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Large Indian industries will be unable to escape the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) announced by the UK earlier this week, according to some trade experts, who further added that soon all value-added products will be included under the mechanism.

EUAs extended their week-long rally in a shortened session on Friday before the four-day Christmas break, shrugging off an initial dip in response to the 22% increase in auction volumes scheduled for the first eight months of 2024 as traders continued to trim short positions ahead of the holiday.

Climate-related equity indices should still be subject to EU oversight, according to a position agreed by EU member states this week that endorsed a proposal that most benchmarks should not remain under the scope of regulation.

Despite a typical suburban upbringing – and two PhDs – Jonathan Cornford and his family decided to restrain their consumption

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When my wife, Kim, and I got married in 1995 we decided, in our youthful idealism, that we would try to “live simply so that others might simply live”. It turns out that living simply can sometimes be quite complicated. Nevertheless, from the outset it was clear to us that living simply should involve living on a lower income than the Australian norm. We were sort of downshifters, except we had never shifted up in the first place.

The bulk of our married life has been spent living at an income level that put us in the bottom 20% of Australian households. We now have two older teenagers, and for most of their lives our family technically hovered around the Australian household poverty line. But “poverty” has been very far from our experience.

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EVs made up just 2% of new car sales in May 2022, but now 8.3% of new car sales in 2023 are battery powered

The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has welcomed a boom in electric vehicle sales, revealing the number of fast-charging sites has nearly doubled in the last year.

National strategies on electric vehicles are expected to more than double the number of charger stations again within three years, as the federal government seeks to incentivise the use of cleaner cars. New fuel efficiency standards, expected to be outlined in early 2024, are likely to further discourage the sale of higher-emitting vehicles, making electric cars more attractive.

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As a Quantitative Carbon Market Analyst in Veyt you will contribute to developing our modelling framework for the European emission trading system (EU ETS) as well as predictive models for a growing number of emission trading systems around the world.

A marine charity will reportedly apply to take the government to court next month to argue that it ignored the advice of an independent scientific body to set more stringent limits on fishing in 2024.

Around the world, the people fighting for the survival of our planet are being shamefully silenced and villified

Injustice is easy to oppose after it has receded into the past, and there is no cost to imagining yourself as a hero long after the event. Everyone celebrates the suffragettes now, but at the time they were vilified as hateful spinsters and terrorists. McCarthyism is a pejorative political label on right and left alike now, but at his peak, more Americans approved of Senator Joseph McCarthy than frowned on his witch-hunt. Most people would like to believe they’d have stood up against the homophobia of 1980s Britain – yet, by 1987, only 11% of the British public believed same-sex relations to be “not wrong at all”.

Which takes us to climate activism. This year has seen a global onslaught against people agitating for more action to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. Courts can issue stern judgments, but so can history, and you have to wonder its future verdict on how the persecution and silencing of those raising the alarm only escalated when the scientific evidence had become so cast-iron, and when extreme weather events hammered home the imminent danger facing the human species. Here in Britain, a government which is reneging on its climate commitments – not least by expanding oil and gas licences – is simultaneously introducing repressive legislation to silence those holding them to account.

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

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An industry initiative to produce a low-carbon precursor for green steel is setting its sights on using Sweden’s renewable energy and high-quality iron ore resources as the backdrop for large-scale production for European export.

The proposed revision of EU ETS free allocations fails to deliver social and environmental change, write Lidia Tamellini of Carbon Market Watch and Aymeric Amand of Sandbag.

Efforts to improve the digital mapping of land cover and calculate carbon stores over time have been pushed to the forefront in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) as stakeholders seek to strengthen the integrity and transparency of carbon projects.

Allowance prices in China’s carbon market reached an almost two-month high over the past week amid stable trading volumes, as the year-end compliance deadline is rapidly approaching. 

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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A California-based agri-tech firm has teamed up with a tea research institute in India to help farmers generate income through the generation and sale of carbon credits.

Fishing nets abandoned or lost in the sea – known as ‘ghost nets’ or ‘ghost gear’ – have been called ‘the most deadly form of marine plastic debris’. Dolphins, fish, whales, seabirds and turtles become entangled and die slow, painful deaths. But divers in Dakar are working to remove the threat

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The state government of Queensland in Australia has banned new oil and gas development in the Lake Eyre region in a bid to protect vulnerable rivers and floodplains.

The majority of the Christmas tree plantations in Burgundy rely on the use of chemical treatments.

India needs to make sure that projects deemed eligible to supply carbon credits under its recently announced voluntary carbon market hold a high standard for the new programme to be a credible tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions, experts have warned.

Exclusive: ‘We need to listen to the scientists. Excessive pesticide use is killing our bees,’ say company heads in letter to minister

The UK government should stop ignoring the science and block a bee-killing pesticide from being used, business leaders have said.

The neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB is used on sugar beet and is highly toxic to bees. It is banned in the EU but the UK has provisionally agreed to its emergency use every year since leaving the bloc. In 2017, the then environment secretary, Michael Gove, promised to use Brexit to ban all neonicotinoids.

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Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina’s renewable energy division and forest developer PT Inhutani have signed an agreement for a nature-based solutions project in North Kalimantan, home to vast tropical forests.