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Oregon’s Democrat leaders closed the legislative term on Thursday after the Republican minority fled the capitol to protest a WCI-modelled cap-and-trade bill, but Governor Kate Brown (D) is now finalising executive action to enact climate policy.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices regressed this week after the Q1 WCI auction bucked previous trends to settle above the secondary market level, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) dropped ahead of the Northeast US carbon market's first sale of 2020.

EU nations unanimously adopted the bloc’s long-term strategy on Thursday, with even often-reluctant Poland on board with the pathway for an EU-wide 2050 climate neutrality goal.

A new 10-year strategy to halt extinction must protect the gene pools of all life on earth, say experts.

Fish, frogs, turtles and platypus at major risk of extinction following the bushfires. So why aren't they getting much attention? Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Schoolchildren choose a name for the robot Nasa plans to send to the Red Planet to search for life.

Manitoba will impose a fixed-price CO2 levy and output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large stationary sources starting on July 1, changing direction after the Canadian province previously ditched that plan and in turn rejecting the federal government’s rising carbon price mandate.

A Polish pitch to eliminate free carbon allowance allocations for aircraft operators failed to muster majority support at a meeting of EU environment ministers Thursday, but backers are optimistic the idea found enough backers to help it make its way into formal ETS reform proposals next year.

Germany will fall short of reaching its 2030 emissions reduction target via the wide-reaching climate package unveiled last year, according to a government-commissioned analysis released Thursday.

The continent's winter months have seen average temperatures reach 3.4C above the long-term norm.

Trials of a vaccine for cattle will take place, while more badgers will also be vaccinated.

Vaccination and movement controls will be used instead to tackle bovine TB in England

The controversial cull of badgers across England will begin to be phased out in the next few years, the government has announced, with vaccination of the animals being ramped up instead.

The cull is intended to cut tuberculosis in cattle and has killed at least 100,000 badgers since 2013. TB in cattle is a severe problem for farmers and taxpayers, leading to the compulsory slaughter of 30,000 cattle and a cost of £150m every year.

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EUAs lifted slightly to straddle €24 early on Thursday, even as stock markets resumed falls following government stimulus measures aimed at cushioning the economic fallout from tackling the coronavirus. 

London-based Sen already has some cameras in orbit and now plans a dedicated satellite network.

A group of companies and organisations in China’s Guangdong province has launched an ‘ecological compensation’ offset standard, one of the first initiatives to target Chinese voluntary buyers.

Climate crisis likely to have supercharged temperatures around world, data suggests

This winter has been by far the hottest recorded in Europe, scientists have announced, with the climate crisis likely to have supercharged the heat.

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) data dates back to 1855. It said the average temperature for December, January and February was 1.4C above the previous winter record, which was set in 2015-16. New regional climate records are usually passed by only a fraction of a degree. Europe’s winter was 3.4C hotter than the average from 1981-2010.

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No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches from No 10, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic

It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more to early graves. As its effects spread, it could destabilise entire economies and overwhelm poorer countries lacking resources and infrastructure. But this is the climate crisis, not the coronavirus. Governments are not assembling emergency national plans and you’re not getting push notifications transmitted to your phone breathlessly alerting you to dramatic twists and developments from South Korea to Italy.

More than 3,000 people have succumbed to coronavirus yet, according to the World Health Organization, air pollution alone – just one aspect of our central planetary crisis – kills seven million people every year. There have been no Cobra meetings for the climate crisis, no sombre prime ministerial statements detailing the emergency action being taken to reassure the public. In time, we’ll overcome any coronavirus pandemic. With the climate crisis, we are already out of time, and are now left mitigating the inevitably disastrous consequences hurtling towards us.

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South Korea’s ETS will face a bigger shortage than previously thought ahead of the 2019 compliance season, but will also see a larger excess of allowances for 2020 compared to previous estimates, analysts said Thursday.

Exclusive: study shows a 75% fall in 18 years in England, with climate a clear factor

Glow-worm numbers have plunged by three-quarters since 2001, research in England has revealed, with the climate crisis a clear factor.

The larvae feed on damp-loving snails, and increasingly hot and dry summers mean fewer prey and a greater risk of glow-worms becoming desiccated.

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Europe's flagship telescopes will cope with the effects of thousands of new satellites in the sky.