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How young polar researchers in the UK are tackling the taboo subject of menstruation.

Expansion of metallurgical coalmine in Queensland will add 31m tonnes alone with activists accusing Albanese government of being reckless

Coalmine expansions and developments approved in Australia so far this year are expected to add nearly 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over their lifetimes – equivalent to nearly a third of the country’s annual climate pollution.

The Albanese government this week gave the greenlight to an expansion of the Gregory Crinum coalmine in central Queensland. It produces metallurgical coal, used in steelmaking.

Approving a nine-year extension of the Ensham thermal coalmine, creating fuel for power plants. The Australia Institute’s coalmine tracker found it was likely to lead to 106m tonnes of additional emissions over its life.

Approving the creation of a small new mine, the Isaac River metallurgical coalmine, also in Queensland. It is expected to produce almost entirely metallurgical coal and lead to about 7m tonnes of emissions across its seven-year life.

Ruling a proposed extraction of a large sample, known as a “bulk sample”, of coal at the proposed Star coalmine site did not need formal assessment under federal environment law to go ahead. The proponent can dig up 1.5m tonnes of coal before applying to develop the full mine. It is expected to lead to about 3m tonnes of emissions.

Extending the life of the Lake Vermont open cut coalmine until 2063. This decision did not increase the total amount of coal that could be mined, just its potential lifespan.

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Compliance entities saw their CCA net length fall this week after the August WCI auction results were published and amid the September contract expiry, while financial players moved in the opposite direction, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data published Friday.

Washington state announced on Friday the first allotment of allowances to emissions-intensive and trade-exposed (EITE) industries for use in the cap-and-trade programme’s first compliance period.

A Paraguayan senator on Friday introduced a carbon credit bill that he says has greater support than previous legislation that would regulate the voluntary market, and will ultimately replace an older proposal.

Spot carbon credit prices under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) programme slightly dropped below July levels with a continued slowdown in activity, according to a report published Friday.

The UN has completed technical checks on the emissions reductions calculations of two major tropical forest nations, raising the prospect that the countries will attempt to monetise the results despite the vintage periods occurring before a 2021 cut-off for inclusion under fiercely debated Paris Agreement provisions.

A European financial watchdog has highlighted that there is growing interest in biodiversity but is cautious about potential greenwashing within the market.

A new report from UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre has tracked funding from hundreds of projects that boost marine biodiversity in critical habitats and found private sector funding to be minuscule.

As the EU starts defining a strategy to kickstart its carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) industry, the UK government's uncertainty over funding is leading to a loss of momentum in one of the countries that first embraced it.

A veteran carbon analyst has revised down their forecast for EUA prices out to 2030 in a report exclusively seen by Carbon Pulse, and is now anticipating a much slower growth trajectory out to €200 by the end of the decade.

A major US-headquartered agriculture technology startup focused on voluntary carbon has seen its valuation plummet by some 90% from at least $2-3 billion just a few years ago, according to reports.

A number of EU nations have called for the European Commission to develop a shared CO2 transport network as part of the bloc's industrial carbon management strategy initiative, though NGOs contest whether such infrastructure is really needed.

Over centuries lawn has come to dominate not just Australian cities, but cities around the world. Might we be ready for something else?

I am standing in a street not far from my home in Sydney. It is mostly unexceptional – a mix of redbrick detached and semi-detached houses, plantings of melaleucas and scrubby, dark-barked callistemons. Indeed, the only unusual thing is that whereas in most streets around it verges are grass, here there is a small stencil reading “no mow” on the footpath, and, behind it the verge is given over to an assortment of native grasses and low groundcovers instead of lawn.

This verge and others like it are the result of a program initiated by the local council, under which residents are able to ask to have the grass in front of their houses left uncut. That may seem a small change, but it is also symbolic of a larger shift with the place of lawn in Australian cities, and, just possibly, a deeper renegotiation with the relationship the landscape more generally.

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Corporates and financial institutions can create sizeable market opportunities by being first-movers in addressing the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework, said the director of a leading consultancy, ahead of the nature disclosure recommendations formal launch in September.

One of the largest exchange-traded products that contains EUAs has slashed its holdings in EU carbon by 27% to their lowest level since the end of last year, according to the investment firm's website.

Graham Stuart says if reforms to energy charter treaty not passed by November, UK would consider exit

The UK could pull out of the international energy charter treaty if attempts to reform it fail, the energy minister, Graham Stuart, has said.

The energy charter treaty (ECT) is a system of secret courts that enables companies to sue governments over policies that would cut their future profits. Companies have sued over phasing out coal-fired power stations, ending offshore oil drilling and banning fracking, with some receiving large taxpayer-funded payouts.

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Native hydrogen has become the latest buzzword in the great global hydrogen chase, potentially offering a far cheaper option than ‘green’ hydrogen while offering the same decarbonisation benefits, and does not require carbon sequestration or offsetting like the blue version does.

Carbon prices were little changed as the new month began, trading in their narrowest range in two months as the market started to absorb the impact of higher auction supply, while energy markets were also little-changed amid healthy gas supplies, even as the prospect of strike action at Australian LNG plants grew.

China's national carbon markets saw a surge in trading volume over the past week despite a decrease in spot prices, with analysts expecting the recently announced rules on allowance vintage to have a limited impact on near-term sentiment.