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EEX-owned Nodal Exchange could begin offering a California Carbon Allowance (CCA) Vintage 2022 contract by this week if approved by a federal regulatory body, an official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

The continued boom of US oil and gas production could add 1 billion tonnes of CO2e to global GHG emissions by 2030, while displacing domestic clean energy growth, according to a study released Tuesday.

A South African parliamentary committee on Tuesday approved the country’s carbon tax bill, moving the long-awaited levy a step closer to becoming law.

Ontario's environment ministry has laid out the compensation value for unusable carbon compliance instruments from the province's cancelled ETS, with allowances and offsets fetching the same amount.

Heat, rainfall, droughts, cyclones and bushfires are all on the rise, Climate Council warns

Extreme weather events linked to climate change have the potential to disrupt Australia’s summer sports obsession at elite and grassroots level, the Climate Council warns.

Its latest report – Weather Gone Wild, released on Wednesday – says climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of events such as extreme heat, intense rainfall, droughts, tropical cyclones and bushfires.

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World Health Organization official comments on row about safe levels of nitrogen dioxide

The World Health Organization says it has seen no evidence to support a German backlash against tough EU air pollution limits.

The country’s transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, sent a letter to the European commission last week calling for a review of the EU’s nitrogen dioxide (NO2) limits, despite signs of a government split over the issue.

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Astronomers say they have the first evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar system.

A robot arm completes the set-up of a French-led seismometer system on the the Red Planet.

Drone flight captures spectacular views of countryside church wrapped in swirling fog.

The decline of coal sends UK emissions down, but critics warn there's much more to do.

A strong auction clearance lifted EUAs early on Tuesday, continuing the previous day’s near €2 rally that clawed back much of last week’s losses.

Child health experts say public needs to be better informed about scale of crisis

• ‘It is so scary’: how the UK’s filthy air is taking children to A&E
  

Child health experts have said families and parents are worryingly unaware of the severe damage air pollution is doing to young people in the UK.

In a survey of leading health professionals, nine in 10 said air pollution was harming children in their areas, and a similar proportion (92%) said the public needed to be better informed about the issue.

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Young patients with respiratory problems are a regular sight for doctors due to air pollution crisis

• Parents ‘worryingly unaware’ of damage from air pollution
  

Sixteen-month-old Madalena grins and throws her flashing ball across the consulting room, oblivious to the conversation going on around her.

Her mother, Patricia Correia, is explaining to the doctor that the family is thinking of returning to Portugal after a series of “wheezing episodes” that have forced the toddler to be rushed to A&E five times in the past six months. Once she was so ill, she was kept in for four days.

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The money from David Harding is the biggest single British donation to a UK university.

An international commodity trading company this week cancelled 100,000 CERs from a project owned by a subsidiary of China’s state-owned power giant Huaneng, making it the latest Chinese CDM project to get some drops of comfort from the voluntary market.

New Zealand carbon allowances on Tuesday fell below the NZ$25 ($17.21) threshold for the first time in nearly three weeks as small batches of supply from forest-owners became available.