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A California Assembly committee on Friday endorsed a pair of bills that would require Scope 1-3 emissions reporting and climate-related financial risk disclosures from companies, sending the proposals to await a final floor vote.

Paintings from a climb that retraced an 1800s route on western Europe’s highest mountain reveals the extent of the peak’s melting ice

A British landscape artist who recreated a climb made 150 years ago to document the impact of the climate crisis on western Europe’s highest mountain says what he found was so grim it reminded him of the “dark paintings” of Francisco de Goya.

James Hart Dyke ascended Mont Blanc’s ancien passage north face, the route taken in 1786 by the first climbers to reach the summit. It was also the same one taken in August 1873 by French painter Gabriel Loppé, whose climb inspired Hart Dyke’s own.

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Typhoon Saola has made landfall in southern China after leaving a trail of destruction in Hong Kong. Thousands of trees were felled and boats sank in the city's harbour. Nearly 900,000 people had been evacuated in Hong Kong and China while business, transport and schools were suspended in advance of the typhoon making landfall

• Typhoon Saola makes landfall in southern China as nearly 900,000 evacuated

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From clean water activists to Nessie hunters and Chrissie Hynde to Phoebe Bridgers: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in August 2023

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Aditya-L1 will carry out scientific studies of the Sun from a vantage point 1.5 million km above Earth.

Community around Juniper Hill Field wants to stop wildflower-rich land being divided into small plots

A hilltop meadow of flower-rich limestone grassland in the Cotswolds is under threat, according to residents, after it was divided into four-acre plots for people seeking to buy “leisure land” in the countryside.

The Save Juniper Hill Field campaign wants to list the eight-hectare (20-acre) field close to the poet Laurie Lee’s childhood home as “an asset of community value” to stop it being parcelled up by Woodlands.co.uk, which specialises in buying tracts of land and reselling it in relatively small plots.

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Cameroon's President Paul Biya has hinted at the possibility of introducing a carbon tax as part of the country's 2024 Finance Act, local media reported this week.

New campaign supported by Greenpeace urges Surf Life Saving WA to scrap $5m naming rights deal

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Parents say they don’t want their children to be walking billboards for Woodside, the naming rights sponsor for Nippers in Western Australia.

They want the deal between the fossil fuel company and Surf Life Saving WA (SLSWA) scrapped.

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How young polar researchers in the UK are tackling the taboo subject of menstruation.

Expansion of metallurgical coalmine in Queensland will add 31m tonnes alone with activists accusing Albanese government of being reckless

Coalmine expansions and developments approved in Australia so far this year are expected to add nearly 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over their lifetimes – equivalent to nearly a third of the country’s annual climate pollution.

The Albanese government this week gave the greenlight to an expansion of the Gregory Crinum coalmine in central Queensland. It produces metallurgical coal, used in steelmaking.

Approving a nine-year extension of the Ensham thermal coalmine, creating fuel for power plants. The Australia Institute’s coalmine tracker found it was likely to lead to 106m tonnes of additional emissions over its life.

Approving the creation of a small new mine, the Isaac River metallurgical coalmine, also in Queensland. It is expected to produce almost entirely metallurgical coal and lead to about 7m tonnes of emissions across its seven-year life.

Ruling a proposed extraction of a large sample, known as a “bulk sample”, of coal at the proposed Star coalmine site did not need formal assessment under federal environment law to go ahead. The proponent can dig up 1.5m tonnes of coal before applying to develop the full mine. It is expected to lead to about 3m tonnes of emissions.

Extending the life of the Lake Vermont open cut coalmine until 2063. This decision did not increase the total amount of coal that could be mined, just its potential lifespan.

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Compliance entities saw their CCA net length fall this week after the August WCI auction results were published and amid the September contract expiry, while financial players moved in the opposite direction, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data published Friday.

Washington state announced on Friday the first allotment of allowances to emissions-intensive and trade-exposed (EITE) industries for use in the cap-and-trade programme’s first compliance period.

A Paraguayan senator on Friday introduced a carbon credit bill that he says has greater support than previous legislation that would regulate the voluntary market, and will ultimately replace an older proposal.

Spot carbon credit prices under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) programme slightly dropped below July levels with a continued slowdown in activity, according to a report published Friday.

The UN has completed technical checks on the emissions reductions calculations of two major tropical forest nations, raising the prospect that the countries will attempt to monetise the results despite the vintage periods occurring before a 2021 cut-off for inclusion under fiercely debated Paris Agreement provisions.

A European financial watchdog has highlighted that there is growing interest in biodiversity but is cautious about potential greenwashing within the market.

A new report from UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre has tracked funding from hundreds of projects that boost marine biodiversity in critical habitats and found private sector funding to be minuscule.

As the EU starts defining a strategy to kickstart its carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) industry, the UK government's uncertainty over funding is leading to a loss of momentum in one of the countries that first embraced it.

A veteran carbon analyst has revised down their forecast for EUA prices out to 2030 in a report exclusively seen by Carbon Pulse, and is now anticipating a much slower growth trajectory out to €200 by the end of the decade.