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Organisers estimate the UK throws out nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic each year.

A Houston-headquartered voluntary carbon standard BCarbon has issued its first international soil credits to British farmers, it announced Monday.

The new $10bn space telescope delivers its first full-colour image of the distant Universe.

Senior members of the European Parliament have struck a provisional deal to push for higher bloc-wide energy efficiency targets than member states agreed and beyond what Brussels has proposed under its RePowerEU initiative to rid the EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

The Supervisory Body of the UN’s new centralised market mechanism is due to meet later this month to set a path to getting the programme up-and-running by the end of next year.

The Chilean government’s plans to overhaul its $5/tonne CO2 tax with an offsetting provision are running into legislative roadblocks and implementation challenges, while the design of a new tradable market instrument is laced with uncertainty, experts told Carbon Pulse.

The panel overseeing the UK’s Emissions Trading Scheme has launched another consultation, this time seeking views regarding increased transparency through the publication of additional data, including almost real-time information on permit holdings.

Most rich white countries, including Australia, refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities. Erin Fitz-Henry, Deputy Coordinator - Anthropology, Development Studies & Social Theory, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bioluminescence phenomenon has long eluded scientific inquiry owing to its remote and infrequent nature

Waking at 10pm, a sailor looked out from the deck of the superyacht Ganesha to see that the ocean had turned white. “There is no moon, the sea is apparently full of plankton, but the bow wave is black. It gives the impression of sailing on snow,” they wrote.

For centuries, mariners have described navigating unearthly night-time waters, lit up by a mysterious glow, but such “milky seas” have long eluded scientific inquiry owing to their remote, transient and infrequent nature.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Monday appealed a judge’s temporary block of their RGGI-linked cap-and-trade regulation to the state Supreme Court, while allowance prices recovered from Friday’s sell off following the decision.

A major oil and gas company has taken a minority stake in one of Brazil’s biggest developers of forestry projects as it seeks to boost its nature-based portfolio in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

New data also suggest the planet will be home to 8 billion people by this November.

Demand across the voluntary carbon market remained weak as buyers continued to wait for greater macroeconomic certainty, with bids struggling to rise up to meet offers, causing most standardised verified emissions reduction credits to move sideways or to lose value over the week.

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A pod of orcas, including the matriarch and several calves, were filmed as they swam close by a family on holiday in Shetland, Scotland.

Eric Linklater, 21, caught the group known as the ‘27 Pod’  on camera in the Eshaness area. His father, Alexander Linklater, who posted the video to Twitter said: 'For an idea of what it’s like to see this up close and spontaneously, my seven-year-old daughter started crying in terror at the awesome killer whales she was seeing'

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A Queensland coal mine will be allowed to more than double emissions in a decision made by the Morrison government just months before federal election.

The post Queensland coal mine allowed to more than double emissions without penalty appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Germany's biggest steel producer Thyssenkrupp has teamed up with oil major BP to boost green steel development, in the wake of EU legislators adopting firm positions on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) that would protect Europe’s industry from cheaper carbon-intensive imports.

Global Feedback seeks judicial review of plan for not suggesting less meat and dairy consumption

Food campaigners are taking legal action against the government for failing to support the transition to a low-carbon diet by encouraging people to eat less meat.

Global Feedback, which campaigns for regenerative food production, says the government’s food strategy does not take into account advice that cutting levels of meat and dairy consumption is crucial to achieving the country’s net zero goals.

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Halting the loss of nature requires a shift away from prioritising short-term gains, scientists say.

Focus on market has led to climate crises, with spiritual, cultural and emotional benefits of nature ignored

Taking into account all the benefits nature provides to humans and redefining what it means to have a “good quality of life” is key to living sustainably on Earth, a four-year assessment by 82 leading scientists has found.

A market-based focus on short-term profits and economic growth means the wider benefits of nature have been ignored, which has led to bad decisions that have reduced people’s wellbeing and contributed to climate and nature crises, according to a UN report. To achieve sustainable development, qualitative approaches need to be incorporated into decision making.

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