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Exclusive: Alexander Darwall, who said he brought case to improve conservation, is releasing pheasants near protected woodland

The landowner who took Dartmoor national park to court to ban wild camping may be putting a rare beetle at risk by releasing pheasants next to an ecologically important woodland, against the advice of environmental experts.

This is despite him having said he pushed for a wild camping ban in order to “improve conservation of the Dartmoor commons”, arguing that campers damage the national park with litter and disturbance.

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California-headquartered climate fintech firm Aspiration has become a foundational investor in nature-based restoration project developer Compassionate Carbon, with the two partnering to build several “innovative” initiatives.

Financial entities added to California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net positions but continued to trim RGGI Allowance (RGA) net length, while regulated entities added to their RGGI net holdings for the second week in a row, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday

The Forest Carbon and Climate Services Branch in the Government of British Columbia (BC) is hiring a Forest Carbon Modeller to lead forest sector emissions estimation, accounting and reporting.

Carbon market stakeholders traditionally sceptical about the use of REDD credits for offsetting purposes reiterated their concerns this week, responding to claims of vast over-crediting under the programme.

A summary of legislative, regulatory, and policy action on carbon and clean fuel standard markets at the US federal and subnational levels this week, including a Pennsylvania Senate letter to new Governor Josh Shapiro (D) regarding the state's RGGI-aligned cap-and-trade regulation.

Nova Scotia announced this week that it will hold two carbon auctions to cover 2022 emissions and one reserve auction, even as the Canadian Maritime province transitioned to an output-based pricing system (OBPS) at the start of the year.

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Standardised nature-based carbon credit prices softened on Friday as the impact of this week's highly critical reports of over-crediting among REDD projects appeared to diminish corporate appetite.

Industry body working on new way to reassure customers schemes will protect the environment

New standards should bring greater scrutiny of carbon offsets and give buyers confidence their money is helping protect the environment, leading figures in the carbon credits market have insisted, after an investigation by the Guardian revealed widespread problems with offsetting.

Annette Nazareth, chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, which sets nonbinding principles to which sellers of carbon credits can sign up said the body was working on new standards that should reassure consumers.

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The report from 12 independent experts found toxic chemicals and dredging were very unlikely causes.

Mystery of north-east coast deaths takes new turn, as panel says they are unlikely to have been caused by algal blooms or pollutant

The mystery behind the deaths of thousands of crabs and lobsters along England’s north-east coast has developed a further twist, with experts saying it could be down to a new disease.

The die-offs, which began in autumn 2021 and recurred at various points in 2022, affected at least 70km (43 miles) of the coastline, with some of the crustaceans showing an unusual twitching while dying.

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A position is available to work on the research problems of the Energy and Environment Group at the Department of Computer Science & Technology, initially on the topic of technology and organisational problems around carbon credits for nature-based solutions.  The project, as part of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits, aims to bring to the public new mechanisms for quantifying the benefits of interventions to halt deforestation via the use of satellite sensing, and also the qualitative assessment of human factors.

Commodity trader Trafigura has set tougher targets for cutting Scope 1 and 2 emissions over the next decade and set out a roadmap for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 after meeting short term targets a year earlier than planned.

EUA prices moved higher on Friday morning as a volatile week neared its close with traders seeing resistance at around €85, while natural gas prices headed for their sixth successive week of losses as the market reached the height of the winter season with plentiful supplies amid mild temperatures.

In England and Northern Ireland the deposit return scheme will be limited to plastic and metal containers.

The British astronaut who inspired millions with his passion for space will concentrate on educational outreach.

A UK forestry fund has added 11 new nature-based projects to its portfolio from activities across Scotland and Wales and has secured planning permission for another three, the firm announced Thursday.

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government released on Friday final versions of its climate change policy and action plan, both of which outline how the regulator seeks to reduce, within its remit, GHG emissions in the country’s most populous state.