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A Dutch initiative to help consumers and companies curb the EU ETS surplus and push up emission costs is branching out across Europe aiming to pressure lawmakers for more ambitious market reforms.

EPA says change to require efficiency efforts instead of carbon capture will encourage ‘clean coal’ in the US and worldwide

The Trump administration is rolling back a climate change regulation that restricted new coal plants.

The change is mostly symbolic – but nevertheless sends a strong signal. Companies in the US are not building plants that burn coal because burning natural gas is cheaper and creates less pollution. Renewable power has also eaten into coal’s market share.

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Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago

Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on the planet, scientists have found.

Related: Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO

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Beginning on Saturday, West Australia's short, intense abalone season will be open for a total of four hours. John Charles Ryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

“RIA lives!” said Peruvian indigenous leader Fermín Chimatani Tayori, referring to a private-public partnership called “Amazon Indigenous REDD+”, an eight-year effort to develop protocols and projects that use carbon finance to support indigenous development plans called “Life Plans” (Planes de Vida).

Readers respond to David Attenborough’s warning of the collapse of civilisation at the UN’s climate change conference

For an organisation that ran the inspiring “Keep it in the ground” campaign, it was a shame you didn’t make David Attenborough’s warning about the collapse of civilisation (Report, 4 December) the lead story on your front page. To have no mention anywhere of the 12 years we (at best) have to make any difference is a shocking omission. Climate change is the greatest issue the world is facing and readers can’t have the message highlighted enough.

Can I also ask that you don’t print any letters suggesting that all we need to do is turn our thermostat down and consume more responsibly? As Naomi Klein illustrates in This Changes Everything, the idea that climate change can be solved by personal responsibility alone is a fallacy (and one of the reasons why we are in this mess).

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The only poll that matters – bird of the year – will return early in 2019. In the mean time you can vote for the people’s choice in the BirdLife Australia Photography awards

• Magpie edges out ibis to win bird of the year 2017

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EU ETS prices did not hurt revenue, profits, or employment at firms covered by the programme over 2005-2014 period, but despite modest price levels, they had a limited impact in cutting emissions, the OECD said in a report Thursday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits traded at a new all-time high on Wednesday, drawing closer to the $200 mark as traders debated whether or not that level would be breached.

Analysts are trimming their EU carbon price forecasts in the wake of Poland’s announcement that it would offload an additional 56 million permits in 2019, with some experts predicting that another large batch will come the following year.

The rocket had a hydraulic problem on its way back to Earth.

A baseline-and-crediting scheme for industrial emitters under a ramped-up Safeguard Mechanism featuring targets in line with the Labor party’s climate target would be short from the outset, with demand rapidly increasing over the next decade, a report found Thursday.

EU carbon prices plummeted on Thursday morning on the back of Poland's announcement that it would double the number of allowances it intends to auction next year.

*FREE READ* - There are hundreds of millions of tonnes in open interest across the Dec-18 EUA options. Beyond spawning more volatility, options trading veteran Tobias Munk says this massive build-up may yield additional risks in the form of unwanted exercises and 'pin risk' ahead of next week's expiry.

George H.W. Bush, who has passed away aged 94, was US president when the world began grasping the climate issue in earnest. But he was pivotal in setting the US on a course of blocking climate action. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UNSW deal for mass-production of next generation solar cells will help cost of solar power – already the cheapest in the world – to halve again.

The post UNSW deal for next generation solar cells to help halve cost of solar power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

FOI documents show Josh Frydenberg rejected department advice that developing the area was ‘unacceptable’

Environment groups have called for an independent probe into the government’s assessment of an apartment and marina development on protected wetlands in Queensland.

It comes after revelations the former environment minister Josh Frydenberg rejected advice from the environment department that the development was “clearly unacceptable”.

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Just weeks after saying it wouldn't, McGowan government reveals plans to release a new, explanded and upgraded climate policy over the next 12 months.

The post WA backflips, reveals plan to develop new state climate policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy minister's wife says rolling blackouts are needed to prove left-wing populist policies are wrong.

The post Energy minister’s wife says rolling blackouts needed to teach lefties a lesson appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The first South Australian (SA) road built with soft plastics and glass at Happy Valley in the City of Onkaparinga will see plastic from approximately 139,000 plastic bags and packaging and 39,750 glass bottle equivalents diverted from landfill.

The post First South Australian road built with plastic bags and glass appeared first on RenewEconomy.