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There’s a growing crisis everywhere Anthony Albanese looks, but they may enable a more ambitious agenda

When public servants in Sydney were told to rug up if they planned to work in the office this week, the reality of the country’s energy crisis hit hard.

Experts have warned for years the federal government’s multiple failures to properly manage the transition in the national energy market would have consequences. Now they are plain for all to see.

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The World Trade Organization agreed on the first change to global trading rules for years on Friday, with an accord on fishing subsidies that gives a modest signal that nations can come together on global challenges even as climate issues drew scant focus.

Multiple stakeholders across the science, investment, and policy sectors have this week outlined how governments should legislate to help scale direct air capture (DAC) technology as soon as possible and keep the world within a Paris-aligned warming target.

EU legislators should consider alternative options to adequately ensure vulnerable citizens don't end up worse off due to the proposed parallel ETS on heating and road transport, according to a report by Germany-funded researchers.

Over 20 million compliance offsets under California’s cap-and-trade programme are subject to increased fire risk over the next several months amid scorching heat and record drought in the American West, researchers said Thursday.

A coalition of energy providers, shipping companies, and NGOs has called on the EU to introduce a minimum quota of 6% sustainable and scalable hydrogen fuels by 2030.

Buildings, materials, habits: everything will have to change because of the climate emergency

The UK is facing its first heatwave of the summer, and while many will be basking in the hot weather it is also a warning of challenges to come, particularly for those who live and work in our biggest cities.

Extended periods of high temperatures are becoming more frequent and intense all over the world because of climate change, and we are learning just how much our metropolitan areas struggle to cope with heat.

Bob Ward is deputy chair of the London Climate Change Partnership

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António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer

Fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them “have humanity by the throat”, the UN secretary general has said, in a “blistering” attack on the industry and its backers, who are pulling in record profits amid energy prices sent soaring by the Ukraine war.

António Guterres compared fossil fuel companies to the tobacco companies that continued to push their addictive products while concealing or attacking health advice that showed clear links between smoking and cancer, the first time he has drawn such a parallel.

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EUAs moved sideways early on Friday as the market took stock of the previous session's heavy losses, with traders eyeing gas price volatility as the key market driver.

The 10-day search in the Amazon for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips came to an end on Wednesday. Their deaths have horrified Brazil and underline the dangers faced by those defending the country's environment and Indigenous communities.  Jonathan Watts, the Guardian's environment editor and Phillips' friend, provides insight into their lives, their work and their legacy

• Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing men
  
• The writer and the activist: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira bonded over the Amazon
  
• The Guardian view on Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: justice for them, safety for others | Editorial

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The allowance price in China’s carbon market has remained unchanged for more than three weeks and volume this week dropped to near zero as lack of policy direction has left the market drifting.

Brokers and analysts are reporting growing liquidity in Australia’s carbon market, as Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen told a conference on Friday that the implementation of the Safeguard Mechanism will “supercharge” the market.

Adviser says European nations are sourcing fossil fuels abroad but failing to help developing countries

European governments have been accused of seeking to exploit the fossil fuel reserves of the developing world, while failing to help them tackle the climate crisis.

Campaigners made the charge as the latest round of UN climate negotiations ended in stalemate on Thursday night in Bonn, Germany.

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Japan’s Mitsui has secured government funding to explore the feasibility of launching a carbon capture and storage project at a gas field in the Gulf of Thailand that would earn carbon credits under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).

Australia’s largest utility, AGL, will lead a consortium that includes key Japanese and South Korean companies to prepare a feasibility study to develop a green hydrogen hub at one of its sites, the company announced on Friday.

The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a poisonous frog, an alligator lizard and a walrus called Stan

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Bee-eaters trying to breed in the UK is an "unmissable sign" of the climate crisis, the RSPB says.

What is the electricity grid and how does it work? How are energy supply and prices determined? An expert breaks down a few of the terms and ideas underpinning Australia’s energy crisis. Katja Ignatieva, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Pushed northwards by global heating, exotic birds like the rainbow bee-eater seen nesting in Norfolk will likely become established summer visitors

Rainbow-hued bee-eaters breeding on the Norfolk coast this summer and three rare black-winged stilts fledglings in Yorkshire are an “unmissable sign” that the nature and climate emergency has reached Britain, according to conservationists.

Birdwatchers are flocking to north-east Norfolk to see the bee-eaters, a colourful rare visitor from Africa and southern Europe, after seven birds were spotted close to Cromer by a local birder.

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Coal to the rescue? Hardly. NSW energy minister underscores the unreliable nature of Australia's remaining coal plants – "particularly when we need them."

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