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The first wind farm in Saudi Arabia and the largest in the Middle East begins production.

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The system being tested should spot the disease long before symptoms or obvious brain signs develop.

Dire warnings about ‘irreversible’ damage to our climate fill the front pages of newspapers in Britain and around the world

The front pages are filled with alarm in the wake of the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s global climate change report – the first since 2013 – which finds that human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in “unprecedented” ways, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.

An image of an elderly woman reacting to unprecedented wildfires on the island of Evia in Greece so perfectly encapsulates the global feeling of distress and fear that it appears on the front pages of the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph.

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Syncline Energy has upped the ante over what might be the biggest battery project in Victoria, or even in Australia.

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The new IPCC report shows the physical dangers of failing to resolve Australia's deep and widespread lack of climate urgency.

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A project on family education wins the 2021 Earth Photo competition.

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Five climate-sensitive infectious diseases exist in the Torres Strait. Traditional Owners are calling on the UN for action. Nina Lansbury Hall, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Andrew Redmond, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland Condy Canuto, Senior Lecturer Indigenous Health. Specializing in Sexual Health, The University of Queensland Francis Nona, Lecturer, The University of Queensland Samuel Barnes, Research Assistant, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California approvals of new Compliance Instrument Tracking Service System (CITSS) accounts are taking longer than usual as the state sees an influx of new applications, including from more complicated financial participants hoping to enter the WCI carbon market, traders told Carbon Pulse.

Delegates from 196 countries attending talks offered jabs before event, with rules on self-isolating eased for many

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The government is planning to relax key Covid-19 restrictions for delegates to the UN Cop26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow for two weeks this November.

Delegates from 196 countries are expected to attend the talks, viewed as one of the last chances for the world to agree limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown.

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Standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices surged to new records once again over the past week, as futures volumes spiked amid a groundswell in voluntary carbon market (VCM) activity from new financial players and fossil fuel companies.

The world’s political leaders must heed the dramatic warning that climate scientists have delivered

The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published against a glowing backdrop of orange skies, as vast wildfires sweep through Greece and California. In western Germany, thousands of homes remain without running water or electricity following the devastating floods of July. In Yakutsk in Siberia – the coldest winter city on earth – residents were warned last month to stay inside as forest fires filled the air with toxic smoke, following heatwaves that began in the spring.

Eight years in the making, authored by the world’s leading climate scientists and approved by 195 national governments, the report confirmed the meaning of the evidence before our eyes: the cumulative impact of human activity since the Industrial Revolution is “unequivocally” causing rapid and potentially catastrophic changes to the climate. The future that environmental scientists foresaw with alarm, when the IPCC produced its first report three decades ago, has arrived.

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Privately-owned utility EPH will shut down all of its coal assets by 2030, with the exception of its plants located in Germany, the Czechia-based company announced on Monday.

The Morrison government’s ‘technology, not taxes’ mantra ignores the fact that taxes pay for technology, and affordable technology can make a difference

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How many wake-up calls on the climate does Australia need?

It is an unanswerable question, of course – we’ve been here too many times before to pretend otherwise – but everyone should read the summary of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, regardless. Using careful scientific language, it tells the story of what is happening across the planet with a bracing clarity that is at once familiar and alarming.

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The most vulnerable developing countries plead for action after a stark warning from a UN panel.

Alok Sharma says chance to limit worst impacts of climate breakdown ‘still achievable, but retreating fast’

The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output drastically, the president of vital UN climate talks has urged, after scientists warned there was only a small chance of escaping the worst ravages of climate breakdown.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set out the starkest warning yet on the widespread and “unprecedented” changes to the climate that are “unequivocally” the result of human actions. Extreme weather resulting from these changes was already seen around the world and growing worse, in the form of rising temperatures, more frequent and fiercer storms, heatwaves, droughts, floods and sea level rises, according to the biggest assessment of climate science in eight years.

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Heatwaves, wildfires, floods and droughts highlight how extreme weather is linked to climate change.

What are the key takeaways from the IPCC new study on the science of climate change?

Inger Andersen of the UN Environment Programme has said the climate crisis poses an 'immediate threat', adding that 'every citizen needs to play their part'. Only drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this decade can prevent global temperatures from rising to disastrous levels, according to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Humans have caused ‘unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’ change to climate, scientists warn
• Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report

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EUAs recovered early losses on Monday morning, despite a general weakness in the energy complex as Russian state producer Gazprom slowly resumed flows from a gas facility damaged by a fire last week.