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Across the world, failure of official advice to provide sustainable, healthy diets is shocking, say scientists

Official dietary advice across the world is harming both the environment and people’s health, according to scientists who have carried out the most comprehensive assessment of national dietary guidelines to date.

Food is responsible for a quarter of the emissions driving the climate crisis and millions of early deaths. The analysis assessed all available dietary guidelines, covering 85 countries and every region of the world. The researchers said governments’ failure to help people eat good diets was “shocking”.

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Colorado could achieve its new 2030 GHG reduction target and drive carbon abatement at a lower cost than sector-specific strategies by implementing an economy-wide cap-and-trade programme, according to a report published Tuesday.

An offset developer and verifier were aware of past regulatory non-compliance issues at a Wisconsin-based livestock project last summer, but those previous problems did not halt the progression of a new reporting period from the dairy digster under California's ETS, according to emails obtained by Carbon Pulse.

The heatwave would have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change, a study says.

The president hails the changes as "historic", but critics say they are designed to avoid scrutiny.

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Human fingerprint on record temperatures ‘has rarely, if ever, been clearer’, says report

The record-breaking heatwave in the Siberian Arctic was made at least 600 times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a study.

Between January and June, temperatures in the far north of Russia were more than 5C above average, causing permafrost to melt, buildings to collapse, and sparking an unusually early and intense start to the forest fires season. On 20 June, a monitoring station in Verkhoyansk registered a record high of 38C.

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Lawmakers on Wednesday introduced the legislation to establish a post-Brexit UK emissions trading scheme from Jan. 1, 2021.

A new proposal to tackle the problem of rooftop has presented itself. This time, it doesn't come from the regulators or the incumbent utilities, but by progressive consumer groups.

The post Solar exports: Should households pay for right to export more solar to the grid? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Protecting the continent’s remaining pristine wilderness areas is urgent, but achievable. Rachel Leihy, PhD candidate, Monash University Steven Chown, Professor of Biological Sciences, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs climbed back above €30 early on Wednesday as markets lifted on COVID-19 vaccine hopes, though prices eventually tumbled nearly 3% to below €29 following a weak auction and as oil prices jolted lower.

Portuguese oil and gas company Galp Energia has recorded a loss of €60 million from “unauthorised” transactions in carbon allowances, it said Tuesday.

A telescope high in the Atacama Desert in Chile enters the debate about the age of the Universe.

The UK government could need to continue auctioning EU carbon allowances even after it leaves the bloc and its emissions trading scheme, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Conditions at plants contributed to transmission of virus, experts say, as country remains second only to US for deaths

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Brazilian meat plants helped spread Covid-19 in at least three different places across the country as the virus continues to migrate from big cities to the country’s vast interior, labour law prosecutors have said.

At the beginning of this week the country was second only to the US with 1.88 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and 72,833 deaths .

Its powerful agribusiness sector is allied with the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed the pandemic as a “little flu”. The beef sector is worth $26bn (£20.7bn), according to the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA), while its chicken industry is worth another $8bn.

Meat plants have stayed open during the pandemic, and staff work closely together, often in refrigerated areas. Other countries, including the US, Canada, Ireland and Germany, have also seen clusters around slaughterhouses.

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New Zealand carbon allowances rose 1.3% in Wednesday trade to climb back above the NZ$32 mark as potential sellers are happy to hold on to their supply, forcing buyers to push higher.

Oklahoma no longer has legal authority to prosecute cases involving Native Americans across about 3m acres

The news alert about a ruling from US supreme court took Kimberly Tiger by surprise.

On Thursday, the court ruled that the federal government never formally disestablished the expansive reservation that is home to Tiger’s tribe, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in Oklahoma.

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Australia’s proposal to issue carbon credits to big industrial emitters that beat their baselines under the Safeguard Mechanism raises deep concerns about the potential market impact, and should only be considered under certain strict conditions, according to the country’s leading carbon industry group.

A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova, astronomers say.