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Riding a bike is not a political act, yet cyclists have become the bete noire for the anti-woke, anti-green, anti-liberal crowd

Getting my bike nicked was like losing a pet. I didn’t want a new one; I wanted to go back in time and not lose my old one. But, in the end, an inanimate object is not infinitely grievable and I need wheels. This is how I fetched up with a Liv bike, my precious first born putting the seat up for me. I said how proud and heart-filled I was, watching him do a little job that I didn’t want to do myself for the first time, and he said: “I’ve been showing you how to use a remote control since I was six years old,” and I thought: OK, fair, but, more to the point, look at my lovely bike.

Freshly re-enamoured of the world of two wheels, I have plunged straight back into the cycling discourse, the perfect microcosm of the wokeness split in all its forms. Take the ex-footballer Joey Barton, who is being sued by Jeremy Vine for calling the broadcaster a “bike nonce”. Meanwhile, the socials are full of people furiously agreeing that aggressive cyclists pose more danger to them than articulated lorries. The fervent attacks on low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and low-emission zones such as Ulez in London are really just a full-throttle loathing of people on bikes, aggrandised by acronyms and libertarian bat signals.

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Trade in the voluntary carbon market stumbled last week under a cloud of uncertainty created by key organisations.

The UK government’s controversial proposal to expand offshore oil and gas developments is necessary to transition the country to net zero emission, lessen reliance on imports, and scale up its clean technologies industry, Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart said on Monday.

Government has repeatedly used figure to justify more fossil fuel developments despite climate crisis

Are 200,000 jobs really supported by the oil and gas industry in the North Sea? Campaigners and MPs are questioning the longstanding government claim.

Ministers have repeatedly used the 200,000 jobs figure as justification for pushing ahead with more fossil fuel developments despite the escalating climate crisis and widespread opposition from scientists and energy experts.

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Farmers from across the UK are driving into central London on a 'go-slow' to protest a lack of support for British food production.

Predatory species, which poses huge danger to bee populations, spotted on 11 March, indicating winter stay

Asian hornets may have become established in the UK after the earliest-ever sighting of the predatory insect was recorded by the government this month.

This is a dangerous development for Britain’s bee population and could have a knock-on effect on agriculture that needs the pollinators, because once hornets are established it is almost impossible to eliminate them.

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Around $70 billion annually is needed to decarbonise Turkiye’s steel, cement, aluminium, and fertiliser sectors, according to a low-carbon pathway (LCP) initiative launched in the country by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Proposed changes to the EU’s climate policy jeopardises Norway’s chance to meet one of its emissions targets for 2030 and puts some of its carbon removal (CDR) projects at risk, the country's climate minister has said in a letter to the EU published on Monday.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) must work to reform agricultural subsidies in order to support the achievement of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets, the ambassador of Brazil to the WTO has said.

UN scientists will reveal a new methodology for carbon capture and removal technologies and to help inform national climate plans, the chair of the IPCC told an international summit.

An overheated property market, education taxes and more expensive healthcare – successive governments have left a bitter legacy for millennials

When asking “Who screwed the millennials?” should we just apply Occam’s razor and answer “John Howard”? His government certainly shoulders a lot of blame but so do those who have done nothing to help since he was voted out.

The earliest millennials will be 70 in 2050, meaning almost all will be working when the world is forecast to reach temperatures more than 2C above pre-industry averages unless we do something.

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European carbon allowance prices jumped sharply on Monday morning in close alignment with strong gains in natural gas markets, as the front-December EUA contract reached its highest in two months and breached long-standing technical resistance levels.

Incentives for sustainable forest management and recycling are urgently needed to mitigate the biodiversity impact of paper production, as forest ecosystems have come under increasing pressure due to logging and the industry's extensive use of chemicals, a study has said.

A major agricultural lender in Japan has teamed up with two domestic partners to promote the commercialisation of cow feed additives using red seaweed, aiming to reduce methane emissions from cow burps and restoring marine ecosystems.

A multinational energy and commodity trading company has financed a voluntary carbon project pipeline worth 75 million issuances by 2030, it confirmed in a sustainability report.

Europe’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will hit 75% of Malaysian exports to the region but less than 10% of total exports for 2021-23, according to local news citing figures from the government released Monday.

ICAO has requested that voluntary carbon projects account for the supply risk if a host country revokes its authorisation for credit use in CORSIA as a condition for approving standards for the current 2024-26 phase of the international aviation offsetting scheme, after no new issuing bodies were given the green light at a key meeting last week.

The European Commission is looking at regulatory and financial incentives to support carbon removal technologies, a senior EU official has confirmed, insisting though that removals should be used as “a complement, not a substitute” to emission reductions.

The Beijing municipal government has released revised management rules for carbon trading under its local emissions scheme, adding more legal clout to back the operations of the pilot market.

Two carbon capture tech companies have signed an agreement to collaborate on developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects for the US and Canadiam pulp and paper industries, they announced Monday.