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China has quietly replaced the environment ministry official in charge of the nation’s emissions trading scheme, sources have confirmed, as the challenges facing the programme continue to build.

Scientists say a strain of herpes arose during vast migrations of people 5,000 years ago.

EUA prices gradually rallied throughout Thursday morning amid steady buying interest in a thin market, while energy prices edged lower as a utility said a major UK gas storage site could reopen this winter and Russia said a key component of the Nord Stream pipeline could be delivered soon.

A growing number of Chinese companies are making long-term commitments on new CCER project development and transactions, despite a complete lack of clarity on when the programme might restart and which methodologies might be eligible if and when it does.

Ed Gemmell wants to offer Conservative voters climate-conscious, business-friendly alternative

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A new political party committed to solving the climate crisis plans to challenge the Tories in more than 100 seats at the next election, targeting climate-denying Tory backbenchers.

Launched as a centre-right, single-issue party, the Climate party aims to provide Conservative voters with a business-friendly, climate-serious alternative to the Tories, whose leadership candidates have been reticent over the party’s net zero commitments as Britain buckled under 40C heat for the first time on record.

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The climate emergency has been declared over and over. The future the scientists warned us about is here, now

We are declaring a climate emergency. Everyone can, in whatever place on Earth they call home. No one needs to wait for politicians any more – we have been waiting for them for decades. What history shows us is that when people lead, governments follow. Our power resides in what we are witnessing. We cannot deny that Great Salt Lake is vanishing before our eyes into a sun-cracked playa of salt and toxic chemicals. Nor can we deny that Lake Mead is reduced to a puddle. In New Mexico a wildfire that began in early April is still burning in late July. Last August, the eye of Hurricane Ida split in two – there was no calm – only 190mph winds ripping towns in the bayous of Louisiana to shreds; and 7m acres in the American west burned in 2021. The future the scientists warned us about is where we live now.

The climate emergency has been declared over and over by Nature and by human suffering and upheaval in response to its catastrophes. The 2,000 individuals who recently died of heat in Portugal and Spain are not here to bear witness, but many of the residents of Jacobabad in Pakistan, where Amnesty International declared the temperatures “unlivable for humans”, are. The heat-warped rails of the British train system, the buckled roads, cry out that this is unprecedented. The estimated billion sea creatures who died on the Pacific north-west’s coast from last summer’s heatwave announced a climate emergency. The heat-devastated populations of southern Asia, the current grain crop failures in China, India, across Europe and the American midwest, the starving in the Horn of Africa because of climate-caused drought, the bleached and dying coral reefs of Australia, the rivers of meltwater gushing from the Greenland ice sheet, the melting permafrost of Siberia and Alaska: all bear witness that this is a climate emergency. So do we. Yet the anxiety we feel, the grief that is ours, pales in comparison to the ferocity of our resolve.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist

Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, naturalist, and activist

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Investors are too focussed on nature-based carbon projects, particularly forestry, in Africa, the largest project originator on the continent warned after releasing interim results on Thursday.

A new study has cast fresh doubts on the reliability of blue carbon projects being able to predictably sequester large amounts of carbon, while stressing marine ecosystems need to be protected and restored as part of climate mitigation efforts.

Dubai-based tanker operator and oil product trader Oilmar has teamed up with a Norwegian start-up, ESG-NRG, to complete a deal involving the first use of a new carbon offsetting marketplace that is specifically designed for use in the marine sector.

RES switches on synchronous condenser to support the second stage of the huge Murra Warra wind farm in western Victoria.

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Heatwaves around world showing clear evidence of climate crisis, experts say

Even cool periods in the UK are now warmer than they used to be, meteorologists have warned, as an assessment of last year’s weather showed average temperatures higher across the country, in sync with rising heat across the globe.

Britain’s record-breaking heatwave last week, when the mercury topped 40C for the first time on record, has subsided into scattered showers and cooler temperatures across much of the country, but forecasters have warned that smaller heatwaves could return in the next month.

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Transgrid completes $236m QNI upgrade to increase the flow of electricity between the two states and reduce network constraints.

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Even despite a rare win in the Supreme Court recently, US coal plants will continue to close down. Here's why.

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Andrew Forrest gives Fortescue Future Industries a billion dollar budget to land first deals in his grand green hydrogen strategy, and the first manufacturing plant.

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Administrators say Enova Energy has avoided liquidation through an arrangement with fellow retail upstart Energy Locals.

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The Met Office's annual look at our climate says higher temperatures are the new normal.

While artificially illuminating the night allows humans to make use of the the night, in doing so we catastrophically change the environment for all other species. How can we fix this? Therésa Jones, Associate Professor in Evolution and Behaviour, The University of Melbourne Kathryn McNamara, Post-doctoral research associate, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The PM spruiked the myth that Australia’s ‘quality’ coal was relatively clean – following in the footsteps of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison

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Supporters of Australia’s coal export industry have been arguing for the past decade that global greenhouse gas emissions would go up if overseas customers had to source coal from another country.

The rationale is that Australia’s coal exports are higher quality and cause fewer emissions.

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The Sunshine state posts a new record for renewables in the middle of the winter, thanks to the growing contribution of wind energy.

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