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The British government on Thursday released the auction calendar for UK Allowances for next year, with 69 million permits to be offered up on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.

Art meets science as Prada designers help create the spacesuits for the 2025 moon mission.

Victoria’s iconic mountain ash forests are reeling from decades of logging and fire. They’re not recovering on their own. David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Chris Taylor, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Elle Bowd, Research fellow, Australian National University Kita Ashman, Adjunct research associate, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Floods, fires and record-breaking heat demand a response from politicians, as well as Pope Francis

Another month of smashed temperature records has left scientists searching for words with which to describe what is happening. “Gobsmackingly bananas” was the phrase alighted on by Zeke Hausfather of the Berkeley Earth climate data project. This was the hottest September on record, following the hottest August and the hottest July. It beat the previous September record by 0.5C, the largest jump in temperature ever seen.

In the UK, where the summer was wet and many people have enjoyed unseasonably warm early autumn days, the disruption has not been anything like as destructive as elsewhere. But floods, fires and exceptionally high temperatures are becoming more and more frequent – with the overflow of Lhonak Lake in India, and the wildfires and baking heat in Tenerife among the latest emergencies.

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Small and medium-sized companies are finding implementing the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) challenging, say consultants and business groups, as the new system’s reporting requirements come into force this month and impact hundreds of products.

Paraguay's lower house of Congress on Wednesday voted to pass the country's first national legislation regulating the voluntary carbon market with almost no opposition, sending the bill to President Santiago Pena for final approval.

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A US-based agricultural products company has said its microbiological additives could tackle two of the biggest challenges for agricultural carbon removal projects, permanence and additionality.

Plan Vivo aims to launch guidance on the pricing of biodiversity credits within a year, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The forestry division of a UK-based alternative asset manager is starting to factor carbon credit revenue into the returns of its commercial forestry assets where there is some degree of market certainty, a conference heard on Thursday.

Two partnerships for providing insurance on carbon credits were announced Thursday, with both intended to help provide financial and reputational security on transactions and scale investment in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

Carbon credit issuance from the big four registries tumbled in September to their lowest in at least a year, amid single digit prices for avoidance credits coupled with the limbo created by the ICVCM’s launch of its assessment framework for Core Carbon Principle eligibility.

Former Bank of England governor says businesses prioritise countries with clean power and consistent strategies

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Rishi Sunak watering down the UK’s climate commitments has damaged Britain’s position on the world stage for business investment, according to the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney.

In highly critical comments, Carney indicated that global companies would now think twice about locating their activities in the UK after Sunak pushed back key net zero deadlines and sanctioned new oil and gas drilling.

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Rishi Sunak’s risible rhetoric about a divide between motorists and ‘woke’ spoilsports is easy to counter – but Labour shows little sign of wanting to do so

Following hard on the prime minister’s defence of the drivers who are supposedly victimised by London’s Ulez extension, and Penny Mordaunt’s rubbishing of 20mph speed limits in Wales (currently in force in parts of her own constituency), we now have the transport secretary, Mark Harper, denouncing “sinister … so-called 15-minute cities”.

This dismissal of measures that provide safer, pleasanter and more sustainable urban living is being pressed in the name of “freedom”: the freedom of city-dwellers to live unharassed by meddling environmentalist do-gooders; the freedom, in Sunak’s words, of drivers “to use their cars to do all the things that matter to them” – a liberty supposedly under threat from the “anti-motorist” Labour party.

Kate Soper is emeritus professor of philosophy at London Metropolitan University. Her most recent book is Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism. Martin Ryle writes about politics and the environment. He is the author of the book Ecology and Socialism

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The sound of ‘super predator’ human voices instils more terror around the waterhole than the big cats’ roar, researchers discover

The lion has long been regarded as the world’s most fearsome terrestrial carnivore, but the “king of beasts” has been toppled by humans, new research shows.

Elephants, rhinos and giraffes are all now more afraid of people than other apex predators, according to a scientific paper that supports the idea that humans are the world’s “super predator”.

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The EU's compliance carbon market will need an estimated 200 million tonnes of carbon removals by mid-century to cancel out residual emissions in the mechanism, analysts said Thursday, based on a modelling of the 'least cost' way to meet the bloc's 2050 net zero target.

EU legislators failed to advance past initial exchanges in their first attempt to finalise the bloc's divisive nature restoration bill on Thursday, instead asking officials to craft compromises in an effort to break an impasse. 

The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) has secured $9.3 billion in pledges across 25 countries with a large proportion announcing cash at a high-level event in Germany on Thursday, though the total remains below each of the previous two fundraises.

Sex determination of sea turtles is temperature dependent, with the proportion of female hatchlings increasing when nests are warmer

Similar numbers of female and male green and hawksbill turtles are hatching in the Coral Sea’s Conflict Islands, new research suggests, despite global heating increasingly leading to “extreme feminisation” of sea turtles.

Sea turtles are particularly susceptible to the effects of global heating because their sex determination is temperature dependent, with the proportion of female hatchlings increasing when nests are warmer.

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The campaigns are over. The votes are in. The scrutineers are in the tally room.

The winner of the 2023 Guardian/BirdLife Australian bird of the year will be announced at 12.30pm AEDT on this website, after voters culled a field of 50 down to 10 for the final day of voting on Thursday.

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