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EDF has downgraded its estimate for 2022 nuclear output for the second time this year, as the French utility expects longer outage periods resulting from the discovery of defects at selected generation units.

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Scientists issue a stark warning over the need to make hard choices about the way we use the land.

California electricity sector CO2 output bounced back in 2021 from a significant drop during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with December data showing lower generation from renewables and more from imports.

A Canadian-based alternative investment manager is launching the country’s first carbon ETF.

A senior EU lawmaker has broken with Brussels in wanting to put incinerators in the bloc's ETS, but the potentially meagre climate benefits involved risk upsetting the delicate trade-offs inherent in cutting waste emissions.

Prices for standardised nature-based voluntary emissions reduction (VER) contracts fell for the second straight week last week, as traders said future adjustments to Xpansiv market CBL’s Nature-Based Global Emissions Offset (N-GEO) eligibility led participants to shed credits.

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Defra report blamed algal blooms but independent research points to chemical released from sediments

An independent study has linked the deaths of thousands of crabs and lobsters and a mystery dog illness to dredging for the government’s flagship freeport on Teesside – a key to the Conservative’s post-Brexit, “levelling-up” agenda.

The report has led local fishers to reject a government theory that an “algal bloom” is responsible for the huge piles of dead crustaceans that began washing up on beaches along England’s north-east coast in October.

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Australia has ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ to carve out spot in global automotive supply chain, new report suggests

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Australia could resurrect its car industry in an “environmentally and socially transformative” way by drawing on its rich mineral resources to make electric vehicles, according to a new report.

The plan for a new electric vehicle manufacturing sector is laid out in a report titled Rebuilding Vehicle Manufacturing in Australia, from the Australia Institute’s Carmichael Centre.

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Michel Roccati tells the BBC he "almost has a normal life" again thanks to an electrical implant.

Judge rebukes Marine Management Organisation for prosecution over direct action to stop bottom trawling

The government agency charged with protecting the marine environment has dropped its case against Greenpeace over a protest intended to obstruct destructive fishing practices in UK coastal conservation areas.

The judge in the case rebuked the Marine Management Organisation over the case, saying that the licensing regime, under which the case was brought, “could be better used as a source of protection against those who actively seek to harm the marine environment”.

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Nature-based carbon projects deliver immediate reductions and reliable removals, but some buyers perceive them as short on permanence. It’s a concern we can now alleviate with new technologies and modifications to the way we manage the VCS buffer pool, said experts at standard board Verra.

Clean Energy Council calls on Australia’s political leaders to commit to a 100% renewable electricity grid by 2030, and no new coal or gas plants.

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European carbon drifted in moderate trade on Monday morning, as energy markets fell back in anticipation of a meeting between France's President Macron and Russian President Putin.

Exclusive: Activists challenge updated shooting licences, which allow wild birds in England to be shot to protect game birds

The government is facing a legal challenge over its newly updated shooting licences for England, which classify game birds as livestock and so allow wild birds to be shot to protect them.

Campaigners have said the licences give an unfair advantage to gamekeepers, as they allow the birds to be defined as livestock when shooters want to kill other birds to protect them, but are otherwise considered wild birds so the estate owners are not liable for any damage the game birds cause.

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Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical has successfully arranged for two loans that meet the Japanese government’s recently designed guidelines for climate transition finance, the first such loans that have been made available to players in the chemicals sector, the company announced.

Conservationists welcome interim injunction to stop farm development they say threatens migration of 10 million fruit bats

Conservationists in Zambia have hailed a high court injunction preventing deforestation and commercial agriculture on the edge of Kasanka national park, which they say threatens the world’s biggest mammal migration.

Every October, about 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats descend on the swamps of Kasanka from across Africa and beyond. They feast on fruit in and around the park, one of Zambia’s smallest but under the highest level of protection, dispersing seeds across the continent on their epic journey.

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Unique colony of blue whales increasingly at risk from tankers and container ships, say marine campaigners

Scientists and conservation groups are calling for one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes to be rerouted in an effort to protect the world’s largest animal.

Since 2008, researchers have been painstakingly piecing together clues about a little-known, endangered population of blue whales that live off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. What they have discovered so far hints at one group of cetaceans or even a sub-species. Rather than migrating vast distances like most blue whales, the Sri Lankan population is thought to live in the region year-round, grazing on tiny shrimps and communicating via distinctive vocalisations.

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