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Ministers say elephants are not the only animals at risk from hunters, as they launch consultation.

Pressed flowers and a poem found inside a centuries-old botany book sparked a quest to find the owner.

Ros Atkins explains the link between climate change and recent heat waves in the US and Canada.

Investors are seen as bigger buyers of EU carbon allowances than Europe's heavy industries over the coming months and years because utilities are rapidly decarbonising and industrials lack financial clout or are cushioned by ongoing free allocation, a conference heard on Friday.

Regulated entities boosted their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) length for the first time in 10 weeks over the most recent five-day stretch, while speculators kept their positions nearly unchanged, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

It comes amid growing concern about congestion, competition and even an arms race in space.

Rule changes aimed at making room for more household solar systems and batteries on the grid would be unfair to current owners, some say

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Michael Streatfeild was an early solar adopter. About a decade ago he withdrew $15,000 from his mortgage to install a 3.6kW system of panels on a north-east facing section of his roof in western Sydney.

Three years ago, in a bid to wipe out his reliance on coal-fired grid electricity, he added a 4kW system and positioned it to catch sun later in the day, when it comes from the north-west.

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Sweden is inviting carbon-cutting cutting projects in the Dominican Republic to bid to be the first initiatives that could ultimately deliver Paris Agreement-era carbon credits to the Nordic country.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including developments in North Carolina.

UK carbon prices have fallen to an “unexpected” discount to EU Allowances as utilities have held back from swapping EUAs for UKAs and investors have mostly stayed on the sidelines, according to a panel of experts.

Severe flooding has caused devastation in Germany and Belgium, where the death toll has risen to more than 120 as emergency services continued their search for many hundreds more still missing. No loss of life has been reported in Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, but flash floods swept through the Swiss villages of Schleitheim and Beggingen, several towns in the Grand Duchy were evacuated and thousands were told to leave their homes in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht

• More than 100 dead as flood ‘catastrophe’ hits Germany and Belgium
• Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
  
• Flash floods cause havoc across Europe – in pictures

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Campaigners criticise European Commission strategy that allows continued burning of trees for fuel

The EU executive has been accused of “sacrificing forests” after it published proposals that would allow trees to continue to be burned for fuel.

The charges of “accelerating climate breakdown” through wood-burning were made on Friday as the European Commission unveiled its forest strategy, which includes a goal to plant 3bn trees across the EU by 2030.

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The National Food Strategy has rightly declared war on junk food, but bypasses the crucial issue of how our diet harms the climate

I’ve spent a long time waiting for the UK to produce a proper and detailed plan to reform its dysfunctional relationship with food. The problems are numerous: we don’t properly count the cost of our poor diets, both to our own health and to our environment, and we have dietary guidelines that basically no one follows. Lots of our eating habits – particularly a preference for huge chunks of meat and lots of sugar – were formed in a time when food was less plentiful and more expensive. We now consume these foods on a massive scale while falling short on the fruit and vegetables that would help us avoid diseases in later life.

For the first time, the plan released by the National Food Strategy combines all the sectors involved in our food system – from farming to government procurement, education to industry and trade. No single solution will fix our food system alone, so this kind of comprehensive approach is really welcome. As is the government’s recent announcement of a ban on junk food advertising before 9pm. This new independent report continues the war on junk food by proposing the world’s first tax on sugar and salt for use in processed foods, catering businesses and restaurants. The tax – with some of resulting revenue ringfenced for providing fruit and veg to low-income families – should have big health benefits, building on those of the sugary drinks levy introduced a few years ago.

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Judge says demonstration was ‘peaceful’ but impacted Murdoch, Mail, Telegraph and Standard titles

Six Extinction Rebellion protesters on trial for blockading the printing press of some of the UK’s major newspapers have been found guilty.

The activists appeared at St Albans magistrates court on Friday accused of obstructing the highway outside Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on 4 September 2020.

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At least 110 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium. Search and rescue operations are continuing with hundreds still unaccounted for

• More than 100 dead as flood ‘catastrophe’ hits Germany and Belgium

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EUAs remained firmly entrenched in a range either side of €53.00 as the week neared its end, while UKAs continued to recover from their record low.

Scientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.

Modifying the supply-managing Market Stability Reserve (MSR) of the EU ETS to maintain its current ambition level will be a separate, "quicker" process to the legislation of the European Commission’s larger ‘Fit for 55’ climate package, a senior EU official said Friday.

The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including endangered vultures, a baby beaver and a spectacular wingnut tree

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Hong Kong will explore opportunities in establishing itself as a carbon trading centre for mandatory carbon markets both in mainland China and internationally, with an initial focus on the Guangdong-HK-Macao greater Bay region.