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US ethanol exports declined “sharply” in February amid key market changes, an industry group wrote on Thursday.

Market participants cut down open interest (OI) in V25 California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) and RGGI allowances (RGAs) with lack of progress on the regulatory front, while building V26 CCA OI to new highs, data published Friday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed.

The UN’s civil aviation agency has raised concerns over renewed international proposals to impose levies on aviation emissions, warning they could jeopardise more than three decades of progress towards a unified global approach to climate action in the sector.

Batteries become dominant player in Australia's most renewable state, providing more than one third of state demand in early morning peak.

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A new report by a Canadian policy think tank is pressing Canada’s next government to rethink the country’s GHG reduction strategy, amid uncertainty after the consumer carbon tax was cut.

The Florida Senate approved legislation on Thursday banning geoengineering and weather modification activities within the state.

California regulator ARB published a third 15-day package on Friday reflecting updates to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) amendments that the state’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) had requested last month, which sent futures prices soaring 13.5% on the day.

Washington's Department of Ecology (ECY) will offer a lower overall number of allowances at the second quarterly auction of 2025, but a higher number of V25s, according to a notice published Friday.

Introducing cover crops on farms between growing seasons can improve agricultural carbon stock by reducing soil erosion, according to a new study.

The compliance instrument surplus for the California-Quebec joint cap-and-trade programme at the end of Q1 jumped 16.7% over the prior quarter at the end of 2024, with 22 entities closing accounts as allowance prices have declined in the absence of regulatory clarity, state data published Thursday showed.

Move ends bid for site near Whitehaven, Cumbria after planning permission was quashed by high court

The Whitehaven coalmine’s planning application has been withdrawn, bringing an end to a process that could have created the UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years in Cumbria.

Planning permission for the mine was quashed in the high court last year which meant the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had to reassess the planning application. However, the company has now written to the government withdrawing its planning application.

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Japan has abolished the implementation guidelines for projects under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), instead aligning the process with the Article 6 framework in order to simplify the process and make it more attractive to developers and investors.

Plan to add 90 turbines to Rampion will create 4,000 jobs in construction and could power 1m homes

The government has approved plans to build an offshore windfarm capable of powering about 1m British homes before the end of the decade.

The plan to extend the Rampion offshore windfarm by adding 90 turbines off the Sussex coast is expected to add about 1.2 gigawatts of clean power for British households and businesses.

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth but now has a 3.8% chance of striking the Moon.

Nature credits have the potential to help the EU close the existing financing gap on conservation and restoration efforts, with local authorities playing a critical role in shaping the market, the bloc's biodiversity chief said on Thursday.

Devices similar to those used during pandemic to be deployed to help stamp out trade in threatened fish

Last year, a colleague of Diego Cardeñosa sent the international shark trade researcher a few pieces of shark fin taken from a bowl of soup in New York City. Using a PCR test similar to those used during the Covid-19 pandemic to test for the virus, Cardeñosa was able to identify the species behind the fin as sandbar shark, an endangered species found in tropical and warm-temperate waters.

Now, Cardeñosa and other scientists from Florida International University, alongside law enforcement officials from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), plan to deploy the tests at ports across the country in order to crack down on seafood fraud and fish trafficking.

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European carbon prices plunged in line with the global markets rout as markets continued to respond to the US announcement of widespread tariffs, heading for their biggest weekly loss in more than a year as China responded with import levies of its own.

Inexpensive and widely available materials can effectively remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, scientists from Northwestern University have claimed in what might be a significant breakthrough for carbon capture technology.

The EU and Central Asia signed a new Strategic Partnership on Friday, including €10 bln worth of investments in areas like critical raw materials, batteries and green hydrogen, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced at a bilateral summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Swiss multinational Holcim is calling for “100% testing” of cement imports at key European ports of entry, to make sure the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is fully watertight.