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Republican members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives unveiled last week a series of bills they say are intended to promote energy affordability and serve as a counterproposal to Governor Josh Shapiro's (D) energy transition plans that include the implementation of a cap-and-trade system to replace the state's participation in RGGI.

Bushwalkers with smartphones could help scientists track a fungus lethal to many of Australia’s most loved trees. Erin Roger, Sector Lead, CSIRO Alyssa Martino, PhD Candidate , University of Sydney Rebecca Paxton, Doctoral student, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The new global climate finance goal will have to drill down on details such as where the money comes from, where it is allocated, how it is monitored and verified, and, ideally, how to bolster integrity of carbon markets, according to a senior international climate finance official. 

CAP scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, drives ‘perverse outcomes for a food transition’, says study

The EU has made polluting diets “artificially cheap” by pumping four times more money into farming animals than growing plants, research has found.

More than 80% of the public money given to farmers through the EU’s common agriculture policy (CAP) went to animal products in 2013 despite the damage they do to society, according to a study in Nature Food. Factoring in animal feed doubled the subsidies that were embodied in a kilogram of beef, the meat with the biggest environmental footprint, from €0.71 to €1.42 (61p to £1.22).

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Voluntary carbon futures eligible for Phase 1 CORSIA soared past $20 on the ICE bourse last week in the wake of a UN decision to block the approval of new supply into the international aviation emissions offsetting scheme, although S&P Global kept its related spot price assessment at $11.50.

Dutch court ruling that KLM misled customers ‘wakeup call’ that decarbonisation plans should be credible, climate advocacy group says

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Australian airlines could be found to have misled consumers in the way they present their net zero goals and market offset options during flight bookings, climate advocates have claimed, following a landmark legal decision on aviation “greenwashing”.

The warning from Climate Integrity, a new Australia-based advocacy group, follows a Dutch court late last month ruling that airline KLM misled customers with vague environmental claims, and that its affirmation to the goals of the Paris Agreement was “misleading and therefore unlawful”.

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The European Shippers Council has hit back at an NGO's claim that shipping companies are profiting from the ETS, countering that companies operating in southern EU countries will struggle to meet compliance obligations.

Hot and dry conditions could force measures despite country experiencing wettest 18 months since records began

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The UK could face water shortages and hosepipe bans if this summer is hot and dry, despite having experienced the wettest 18 months since records began.

Leading scientists have said that because the UK is not storing its water properly, the country is vulnerable to the “all or nothing” rain patterns being experienced more frequently due to climate breakdown.

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EU governments are scrambling to hire and train staff to deal with the bloc's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), with some — such as Germany — yet to bring on anyone new, and others — such as Slovenia and Latvia — hoping Brussels will provide more guidance, representatives from the national competent authorities have told Carbon Pulse.

The federal government of Pakistan is considering imposing a carbon tax on fossil fuels to bring down their demand and is contemplating ways to include such a tax in its upcoming budget, officials have told a local media.

South Korea should take into account the factor of carbon pricing when assessing the implementation cost for a net zero electricity system, according to a recent study.

Ten of the most widely used datasets to measure biodiversity changes and inform conservation policies significantly underestimate the level of uncertainty, and could thus lead to unreliable extimations.

Despite bold announcements, no large-scale renewable energy has been added to the SWIS and there are very few sanctioned projects in the pipeline.

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Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt were finally shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due to the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In order to save natural gas in power generation during the energy […]

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One of the largest trade groups in Taiwan has urged the government to establish an emissions pricing framework for imported goods to prevent carbon leakage and sustain domestic companies' business competitiveness amid the emergence of international carbon taxes.

Investors need to better understand the impact of regenerative agriculture practices without expecting them to solve all their nature and climate ambitions, according to executives at a non-profit investor network.

A consortium of project developers, trading firms, and other stakeholders has announced the launch of a new watchdog organisation aimed at policing efforts by regulators and rating agencies, with the aim of bringing even more integrity and transparency to the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

Charity publishes survey findings as it calls for youngsters to be no more than a 15-minute walk from green spaces

More than three-quarters of children want to spend more time in nature, the National Trust has found, as the conservation charity pushes ministers to ensure youngsters are no more than a 15-minute walk from green spaces.

Nearly two-thirds – 63% – of parents are able to take their children to nature spaces only once a week or less, citing accessibility as the main barrier, the survey of 1,000 children aged seven to 14 and 1,000 parents by the trust and the children’s newspaper First News found.

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There’s so much we still don’t know about whales. Here’s 3 amazing new things we’ve learnt about whales lately: how humpback whales have sex and give birth – and how baleen whales sing underwater. Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Other endangered animals rescued in 2023 included a burrowing parrot, an African spurred tortoise and a blood-eared parakeet

Specialist wildlife police in eastern Spain have rescued an exotic list of endangered animals over the past year, including a pair of Nile crocodiles, an African spurred tortoise weighing 25kg and a two-metre Burmese python.

The Seprona division of the Guardia Civil said in a statement on Sunday that its officers had recovered “numerous examples” of species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora during 2023.

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