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Derelict stables at secret Sussex location will be revamped to house greater horseshoe bats

Rare bats that are breeding in south-east England for the first time in a century will be encouraged to rear their young in an innovative maternity unit – a tumbledown stable block.

The derelict stables at a secret location in Sussex will next month be purchased for greater horseshoe bats by the Vincent Wildlife Trust and Sussex Bat Group after the endangered species was discovered breeding in region after a 100-year absence.

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The Australian government will kickstart a new hydrogen trade initiative with a focus on clean hydrogen exports to Japan, Australia’s minister for energy and emissions reduction, Angus Taylor, announced on Friday.

Crypto carbon venture Klima DAO has struck a deal with a Sao Paolo-based company that tokenises carbon credits from REDD projects in the Amazon in a first bid to extend its reach beyond the cheap, catch-all units it has targeted so far.

These fascinating spiders only live for about a year and have particularly interesting family arrangements. Jess Marsh, Research fellow at the Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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GE is committed to helping the world achieve its decarbonization goals. GE has created an internal structure that is focused on capturing the latest learnings across the globe to develop the most cost effective and efficient pathway to decarbonizing the Energy industry.

Within the framework of our project LIFE DICET – Deepening international cooperation on emissions trading, we are recruiting two Research Associates.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values trended up over the holiday period and into the new year, with traders pointing to the return of regular buyers and elevated commodity values among the contributing factors.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices vaulted to new all-time highs above $14 this week as traders pointed to interest from both compliance entities and speculators, while California Carbon Allowance (CCA) values spiked in thin trade over the holiday period before retracing somewhat.

Natural capital fund Climate Asset Management has hired a veteran international carbon market expert as its aim to deploy $1.6 billion of investments worldwide gathers pace.

Animals are surprisingly good at avoiding fire - but can they survive the unprecedented megafires we now face? Chris J Jolly, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University Dale Nimmo, Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU should target a carbon sink of at least 490 MtCO2e by 2030 under its land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) regulation, a key European Parliament member said in a draft report published this week, a tougher goal than the 310 MtCO2e level proposed by the Commission.

The UK has cut the annual allocation of free allowances to installations covered under its carbon market to 2025, according to new data published by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

George Eustice tells sector facing margins cut to bone by supermarkets they should demand higher incomes

Farmers must “stand their ground” on price inflation and ensure that the rising costs they face are reflected in the prices paid to them by supermarkets for their produce, the UK’s environment, food and rural affairs secretary has demanded.

George Eustice told the online Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday that rising input costs should result in higher incomes for farmers, but that increasing farm gate prices need not result in food inflation for consumers.

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Official decision calling Project Servator intimidatory quashed by ‘quality assurance process’

Environmental activists who accused police of intimidation and harassment have had a review decision in their favour withdrawn in controversial circumstances.

The decision, produced by the office of the police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, was particularly critical of Project Servator, a national counter-terrorism strategy, saying it was “increasingly being used as an intimidatory and oppressive national policing tactic”.

Project Servator is “apparently increasingly being used as an intimidatory and oppressive national policing tactic”.

While police witnesses were interviewed about the incident, those visited by the police were not. “There appears to have been a quiescent acceptance of the police account of their actions by the [police] professional standards department.”

Potential misconduct by police officers who visited the quarry and boatyard should also be considered.

The matter should have been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct “given the politically sensitive and national implications of such disproportionality in a protest situation”.

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EUAs dipped in a very thin trade on Thursday, as many markets across Europe were closed for public holidays, while natural gas prices climbed amid social unrest in Kazakhstan and a halt to exports from neighbouring Uzbekistan.

The tree grows only in an African rainforest the actor and conservationist helped save from logging.

Hundreds of new species include pink voodoo lily and an ylang-ylang tree named after Leonardo DiCaprio

A ghost orchid that grows in complete darkness, an insect-trapping tobacco plant and an “exploding firework” flower are among the new species named by scientists in the last year. The species range from a voodoo lily from Cameroon to a rare tooth fungus unearthed near London, UK.

A new tree from the ylang-ylang family is the first to be named in 2022 and is being named after the actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio. He campaigned to revoke a logging concession which threatened the African tree, which features glossy yellow flowers on its trunk.

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China’s environment ministry is proposing to reduce the number of CO2 allowances to be distributed under its national CO2 emissions trading scheme for 2021, but likely not enough of a cut to avoid another year of oversupply.

Nature recovery schemes are part of post-Brexit subsidies overhaul, but eco campaigners are sceptical

Farmers in England will be given taxpayers’ cash to rewild their land, under plans for large-scale nature recovery projects announced by the government. These will lead to vast tracts of land being newly managed to conserve species, provide habitats for wildlife and restore health to rivers and streams.

Bids are being invited for 10-15 pilot projects, each covering at least 500 hectares and up to 5,000 hectares, to a total of approximately 10,000 hectares in the first two-year phase – about 10 times the size of Richmond Park in London. These pilots could involve full rewilding or other forms of management that focus on species recovery and wildlife habitats.

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