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California regulator ARB issued nearly 600,000 offsets (CCOs) this week across four protocols, while Quebec handed out its first credits in more than seven months, according to regulator data released Wednesday.

Analysts have cut their EUA prices forecasts for the remainder of the year by 9-13%, as Brexit risks loom larger and investor interest drains from the market.

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Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is completing work to fix numerous errors on its RGGI regulation identified by a legislative committee, with the aim of sending the final proposal back for approval later this summer.

Switzerland’s carbon credit procurement agency has selected three GHG-reducing activities for its initial call for proposals, aiming to tie up its first emission trade deals under the Paris Agreement's market-based Article 6.

Climate Coalition and Greener UK rally urges MPs to act over critical loss of nature

Thousands of people, including primary school children and members of the Women’s Institute, have lobbied MPs, calling for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency and critical loss of nature.

About 12,000 people gathered in Westminster on Wednesday to put pressure on politicians, according to the organisers the Climate Coalition and Greener UK, whose members include aid agencies, social groups and conservation organisations.

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Scotland’s major environment and conservation bodies call for legislation to tackle the climate emergency. Plus letters from Penelope Maclachlan, Charles Young, Dr Joseph Hanlon and Neil Blackshaw

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has acknowledged that our planet faces a climate emergency. Inextricably linked to this is the growing ecological crisis. We must not let Brexit derail us from tackling these global challenges head-on. Whatever the outcome of the political uncertainties, we need robust, binding targets for the recovery of Scotland’s natural environment to safeguard both nature and people. This is why we have come together from across Scottish society to ask the first minister to bring forward a new Scottish environment act.

Ensuring our world is rich in nature is the best insurance we have against dangerous climate heating. Protecting, restoring and enhancing Scotland’s natural environment would help limit temperature rises and help us adapt to changes that we cannot avoid. It would also give us so much more.

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• In April, renewables provided 23% compared to coal’s 20%
• ‘The fate of coal has been sealed. The market has spoken’

The US generated more electricity from renewable sources than coal for the first time ever in April, new federal government data has shown.

Related: Shell is not a green saviour. It’s a planetary death machine | George Monbiot

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Only a handful of liquid water lakes had previously been detected under the kilometres-thick ice sheet.

Weather forecasters think parts of the 5G network could interfere with meteorology communications.

European carbon was propelled to a new six-week high on Wednesday, as a second day of no new supply coming to market coupled with technical and compliance buying to lift prices.

Did you know that sharks have very distinct personalities? That they have social networks and a ‘home’? A panel of marine scientists tries to change the public perception of sharks. Understanding sharks better can help find the right balance of shark-human interaction.

Beavers were first reintroduced to Scotland in 2009 and a further trial is taking place in England until next year.

Nearly 500 investors managing $34 trillion worth of capital are urging G20 nations to strengthen their Paris Agreement targets, and put in place policies to achieve those goals, including meaningful prices on carbon emissions and targets for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

With its sea of discarded tents and litter-strewn fields, Glastonbury has become almost as infamous for the mountain of rubbish left in its wake as it is renowned for its music. But this year, organisers are hitting back by banning plastic bottles in a bid to stem the tide of waste. Festivalgoers are being urged to limit their impact on the environment in other ways, too.

• Glastonbury festival bans plastic bottles
  
• Co-op to trial 100% compostable wrappers at Glastonbury
  
• Glastonbury festival 2019: full lineup and stage times announced
  

The Guardian is Glastonbury festival's media partner

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Sydney has joined more than 600 local governments around the world – as well as the national governments of the UK and Canada – in putting the climate crisis at the heart of all policy decisions. Chris Turney, Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Efforts by Saudi Arabia, the EU and Japan are seen as part of a backlash against UN climate action.

Registration is now open for the inaugural Energy Efficiency Expo 2019, to be held in Melbourne from 23-24 October, launched to help organisations solve their energy productivity and affordability challenges.

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GoodWe has been awarded the 2019 Top Brand PV seal for the Australian Market.

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UK’s dirty air still ‘a public health emergency’ despite dramatic fall in death rates

Government action can cut air pollution, a long-term study has shown, with early deaths linked to dirty air in the UK falling by half between 1970 and 2010.

But toxic air remains the number one environmental health hazard, with one in 20 deaths still attributable to small particle pollution alone. The researchers said urgent action was needed to deal with a public health emergency that caused harm comparable to alcohol.

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