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Canada intends to conduct an interim review of its patchwork system of provincial and territorial carbon pricing policies in 2020, well ahead of its mandated deadline to complete the work, and will seek to identify areas where jurisdictions can align their varied programmes more closely, a senior official said on Thursday.

The intern will support CCAP’s international waste and climate change work. S/he will provide research, report-writing and conference-preparation support for CCAP’s on-the-ground projects focused on climate change mitigation.

State wildlife experts are seeking DNA analysis to pinpoint the mysterious creature's species.

Credit prices in California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) marched back to their record high this week, while future contracts began trading on exchange for the first time.

News and analysis company ICIS is losing another senior carbon analyst, the second to announce their departure from the firm this month.

Scientists uncover clues to how dinosaurs and early birds shed their skin from 125-million-year-old dandruff.

Scientists uncover clues to how dinosaurs and early birds shed their skin from 125-million-year-old dandruff.

Church in Wales | Is there a God? | Friendly bus passengers | Cooking for one | Herring gulls

It is not only the Church of England that is forbidden in law to conduct same-sex marriages (Letters, 25 May). The same legislation applies to the Church in Wales, disestablished in 1920.
Rev Dr Peter Phillips
Swansea

• The Church of England should have read the work of Fredric Brown before teaming up with Amazon (Want to know who God is? Now you can ask Alexa, 25 May). In his short story Answer, a scientist asks the first intergalactic supercomputer the first question: is there a God? “Yes,” it replies, “now there is a God.”
John Cranston
Norwich

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National Geographic magazine has published some startling images of the global plastic pollution scourge.

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Wild horses, an Ethiopian wolf and a dolphin attacking a porpoise are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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A surging NDP can defeat Canada’s Trump – whose folksy act is a front for an assault on working people and the environment

A recent episode perfectly captures the appeal of Ontario Tory leader Doug Ford. Asked about a delayed mining plan in the province’s north, this is how he answered: “If I have to hop on a bulldozer myself, we’re going to start building roads..it will benefit local people but it is also going to benefit everyone in Ontario.” The statement quickly went viral.

In a single gesture, witness the dizzying acrobatics of right-wing populism. There’s the posture of an unflinching maverick, spitting on his hands and getting the job done. There’s the plain-spoken concern for the common man and woman. And then there’s the actual result: a resource scheme that would enrich multinational corporations – who’d help themselves to a 10-year tax holiday – while trampling Indigenous rights and razing one of the last intact wild areas in Canada.

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Japanese group believed to be demanding direct financial support with consumers making up the difference

Britain’s hopes for a number of new nuclear power stations could collapse if the government and Japanese conglomerate Hitachi fail to make a breakthrough on talks for a plant in Wales, a top nuclear lobbyist has warned.

Hiroaki Nakanishi, the firm’s chairman, met Theresa May earlier this month, to press the prime minister for financial support for two reactors at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey.

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Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

National Geographic magazine has published some startling images of the global plastic pollution scourge.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week maintained its recent high levels of offset issuances, handing out 445,065 carbon credits to 21 projects.

New Zealand CO2 prices fell to their lowest levels since late March on Friday, as small clips of recently-issued NZUs offered by forest-owners was more than sufficient to saturate the modest demand.

South Korean CO2 permits rose 10% on Friday, the maximum daily amount allowed, as smaller companies looking to buy added to price pressure.

European carbon prices retreated from the previous session’s seven-year high on Friday, dipping below €16 after the day’s auction cleared at its biggest ever absolute discount to the secondary market.