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A trade deal between Brussels and four members of the South American Mercosur economic group would compromise UN agreements and EU law, according to a legal analysis issued Monday.

Egypt has defined the legal status of voluntary carbon credits to be traded in the North African country ahead of moves to harmonise a standard set of principles internationally.

Tuesday's vote by the full European Parliament's house on a bill to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and sea areas by 2030 is expected to be a 'rubber-stamping' exercise, although farmers' discontent with EU green policies, red tape, and lack of funding has been tearing Brussels apart.

US-based agtech firm Indigo Ag has completed its third carbon crop, more than doubling its post-buffer pool offset supply, it said Monday, while also announcing a new partnership that is expected to expand its network of credit buyers.

A huge number of African REDD voluntary carbon credits were retired by an oil and gas major last week, but spot activity was thin and trading generally lacklustre as prices kept steady.

An international consultancy has become the first voluntary carbon credit buyer to make a claim for the highest grade available under the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity (VCMI) initiative's code of best practice.

The world's largest food conglomerate Nestle has published its 2023 sustainability report pledging to reach and maintain 100% deforestation-free primary supply chains by 2025.

Belgian capital blocked by 900 tractors amid protests throughout bloc demanding policy changes

Farmers have clashed violently with police in the European quarter of Brussels, spraying officers with liquid manure and setting fire to mounds of tyres, while the EU’s agriculture ministers met to discuss the crisis in their sector.

As farmers also protested in Madrid and on the Polish-German border, at least 900 tractors jammed streets in the centre of the Belgian capital, police said, with protesters throwing bottles and eggs and setting off fireworks while riot police fired water cannon.

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Space agency Jaxa said the craft re-established communication after the equivalent of two Earth weeks without Sun.

The financial sector must step up and participate in the process of reforming subsidies that are harmful to nature, Colombia's environment minister has said, as the government prepares to host UN biodiversity talks later this year.

Some carbon pricing policies are better suited than others for the different countries in Latin America, according to experts, as the region branches out from purely voluntary models.

Fears for penguin colonies after the discovery of the highly contagious H5N1 virus in two dead skuas

Bird flu has reached mainland of Antarctica for the first time, officials have confirmed.

The H5N1 virus was found on Friday in two dead scavenging birds called skuas near Primavera Base, the Argentinian scientific research station on the Antarctic peninsula.

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Bathing water status means government is obliged to test water quality throughout summer

Twenty seven new bathing sites are being considered for England, but campaigners have said that swimming remains dangerous in many areas because of the pathogens caused by sewage dumping.

If all of these sites are granted, it will be the largest ever number of bathing sites in rivers, lakes and coastal areas approved in one year. Activists campaign for bathing water status because it means the government is obliged to test the quality of the water throughout the summer months.

Church Cliff beach, Lyme Regis, Dorset

Coastguards beach, River Erme, Devon

Coniston boating centre, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Coniston Brown Howe, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Littlehaven beach, Tyne and Wear

Manningtree beach, Essex

Monk Coniston, Coniston Water, Cumbria

River Avon at Fordingbridge, Hampshire

River Cam at Sheep’s Green, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

River Dart estuary at Dittisham, Devon

River Dart estuary at Steamer Quay, Totnes, Devon

River Dart estuary at Stoke Gabriel, Devon

River Dart estuary at Warfleet, Dartmouth, Devon

River Frome at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset

River Nidd at the Lido leisure park in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

River Ribble at Edisford Bridge, Lancashire

River Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire

River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire

River Stour at Sudbury, Suffolk

River Teme at Ludlow, Shropshire

River Tone in French Weir Park, Taunton, Somerset

Wallingford beach, River Thames, Berkshire

Derwent Water, Crow Park, Keswick, Cumbria

River Wharfe at Wetherby Riverside, West Yorkshire

Goring beach, Worthing, West Sussex

Worthing Beach House, Worthing, West Sussex

Rottingdean beach, Rottingdean, East Sussex

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Tony Agotha, the EU special envoy for climate and environment diplomacy, has expressed disappointment with the outcome of UN negotiations on carbon markets after they broke down at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai last December.

Germany’s economics and climate ministry Robert Habeck launched the country’s first carbon management strategy, as well as a proposal to update CO2 storage laws, at a press conference in Berlin on Monday.

EUAs are currently oversold and look set to rally more than 20% by the end of the year, according to analysts, who say the market's strong correlation with natural gas has dragged carbon permit prices down more than is justified by fundamentals.

Population has spread from small area of East Anglia to become established in Cambridgeshire, Kent and Herefordshire

A rare dragonfly is no longer considered endangered after spreading its wings across England, but conservationists have said its wetland habitat is still at risk from climate breakdown.

The Norfolk Hawker, known for its bright green eyes and golden body, went extinct from the Cambridgeshire Fens in 1893 and became confined to east Norfolk and east Suffolk. It is thought this was caused by the draining of its preferred habitat of ponds and marshes for agriculture over the centuries. It has since been almost entirely restricted to the Norfolk Broads.

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EU carbon prices jumped on Monday morning as several analyst reports highlighted that the year-to-date price decline appeared to be running out of momentum, triggering some short covering that drove the market higher, while energy markets were slightly firmer.

Hundreds of tractors arrived in Brussels Monday and more are on their way as European Union agriculture ministers meet to address farmers' concerns. It follows weeks of protests by farmers across the EU. Farmers are demanding the reversal of progressive measures to counter climate change and protect biodiversity, arguing that the rules are harming their livelihoods and strangling them with red tape

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