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MP Chris Skidmore says approval would undermine UK’s efforts to tackle climate crisis and its claims to leadership on world stage

• Opinion: I can’t let ministers trash our net zero pledge

The government’s former “net zero tsar” has urged ministers to halt the development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, or risk destroying the UK’s credibility on the climate crisis.

Chris Skidmore, the influential Conservative MP who led the review of the UK’s climate goals, writes in the Guardian on Tuesday of his concern that the development could derail net zero.

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The Irish minister for agriculture has called for the rewetting of peatlands to be included in the European Commission's definition of carbon farming, during a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.

Only the United States, Russia and China have successfully landed a spacecraft on the Moon.

A legislative vote is slated to take place in Ecuador in the coming weeks, with the potential to greenlight carbon market development in the heavily-forested South American country after years of inactivity.

EUA prices fell for a ninth time in ten sessions on Tuesday morning as sentiment continued to weaken, even as ministers formally approved ETS reforms and the launch of a carbon border adjustment mechanism, while UK carbon permits shrugged off the bearish continental trend to rise for a second day.

Roadmap to stop use of substances including ‘forever chemicals’ used to implement bans on 14 chemical groups so far, report states

A plan to ban up to 7,000 of the most potentially dangerous chemicals on the European market by 2030 is failing badly, according to a study.

A year ago, the EU launched a roadmap to banning groups of toxic substances linked to environmental damage and serious illnesses such as cancers, hormonal disruption and reprotoxic disorders. These included all bisphenols, the most dangerous flame retardants, and the increasingly controversial PFAS chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

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The global low-carbon project pipeline has accelerated in the past year to reach over 400 projects in the first quarter of 2023, driven by green hydrogen projects as last year’s elevated gas prices have taken the shine off prospects for fossil-fuel based projects equipped with CCS, analysts told a webinar on Tuesday.

Agreement between grouse moor managers and conservationists had also aimed to restore populations

Illegal killings of birds of prey have led the Peak District national park to end an agreement between grouse moor managers and bird conservationists aimed at protecting raptors.

The partnership was set up in 2011 and sought to restore bird of prey populations in the park. The rare birds have historically been killed by gamekeepers and others because they predate on grouse populations, which are maintained for shooting.

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China should consider implementing a secondary model within its national spot power market that interfaces with the existing local markets to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country's power sector, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

EU member states on Tuesday gave their approval to a series of provisional deals aiming to put shipping, buildings and road transport under carbon pricing, impose a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), and launch a Social Climate Fund.

Singapore-based carbon exchange Climate Impact X (CIX) has partnered with an AI-driven decarbonisation platform that will provide access to voluntary buyers with net zero targets across several Asia-Pacific countries.

Cities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts

The decision, climate experts and advocates said, felt “like a dam breaking” after years of legal delays to the growing wave of climate lawsuits facing major oil companies.

Without weighing in on the merits of the cases, the supreme court on Monday rebuffed an appeal by major oil companies that want to face the litigation in federal courts, rather than in state courts, which are seen as more favorable to plaintiffs.

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One of China's biggest securities firms has signed a letter of intent with a Shanghai-listed forestry and paper company to secure domestically-issued CCERs worth no less than 100 million yuan ($14.5 mln), aiming to make a preemptive move ahead of the relaunch of the national voluntary scheme.

Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway, sits deep within the Arctic Circle, about 700 miles from the north pole. It has about 35 year-round residents, but in summer the population swells to more than 100 as scientists fly in from around the world. Life in the town centres around saunas, sled dogs, and a weekly evening gathering called Strikk og Drikk, or Knit and Sip

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More than 300 barriers were taken down last year, boosting the health of waterways and the wildlife they support, say experts

A record number of river barriers, including dams and weirs, were removed across Europe in 2022, with at least 325 taken down in 16 countries, allowing rivers to flow freely and migratory fish to reach breeding areas.

In its annual report, Dam Removal Europe said Spain led the way for the second year with 133 removals, followed by Sweden and France. The UK completed 29 removals, including Bowston Weir, which was built on the River Kent nearly 150 years ago for a paper mill. Its removal will help restore the health of the river, which is home to white-clawed crayfish, freshwater pearl mussels, and water crowfoot (an oxygenating aquatic plant).

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The southern lights surge over Christchurch's Port Hills, a place that would not usually get to enjoy them. Unusually high levels of solar storm activity meant the Aurora Australis could be viewed much farther north than the lights are typically seen, and in cities where light pollution would normally render them invisible

• Aurora Australis lights up New Zealand skies in spectacular ‘solar tsunami’

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There’s growing concern that the oceans are heating up quickly – and scientists are unsure of the implications.

A California Assembly committee on Monday sent along legislation that would direct the state government to evaluate certain areas of the state’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade regulation and mandate that any resulting reforms take effect by 2025.

How re-wiggling artificially straightened rivers can give nature a boost.