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Temperatures plummeted across southeast Australia this week, with Canberra experiencing its lowest temperature since 2018 and the lowest for June since 1986. What’s going on? Tess Parker, Research Fellow, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Surrey woman challenges the decision to allow four new oil wells on climate change grounds.

Recent spikes in ocean heat content and average global air temperature have climate scientists scrambling to find the cause.

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Synergy boss says battery storage is a good replacement for the coal plants due to be shut by the end of the decade, as he unveils another 2000MWh battery project.

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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday issued an alert to inform the public on how to report instances of fraud and manipulation in carbon markets, as the regulator asserts its authority to oversee the spot credits that inform environmental futures contracts.

Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other international leaders address development needs

We are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. Multiple, overlapping shocks have strained countries’ ability to address hunger, poverty, and inequality, build resilience and invest in their futures. Debt vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries present a major hurdle to their economic recovery, and to their ability to make critical long-term investments.

We are urgently working to fight poverty and inequalities. An estimated 120 million people have been pushed into extreme poverty in the last three years and we are still far from achieving our United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030. We should thus place people at the centre of our strategy to increase human welfare everywhere on the globe.

Emmanuel Macron is president of France. Mia Mottley is prime minister of Barbados. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is president of Brazil. Ursula von der Leyen is president of the European Commission. Charles Michel is president of the European Council. Olaf Scholz is chancellor of Germany. Fumio Kishida is prime minister of Japan. William Ruto is president of Kenya. Macky Sall is president of Senegal. Cyril Ramaphosa is president of South Africa. Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is president of the United Arab Emirates. Rishi Sunak is prime minister of the UK. Joe Biden is president of the US

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California should take a larger role in engaging climate cooperation with subnational jurisdictions when it considers expanding agreements with its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme, the state’s carbon market watchdog said Tuesday.

A US-based company on Tuesday announced a new blockchain-based marketplace for credits sourced from carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technology.

Even low doses of airborne benzene raise the risk of a variety of cancers, including lymphomas and leukemia

Using a gas stove can raise indoor concentrations of benzene, a cancer-linked chemical, to above what’s found in secondhand smoking or even beyond levels found next to oil and gas facilities, a new study has found.

The research, which measured benzene levels in 87 homes in California and Colorado, found that gas and propane stoves frequently emitted benzene at rates well above healthy benchmarks set by the World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Washington state’s decision to only offer a fraction of its Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) allowances at the mechanism's first sale in August will help maintain environmental integrity and provide compliance assurance in the cap-and-trade scheme, though an alternative process could better achieve these outcomes, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Over the past three years, Earth’s climate system has accumulated an average of 11 Hiroshima bombs’ worth of excess energy per second. And it’s showing in the current surge in ocean temperature. Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A business group representing Brazil's industrial sector presented a plan to the federal government on Tuesday for implementing a national cap-and-trade programme that could add 5% to the country's GDP, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration reportedly is getting closer to introducing its own proposal for a regulated carbon market.

Businesses are increasingly aiming to incorporate Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) into their climate plans to fulfil their climate and nature commitments. Jennicca Gordon of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance outlines how they can ensure the integrity of the credits they purchase and communicate their efforts effectively.

France will host an international summit later this week aiming to forge consensus on how to reshape the finance agenda, discussing the easing of debt burdens, new international taxes, and how best to channel greater flows to developing economies to speed the energy transition and help them to deal with the impacts of climate change.

Gucci has dropped its claim of becoming ‘entirely carbon neutral’ on its website alongside its policy of buying voluntary carbon credits amid a backlash against misleading environmental claims.

Eni has dismissed concerns of overcrediting at a REDD avoided deforestation project in Zambia in a robust response to an investigation by Italy's publicly-owned television broadcaster.

Ukraine's deputy minister for energy has underlined that the country will keep its commitment to phase out coal by 2035 and can become a European clean energy hub in spite of the war raging within its borders, speaking at a side event ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London this week.

German-headquartered European Energy Exchange (EEX) is set to acquire Nasdaq's European power trading and clearing business, which includes EU emissions trading operations, the companies announced Tuesday.

A UAE-based mangrove reforestation firm has announced a strategic partnership with a Saudi company to restore at least 5,000 hectares of mangrove forests in Saudi Arabia over the next three years.