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Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil

The vast majority of governments are likely to miss a looming deadline to file vital plans that will determine whether or not the world has a chance of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown.

Despite the urgency of the crisis, the UN is relatively relaxed at the prospect of the missed date. Officials are urging countries instead to take time to work harder on their targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions and divest from fossil fuels.

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Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five years

More than 100,000 new homes will be built on the highest-risk flood zones in England in the next five years as part of the government’s push for 1.5m extra properties by the end of this parliament, Guardian analysis suggests.

Building on areas with the highest risk of serious flooding is supposed to be discouraged. Experts say development should be avoided unless absolutely necessary because there is a significant chance of regular deluges, which will flood the properties, cause hundreds of millions of pounds of economic damage and make homes uninsurable.

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A group of 22 Republican state attorneys general (AGs) and industry groups are challenging in federal court New York’s recently signed “Climate Superfund” law that targets fossil fuel firms.

Producers took a drastic haircut to their RGGI Allowance (RGA) long holdings, while investors raised California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length even as prices faltered over the week, latest figures from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

A small Brazilian state signed an MoU on Friday with a Sao Paulo-based environmental services firm that entails a carbon project the pair said could be worth more than R$300 million ($51.7 mln).

The newly installed administrator at the US EPA moved the courts to hold all consolidated litigation against former President Joe Biden’s power plant emissions standards for 60 days, buying time for the new administration to review the underlying rule.

A major US-wide nature study has been cancelled amidst the deletion of multiple environmental government sites through a recent executive order (EO) by President Donald Trump aimed at boosting energy production.

New projections by a federal regulator suggest carbon capture technologies like bioenergy power generation with carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (BECSS), and direct air capture (DAC) aren't yet ready to play a major role in Canada’s net-zero future.

A California senator introduced a CO2 removal (CDR) bill on Wednesday, the second attempt by the lawmaker to prescribe rules surrounding CDR development in the state in recent years.

The UN has pushed the deadline for the submission of new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to September, after just a handful of countries sent them in ahead of the initial date of Feb. 10.

A Kenyan power company and carbon project developer will tender in February around 1.8 million carbon credits issued last year to geothermal energy projects under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

By the end of 2024, 51 carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects in the US were in the planning stages aiming to store at least 30.5 million tonnes of CO2 each year from ethanol refineries, according to a research study released Wednesday.

Deploying basalt-based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) in US agriculture could remove between 160-300 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2050, and 250-490 mln tonnes by 2070, according to a new study published this week.

The UK could miss its production goal of 10% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in total jet fuel use by 2030 by almost half, according to industry experts, with potential implications for airline exposure to carbon prices under the UK ETS and the UN's CORSIA international offsetting scheme.

Initially expected in 2025, the European Commission has decided to push back its regulatory package for CO2 transport and storage infrastructure until next year, causing uncertainty for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, the industry has said.

A UK-based consultancy has joined forces with a digital environmental marketplace to scale nature markets across the UK, seeking to reward farmers and landowners who implement biodiversity restoration projects.

European carbon prices were marginally lower at midday on Friday, despite strength in the wider energy complex, as participants continued to speculate on the prospects for sustained strength in a market being increasingly described as "tired" and "rangebound".

An international organisation has announced the world’s first accounting standard for the cocoa sector, setting a framework for companies to report Scope 3 emissions and measure carbon removal.

International carbon market stakeholders, including standards, rating agencies, and bodies such as the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) and Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), must find a path to come to an agreement on REDD+ methodologies if they wish to scale projects in the sector, a market veteran told Carbon Pulse.

Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras has established a bioeconomy fund to support climate- and nature-focused initiatives in the country, with plans to target carbon and biodiversity credit projects.