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Exchange operator ICE is changing its rules to allow market participants to use EU Allowances as margin cover, it announced Monday.

A Toronto-based VER investor expects to generate cash flow in 2023, though there is still no timetable for resolution to the Indonesian government’s temporary halt of offset issuances to the Rimba Raya REDD project, the company announced Monday.

The findings will help us better understand how biodiversity responds to a changing climate over time. Rieneke Weij, Postdoctoral researcher in Geochemistry/Palaeoclimatology, University of Cape Town Jon Woodhead, Research Scientist Kale Sniderman, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Liz Reed, Research Fellow, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia needs a set of clear numeric targets entrenched in our highest laws, namely our constitutions. Constitutions spell out our most sacrosanct commitments. They are hard to budge once enacted. Ron Levy, Associate professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Biofilica Ambipar Environment S.A. is hiring a professional to develop relationships and sales with companies to offer carbon credits in their portfolio.

Italy, the EU’s third-largest economy, is poised to be run by a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni after the leader of populist party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) came out as the absolute winner of the country’s snap elections, in a history-making victory set to put domestic gas supply and nuclear resurgence at the core of the national energy debate.

Italy, the EU’s third-largest economy, is poised to be run by a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni after the leader of populist party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) came out as the absolute winner of the country’s snap elections, in a history-making victory set to put domestic gas supply and nuclear resurgence at the core of the national energy debate.

First offshore green hydrogen electrolyser produces its first batch of green hydrogen in France.

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Emissions under the EU ETS are likely to increase in 2022 as thermal generation increases, but also as more industrial companies are turning to petroleum-based fuels as an alternative to natural gas, according to bank analysts.

Emissions under the EU ETS are likely to increase in 2022 as thermal generation increases, but also as more industrial companies are turning to petroleum-based fuels as an alternative to natural gas, according to bank analysts.

Though they are the most well known, magpies are not the only Australian swoopers

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For the first time in Sean Dooley’s two decades of bird watching, he has been swooped twice this year by a nesting male magpie.

The magpie had met its match, however. Dooley works at Bird Life Australia, an organisation dedicated to conserving native birds and their habitats, and knows how to avoid a swoop without damage to the person or bird.

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Standardised nature-based offsets slumped lower over the past week as the wider marco-economic gloom and the strength of the dollar weighed on the market.

Standardised nature-based offsets slumped lower over the past week as the wider marco-economic gloom and the strength of the dollar weighed on the market.

Low-cost air carrier EasyJet on Monday announced it will soon stop automatically purchasing carbon credits to offset flight emissions as part of its net zero roadmap, and instead focus on a suite of other GHG mitigation strategies in its SBTi-aligned plan.

Low-cost air carrier EasyJet on Monday announced it will soon stop automatically purchasing carbon credits to offset flight emissions as part of its net zero roadmap, and instead focus on a suite of other GHG mitigation strategies in its SBTi-aligned plan.

The newly-appointed UK government aims complete its 'pro-business' net zero review by the end of the year, it said at the launch of the initiative on Monday as the main opposition party laid out a competing vision.

The newly-appointed UK government aims complete its 'pro-business' net zero review by the end of the year, it said at the launch of the initiative on Monday as the main opposition party laid out a competing vision.

The Artemis-I vehicle will be pulled off the launch pad in Florida to protect it from storm forces.

Prominent members of farmers’ union express dismay after comments by Minette Batters

Farmers are threatening to quit the National Farmers’ Union after its leader said she supported the UK government’s apparent move to scrap post-Brexit nature subsidies.

This weekend, the Observer revealed that the government was poised to abandon the “Brexit bonus”, which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature, in what wildlife groups have described as an “all-out attack” on the environment.

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Nature protection rules in proposed investment zones would in effect be suspended

There was little room for doubt about the reaction to the prime minister’s plans to scrap environmental regulations this weekend. “Make no mistake, we are angry. This government has today launched an attack on nature,” tweeted the RSPB, its most forceful political intervention in recent memory.

Liz Truss’s proposals to create investment zones, where green rules on nature protection would in effect be suspended, represented a step too far for some of Britain’s biggest environment charities. “As of today, from Cornwall to Cumbria, Norfolk to Nottingham, wildlife is facing one of the greatest threats it’s faced in decades,” the RSPB went on.

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