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Quebec’s initial free allowance distribution for 2023 increased from the previous year, while data showed the province's environmental ministry handed out more permits for 2021 emissions than it previously disclosed.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for closer ties with the US on clean tech subsidies during a speech on Tuesday, while setting out details about a Brussels plan to ensure the EU gets better at nurturing its own industry while meeting net zero goals.

The climate activist was taken away by police during a protest against the demolition of a German village to make way for a coalmine. Thunberg was detained after sitting near the edge of the opencast Garzweiler 2 mine, about 5 miles from the village of Lützerath. Riot police backed by bulldozers removed activists from buildings in the village, with only a few left in trees and an underground tunnel at the weekend, but protesters including Thunberg remained at the site and staged a sit-in into Tuesday

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The Canberra fires showed even urban communities can be in danger if close enough to the bush. Andrew Gissing, CEO, Natural Hazards Research Australia, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The average age of retired carbon credits fell by three years in 2022 as corporates sought fresher vintages, helping to push the primary value of the voluntary carbon market up 30% last year, analysts noted in a webinar on Tuesday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices recovered some ground with increased activity heading into the second week of the year, even as concerns remain over programme review delays and legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s linkage to the market.

Almost two-thirds of sharks and rays living on world’s coral reefs at risk, with 14 of 134 species reviewed critically endangered

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Almost two-thirds of sharks and rays that live around the world’s coral reefs are threatened with extinction with potentially dire knock-on effects for ecosystems and coastal communities, according to new research.

Overfishing was the main cause of the declines over the past half a century, with larger sharks and rays being particularly hard hit.

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The EU's newly-agreed law on deforestation-free supply chains across key goods entering the bloc's single market will set a global benchmark for others to follow, despite the risk of loopholes in the final text due, according to Nicole Rycroft, founder and CEO of non-profit Canopy Planet.

EUA prices rallied amid speculative buying after the market tested its recent low in early Tuesday trading, while energy prices hit new year-to-date lows and rallied amid short covering.

Experts are seeking urgent clarity on what constitutes a good carbon credit to bring corporates back from the sidelines of the global carbon markets, WEF's annual summit heard on Tuesday, with panellists also citing the need to move away from the "misnomer" that the market is voluntary. 

Totnes MP Anthony Mangnall was given £5,000 according to parliament’s register of members’ interests in 2020

A Conservative MP who received thousands in a donation from a wealthy landowner who took Dartmoor National Park Authority to court has refused to comment on a legal decision that has led to a ban on wild camping in the park.

Last week, the right to wild camp in England and Wales was lost after hedge fund manager Alexander Darwall successfully brought a case against Dartmoor national park. It was the last place it was possible to wild camp without seeking permission.

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Whitehaven colliery will release about 17,500 tonnes of methane every year, estimates thinktank

The new coalmine in Cumbria is likely to prevent the UK from meeting its internationally agreed commitment to reduce emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, analysis has suggested.

The Whitehaven colliery, controversially approved by ministers shortly before Christmas, will release about 17,500 tonnes of methane every year, according to estimates from the Green Alliance thinktank.

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The high court ruling is an outrage when we are already banned from 92% of the country’s land

When I did the Ten Tors challenge at school in 2017, I would fight back tears with my teammates, anticipating the relief and joy we would feel at crossing the finish line after 45 miles of backpacking on Dartmoor. On Friday, different tears fell. Messages flooded my phone announcing that the right to wild camp on Dartmoor had been overturned in an astonishing defeat.

The now infamous high court case in London, instigated by the hedge fund manager Alexander Darwall, saw victory for landowners, who can now choose to grant (or not to grant) campers a quiet night under the stars. Now, there is nowhere to legally wild camp in England or Wales. The windswept fury of Dartmoor was the stage of its extinction.

Sophie Pavelle is a writer and science communicator

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Material from dry landscapes has surged since the 1800s, possibly helping to cool the planet for decades

Dust that billows up from desert storms and arid landscapes has helped cool the planet for the past several decades, and its presence in the atmosphere may have obscured the true extent of global heating caused by fossil fuel emissions.

Atmospheric dust has increased by about 55% since the mid-1800s, an analysis suggests. And that increasing dust may have hidden up to 8% of warming from carbon emissions.

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Oslo-based global fertiliser supplier Yara has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese utility JERA to supply a coal-fired power plant in Japan with up to 500,000 tonnes of “clean ammonia" per year.

AirCarbon Exchange (ACX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two companies to identify net zero carbon and recycled plastics opportunities in the Middle East and around the world, the Singapore-based carbon exchange announced on Tuesday.

Growth in China's thermal power generation remained steady in December, while coal production continued to grow despite recent economic headwinds, government data showed Tuesday.

A report has warned that just a handful of new gas projects in Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism would eat up the majority of the supply of carbon credits available, and place an A$8 billion ($6.2 billion) burden on other businesses to decarbonise at much faster rates.

India aims to displace fossil fuel sourced feedstocks for its fertiliser, oil refining, steel, and transport sectors, an seeks a longer-term role as a renewable hydrogen exporter, its national green hydrogen mission has detailed.

With drenching rain, local rivalries and – crucially – no animals harmed, the Kerry Beagle drag hunt has fascinated photographer Tony O’Shea for three decades

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