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Pro- and anti-nuclear factions among the EU’s 27 nations re-emerged during Monday’s ministerial meeting on competition affairs, with some ministers calling for a reduction in newly-introduced sustainability reporting requirements for companies during the jarring session.

The European Parliament has postponed a vote to approve the strengthening of the bloc's renewables target, as division among member states over the role of nuclear threatens to disrupt a process previously seen as a formality.  

Verra's founding CEO is stepping down, the voluntary carbon market standard announced Monday.

Prices for carbon credits continued to sink lower over the past week, particularly for older vintages, as the long term bearish direction accelerated amid a whirlwind of African country initiatives to muscle into both the voluntary market and its sovereign nation rival under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana

The world’s hunger for chocolate is a major cause of the destruction of protected forests in west Africa, scientists have said.

Satellite maps of Ivory Coast and Ghana showed swathes of formerly dense forest had become cocoa plantations since 2000, according to a study.

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The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has disclosed plans to develop a regulatory framework for carbon pricing, according to local media sources, which would see firms active in the oil and gas sector pay for emissions as well as drive reductions via carbon credits.

A strong wave of demand for biodiversity credits is expected within the next couple of years, experts speaking at an event in London on Monday predicted while urging standard-setting bodies to ensure rules exist to allow the market to scale with integrity.

World is on track for 2.7C and ‘phenomenal’ human suffering, scientists warn

Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather.

The world is on track for 2.7C of heating with current action plans and this would mean 2 billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.

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Certifier Gold Standard on Monday launched plans for a new contribution claims framework to help companies take climate action beyond offsetting, while teaming up with others to initiate ideas on how firms should approach mitigating climate impacts outside their own value chain.

Industry wants accountability to cover putting sewage spills right, not firms’ previous compliance

“We want to be held to account …” said Ruth Kelly, the new public face of the English water companies, last week, briefly raising hopes of a moment of reckoning for the industry’s past (and current) sewage spills. Then the chair of Water UK clarified what her version of accountability covers. The companies wish to be held to account “… for putting it right”.

The past 30 years, we were invited to think, should be considered an unfortunate chapter in which the industry, terribly unfortunately, didn’t give sewage spills enough attention while other investments were prioritised. That was the gist of her apology. “By and large, the water companies were carrying out their legal responsibilities but … what’s legal is not necessarily the right answer or what people expect,” she argued on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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Better early warning systems and disaster management mean fewer lives lost to extreme weather.

The co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has confirmed the launch date for the final nature reporting recommendations as Sep. 18, speaking at a conference in London on Monday, stating that the highly-anticipated disclosure guidelines will be presented at the New York Climate Week.

Wind overtakes gas for first time to become biggest contributor to UK grid in first three months of 2023.

The post Wind beats out gas generation in UK in first quarter for first time appeared first on RenewEconomy.

European carbon prices weakened sharply on Monday morning as the market began a full schedule of five daily auctions after a truncated timetable last week, while energy prices fell again, further increasing natural gas' advantage over coal in power generation and diminishing potential demand for EUAs.

Actively-restored tropical forests have shown a much larger increase in carbon stocks compared to other types, new research has found.

Exclusive: Fossil fuel companies register drop in value after litigation or unfavourable judgments

Climate litigation poses a financial risk to fossil fuel companies because it lowers the share price of big polluters, research has found.

A study to be published on Tuesday by LSE’s Grantham Research Institute examines how the stock market reacts to news that a fresh climate lawsuit has been filed or a corporation has lost its case.

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Another 15 financial institutions have signed up to the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) pledge, committing to help reverse the ongoing nature loss and set specific biodiversity targets.

Transmission lines in the US need to be increased threefold, but faces pushback from fossil conservation and green groups

America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transition lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils.

The Greenlink West project would build a 470-mile-long transmission line bringing clean electricity north of Las Vegas to Reno in Nevada, but it cuts through an area containing everything from woolly mammoth tusks to giant sloths to ancient camels.

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Typhoon projected to affect US territory of Guam as early as Tuesday. Elsewhere, Europe is heating up

Over the weekend, a rapidly intensifying region of thunderstorms in the western Pacific culminated in the formation of Typhoon Mawar.

The movement of this storm is projected to affect the Mariana Islands, including the US territory of Guam, as early as Tuesday. There is a risk of wind speeds above 75mph, together with torrential rain.

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CapGemini is looking to hire a manager for its carbon credit business in India.