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Destruction of the rainforest increased by 9.5% compared to the previous 12 months, new data shows.

WCI regulated parties increased their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) length immediately before the release of the Q4 auction results as speculators reduced their position for the second consecutive week, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

EU carbon jumped above €29 to extend their two-month high again on Monday as the energy complex rose on prospects of colder weather, adding to bullish sentiment stemming from an imminent tightening of EUA supply.

The EU should avoid introducing a price floor in its emissions trading system as it would distort and undermine the market while making it difficult to link to others, a group of European energy exchanges has warned.

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The EU is on track to overachieve its 2020 objective to cut emissions 20% below 1990 levels, though progress at national level differs among the 27 states, a European Environmental Agency (EEA) report released on Monday found.

The EU should bring methane emissions from coal mines into the EU ETS from 2030 to curb its negative climate impact, comparable to those of the largest installations covered by bloc's the cap-and-trade system, a report released on Monday said.

New Brunswick is aiming to backdate compliance obligations under its provincial output-based pricing system (OBPS) once it is removed from the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ mechanism, according to regulations posted last week.

EU decision-makers will begin late on Monday the first round of negotiations of the European Climate Law, sources told Carbon Pulse, with talks expected to conclude in the first quarter of next year.

British agriculture will be transformed utterly by bold new proposals

This is a good week to start a revolution. With Brexit now on the brink of deal or no deal, Britain could yet retreat behind a wall of tariffs and protectionism. But if a free-trade deal is done and borders stay open, the way is clear for British agriculture to be transformed utterly. Today a seven-year transition plan has been announced by the environment secretary, George Eustice. It switches the money, currently £2.4bn a year, pumped into farm support from merely subsidising an industry to safeguarding the countryside and supporting good food and animal welfare. As the plan goes out to consultation, it will face a hundred reservations, but freed from the EU’s longstanding, anti-conservation agricultural policy it is emphatically in the right direction.

Within a decade, taxpayers will stop paying farmers on the size of their farms, now roughly £233 per hectare and comprising a third of farm incomes. This has been a massive distortion in favour of rich landowners. By 2028 farms are expected, says Eustice, to be “sustainable businesses that do not need to rely on public subsidy”. But lest that leads to arable degradation and the erosion of nature, and further exacerbates the climate crisis, the present subsidy is to be redirected to what the plan rightly called “public goods”.

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The advance is expected to accelerate research into a host of human diseases, including Covid-19.

A Northeast US trading firm opened a RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) account this week as speculators continue to flock to the power sector cap-and-trade scheme with allowance prices at four-year highs.

Inquest into Ella Kissi-Debrah’s asthma death hears Lewisham council was slow to tackle issue

Illegal levels of air pollution in the area where a nine-year-old girl lived and died should have been treated as a public health emergency, an inquest heard.

Instead the London borough of Lewisham moved at a “glacial pace” to take steps to address toxic air from traffic where Ella Kissi-Debrah lived and went to primary school, the inquest in south London was told on Monday.

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UN officials are considering ways of temporarily maintaining the CDM into 2021, aiming to avert killing off the offset mechanism before countries decide whether it can transition into the Paris Agreement era.

Major emitters in Western Australia won’t face mandatory offsetting or other GHG requirements under the state’s long-awaited climate policy package released Monday, but the government did announce a modest carbon farming and land restoration programme.

Some 300 homes in Fife to be fitted with free boilers, heaters and cooking appliances

Hundreds of homes in Scotland will soon become the first in the world to use 100% green hydrogen to heat their properties and cook their meals as part of a new trial which could help households across the country replace fossil fuel gas.

Some 300 homes in Fife will be fitted with free hydrogen boilers, heaters and cooking appliances to be used for more than four years in the largest test of whether zero carbon hydrogen, made using renewable energy and water, could help meet Britain’s climate goals.

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European court of human rights case could result in countries being bound to take greater action

The European court of human rights has ordered 33 European governments to respond to a landmark climate lawsuit lodged by six youth campaigners, the Guardian has learned.

The plaintiffs’ British barrister says it could be the most important case ever tried by the Strasbourg-based judges.

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Nemonte Nenquimo is one of the six environmental leaders to be awarded this year's Goldman Prize.