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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has joined forces with the city-state’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) to establish a committee to guide Singaporean companies on their sustainability reporting, it was announced on Tuesday.

The world's largest ever freshwater fish has been caught in Cambodia's Mekong River, according to US and Cambodian scientists. The giant stingray measured almost 4 metres from snout to tail, and weighed in at just under 300kg (660lb). The previous world record was a 293kg (646lb) Mekong giant catfish, caught in Thailand in 2005.

The stingray was snagged by a local fisher on the night of 13 June, south of the town of Stung Treng

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Migaloo, where are you? How searching for the iconic white humpback whale connects us all with the ocean. Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia has only scratched the surface of what’s possible when it comes to better managing energy demand. Anna Malos, Australia - Country Lead, Climateworks Centre Emi Minghui Gui, Climateworks Energy System Lead, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The chances of a European Parliament compromise on EU ETS reforms appear to have improved as a crunch vote looms this week, amid few fresh submissions and as one well-placed source suggested to Carbon Pulse that a fourth political group may also support the move.

Ohio State University researchers gauged responses to climate science versus scepticism and suggest facts bear repeating

People’s views of the climate crisis can be influenced by the media, according to new research. But accurate scientific reporting only has limited impact on people who already have a fixed political viewpoint, particularly if that is opposed to climate action.

Scientists ran an experiment in the US to find out how people responded to media reporting on the climate and found that people’s views of climate science really were shifted by reading reporting that accurately reflected scientific findings on the climate. They were also more willing to back policies that would tackle the problem.

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Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla rebel who spent two years in jail, has won Colombia’s presidency, promising substantial changes including oil & gas policy reform and climate justice.

Switzerland's latest carbon permit auction has cleared at a new record high.

Researchers estimate that carbon emissions from transporting food are about 6% of the global total, with fruit and vegetables the largest contributor

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Transporting food from where it is produced to our dinner plates creates at least triple the amount of greenhouse gas emissions as previously estimated, a new study suggests.

So called “food miles” are likely responsible for about 6% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the authors of the study found after calculating that 3bn tonnes of CO2-equivalent was produced in transporting food for human consumption each year.

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The sell-off across standardised verified emissions reduction credits (VERs) continued as traders moved to offload nature offsets over the past week, pressuring prices to lows last seen mid-autumn while volumes soared to record levels across several futures markets.

Gasoline consumption in California rose in March but still widened when compared to pre-pandemic levels, while diesel consumption notched a new 16-year high, according to state data published Friday.

Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year later

Canada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics.

“Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in French, adding that 43,000 tonnes of single-use plastics a year find their way into the environment, most notably in waterways.

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A European over-the-counter trading platform is to offer "carbon compensated" gas contracts on its platform next month after linking up with a major Germany-based utility, it announced Monday

Giant stingray snagged by local fisher in Mekong River weighs nearly 300kg

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists.

The stingray, captured on 13 June, measured almost four metres from snout to tail and weighed just under 300kg, according to a statement on Monday by Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-US research project.

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Several big-emitting nations signalled their intent to revise their Paris Agreement emissions pledges over the weekend, a move that could bring the pact's temperature limit goals within closer reach.

Countries made a bit more progress over the past month in handing out this year’s free carbon permit allocations under the EU ETS, with five governments still not past the halfway mark.

Guardian given details about next generation of marine nature reserves where all fishing is banned

Five highly protected marine areas (HPMAs) will this week be created by the government to ban all fishing and rewild the sea, the Guardian has learned.

The new generation of marine nature reserves, which are governed by tougher regulations to allow decimated sea life to recover, are being set up close to the coast of Lindisfarne in Northumberland and at Allonby Bay, Cumbria, and at three offshore sites, two in the North Sea and one at Dolphin Head in the Channel.

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Switching EU steel mills to electric arc furnaces and optimising the use of domestic scrap metal could cut the sector's bloc-wide emissions by up to 73% by 2030, according to a study published by an environmental think-tank on Monday.

A subsidiary of a major Chinese state-owned aviation conglomerate is establishing a carbon asset management firm to help push the sector’s decarbonisation process.

The UN’s new centralised market mechanism has confirmed appointments to its Supervisory Body, unlocking the opportunity to get started on a heavy workload that will help set the rules of government-level emissions trade in the Paris Agreement era.