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A satellite set to launch early next year will measure forest biomass more accurately than before, with the ability to precisely understand the carbon emissions arising from land-use change globally – feeding into a more accurate global carbon budget.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are considering implementing a compliance carbon scheme similar to the EU ETS, as well as an emissions levy, according to sources familiar with the matter, as reported by Bloomberg.

Ofwat CEO says rules must be changed so that customers left without water get compensation automatically

Water companies in England are using loopholes in order to not pay people who are left for days without running water, the CEO of the regulator has said.

Tens of thousands of homes across the country have been left without water for days this year as ageing pipes burst.

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There is no business case for voluntarily investing in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) given current prices for CORSIA-eligible credits, the head of sustainability at a major European airline group told an industry conference on Monday.

The UK government has launched a new taskforce to deliver aviation sector decarbonisation, including a focus on carbon removals.

The Kenyan government has appointed Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) to the taskforce responsible for building the country’s carbon market framework.

Denmark's incoming carbon tax for agriculture, combined with other risks from low-carbon transition, will result in higher impairment charges for some lenders, but most will see only limited impact, according to the country's central bank.

Nearly all of the world’s largest companies have adopted sustainability reporting, with 96% of the largest 250 companies (G250) now publishing ESG data as they prepare for tighter regulations like the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), according to a new report.

European carbon prices fell back on Tuesday morning amid bouts of sustained selling that temporarily interrupted carbon's correlation to natural gas, with persistent weak fundamentals continuing to undermine the market.

It is only a matter of time before a mountainside is brought down. We need climate adaptation help – and we need it now

• Aaron Thierry is an Earth-system scientist and environmental campaigner

It’s “raining old ladies and sticks” is the Welsh equivalent of cats and dogs, and boy did those old ladies mean business when Storm Bert poured out nearly a month’s worth of rain on the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) over Saturday night. By Sunday, the deluge was surging into the River Taff and through the Welsh valleys, forcing the Taff to burst its banks, bringing misery to communities along its length – including mine in Taff’s Well.

Neighbours, who had been devastated by Storm Dennis in February 2020, were shocked to find that everything they had done to rebuild was undone. Replastered front rooms were submerged yet again. New cars were bobbing once more in the streets.

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River water quality distinctly worse than that of coastal bathing sites, results from tests for harmful bacteria found

Water quality has been designated as poor in a record number of bathing areas this year after 16 rivers were included in summer testing for harmful bacteria, figures reveal.

The push to clean up England’s rivers has led to an increase in demand for bathing water status at river locations across the country. Rivers suffer from water company sewage pollution and agricultural pollution, and the results show river water quality is distinctly worse than that of coastal bathing sites. The results come after sewage pollution into rivers by water companies reached record levels last year.

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Europe’s largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, announced on Tuesday it had frozen final investment decisions over its ongoing decarbonisation projects on the continent until the company has “full visibility” on the EU policy environment.

The government blames the water companies and says tougher regulation is on the way

The UK will not use Article 6 towards meeting the country's next UN climate plan under the Paris Agreement, its negotiator on international carbon markets said Tuesday.

Talks on the first-ever UN treaty aimed at tackling plastic pollution have begun in South Korea, with an overwhelming majority of delegates at the opening plenary session defying a group of countries allegedly trying to derail negotiations.

Airlines are more worried about the proliferation and expansion of compliance carbon requirements across different regulatory bodies than over the current tight supply of CORSIA-eligible credits, senior industry figures told Carbon Pulse.

Spanish owned FRV starts generating power to its biggest solar farm to date, which has a supply contract to data centres operated by Microsoft.

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NSW government gives planning approval for another giant battery to be built at the site of a coal fired power generator likely to close within the next decade.

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South Australia wants to bring back two mothballed diesel generators for the next two summers, citing the lack of demand side measures in the state and delays to the new link to NSW.

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Warnings remain in England and Wales as ex Environment Agency chair says not enough is spent on flood defences

More flooding is likely this week after Storm Bert brought torrential rain over the weekend, the environment secretary has said.

Steve Reed said the impact “should be less severe” than it was on Sunday and Monday morning, as communities in England and Wales start a massive clean-up after the widespread flooding.

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