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A German steel sector trade association has proposed the European Commission introduce new incentives into the EU ETS to encourage the use of scrap materials, according to reports.

Prospects for a global carbon pricing regime for shipping have improved markedly following a week of closed-door talks at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), an advisory group said on Friday.

Emitters saw their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings increase right before the Q2 WCI auction this week, while they offloaded RGGI Allowances (RGAs), according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

There are no durable CO2 removal credits being offered from projects issuing carbon credits in 2021-22 on the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to a report that assesses trends across the four largest offset registries, and also points out other challenges with carbon offset supply.

‘Clean’ hydrogen and carbon capture and storage head list of funding pledges since net zero promise

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The Coalition has announced more than $1bn in climate funding that could go to fossil fuel developments since setting a target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 last year, an analysis has found.

The bulk of the funding promised during the election campaign has been to develop “clean” hydrogen – a term often used to refer to hydrogen made with gas, a fossil fuel – and carbon capture and storage (CCS), which has had little success to date but oil and gas executives say will need to play a massive role if the world is to slash emissions.

$50m in the budget for a “future gas infrastructure investment framework”.

$20m for CarbonNet, a project that aims to capture and store carbon dioxide in an offshore reservoir in Gippsland in Victoria.

$66m in the budget for a “patent box” tax concession for “low emissions technology innovations”.

$200m for clean hydrogen and “low emissions technology partnerships” with Japan and South Korea.

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Researchers say sediment from floodwaters reduced exposure to sunlight and smothered seagrass the animals rely on for food

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Catastrophic floods earlier this year wiped out one of the largest and most important seagrass meadows in eastern Australia, increasing the risk that dugongs and sea turtles will become stranded, according to researchers.

Scientists from James Cook University monitored the health of seagrass meadows across 2,300 square kilometres of Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Strait in southern Queensland.

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The European Commission should assess and spell out how to enhance carbon dioxide removals (CDR) in a new legislative proposal by no later than 2025, the European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) said in a vote on the bloc’s carbon market earlier this week.

The government of right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants all the country’s economic sectors to set their own emissions goals provided the targets collectively deliver its pledge to the Paris Agreement.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit prices slid closer to falling into the double digits this week, marking a new 4.5-year low for the clean fuels programme.

Rules that allow offsets in five compliance markets, including China, could drive nearly as much demand for carbon credits as were issued under the entire voluntary carbon market (VCM) last year, a bank report found Friday, adding that the trend is likely to rise.

The cross-stakeholder Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) updated its timeline for publishing its long-awaited carbon offset quality standards on Friday, delaying their release by one quarter to Q4, with the public consultation on draft guidelines pushed back two months to July.

Data shows people finding it harder to sleep, especially women and older people, with serious health impacts

Rising temperatures driven by the climate crisis are cutting the sleep of people across the world, the largest study to date has found.

Good sleep is critical to health and wellbeing. But global heating is increasing night-time temperatures, even faster than in the day, making it harder to sleep. The analysis revealed that the average global citizen is already losing 44 hours of sleep a year, leading to 11 nights with less than seven hours’ sleep, a standard benchmark of sufficient sleep.

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