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Poultry can now be kept outdoors in the UK but experts are on alert for a new influx in wild birds.

European Commission accused of acting unlawfully in two separate cases bought by environment groups

The European Commission is being sued by environmental campaigners over a decision to include gas and nuclear in an EU guide to “green” investments.

Two separate legal challenges are being lodged on Tuesday at the European Union’s general court in Luxembourg – one by Greenpeace and another by a coalition including Client Earth and WWF – after the classification of fuels in the so-called taxonomy, a guide for investors intended to channel billions into green technologies.

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Climate NGOs on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the European Commission over its decision to include gas and nuclear energy in its taxonomy list of sustainable investments, making good on an earlier pledge.

The Washington state cap-and-trade programme will see the May auction settlement exceed at least one of the scheme’s reserve tier prices as 2023 compliance and hedging demand exceeds supply, with permit values heading to the ceiling in the not-too-distant future, an analysis firm said Monday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values remained rangebound over the course of the week, leaving traders to speculate on a potential catalyst from the power sector cap-and-trade system’s programme review and New York's upcoming economy-wide carbon pricing system. 

A small minority of members of the EU Parliament raised concerns over EU ETS-related reform bills on the eve of a final vote on Monday, although their approval is not in doubt, sources told Carbon Pulse.

The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But there’s been a skip in the beat. Deeply concerned scientists have released a diagnosis for policy-makers. Edward Doddridge, Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Extreme weather events are complex – and working out exactly how much damage climate change caused is a tricky task. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Joyce Kimutai, Climate Scientist, University of Cape Town Luke Harrington, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato Michael Grose, Climate projections scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Change to bill says opening and licensing of new coalmines by the Coal Authority to be prohibited

An amendment to the energy bill currently going through the House of Lords means that it will not be possible to open a new coalmine in England.

The amendment may still be reversed in the House of Commons, but it marks the growing frustration of politicians as they press the government to move faster and harder on the climate crisis.

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G7 energy ministers outlined principles to underpin high-integrity carbon markets alongside a wider communique released following their meeting in Japan over the weekend, providing a signal of support towards mitigation actions which generate carbon credits.

Prices for avoidance offsets continued to sink over the past week as the spectre of recession distracted corporate attention from voluntary emission mitigation.

Footage released by Catalonia's fire brigade showed firefighters tackling a large wildfire on the French-Spanish border. The blaze spread around the French villages of Cerbère and Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast before advancing into Spain, fire services said. Hundreds of firefighters were mobilised on both sides of the border to stem the blaze, which destroyed almost 1,000 hectares of land. An unusually dry winter and spring have raised fears of a repeat of last summer's fires and droughts across Europe. One firefighter was being treated with minor injures.

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PM’s spokesperson says people will continue to use national park’s English name despite change to Welsh one, Bannau Brycheiniog

Downing Street has stepped into a growing row over a decision to ditch the English name of the Brecon Beacons in favour of the old Welsh one, Bannau Brycheiniog.

The prime minister’s official spokesperson said he was sure people would continue to use the national park’s English name and questioned the move to drop a symbol of a flaming beacon from the park’s logo.

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Commodity trader ACT has acquired a controlling stake in a US-based software firm, expanding the Amsterdam-headquartered company's offerings in the fast-growing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) space.

The UK government is developing a new digital system for installations covered by the UK ETS to monitor, report and verify their emissions that will replace the existing ETSWAP system starting in the summer.

A Canadian-headquartered firm has attracted a number of potential buyers in a bidding process for carbon credits from one of its African reforestation projects, and is expecting to close its first major transaction by mid-June.

EUAs prices sank on Monday as demand appeared to decline as the end of the compliance season came nearer despite the daily auction clearing at the largest premium for nearly eight months, while energy prices gave back initial gains amid news of plentiful Asian gas supplies.

An industry coalition representing over 90% of UK airlines and industry outlined a roadmap on Monday consisting of technological and efficiency improvements coupled with up to nine million tonnes of carbon removals by mid-century that would see the sector comply with its net zero emissions pathway.

To get earthworms for fishing, people do a thing called ‘worm grunting’

An article on earthworms published in the New York Times in 1881 – “Habits of earth-worms: The curious work which they accomplish” – describes a helminth British empire. “In England they abound in the fields, in the paved courts of houses, though they are rarer in bog fields,” the author writes. “Worm castings have been found as high as 1,500 feet in the Scotch hills and at great altitudes in south India, and on the Himalaya mountains. Both in the extremes of a climate like England and in very hot weather, worms cease their work.”

Earthworms are hermaphrodites, which the journalist, all the way back in 1881, expresses in a glittering sentence: “Two sexes unite in one individual but two individuals pair”.

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European carbon market analysts believe that the impact of the German nuclear phaseout which concluded over the weekend has already been long-priced into the EU ETS, though the extension of plants' lifetimes over the past winter avoided a significant amount of power sector emissions.