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WMO’s climate and energy lead Roberta Boscolo on the latest climate report, the 1.55°C average temperature rise and heating oceans. Plus: A wrap of the news in our first podcast of 2025.

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Benchmark California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) traded below $30 for the first time in nearly two years as rulemaking uncertainty continued to weigh on the market, while earlier-dated Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) lost more ground this week.

LNP introduces strict new planning rules for wind projects in state with lowest share of renewables, and promises to do the same for large scale solar,

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North Dakota's legislature will consider a bill that promotes carbon capture and storage (CCS) to allow ethanol producers to lower their carbon intensity (CI) and qualify for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production credits.

Vaccinating poultry against bird flu is still not allowed in the UK despite a rise in farm outbreaks.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and National Australia Bank (NAB) announced a A$300 million ($186 mln) co-financing programme to help manufacturers, businesses and farmers transition to net zero emissions.

Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone. Tanya Latty, Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

State transportation departments will no longer be required to establish highway emissions reductions targets, according to measures taken by the new US transportation secretary on Wednesday.

Despite improvements made in the past few years, “deeper and more comprehensive reforms” are required - in particular to address flawed accounting approaches and perverse incentives - in order to assure the voluntary carbon market’s longer-term sustainability, a new academic paper warns.

Canadian oil and gas giant Shell Canada is officially out of Alberta’s oilsands, increasing its carbon capture and storage (CCS) stake in an existing project.

Tiny plastic pollution more than 50% higher in placentas from preterm births than in those from full-term births

A study has found microplastic and nanoplastic pollution to be significantly higher in placentas from premature births than in those from full-term births.

The levels were much higher than previously detected in blood, suggesting the tiny plastic particles were accumulating in the placenta. But the higher average levels found in the shorter pregnancies were a “big surprise” for the researchers, as longer terms could be expected to lead to more accumulation.

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Canada’s plans to reduce emissions could cost workers thousands of dollars, and a quarter-million jobs by the half-century, according to a new report.  

Near neighbours of one of the country's biggest wind projects are being given the opportunity to choose how close they want to be to the proposed turbines.

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The UK ETS Authority intends to move forward with proposed technical and operational changes to the market, aimed at creating more transparency, maintaining parallels with the EU ETS, and simplifying compliance, it announced on Thursday evening.

Farmers offered up to $300 million of discount loans to help efforts to cut emissions, including renewables, transport and farming practices.

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The UK has set an ambitious goal to radically reduce carbon emissions by 2035.

Researchers mined the knowledge of politicians, public servants and environmental advocates to understand how everyday people can achieve real change for nature. Lily van Eeden, Lecturer, RMIT University Liam Smith, Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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A New York City-based carbon project developer has signed an offtake agreement to deliver 7 million afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) credits to the tech giant over 25 years, according to a Thursday press release.

Democratic lawmakers in Washington's House of Representatives introduced legislation earlier this month to require farmers to submit annual methane emission reports for livestock.