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Putting a price on greenhouse gases is the cheapest and most efficient method that legislators can employ to cut climate-warming emissions, according to new research backed by online retailer Amazon.

Quebec released two new draft offset protocols for its WCI-linked cap-and-trade system on Monday, as the environmental ministry intends to facilitate the adoption of additional protocols by shifting the credit programme regulatory text out of the emissions trading scheme.

Efforts to scale up the voluntary carbon market (VCM) could pose a “huge risk” for certifiers embedding gender equality practices into offset projects, experts said in light of International Women’s Day on Monday.

The disembodied head of the sacoglossan sea slug feasts on algae while its old body decomposes, and a new one grows

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then it’s unlikely that you are a sacoglossan sea slug (apologies to Rudyard Kipling).

Scientists in Japan have discovered that this species of sea slug can decapitate itself and then regrow an entirely new body, complete with a beating heart and other vital organs.

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There is only one daddy longlegs – and it is looking at you right now from the corner you forgot to dust

The daddy longlegs spider looks as though it was drawn very quickly on a sheet of paper by the hand of God (the hand of God is the MC Escher drawing of the hands drawing themselves) and then – perhaps after that sheet of paper was photocopied a few billion times, warming each spider up a bit – sprang off the page and into at least two corners in every home in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia, Oceania and South America – but not Antarctica, because they don’t like the cold.

Googling the daddy longlegs is a mistake, because this creature you never get too close to, and which looks pleasantly enough like a semicolon on eight spindly legs, is suddenly magnified. Now it looks like (don’t click – don’t do it!) a pitch pipe mated with a lobster.

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Nature-rich sites such as woods and wetlands more valuable because of the ‘ecosystem services’ they provide

The economic benefits of protecting nature-rich sites such as wetlands and woodlands outweigh the profit that could be made from using the land for resource extraction, according to the largest study yet to look at the value of protecting nature at specific locations.

Scientists analysed 24 sites in six continents and found the asset returns of “ecosystem services” such as carbon storage and flood prevention created by conservation work was, pound for pound, greater than manmade capital created by using the land for activities such as forestry or farming cereals, sugar, tea or cocoa.

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Organization: Commonwealth Secretariat Position: Adviser, Climate Change Duty Station: London, England, UK Deadline for Application: 11 March 2021

Organization: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Position: Research Assistant, Fossil Fuels and Just Transitions Duty Station: Bogota, Distrito Especial, Colombia Deadline for Application: 10 March 2021

Organization: Sandbag Climate Campaign Position: Industrial Decarbonisation Analyst – paid internship Duty Station: Brussels, Belgium | Brussels or Paris or home-based Deadline for Application: 14 March 2021

Organization: Asian Development Bank Position: Climate Strategy/Policy Specialist Duty Station: Home-Based, Tajikistan Deadline for Application: 12 March 2021

Organization: Asian Development Bank Position: Experts Pool: Senior Climate Change Specialist Duty Station: Manila, Philippines Deadline for Application: 15 March 2021

The photos were used to help a Facebook algorithm learn to recognise images without supervision.

The meeting in London comes ahead of crucial international summits later this year.

Ukraine aims to become climate neutral no later than 2060, according to the country’s long-term economic strategy approved by Kyiv last week that brings forward the goal by 10 years.

Ecologist Jamie Kingscott took a photograph of thousands of starlings as they surrounded his car.

New Zealand carbon allowances have stabilised a shade below NZ$39 ($27.93) in recent days, as traders show limited appetite to take major new positions ahead of next week’s inaugural auction.

President Xi offers no "big bang" to get to carbon neutrality, but others say China's massive renewables pipeline - more than 1,200 gigawatts - is cause for hope.

The post China’s Five Year Plan disappoints with “baby steps” on climate policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia’s major political parties are stuck with old energy technologies. We need them to catch up, and soon.

The post Video: Gas and CCS? Australia needs to move on, and quickly appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The collapse of an Australian's investment empire could see Sanjeev Gupta lose a favoured financial backer, complicating his push into green steelmaking.

The post Could an Australian billionaire unravel Sanjeev Gupta’s green industry vision? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There is no single energy significant industry where electricity has gained market share in the past decade.

The post Electrification: Australia is heading in the wrong direction appeared first on RenewEconomy.