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Governments will in early 2020 revisit negotiations for rules covering international emissions trade, recycling much of last week's failed Paris Agreement Article 6 text that gave wide scope for cross-border dealing.

Maryland has finalised its post-2020 RGGI Model Rule changes ahead of the new year, making it the fifth state to do so.

California and Quebec will auction nearly 90 million current and future allowances on Feb. 20, including California’s remaining unsold volume.

European carbon surged to a new three-month high late on Friday, finally topping €25 as it resumed its pre-holiday rally.

New York is likely to join ten jurisdictions aiming to design a cap-and-trade to regulate emissions from the transportation sector by the end of 2019, multiple sources told Carbon Pulse.

We’ve been trashing the planet over recent decades while creating a miserable, insecure society, writes Natalie Bennett. Plus Siân Charnley on the changing language of environmental protest

In Larry Elliott’s article (We’re back to 1930s politics: anger and, yes, appeasement, 20 December), it is good to see an economics editor addressing, as Kate Raworth has done so effectively with Doughnut Economics, the fact that the economy is a complete subset of the environment. And Elliott is right to say that the official declaration that came out of Katowice was not nearly enough.

But that wasn’t the only thing that came from the climate talks. There was a newly prominent place for civil society, from teenager Greta Thunberg to nonagenarian David Attenborough, and some companies, and many state and city governments, stepping up to the plate.

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Brazil is absolutely opposed to double counting when it comes to carbon credits, and has consistently supported efforts to prevent double counting, says Thiago de Araujo Mendes of Brazil’s environment ministry

Throughout the COP24 climate summit, Brazil urged all parties to work together to enable greater private-sector climate action. Brazil was constantly involved in negotiations to ensure COP24 delivered a workable toolbox to limit global warming. So we warmly welcome the positive outcome of COP24, including the agreement to keep working on a stronger global market mechanism for emission reductions.

Unfortunately, there have been several misrepresentations made about Brazil’s positions (Encouraging signs – but new rifts also exposed by hard-won deal at climate talks, 17 December), which do not help in the work ahead for all countries.

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Bounding blackbucks, a hungry baby bear, an albino orangutan and more

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Artist Lucy Smith draws plants so that they can be recorded for science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

With feathers preened and claws trimmed, birds vie for top spot in the pecking order at an annual contest in İzmir

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Earth is not the only planet with icy scenes this festive season, the European Space Agency says.

Eating meat has a hefty impact on the environment from fueling climate change to polluting landscapes and waterways

Recycling or taking the bus rather than driving to work has its place, but scientists are increasingly pointing to a deeper lifestyle change that would be the single biggest way to help the planet: eating far less meat.

A swathe of research released over the past year has laid bare the hefty impact that eating meat, especially beef and pork, has upon the environment by fueling climate change and polluting landscapes and waterways.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Environmentalist Jason MacGregor and his partner aren't having children because they don't want to add to human-made climate change pressures.

As we look back on a disastrous year readers describe the moments climate change hit home for them – and the action they are taking

• Visual guide: the human cost of 2018’s climate disasters

This summer’s heatwave was a real wake-up call. I felt we were up against it and it was becoming real. Seeing British lawns the colour of dry hay for weeks, getting a heatstroke when vising Kew Gardens, and lastly the extent and ferocity of the wildfires in California truly scared me. I’ve joined Greenpeace. Catherine Laz, 56, London

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Scientists say extreme weather events are getting worse as emissions rise and the planet warms

• ‘Uneasy about the heatwave’: readers on a year of climate anxiety

The UN’s recent alert that the world has at most 12 years to prevent climate catastrophe was a landmark moment. Never before has the threat of irreversible damage been so close.

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Around the world, species hunters unearth 128 vascular plants and 44 species of fungi, many already facing extinction

A spectacular orchid sold from a barrow in a Laos market, a flower which may contain cancer-fighting chemicals, and a tall tree found beside an African highway, are among more than 100 plants that were newly discovered by science in 2018. But experts warn it is a “race against time” to discover many new species before they become extinct.

Species hunters scouring the globe for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and its partners, this year found about 128 vascular plants and 44 species of fungi.

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Wildlife groups say delay has allowed some farmers to systematically cull the animals

• Letter: Scotland must commit to helping beavers make a comeback

Wildlife experts have said wild beavers in Scotland are being trapped and shot because ministers have broken promises to make them a protected species.

A group of 17 prominent ecologists and conservation bodies have signed a letter to the Guardian urging the Scottish government to honour its pledge two years ago to legislate to protect more than 400 wild beavers in the southern Highlands and Tayside.

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed to carbon neutrality

Greens call out federal Coalition's "dodgy accounting" efforts to minimise emissions targets, as government says heatwaves and droughts will reduce abatement because it is killing crops.

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