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The California-Quebec carbon market and Washington’s cap-and-invest scheme announced on Thursday near identical auction floor prices and allowance price containment reserve (APCR) levels for 2023, with the linked WCI programme also setting next year's sale volumes. 

Amy’s Balancing Act helps engage oft excluded audiences to build a shared understanding of how a 100% renewable energy system will work and be reliable.

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Lightning doesn’t travel in a straight line, with many so-called ‘leaders’ coming down from the cloud in a series of jagged steps. Until now, no one has known why. John Lowke, Adjunct Research Professor of Physics, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

If Australia is going to be serious about co-hosting a UN climate conference in only four years, it needs to be serious about leading from the front.

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Weeks before Cop15 in Montreal, leaked letter to EU shows host tried to water down deforestation regulations

The Canadian government has been accused of putting its domestic timber industry ahead of the global environment, following a leaked attempt to water down the world’s most ambitious regulations on deforestation-free trade.

Weeks before the United Nations biodiversity conference, Cop15 in Montreal, the host nation sent a letter to the European Commission asking for a reconsideration of “burdensome traceability requirements” within a proposed EU scheme that aims to eradicate unsustainably sourced wood products from the world’s biggest market.

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Guyana is receiving millions of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) credits from the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), becoming the first jurisdiction to earn REDD+ credits and first ever recipient of TREES units, according to a press release Thursday.

California compliance offset retirements fell sharply during the 2021 interim cap-and-trade deadline, dropping by more than half versus the 2018-20 period, as emitters faced a lower usage cap and were required to turn in more credits with direct environmental benefits (DEBs) to meet newly implemented restrictions, according to official data published Thursday.

An international emissions trade expert has left one of the world’s leading carbon credit buying entities to start a consultancy specialised in Article 6-era transactions.

Countries should use their “own” cheap abatement for their own climate targets, a leading COP27 negotiator told a webinar Thursday after pointing out that costs to meet net zero are going to rise.

A post-Brexit green subsidy scheme is going ahead - but there is no clarity on what farmers will be paid.

Energy transition minerals are essential to tackling climate change. But First Nations people must have a genuine say in where and how this happens. Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland John Owen, Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Kado Muir, Chair of National Native Title Council and Ngalia Cultural Leader | EthnoEcologist, Indigenous Knowledge Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US EPA on Thursday published preliminary Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending quotas for the next three years, and also proposed a pathway for electricity to generate credits (RINs) under the federal biofuels programme.

A Toronto-headquartered global asset manager announced on Thursday a new forest fund to invest in internationally diversified forestland assets with strong carbon storage potential and high conservation value.

Swiss Re has extended its portfolio of biochar-based carbon credits by signing a large multi-year offtake agreement with German-based digital MRV marketplace Carbonfuture, the two companies announced Thursday.

Officials ‘scratching our heads’ over deaths of 40 bovines since October that lack telltale signs of wolf attacks

Investigators in Colorado have been left baffled after dozens of cattle inexplicably dropped dead in a remote corner of the state.

The mystery has triggered a wave of US press coverage, with the New York Post running a headline claiming: “Cattle slaughtered by mystery creature that left no tracks”.

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The European Commission and Parliament agree the size of the Innovation Fund is crucial to support industry decarbonisation, the Parliament heard on Thursday, with lawmakers calling for unity against a member state plan to divert some of the Fund's carbon market revenue to the REPowerEU initiative. 

Wearable devices powered by kinetic energy of cows will gather data to help track cattle wellbeing

Cows on farms could soon have their health, reproductive readiness and location monitored by smart technology powered by the kinetic energy of the animal’s movements.

Devices that monitor the health of each cow or keep them within invisible fences are already used on farms but these smart tools are often powered by chemical batteries, which add to energy used by an emissions-intensive industry.

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Firm restoring nature on two estates hopes to provide ordinary investors 5% annual return over 10 years

Ordinary people are being invited to invest in projects to rewild the Scottish Highlands by a company that is restoring nature on two estates and seeking to expand its rewilding portfolio.

“Citizen rewilders” can invest a minimum of £50 and up to £200,000 in £10 shares in Highlands Rewilding, which hopes to provide a 5% annual return on the investment over 10 years.

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Criticism of past 12 years comes as minister admits fresh delay to post-Brexit farm payment schemes

Landowners have told the environment secretary they are “running out of patience” with the Conservative government after 12 years of the rural economy being “stifled” and delays to nature-friendly farming payment schemes.

At a conference organised by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), the largest rural landowner group in the country, Thérèse Coffey announced that the review into the new land payments schemes had concluded, but admitted that farmers and other land managers would remain in the dark with regards to detail on payment and standards until next year.

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The Integrity Council for the voluntary carbon market (IC-VCM) announced the appointment of three new members to its governing board on Thursday, including two Indigenous Peoples members, fulfilling a long-standing promise from the cross-stakeholder initiative, which aims to provide guidance on what constitutes “high quality” for voluntary carbon offsets.