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A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing and clean energy at the US subnational level taken this week, including the approval of New York City's climate bill featuring offsets and a possible carbon market, the launch of Hawaii’s first forest-based offset project, a planned hearing on a revised California offset bill, and movement on a proposal to increase Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).

Ontario lawyers argued during the second provincial lawsuit against the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ carbon pricing mechanism that Ottawa does not have the authority to impose its CO2 levy and large emitter programme on the jurisdiction.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices declined during the week as many traders were out of the office, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) failed to budge on the secondary market.

EUAs gave back some of the week’s strong gains on Thursday as bulls looked to take pre-long weekend profits after carbon hit an 11-year high this week.

Met comes under pressure to crack down on the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators

Scotland Yard has defended its response to the rolling protests in London that have caused disruption to millions and pushed climate change towards the top of the national news agenda.

The Metropolitan police has come under increasing pressure to crack down on the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators who have blocked transport networks in the capital in recent days; not least from the home secretary, Sajid Javid, who has urged officers to “take a firm stance”.

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Home secretary asks police to be firm against demonstrators ‘disrupting the lives of others’

Sajid Javid has called on police to use the “full force of the law” against Extinction Rebellion protesters causing disruption in London to draw attention to the issue of climate change.

The home secretary, who is positioning himself for a run at the Conservative party leadership, made a series of tweets condemning “any protesters who are stepping outside the boundaries of the law”.

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Guardian picture editors select the best photos from the fourth day of climate protests across London

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Environmental campaigners plan to disrupt airport at start of Easter bank holiday

Environmental campaigners are planning to disrupt Heathrow on Friday as they escalate their protests in an attempt to highlight the climate crisis and demand the government takes urgent action.

Activists, who have successfully blockaded four landmark sites in central London for the past four days, said they will target the airport at the start of the Easter bank holiday.

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French analysis and consulting firm Enerdata has hired a former Bloomberg New Energy Finance EU power and carbon analyst.

The veteran naturalist's BBC programme on climate change is his strongest warning yet on the threat of rising temperatures.

The Carbon Pricing Research Fellow will work with the Cross-sector Climate Action Manager and will perform a variety of tasks including policy research and synthesis, drafting memoranda, development of written and online communication, and briefs, and project coordination.

Poland has increased the amount of free EU carbon permits it is granting to utilities this year, government data shows, reducing the number the country can auction next year.

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An orchestra, a village, an entire country: the movement to rein in greenhouse gas emissions is growing

We are all doomed, it is said. Carbon dioxide is amassing in the atmosphere at levels not seen for millions of years when there were trees at the South Pole and Florida was under water. We have barely a decade to make amends. Protesters are on the streets.

But huge numbers of people have not given up. Not yet. Call them the carbon cutters. They are companies and cities, niche groups and nations. They are commuters and communes, off-gridders and off-setters, investors and institutions – and countless individuals, cutting their meat intake, installing solar panels, eschewing gas guzzlers and long-haul flights.

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New Zealand’s ETS consultation process has drawn support for allowing ETS companies to buy a limited amount of carbon credits from abroad, but a significant minority wanted restrictions such as having the government make the purchases or banning international units outright.

The bones of the huge creature belong to a new species which roamed east Africa 20 million years ago.

A woman and two men are charged over the Extinction Rebellion protest at Canary Wharf in London.

Australia's big emitters would have to buy carbon credits abroad to the tune of A$25 billion ($18 bln) if the opposition Labor party wins the country's election next month, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Thursday.

Three charged over protest that halted DLR services, as climate action enters fourth day

Three people have been charged over an Extinction Rebellion protest in which activists climbed on the top of a train at Canary Wharf station in east London, British Transport Police have said, as demonstrators held their four roadblock sites in central London for another night.

Cathy Eastburn, 51, from south London, Mark Ovland, 35, from Somerton in Somerset, and Luke Watson, 29, from Manuden in Essex, were charged with obstructing trains or carriages on the railway by an unlawful act, contrary to section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861 over the protest on Wednesday, which halted Docklands Light Railway (DLR) services. They were due to appear at Highbury Corner magistrates court on Thursday.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator again issued nearly 400,000 carbon credits this week, nearly twice the long-term average rate, but the influx of new projects has almost ground to a halt amid uncertainty over the domestic offset market’s future.