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The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) on Wednesday lifted its suspension of utility Dominion Energy’s rate case request for recovering RGGI-related costs, and in the process rejected an environmental group’s petition against the power generator.

Higher-than-expected zero-emissions vehicle (EV) uptake will reduce California GHG emissions and likely prevent an allowance shortage from arising this decade under the WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme, analysts said.

Last week’s UN agreement on Article 6 is bullish for the role of market-based mechanisms in supporting global climate action. But the new dawn comes with added complexities, write Sebastien Cross and Tommy Ricketts of BeZero Carbon.

Aluminium is hugely useful, but energy-intensive to produce. What if we didn’t have to smelt any more? Guy Keulemans, Faculty Research Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An annual migration of red crabs has covered roads and bridges on an Australian island.

If the world followed Australia on emissions reduction, the planet would heat by about 3C, one expert warns

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The Glasgow climate summit ended early on Sunday morning, but before the clock had struck noon the Morrison government had already said it would be ignoring one of its key outcomes.

More than 190 nations at the summit – including Australia – signed a pact requesting countries “revisit and strengthen” their 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next year.

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Language on fossil fuel subsidy reform in the decision of the COP26 UN climate conference was dismissed by some as another empty promise, but others believe it could pave the way for drastic cuts in government support for oil, gas, and coal.

The company unveils an advanced "quantum" processor that's part of an effort to build super-fast computers.

The EU and Switzerland have published the ETS allowance transfer window schedule for 2022, providing 28 one-day opportunities for units to flow between the linked carbon markets.

Guardian reporter Damien Gayle spent two months with the environmental campaigners Insulate Britain as they blocked motorways, glued themselves to road networks, got arrested multiple times and defied injunctions banning them from the highways – infuriating everyone from drivers, to cyclists and presenters on breakfast TV. He finds out what drives them, how they plan for key actions, and asks what's next after nine activists are jailed for blocking the M25  

• Nine Insulate Britain activists jailed for breach of road blockades injunction

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Intermediaries in the Chinese carbon market are reaping benefits from fast-rising offset prices as the gap widens between what domestic developers ask and the international market is paying.

Judge imposes sentences ranging up to six months, saying some of them ‘seem to want to be martyrs’

Nine Insulate Britain protesters have been jailed for breaking a court order banning them from protesting on the M25, by a judge who said no lesser penalty “would adequately mark the gravity of the defendants’ conduct”.

Ana Heyatawin, 58, and Louis McKechnie, 21, were jailed for three months while Dr Ben Buse, 36, Roman Paluch-Machnik, 28, Oliver Rock, 41, Emma Smart, 44, Tim Speers, 36, and James Thomas, 47, each received four-month sentences.

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Raft of commodities would be prohibited under draft law in fight to protect world’s endangered forests

Beef, palm oil, cocoa and other products linked to deforestation will be banned from entering the European Union under landmark legal proposals that attempt to help prevent the felling of the world’s great forests.

Two weeks after world leaders signed a plan at Cop26 to reverse deforestation at Cop26, the EU executive on Wednesday outlined a draft law requiring companies to prove that agricultural commodities destined for the bloc’s 450 million consumers were not linked to deforestation.

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EUAs fell away after setting a record high for the third consecutive day early on Wednesday, as energy prices extended gains amid continuing uncertainty over gas supplies heading into the winter season.

A carbon-backed crypto currency initiative that has driven the retirement of more than 10 million voluntary offset credits over the past month is considering expanding its scope to also include units under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 once that market becomes operational, it said Wednesday.

An LNG industry group and a separate collaborative corporate effort both released on Wednesday key methodologies for calculating and reporting GHG emissions from LNG cargoes to provide industry-wide frameworks to ensure greater transparency to LNG “carbon neutral” claims that are increasingly being made.

Israeli firm says dairy proteins will be made by microorganisms programmed with DNA instructions

“Cow’s milk without cows” will be in Israeli shops by 2023, after a start-up raised a record $13m (£9.7m) in seed funding from investors to help it make traditional dairy products from microorganisms.

The Tel Aviv-based Imagindairy, which announced its seed funding result on Wednesday, said the milk it produced would be identical to cow’s milk, but the cow, and her associated methane, would be replaced by fungi or other plant microorganisms programmed to produce milk proteins.

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Fortescue obtains planning approval for world's biggest hydrogen electrolyser factory little more than a month after plans first unveiled.

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New research shows hydrogen production from fossil gas presents "substantial risk" of higher emissions, and higher prices, due to fugitive emissions.

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