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RGGI Market: RGAs regain record prices amid market bullishness
Virginia lawmakers call for budget amendments to rejoin RGGI
Carbon ratings agency finds over-crediting in several ACR, Verra projects
Oregon’s Climate Protection Program scrapped, will undergo new rulemaking
Oil and gas bill breaks UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels, Alok Sharma says
Former Cop26 president criticises the government’s push to ‘max out’ the North Sea
Alok Sharma has said the government’s oil and gas bill going through the Commons will not cut household energy costs or create jobs and instead will break the UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels.
During a debate on the offshore petroleum licensing bill, which would place the North Sea Transition Authority under a duty to run annual applications for new offshore oil and gas licences, the former Cop26 president criticised the government’s push to “max out” the North Sea. MPs vote on the bill’s second reading on Monday night.
Continue reading...'It’s not game over – it’s game on': why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis
When floodwater reaches the sea, it can leave a 50 metre thick layer of brown water – and cause real problems
The Guardian view on SUVs: the trend towards vast cars needs to be reversed | Editorial
As they get bigger, the environmental harm caused by motor vehicles also grows. Setting some limits is the way forward
Bigger cars take up more room, and in cities where space is at a premium this is recognised as a problem. Polling last year showed 40% of people in the UK had a negative view of 4x4-type vehicles, while just 21% had a positive one. Negative views are even more pronounced in London, while the Midlands – historic heart of the UK motor industry – has a more positive attitude to big vehicles than anywhere else. Since 2001, new cars in the UK and Europe have grown 1cm wider every two years. Last year the average width passed 180cm, too big to fit comfortably in some parking spaces. Campaigners warn that unless regulators step in, cars could keep growing to match trucks and buses.
Taking space away from other road users is not the only problem with these supersized vehicles. Because they are bigger, heavier and higher off the ground, SUVs pose greater risks than other cars to anyone unlucky enough to collide with them. One study found that children are eight times more likely to die after being struck by one.
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Carbon standard expects upcoming approval for Article 6 credit issuance from Singapore
Green steel sector hindered by EU ETS prices -report
PREVIEW: Bern conference seeks to boost cooperation on global biodiversity targets
VCM Report: High number of carbon credits retired, but large number old and near-worthless
World’s first large-scale green steel project receives €4.75 bln in new funding
Households could boost solar output with two-sided panels, a tilt, and a light colour roof
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Carbon removal companies call for technology neutrality as certification framework enters final talks
COMMENT: Out with the bad, in with the good carbon market
EU co-legislators leave net zero industry act unfinished
A piranha: it is boiling the water you’re swimming in and taking bites out of you
They don’t chew: they bite, the meat goes straight into their stomach, and they bite again
Imagine a bulldog flattened with a meat tenderiser, shaved and sprinkled with glitter. Imagine more, and everywhere, or else: when I was a child, as sure as all cartoon sand would turn into quicksand, in every fictional body of fresh water swam very real fish with very real, sharp, tiny little teeth.
In The Simpsons, Millhouse is more worried about piranhas than that his mother will stop loving him. Bart is reduced to a skeleton by piranhas from a hosepipe.
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