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This position provides strategic input, guidance and expertise to long-range planning regarding drought affects, mitigation and preparedness as well as climate change impacts to long range planning, not only within the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and DNR but throughout Colorado State Government.  Additionally, this position provides expertise and guidance on matters of vulnerability and risk and how they fit into broader statewide goals and processes, such as the Colorado Climate Plan and Colorado's Water Plan.

The Canadian federal government has solicited a report to determine the potential for different offset protocols to supply credits to the country’s ‘backstop’ large emitter trading programme.

Some 58 metres of sea level rise is locked up in Antartica's ice sheets, and it's melting faster than expected. Nerilie Abram, ARC Future Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University Matthew England, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; Deputy Director of the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC); Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science, UNSW Matt King, Professor, Surveying & Spatial Sciences, School of Technology, Environments and Design, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK emitters will be subject to a £16/tonne carbon tax from Nov. 4 if Britain leaves the EU without a deal at the end of October, the government said on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices declined by double-digits amid thin volume on the secondary market, as RGGI allowance (RGA) prices rose slightly during the holiday-shortened week.

The EU won’t showcase a deeper collective emission cut goal at September’s UN Secretary General climate summit, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes that the bloc’s leaders could return to the table this summer to agree a net zero 2050 goal.

Phil Barlow on how Tanzania has recently banned all plastic bags with great success. Plus Helen Evans on learning from her own granddaughter

Re your article about “Plastic City” on the outskirts of the Philippine capital of Manila (The villagers who are forced to live with the world’s waste, 9 September), we have just returned from Tabora town in Tanzania, having worked as volunteers for 10-week periods over the past 20 years. Our final trip revealed an amazing and extraordinary fact that Tanzania has recently banned all plastic bags, with not a black plastic bag to be seen in the streets, which hitherto was a common sight in the ditches, on the roads and in fact everywhere. These black bags were given to you in the market and from small roadside stalls selling fruit and veg, clothes and much more.

In May this year Tanzania passed a law making the use of plastic bags an offence with a hefty fine or imprisonment. The law was implemented within a month, ie on 1 June, and the effect was immediate, with all stalls and shops using a new paper-based bag in varying sizes and colours.

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Highly contagious virus can live for months in processed meat and would have ‘devastating implications’ if passed to live pigs

African swine fever has been picked up in meat seized by port authorities in Northern Ireland, the first time the ASF virus has been detected in the UK.

Officials confiscated more than 300kg of illegal meat and dairy products from airport passengers’ luggage in June. Samples tested by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast confirmed traces of the virus, which is highly contagious and can survive for several months in processed meat.

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EU carbon allowance auction volumes will be cut by around 37% in the final four months of 2019, sale hosts EEX announced late Thursday, as the MSR removes a further 117.6 million EUAs from the market this year.

Experts say there is no alarm, despite a high level of caesium at a Soviet-era submarine wreck.

The California Senate has passed legislation that directs a new task force to consider developing compliance offset protocols focused on natural and working lands (NWL) and potentially could enable multiple landowners to jointly developed projects.

The model gives an insight "into what our ancestors would have heard", an academic says.

These sharks thought it was swordfish on the menu, but there was something hungrier in the darkness.

New Zealand carbon allowances are holding around the NZ$23 ($15.36) level despite rapidly fading timber export prices that has brought speculation on whether forest owners would sell off more NZUs to compensate for falling income levels.

European carbon prices hit a fresh 11-year early on Thursday before consolidating above €28, as participants mulled whether EUAs as their next move would scale higher ground to test all-time highs or recede on profit-taking.

Drilling at Preston New Road is last-ditch effort to convince regulators to relax safety rules

Cuadrilla plans to restart fracking at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in a last-ditch effort to convince policymakers to relax safety rules.

The first company to frack for shale gas in the UK will drill a second well near Blackpool after it was forced to abandon the first, which caused multiple earth tremors.

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Soil is pretty remarkable stuff. It provides 95% of our food, helps regulate the Earth’s atmosphere and is a bigger carbon sink than all the world's forests combined. In fact, it basically enables all life on this planet to exist. So why do we treat it like dirt? The Guardian journalist Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how we are destroying it, but also discovers some of the progress made in the race to protect the Earth’s soils

• 'It's a groundswell': the farmers fighting to save the Earth's soil

Soil organisations

• Campaign to protect rural England 
• Sustainable Soils Alliance
• Soil Association

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The 25 Zero Project.  Twenty-five mountains on the equator have glaciers at their peaks. Unless we slow down climate change, in twenty-five years there will be zero ice. 25 Zero.

The giant block of ice has spun around and is now moving north along the Antarctic Peninsula.

The race is on to transition to a low-carbon economy. If we ditch fossil fuels will electricity and heating be even more expensive? Three energy specialists weigh up the pros and cons of solar, wind, hydro, biomass and hydrogen.