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A pair of California-based law firms filed a putative class-action case on Tuesday against major US-based Delta Air Lines for misrepresenting the total environmental impact of its business operations through advertisements of its pioneering carbon-neutrality claims.

Turkey has launched a project tender to source help in designing a national carbon market.

A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom has begun – and it failed to put climate change at the forefront. Margaret Young, Professor, The University of Melbourne Georgina Clough, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

It was the trip of a lifetime for an Australian research team studying moss in Antarctica. After two months at Casey Station they returned with great videos and loads of data for further analysis. Johan Barthélemy, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Barbara Bollard, Professor of Computational Conservation, Auckland University of Technology Juan Sandino, Postdoctoral research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Krystal Randall, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Japan’s Sumitomo on Tuesday announced an investment in a US-based direct air capture (DAC) firm, partnering to develop a new global business focussed on CCUS.

A Brazilian financial services firm is is auctioning off rural properties across six states and is accepting carbon credits as payment for the land as part of a promotional exercise to encourage the use of offsets, the company announced Monday.

Standardised contracts continued to slide over the past week to reflect the lack of buying interest for old or unspecified credits as well as the weight of oversupply, while demand for fresher and specific credits in the over-the-counter market was steady.

A carbon project developer has clinched a four-part agreement with a municipal government in Senegal, the company said on Monday, outlining details of the deal that targets the development of both carbon and biodiversity credits from the various initiatives.

Traders expect the second ever Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) sale on Wednesday will trigger Tier 1 of the Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) and make additional permit volume available, after the secondary market slammed on the brakes halfway through this month.

Sir Keir Starmer is right to say no to new hydrocarbon extraction from the North Sea

Sir Keir Starmer has been admirably straightforward about his mission to make Britain a “clean energy superpower”. Blocking new oil and gas fields is a sine qua non to realise that ambition. The Labour leader even went to the lion’s den of Davos earlier this year to give business leaders that message.

But judging from the headlines over the past few days, you might be forgiven for thinking that Sir Keir had never uttered a word about his plans. Or that Labour had not argued that a big public investment programme was needed to green the economy. The Conservative press instead said Labour’s ideas were a “gift to Putin”; raised a “£28bn question”; and were a sure sign that eco-friendly donors were being appeased. Such a tendentious reading of policy gives opportunistic bunkum a bad name.

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The European Parliament’s lead negotiator on the bloc's net zero industry strategy wants to eliminate a proposed fixed list of “strategic technologies” in favour of getting more voices to decide on funding priorities. 

There is "no clear flight path" to progressing the provision of rich-to-poor climate finance at year-end COP28 UN negotiations, according to experts speaking on Monday ahead of a preparatory meeting in Bonn who feared the issue could become challenging in light of recent criticism of the UAE hosts. 

Lawmakers are weighing whether the EU's law to certify carbon removals should make a clear distinction on how policy will support land-based carbon sequestration compared to more durable solutions, with experts eyeing a role for the latter in the bloc's flagship carbon market.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values continued their trek higher over the last five-day period on sizeable option activity, even as Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court heard arguments on the state’s cap-and-trade participation injunction and a Virginia board announced the date to vote on its own power sector carbon market repeal.

Revising EU policies and standards could help to slash the emissions from producing cement by more than 50%, according to a multi-stakeholder alliance launched in Brussels on Tuesday.

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The agreement will fast-track the Mountain Valley pipeline, and limit the scope of environmental reviews for future developments

The deal to raise the US debt ceiling will have significant ramifications for the climate and nature, by fast-tracking a controversial gas pipeline in West Virginia and limiting the scope of environmental reviews for future developments, environmentalists have warned.

The agreement struck between Joe Biden and Republicans who control the House of Representatives states the Mountain Valley pipeline is “required in the national interest” and should be issued its necessary permits within 21 days and be shielded from legal challenge by those who object to it.

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Government curbs transfer of trees to and from affected areas to limit spread of rash-causing oak processionary moths

The government has introduced new legislation controlling the movement of oak trees in south-east England due to a rise in the numbers of a toxic, invasive moth species.

The oak processionary moth was first spotted in Kew Gardens, in south-west London, in 2006 after the eggs were imported on an oak from Europe. The insects, whose caterpillars produce tiny hairs that can cause allergic reactions in humans, feed on the leaves of oak trees.

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US airline pledged to go carbon neutral but plaintiffs say it is relying on offsets that do almost nothing to mitigate global heating

Delta Air Lines is facing a lawsuit over its $1bn carbon neutrality claim which plaintiffs say is “false and misleading” as it relies on offsets that do little to mitigate global heating.

In February 2020, the US airline announced plans to go carbon neutral, pledging $1bn to mitigate all greenhouse gas emissions from its business worldwide over the next decade. It included plans to purchase carbon credits generated from conserving rainforest, wetlands and grasslands along with decreasing the use of jet fuel and increasing plane efficiency.

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