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Governments should refrain from interfering in the EU ETS as part of efforts to deal with the jump in energy prices, the European Commission is expected to say next week when it unveils a 'toolbox' of emergency measures to help member states.

German utility RWE held its place as the biggest corporate emitter in the EU ETS last year, amid a major drop-off in CO2 output among the market’s major polluters, a report found Thursday.

Voluntary carbon market investments risk being hindered by a focus on buying carbon removals and a push to insist that companies require their offsets to include corresponding adjustments, a conference heard on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) values set consecutive all-time highs in recent days on the continued strength of speculative involvement in the North American cap-and-trade programmes, though both markets saw prices retrace mid-week as European gas and carbon experienced a downturn.

UN body ICAO must respond to more ambitious climate goals from countries and industry for its CORSIA programme to remain the sole market-based mechanism for global air travel and avoid a patchwork system of multiple carbon pricing policies, a panel heard Thursday.

Andrew Forrest invests in breakthrough thin film solar PV tech that he says will deliver significant costs reductions and underpin his huge hydrogen plans.

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Analysts expect prices to hit and potentially exceed $10/tonne for CORSIA-eligible voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) within months, despite urging caution over how the voluntary market will develop in the coming years.

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Industry bosses concerned energy crisis may cause production slowdowns and factory shutdowns

The risk of power cuts to factories and homes this winter has increased, the National Grid warned, as the business secretary prepared for a crunch meeting with industry bosses concerned the energy crisis may force them to scale back production.

The price of gas and electricity has soared in recent weeks, leading to the collapse of multiple energy suppliers and prompting warnings of higher costs for consumers, factory shutdowns and increased pollution as plants switch to dirtier but cheaper fuels.

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Fishmeal exports to EU from west Africa have grown sharply, depleting stocks and posing threat to livelihoods

Greenpeace activists have intercepted a 96-metre tanker in the Channel carrying fish oil from west Africa to Europe, to highlight the threat they say industry poses to food security and to livelihoods in the region.

Trade figures analysed by Greenpeace Africa show that fishmeal and fish oil exports from Mauritania alone have grown by an “alarming” 16% during 2020. Activists and locals say the industry pushes up prices and depletes stocks of fish eaten by local people across poor communities in Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia.

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EUA prices found technical support at a six-week low below €58 on Thursday after the previous session's 9% plunge, while peripheral European energy markets continued to weaken amid significant volatility.

Since 1988, humans have destroyed an area of rainforest roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined

Shortly before his 44th birthday, in December 1988, the Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes predicted he would not live until Christmas. “At first,” he said, “I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.”

Mendes had received death threats for years. The threats escalated when an aggressive rancher laid claim to a nearby forest reserve, where he intended to burn and level trees to create pasture for cattle. The rancher hired gunmen to prowl around Mendes’s neighborhood. Mendes publicly opposed the rancher, and continued to advocate for the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, saying Brazil must save the most biodiverse forest in the world. Destroy it, he said, and we, the human race, will end up destroying ourselves.

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Two Australian firms on Thursday signed an agreement to deploy and scale up a carbon credit-funded direct air capture (DAC) project that is expected to begin sequestering GHG emissions in 2024.

Highlights of the Royal Society of Biology’s photography competition 2021, from ants feasting on honeydew to zebras drinking in the savannah

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The environmental group had argued permission should not have been granted by the UK government for the Vorlich oil field.

Australia-headquartered miner BHP has announced its first carbon neutral copper transaction with Southwire, a US copper cable and wire manufacturer, the company announced on Thursday.