on concrete action and innovation.

Germany is examining extending carbon pricing to more sectors of its economy, national media reported on Monday in a move designed to meet the country's out-of-reach emission goals more cost-effectively.

Swiss carbon prices have recovered from their recent low, according to the country’s latest auction results, but they remain valued well below the EU Allowances towards which they are expected to converge as the two schemes prepare to link.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) will hold its first public stakeholder meeting in April and a subsequent workshop in May after spending the first quarter of 2019 having internal discussions about the proposed carbon programme.

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European carbon prices climbed towards €22 on Monday in a choppy session that saw the publication of emissions data suggesting a bigger-than-expected drop in CO2 output in the EU ETS last year.

Four Canadian provinces that resisted the federal government’s carbon pricing mandate became subject to Ottawa’s ‘backstop’ CO2 levy on fossil fuels on Monday, as the British Columbia government raised its existing carbon tax rate.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) seeks an experienced mid-level associate attorney with 2 to 6 years of relevant experience to join the Legal Team and provide legal support to the association. The candidate must possess strong research, analytic and writing skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is seeking an Energy Policy Associate, Analyst, or Senior Analyst to develop and advocate for policies and mechanisms that reduce the environmental impact of electricity production in the Interior West. There are positions open in Carson City or Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Labor has ditched its reliance on a single economy-wide climate policy, in favour of a range of different measures that will all help drive down emissions. But some crucial issues remain unaddressed. Nicky Ison, Research Associate, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s global leadership on whale conservation will be tested as Japanese hunters move to a different hemisphere

Japan’s whaling fleet arrived back at the port of Shimonoseki on the weekend with a barbaric tally of 333 dead whales that are no longer swimming freely in the Southern Ocean.

If the work of the Japanese whalers is anything like last year, more than 100 pregnant females and 50 or so juveniles will have been killed. But from now on, things are different.

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Tony Burke says the ailing health of Australia’s greatest river system would be a priority for any federal ALP government

The ALP is preparing to use federal powers under the Water Act and its influence with the two Labor-controlled basin states to drive better environmental outcomes if it wins government in May.

The opposition spokesman on the environment and water, Tony Burke, told Guardian Australia he would immediately convene the ministerial council and outline what he wants to achieve.

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EU member states have handed out a further 37.7 million free carbon allowances over the past fortnight, with Spain and Finland finally commencing their 2019 allocations.

Official complaint lodged with EU says rules breached on hunting and trapping

Bird protection campaigners are to lodge an official complaint with the European Union accusing France of breaking rules on hunting and trapping and failing to protect endangered species.

The Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) is using the 40th anniversairy of the EU’s “bird directive”, which outlaws the “massive or non-selective” killing of birds to highlight what it deems cruel and illegal methods.

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Analysis of 50 years of UK data shows woodlands are not havens, while changing emergence times damage nature and farming

Insects have “no place to hide” from climate change, scientists have said after analysing 50 years’ worth of UK data.

The study found that woodlands, whose shade was expected to protect species from warming temperatures, are just as affected by climate change as open grasslands.

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People watching Blue Planet Live on Sunday were left in shock after a seagull snatched a baby turtle as it was released on the beach.

No breach of annual limits so far in 2019, after 2017’s first breach within five days

Two million people in London are living with illegal air pollution, according to the most recent data. However, nitrogen dioxide levels are falling and could reach legal levels within six years.

In 2017, London saw its first breach of annual pollution limits just five days into the new year and in 2018 it occurred within a month. However, three months into 2019, no such breaches have taken place. In 2016, the last year in which Boris Johnson was mayor of London, there had been 43 breaches by this time.

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We drive the fully electric Hyundai Kona for a week and deliver our verdict.

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European insect populations shrink as farming leaves ‘hardly any room for nature’

Butterflies have declined by at least 84% in the Netherlands over the last 130 years, according to a study, confirming the crisis affecting insect populations in western Europe.

Researchers analysed 120,000 butterflies caught by collectors between 1890 and 1980 as well as more recent scientific data from more than 2 million sightings to identify dramatic declines in the country’s 71 native butterfly species, 15 of which have become extinct over the last century.

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