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In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. So what’s going on with the climate, and why are we seeing all these records tumbling at once?

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Chris Bowen says Peter Dutton is worse for climate than his predecessor, the man who brought a lump of coal into parliament.

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The stockpile of privately held NZUs has shrunk by nearly 10 million due to a combination of the May surrender deadline and new issuance averaging rules, according to analysis.

NSW planning department defends record on wind and solar planning approvals, but industry points to fact that only one wind farm has been approved in each of last few years.

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It would be insanity to do what the Coalition wants Australia to do - keep coal burning, slow down renewables and EVs, and wait for nuclear.

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The new focus on green hydrogen is on how to build a domestic industry, with the previous focus on exports relegated to a few paragraphs.

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After record breaking days on Monday and Tuesday, unofficial analysis shows the world may have seen its hottest seven days in a row

The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.

“If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into a catastrophic situation, as the last two records in temperature demonstrates,” António Guterres said, referring to the world temperature records broken on Monday and Tuesday.

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Record temperatures and smoke-filled skies have shown that the threat of wildfires can impact millions of people.

Farmers have been using dogs to protect their livestock from predators for thousands of years – and it’s still one of the best methods around. Christopher Johnson, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania Linda van Bommel, Ecologist, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices climbed this week on very thin volume in a holiday-shortened period, while Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) values remained relatively flat as consignment permits were announced for the Q3 auction.

WCI compliance offset demand will accelerate in 2023 amid higher emissions and alongside a significant increase in voluntary market interest, as credit supply will pick up pace next year ahead of the linked cap-and-trade programme's full compliance deadline and as usage quotas are expanded in the California's subsequent true-up period, an advisory firm said in a report published Thursday.

New York regulators should abandon a price ceiling in crafting their economy-wide cap-and-invest rule, while also implementing a consignment requirement for all freely distributed permits, programme advocates said Thursday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) values continued to sink this week as participants were reported to have received their latest batch of quarterly credits, while clean fuel standard prices in Oregon and the new Canadian programme have climbed recently.

The European Commission will publish the bloc’s revised EU ETS auctioning regulation at the same time as outlining when additional REPowerEU volumes from the MSR will come to market, a senior official told a conference on Thursday.

The EU will require several forms of finance to achieve its 2030 carbon removals target but there is potential for the ETS price alone to be sufficient to scale the sector after 2030, a conference heard on Thursday.

Negotiators at the UN’s International Maritime Organisation are honing in on a revised emissions strategy for shipping, with officials finalising draft text on Thursday that is more ambitious than the IMO's 2018 version but still adrift from aligning the sector with Paris Agreement climate objectives.

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has received a $12 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to support an international system to independently ensure the accuracy of satellite monitoring of forest biomass.

Zambia is following in the footsteps of other African nations and will regulate its carbon market and take a share of revenues.

Next generation cells surpass limits of today’s cells and will accelerate rollout of cheaper, more efficient solar power

Solar power cells have raced past the key milestone of 30% energy efficiency, after innovations by multiple research groups around the world. The feat makes this a “revolutionary” year, according to one expert, and could accelerate the rollout of solar power.

Today’s solar panels use silicon-based cells but are rapidly approaching their maximum conversion of sunlight to electricity of 29%. At the same time, the installation rate of solar power needs to increase tenfold in order to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists.

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