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Germany’s domestic carbon price should be at least doubled from 2022 as the country’s transport emissions are “heading in the wrong direction”, the German environment agency’s boss has said.

Callum Isted wants all primary children in Scotland to have a reusable bottle which they can refill at school.

Youth climate activists appeared sceptical about how genuine the political will to change is when they spoke at the Fridays for Future protest in Glasgow discussing youth empowerment.

 Campaigners and pressure groups have been underwhelmed by the commitments made by governments during the Cop26 conference's first week, many of which are voluntary or set deadlines decades away

• 'Cop26 is a failure': Greta Thunberg rallies climate activists in Glasgow – video

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US climate envoy and COP veteran John Kerry gave assurances on Friday that the wave of climate commitments announced during the first week at the Glasgow UN conference will result in “real money being put on the table” and allow for concrete action to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Speculators reduced their net length in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) during the past week, while compliance entities boosted their position and whittled down their overall net short amid the October contract expiry, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Verra is looking for a multitasker Junior Program Officer to perform a variety of administrative tasks for the day to day operation of the Program Team and help manage the processing of projects and stakeholder inquiries coming to Verra Secretariat  for  Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, the Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ framework (JNR), the Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards and the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta).

Critics say the decision comes at a high cost to both the climate and human health

California regulators voted Thursday to increase the capacity of a Los Angeles natural gas storage field, where a 2015 blowout caused the nation’s largest-ever methane leak and forced thousands from their homes.

Locals, environmental advocates, and lawmakers have called for the closure of the facility, which has been approved to increase more than 20% in capacity.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Friday announced a goal to slash the cost of direct air capture (DAC) to under $100/tonne by 2030, saying otherwise nations will not stay within the bounds of Paris Agreement temperature limits.

Laurent Fabius says countries must be open and accountable about how they will deliver pledges in full

Prospects of limiting global heating to 1.8C on the basis of commitments made at the Cop26 climate summit are only “a hypothesis”, the godfather of the Paris climate agreement has warned.

Laurent Fabius, the former French prime minister who was president of the 2015 Paris summit, said he was “very impressed” by the commitments made in the first week of the Cop26 conference, including a deal to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane, a net zero target from India, plans from China to reduce emissions and commitments on coal.

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Pledges made during Cop26’s first week were encouraging. But without adequate finance and monitoring they don’t mean much

If week one of the climate conference in Glasgow set out a strong outline, the task for next week is to fill in as many details as possible. The long-term ambition of the global environmental policy now being negotiated would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. While it is not yet clear exactly where the various pledges will get us to in terms of limiting temperature rises, the new agreement on methane spearheaded by President Joe Biden and a commitment by India to get half of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 are highly significant.

Also encouraging is the more integrated approach to the many environmental challenges humanity faces. Previously, conservation and biodiversity were to some extent viewed as separate issues from the changing atmospheric chemistry that drives global heating. Now, with a promise to reverse deforestation and provide funding directly to indigenous people to help them protect their lands, there is greater recognition of the vital part that nature plays in regulating the climate.

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Germany-based utility Uniper saw its ETS-covered emissions surge during Q3 as some of its coal facilities powered up, while Italy's Enel reported less of a rise in its fossil-fuel fired-generation.

Greta Thunberg had harsh words for world leaders and the press in a powerful speech at the end of a Fridays for Future protest in Glasgow as the first week of the Cop26 summit concluded

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) values slid further into the $150 range this week as market participants continued to process a bearish data release for the transportation sector programme in Q2.

Representatives of almost 500 parent groups tell Alok Sharma their children’s health depends on cleaning up toxic air

• Cop26 – latest updates

It may have been his toughest meeting yet. A delegation of mothers from all over the world, all of whom had seen their own children suffer health damage from air pollution, met the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, on Friday morning to demand an end to fossil fuel financing.

The delegation was led by Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lost her nine-year-old daughter, Ella, to severe asthma that was officially linked to air pollution in London. She was joined by Dr Maria Neira, the director of public health at the World Health Organization (WHO), and other mothers from India, Brazil, South Africa, Poland and Nigeria, to present a letter to Sharma.

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I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, says the poet laureate

I wanted to react to Cop26 – so many of my friends and colleagues have been emboldened by the conversation it has generated. And strange times sometimes lead to strange poems.

I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, where the rules and natural laws of the old world feel to be in flux, one of those dreams which are full of danger, but not completely beyond the control of the person who sleeps.

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PM could not resist wheeling out the usual jokes and antics at crucial summit, but the laughs never came

It was one of the defining images from Cop26.

Seated next to Boris Johnson on Monday and wearing a mask was 95-year-old David Attenborough. The prime minister, however, was maskless. At one point, Johnson seemed to have nodded off.

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EUAs once again tested their recent resistance level after failing to breach it conclusively on Thursday, while energy markets were generally firmer as traders prepared to watch for signs of an increase in Russian gas supplies. A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today to access our unrivalled news and intelligence, […]

As the PM slumps around Glasgow, here in New York the maths and mayors are only getting weirder

It has been a feature o f Covid that, along with all the other bad things ushered in by the pandemic, it has opened up whole new categories of people to hate. Thought the mum you exchanged casual greetings with every morning at school drop-off was more or less sane? Turns out she believes the health authorities are lying to us and the vaccine programme is tantamount to murder. Or the friend who, before vaccines were available, was still throwing indoor parties? Or the cabinet minister and the testing contract? The world is full of lunatics, benign in good times, dangerous in bad, available, almost two years into this rolling disaster, for unprecedented levels of resentment.

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As rivers run dry, the desperate search for water has led to a rise in domestic abuse, conflict and illness

• ‘We run from men only to meet crocodiles’: Kenya’s drought is deadly for women

All photos by Cyril Zannettacci/Agence Vu for Action Against Hunger

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Australian carbon credits rose to a fresh high again on Friday, while a study commissioned by the committee safeguarding the integrity of domestic offset units concluded that one of the nation’s biggest-generating methods stands up to scrutiny.