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Neither an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) nor a steep rise in carbon allowances prices – two long-term expected outcomes from the bloc’s major climate and energy package to be released this week – will have a significant impact on EU industry or consumers, economists said Monday.

Voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices for CORSIA-eligible credits topped out above $3.00 last week to cap off a months-long voluntary carbon market (VCM) bull run, as registry data showed offset issuances and retirements rose significantly year-on-year in the second quarter of 2021.

Letter to world heritage committee comes as minister embarks on week of lobbying against change

Australia’s major environment groups have written to the UN’s world heritage committee, urging it to put the Great Barrier Reef on its “in danger” list as the Morrison government ramps up its lobbying against the change.

The environment minister, Sussan Ley, was due to land in Europe on Monday evening for a week-long campaign against the in-danger recommendation for the ocean jewel.

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Ingrid Horrocks learned to swim in the wild – but no river or lake in the region she grew up in is ‘swimmable’ any more

For most of those of us who swim, swimming is not something we think about: it is something we do.

I learned to swim in the sea, as some of us did in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1980s, walking down to the beach with my Auckland primary school. One of my earliest memories is of graduating to the “heads under” group and of sucking salt from my hair.

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The October trigger price for the Cost Containment Mechanism (CCM) in the UK ETS has been raised by 5.4% month-on-month, the British government announced Monday, reflecting climbing allowance prices.

The Head of Low Carbon Projects Portfolio will lead the technical Centre of Excellence (CoE) within Low Carbon Trading (LCT), part of the Trading & Shipping (T&S) organisation within BP.

The role of NCS Technical Project Manager will be an integral part of the Low Carbon Trading (LCT) technical Centre of Excellence (CoE), part of the Trading & Shipping (T&S) organisation within BP. 

To contribute to the UK government work to address climate change, including diplomatic action to support delivery of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in November 2021.

This is a key senior role within the organisation which is responsible for the calculations, analysis and modelling of soil sampling results from AgriProve’s soil carbon projects.

Finite Carbon is seeking a Forest Carbon Analyst to support the development of Finite’s growing portfolio of forest offset projects.

The purpose of this role is to co-lead South Pole’s Projects & Markets Business Development in the Structured Carbon Deals business Practice in close coordination with the Global Director Structured Deals.

Minnesota pet owners warned not to release fish into wild, where they wreak havoc on native species

Authorities in Minnesota have appealed to aquarium owners to stop releasing pet fish into waterways, after several huge goldfish were pulled from a local lake.

Officials in Burnsville, about 15 miles south of Minneapolis, said released goldfish can grow to several times their normal size and wreak havoc on indigenous species.

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After 46 years, I’m lowering my expectations. Who needs more than ice-cream and a few salty snacks?

Summer is here: I can smell it (lighter-fuel-doused charcoal and the ammonia punch of After Bite dabbed on giant angry weals) and hear it (strimmers and mowers and the ice-cream van). I can feel it too: a slither of itchy unease at the core of my being, a tight-chested sense that everything is slipping out of my control when I see a few sun icons on my phone.

“Which summer tribe are you?” the magazine quizzes ask, but I’m not mermaidcore, Riviera chic or Amish prairie cowgirl: I’m “looking longingly at cardigans” – and not just because this season has got off to such a damp and chilly start.

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Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’

Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.

The goals set out by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help halt and reverse the ecological destruction of Earth by the end of the decade also include protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans and land and providing a third of climate crisis mitigation through nature by 2030.

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EUAs gave up some of Friday’s gains in Monday morning trade as energy markets all turned lower and traders began to look ahead to Wednesday’s unveiling of EU ETS reform proposals.

People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act

Human beings crave clarity, immediacy, landmark events. We seek turning points, because our minds are good at recognizing the specific – this time, this place, this sudden event, this tangible change. This is why we were never very good, most of us, at comprehending climate change in the first place. The climate was an overarching, underlying condition of our lives and planet, and the change was incremental and intricate and hard to recognize if you weren’t keeping track of this species or that temperature record. Climate catastrophe is a slow shattering of the stable patterns that governed the weather, the seasons, the species and migrations, all the beautifully orchestrated systems of the holocene era we exited when we manufactured the anthropocene through a couple of centuries of increasingly wanton greenhouse gas emissions and forest destruction.

This spring, when I saw the shockingly low water of Lake Powell, I thought that maybe this summer would be a turning point. At least for the engineering that turned the southwest’s Colorado River into a sort of plumbing system for human use, with two huge dams that turned stretches of a mighty river into vast pools of stagnant water dubbed Lake Powell, on the eastern Utah/Arizona border, and Lake Mead, in southernmost Nevada. It’s been clear for years that the overconfident planners of the 1950s failed to anticipate that, while they tinkered with the river, industrial civilization was also tinkering with the systems that fed it.

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Oil and gas majors Shell and PetroChina on Monday announced a 5-year supply contract for LNG backed by carbon credits in what they said was the world’s first term deal for carbon neutral LNG.

One of China’s biggest steel-producing hubs has said it will make sure carbon emissions from the industry will peak by 2025 or sooner, adding to the national government’s challenge of setting a suitable CO2 allocation level in the national emissions trading scheme.

Organization: Agora Energiewende Position: Project Lead Coal Regions Just Transition Duty Station: Berlin/Germany OR Bangkok /Thailand Deadline for Application: 8 August 2021

Organization: Agora Energiewende Position: Project Manager Coal Regions Just Transition Duty Station: Berlin/Germany OR Bangkok/Thailand Deadline for Application: 8 August 2021