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Gold Fields Australia and EDL won the Golden Gecko award for environmental excellence for their Agnew Hybrid Renewable project in Leinster, Western Australia.

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The former head of environmental products at Gazprom’s trading arm has landed at UK oil major BP, Carbon Pulse has learned.

American energy company Phillips 66 on Thursday announced it intends to reduce the carbon intensity of its oil and gas operations and energy products by 2030.

The number of California-registered Compliance Instrument Tracking System Service (CITSS) accounts under the linked WCI cap-and-trade programme grew to a record during the third quarter, with new entrants split evenly between general market accounts and covered entities, according to data published by state regulator ARB on Thursday.

The Irish agriculture minister has said that CO2 stored in forests planted on farmland belongs to the government, but agriculture groups maintain they have the right to sell the sequestered carbon on the voluntary emissions reduction (VER) market.

The oceans around New Zealand are warming faster in winter than in summer. During the winter of 2021, most coastal areas were warmer than usual, and this is likely to bring more storms during summer. João Marcos Azevedo Correia de Souza, MetOcean Solutions Science Manager of the Research and Development Team. Moana Project Science Lead, MetService — Te Ratonga Tirorangi Amandine Schaeffer, UNSW Jonathan Gardner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Robert Smith, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices headed north of the $11 mark this week on a wave of compliance buying and speculative interest, while California Carbon Allowance (CCA) values topped out a new all-time record as traders pointed a possible correlation with EU carbon.

Recovering historical genetic data has been severely impeded by the methods used to preserve specimens, from dried butterfly wings to platypus bills floating in alcohol. Erin Hahn, Postdoc, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Parliament’s political leaders on Thursday rejected calls for a resolution to seek restrictions on speculation in the bloc’s carbon market and other measures to calm the bloc’s soaring energy prices, instead opting to hold a debate with the other EU institutions.

Louis favours the sulphur-crested cockatoo, the lorikeet is Leon’s choice, while the all-embracing Matilda loves ‘any bird’

• Australian bird of the year poll 2021

The bird of the year competition is a rewarding, yet divisive time for many Guardian readers, and employees.

Tensions fly high on social media as debates rage over the deserved victor: should it be the majestic, yet not-in-any-way threatened Australian pelican? The ACT’s beloved Gang-gang cockatoo, endangered in the wake of destructive bushfires?

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I spend all day at home in lockdown in a state of revulsion. When I’m not cleaning, I’m sneezing

Is it Covid or is it dust? Since I moved into this apartment, I frequently wake up with a runny nose, an inflamed throat and watery eyes.

I’ve never lived in a place that’s so dusty. The amount of dust I must deal with each day is confounding. I am constantly dusting, only for it to return an hour later. Where does it come from? Why is it here? Can we cohabitate or will I inhale so much of it that I’ll eventually choke?

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There is merit in a Caribbean carbon pricing regime, the Jamaican Economy Panel (JEP) of economic and public sector experts from the region said this week, providing guidance on how the policy should be designed to safeguard vulnerable households.

Boris Johnson says leaders' "reckless actions" created the climate crisis and now is the time to act.

Nearly 9 million allowances traded OTC in China’s carbon market over the past couple of days, adding some much-needed liquidity to the market, though most traders are focused on offsets with speculators placing bets on which CCERs might be deemed eligible for the first compliance cycle.

EUA prices declined in early trading on Thursday as sentiment turned bearish, while German power and TTF gas continued to increase as the month and quarter came to an end.

The acceleration in "carbon neutral" LNG cargoes is leading to louder calls for clear reporting on emissions and offset quality, as some companies use methods that cover barely a fifth of the fuel's climate impact while avoiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in offsetting costs.

Romania will phase out coal-fired power by end of 2032, with a majority of its 4.59 GW fleet being shuttered before 2026, according to a deal clinched with the European Commission.

The UN must urgently appoint a special rapporteur on climate change and human rights to galvanise action on the biggest threat to fundamental freedoms

Climate breakdown is making a mockery of human rights.

Start with the most fundamental right of all: the right to life, liberty and security. Two million people have died as a result of a five-fold increase in weather-related disasters in our lifetimes. And given that 90% of these deaths have occurred in developing countries, which have contributed the least to global heating, the climate crisis is also making a mockery of the notion that we are all born equal – as the UN Declaration of Human Rights and numerous national constitutions assert.

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