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The best of the week’s wildlife pictures, including fighting ponies, a polar bear hotel and pigeons in Syria

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A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including in California and the US Department of Agriculture.  

Campaigners target Standard Chartered, urging bank to stop funding coal in emerging markets

Climate protesters from as many as 60 countries have gathered in person and online for Fridays for Future, a movement created by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

Campaigners raised local issues alongside the globally co-ordinated campaign #cleanupStandardChartered, which calls on the London-headquartered Standard Chartered to divest from coal in emerging markets.

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Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices will more than double this decade as emissions reductions cannot keep pace with more ambitious cap-and-trade allowance budgets, analysts with a major US investment bank said Friday.

A climate activist dived in the Indian Ocean as part of the first underwater protest of the global climate strike.

Shaama Sandooyea held a placard reading ‘Youth Strike For Climate’ in the Saya de Malha bank, part of the Mascarene Plateau and located between Mauritius and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. It is the largest seagrass meadow in the world and one of the biggest carbon sinks in the high seas

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Oil companies knew 50 years ago the huge damage they were doing. Their motive to ignore it is the same now as it was then

Capitalism is on a collision course with human life and the future of our planet. Each year, air pollution takes more lives than smoking: the last estimate suggests 8.8m deaths across the world, compared with 7m from cigarettes.

Related: Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal

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A carbon market veteran who co-founded a major offset investment group nearly two decades ago has joined US-based project developer C-Quest Capital, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Higher EU carbon allowance prices risk putting coal-relying Polish energy companies in even further debt and derailing their investments in renewables, an official from the country's largest utility said Friday.

Three mainly forestry-related offset standards are seeking eligibility in the third round of applications under ICAO’s CORSIA aviation carbon trading scheme.

The China interbank market dealers' association has released new guidelines for issuers of carbon neutral bonds, seeking to root out dodgy practices in the emerging market.

As environmental agencies reel from a Republican-led assault on regulations, local activists are taking up the fight

The headaches, asthma attacks and serious nosebleeds that plagued Diego Mayens as a child in West Long Beach, California were all triggered by one basic activity – playing outdoors. He suspects the foul emissions from nearby refineries and other heavy industry were behind his problems.

“It had to do a lot with the air quality in the area,” Mayens told the Guardian. “I feel particularly bad seeing kids playing outside and people who live here walking around who might not know what they’re breathing in.”

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Jason Torlano skied upper part of Half Dome – and reports suggest it may be first ever descent to go so far down the mountain

The pair hiked up to a tree near the summit of Yosemite’s Half Dome peak, at almost 9,000ft, and took turns keeping a fire going. The next day they set out just after 3am to avoid the sun warming up the ice and snow, raising the risk of avalanches.

Once there was enough daylight to see that conditions were safe, the pair clambered up to the peak, strapped on their skis, and began the perilous glide towards a face that looked almost vertical – and to the “death slabs” below.

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*PREMIUM LISTING (viewable by non-subscribers until Apr. 19) - In this role within the Portfolio Management unit, you will be responsible for South Pole's procurement strategy and for structuring and closing carbon credit sourcing transactions. You will develop business with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and wholesale companies active in carbon markets.

A Senior Program Officer will coordinate and help implement our climate projects that help to shape climate policy in Asia.  The position will support the Director of Asia-Pacific Sustainability. It is a 2-year, grant-funded position, with the potential for extension.

Coles commits to buy renewables and slash its emissions, as supermarkets lead the way in corporate climate commitments.

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Do you have the expertise to help create the first set of certifiable Pairs-Era reforestation projects in Europe and elsewhere? Are you excited about leveraging the latest technologies and thinking in ways we create, track and verify impact via reforestation? Land Life Company may be looking for you!

*PREMIUM LISTING (viewable by non-subscribers until Apr. 19) – As part of the Carbon Offset & Green Energy Services team, you will be responsible for the further development of our network in the field of Nature-Based Solutions (afforestation, agroforestry, humus, biochar, peatlands, etc.) in Europe for the voluntary carbon markets.

Alcoa strikes $160m deal to keep Portland Smelter open, with the aluminium producer set to play a bigger role as a virtual battery in the Victorian grid.

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TransGrid takes steps to assuage concerns about the broader impacts of Snowy 2.0, with release of new route options for the $2.1 billion HumeLink transmission upgrade.

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