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RGGI Market: Programme review meeting propels RGAs to all-time high above Cost Containment Reserve trigger
Colorado adopts nation’s first manufacturing sector emissions mitigation rules
Playful whales can use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant. This "kelping" behaviour is more common than we realised
*GHG Management – Environmental Specialist, First Environment – Sacramento, CA
*Project Administration Specialist – Climate Change, First Environment – Sacramento, CA
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Singapore aims to address coal power emissions with a new asset class of carbon credits
Biodiversity Pulse: Tuesday September 26, 2023
EU power market reform to underpin a reshaping of the economy as Franco-German tensions ease
Scientists use water fleas to filter pollutants out of wastewater
Tiny crustaceans described as ‘the bioequivalent of a Dyson vacuum cleaner for wastewater’
Tiny water fleas could play a big role in filtering out drugs, pesticides and industrial chemicals from wastewater to make it safe, according to scientists.
“We’ve developed our bioequivalent of a Dyson vacuum cleaner for wastewater, which is very, very exciting,” said study co-author Karl Dearn, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Birmingham.
Continue reading...Shift in EU ETS supply-demand balance prompts bank to slash 2023-2030 price forecasts
London-based investment firm targets Brazil for its nature-based solutions strategy
Small businesses need ‘defogging’ of TNFD, construction firm says
ANALYSIS: Observers sceptical on readiness of Article 6 REDD+ buyers as nations prepare ground
Flyway to heaven: Initiative eyes new bond to secure better future for America’s migratory birds
UK government backs programme for making nature projects investable
Hearing is believing in the power of the kookaburras’ raucous chorus
In the mythology of birds, some can bring luck, others rain. But when that famous laugh portends a snake in the grass, it’s hard to deny
Kookaburras don’t usually laugh in the daytime. Their calls ring out at dawn and dusk, a raucous chorus that can provoke homesickness in any Australian unfortunate enough to be stuck in country with less interesting birds.
But at midday on a clear day in January, a kookaburra’s laugh gives you pause. Enough to notice the brown snake moving quietly through the grass a few feet away, intent on business that does not concern you but might if you carried on unawares and accidentally trod on it.
Continue reading...UK saltmarsh code is gaining pace, with aim for first launch end of 2024 -conference
Give Britons the right to plant to green up public spaces, Gove adviser says
Thinktank Create Streets calls for people to be allowed to grow plants and trees in barren urban areas
A right to plant and grow trees and other greenery in public spaces should be given to people across Britain, an adviser to Michael Gove has said.
Nicholas Boys Smith, who heads the Office for Place in Gove’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), also chairs the thinktank Create Streets, which has released a report calling for more greening of cities.
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