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Conservation organisation WWF launched a new free-access tool on Monday intended to help companies and investors better understand their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.

EU competition chief  Margrethe Vestager and French officials have released similar strategies on how the EU should respond to the US green stimulus package, with beefed-up subsidies and continued relaxation of state aid rules for key energy transition sectors at the heart of the plans.

Both when disaster strikes and when climate change has more everyday impacts, community radio stations play a leading role in helping locals understand and adapt to the challenges they face. Bridget Backhaus, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, Griffith University Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Associate Professor in Journalism, Media and Communication, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

‘Cease and desist’ letter signed by over 650,000 people sent to oil and gas CEOs follows removal of Greta Thunberg from coal protest

Hundreds of thousands of young climate activists have said they will continue “protesting in the streets in huge numbers” against fossil fuels, a day after Greta Thunberg was removed by German police from a condemned village atop a massive coal deposit.

In a cease-and-desist letter to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies, youth campaigners accuse them of a “direct violation of our human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, your duties of care, as well as the rights of Indigenous people”.

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Standardised carbon credit prices slipped lower over the past week, particularly in nature-based contracts where the bearish trend was evident across the curve.

A major trader of global commodities has made a commitment to purchase 50,000 tonnes of carbon removals by 2030 as a founding member of the First Movers Commission, it said on Monday.

Scientists say phenomenon coupled with growing climate crisis likely to push global temperatures ‘off the chart’

The return of the El Niño climate phenomenon later this year will cause global temperatures to rise “off the chart” and deliver unprecedented heatwaves, scientists have warned.

Early forecasts suggest El Niño will return later in 2023, exacerbating extreme weather around the globe and making it “very likely” the world will exceed 1.5C of warming. The hottest year in recorded history, 2016, was driven by a major El Niño.

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The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) advanced on its 13-point action programme on Monday, while revealing details on an already-secured $200 million in advance sales of carbon credits. 

US climate envoy says pick is a ‘terrific choice’ but activists equate pick to asking ‘arms dealers to lead peace talks’

US climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming UN climate negotiations in Dubai, citing his work on renewable energy projects.

In an interview Sunday with the Associated Press, the former US secretary of state acknowledged that the Emirates and other countries relying on fossil fuels to fund their state coffers face finding “some balance” ahead.

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A firm that helps firms and individuals offset their climate impact has closed a sourcing deal worth up to €50 million to purchase carbon credits from a blockchain-based marketplace, they announced Monday.

The UK government plans to give police even more power to lock us up. But it won’t stop us: this is about humanity’s future

• Indigo Rumbelow is a supporter of Just Stop Oil and co-founder of Insulate Britain

On a day when swans were seen swimming through Worcester town centre after the latest flooding, the government has announced new measures to silence those of us pushing for more climate action.

The latest restriction on your freedoms involve the police in England and Wales having the power to shut down protests before disruption begins. The proposals will be part of an amendment to the public order bill, which already includes new stop and search powers and creates an offence of “locking on” to things.

Indigo Rumbelow is a supporter of Just Stop Oil and co-founder of Insulate Britain

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UK climate minister Graham Stuart welcomed a recent review into the country's net zero strategy on Monday, highlighting the economic benefit of immediate climate action and confirming there would be developments on UK ETS reform in 2023.

‘It covers most of Australia but lots of locations only have one or two chargers,’ BP Pulse boss says, as others call for greater public spending to reduce queues

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Electric vehicle charging stations are located right across Australia but in many locations there are only one or two outlets, experts say, and that needs to change if people are to avoid lengthy queues next summer.

Significant government investment in regional EV infrastructure is the key to ending the frustrations many holidaymakers have experienced over the past few weeks, a number of charging companies have said.

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European carbon began the week on a bearish note on Monday as energy prices extended their losses for a fifth consecutive session, despite forecasts calling for a spell of lower temperatures that would bring the bearish prospect of coal-to-gas fuel switching closer than it has been for many months.

Australia's Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) is seeking a proactive Senior Carbon Coordinator to join our Northern Strategic Projects team to lead the development of the ILSC’s carbon strategy.

US climate envoy John Kerry on Sunday set out initial core principles and the first experts for an advisory panel for the Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) jurisdictional carbon crediting mechanism.

South Korea's SK Group has agreed to form a partnership with Mubadala Investment, a sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to cooperate in voluntary carbon markets (VCM) in the Asian region.

The Australian government will provide A$70 million ($49 mln) for the development of a hydrogen hub in the state of Queensland, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Bowen, have jointly announced.

Recent research suggests plants may be able to learn and communicate. This really put me off my baked potato

If you were starting to polish your Veganuary halo, sorry, I have upsetting news, gleaned from a Radio 4 programme called Is Eating Plants Wrong?. Spoiler alert: maybe.

Plants, it explained, “can sense the world around them, learn, remember and engage in complex communication with the species around them”. Research suggests that pea seedlings can learn to associate a sound with the light they need and choose to grow in a particular direction as a result. They can also eavesdrop on each other and protect themselves based on what they “hear”. Sagebrush plants communicate to each other the risk of being chomped by insects and trees share nutrients through what Prof Suzanne Simard pleasingly calls the “wood wide web”; they do so more with trees they are related to than with “strangers”.

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A pair of the semi-aquatic mammals will be released on to Ewhurst Park estate

Beavers are set to be reintroduced into an enclosure in Hampshire, marking the first time in 400 years that they have lived in the county in south-west England.

A pair of the semi-aquatic mammals will be released on to Ewhurst Park estate, which is being restored for nature and sustainable food production.

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