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Compliance entities continued the trend over the last month of growing V23 California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings while reducing V24 net length, as speculators continued to build V24 net positions, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed Friday.

Market operator says Australia's main grid breaks renewable energy production record for the second time this week - both on working days.

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The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA

Warmer ocean temperatures have likely caused the sudden and shocking disappearance of billions of snow crabs in Alaska, which had previously baffled scientists and environmentalists, a new study has shown.

The eastern Bering Sea snow crabs, once thought to be overfished, actually starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature “increased their caloric needs considerably”, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in the study.

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A carbon pipeline project developer on Friday cancelled its plans to transport and bury CO2 from biofuels production across the US Midwest, as issues with state permitting agencies and landowners impact yet another entity.

The loss of plant biodiversity in global grasslands can cause terrestrial carbon stocks to wane, with the reasoning behind the phenomenon going against researchers’ original hypothesis, according to a study published Thursday.

A climate tech startup has launched Friday an artificial intelligence (AI) product that aims to speed up and pare down the cost of carbon project development documentation, by using downloaded data from thousands of previous examples in the market.

Talks to set up a UN facility to compensate for climate-related loss and damage ran deep into overtime on Friday as developing nations united in opposition to a US idea to have the World Bank host the vehicle.

The managing director of advisory firm Carbon Financial Services (CFS) and former head of global carbon at exchange platform CBL, both owned by Xpansiv, has announced he is leaving the market infrastructure company after nine years.

The shipping sector’s decarbonisation hinges on the availability of low-carbon fuels, the secretary general of one of the largest global shipping organisations told Carbon Pulse, while also advocating a 'carbon contribution factor' to be promoted at upcoming high-level climate talks.

Germany is at risk of seeing a potentially dramatic spike in fuel prices in 2027 should the country’s domestic carbon pricing system transition to the EU ETS2, a think-tank has warned.

As observers hope for clarity about crediting carbon projects under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement at the fast-approaching COP28 climate talks, key players in voluntary carbon are weighing up how the embattled market may fit alongside the UN mechanism.

A growing number of multinational food companies are looking to reduce climate change risk in their value chains through greater engagement with their suppliers, aiming for a 'win-win' partnership where they encourage low-emissions practices that can both reduce their Scope 3 emissions and increase the resilience of their business to climate change.

The streaks of light from the debris of Halley's comet will be at their peak on Saturday.

China on Friday evening announced a State Administration-level regulatory body had approved a set of administrative measures that will underpin the relaunch of its national carbon offset programme, bringing the long-suspended voluntary market one step closer to returning to life.

Representatives from 196 countries this week approved an overall approach for monitoring efforts to meet the world's biodiversity targets, though a lack of detail means more work needs to be done.

Exchange-traded funds focused on carbon allowances have cut their holdings to the lowest in two years,  as flatlining EUA prices and a darkening economic outlook have encouraged investors to look to other asset classes for better returns.

European carbon prices stabilised after four successive daily declines in relatively light trading on Friday morning, reflecting a lack of direction and shrugging off a slight boost in energy markets as the European weather outlook turned slightly colder.

Success of Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission planned for 2025, will depend on Saturday's launch.

Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources

• ‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change
• Analysis: Impact of farming on climate crisis will be a key Cop topic – finally

Former officials in the UN’s farming wing have said they were censored, sabotaged, undermined and victimised for more than a decade after they wrote about the hugely damaging contribution of methane emissions from livestock to global heating.

Team members at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) tasked with estimating cattle’s contribution to soaring temperatures said that pressure from farm-friendly funding states was felt throughout the FAO’s Rome headquarters and coincided with attempts by FAO leadership to muzzle their work.

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Blue hydrogen could be a fuel of the future and remains cheaper than its zero emission green counterpart, according to a report from a gas industry lobby this week, which argued many of the same talking points it has been making for years with a low-carbon twist in 2023.